State of Ed Podcast

A look at education inside the classroom and out.

State of Ed Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 92 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts State of Ed Podcast, a education show with 92 episodes published.

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  Episode #90

  Ep. 90: Unlocking Genius with Mathematics

  Jun 14, 202643 minS0

  <p>Marc and Nick sit down with Dr. Kristopher J. Childs, Chief Academics, Equity and Social Justice Officer at Open Up Resources, founder of K Childs Solutions, and author of Teaching Mathematics for Social Justice, Grades K-12: A Guide for Moving from Mindset to Action. This conversation covers what it actually means to teach math as a tool for sense-making rather than a system of rules to memorize, and why Dr. Childs believes every child who walks into a classroom is already a math person.</p> <p>Dr. Childs makes the case against the gradual release of responsibility model in...

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  Episode #89

  Ep. 89: Mastering the Game of Writing

  May 29, 202647 minS0

  <p>Marc and Nick sit down with Daniel Senn and Erlend Klouman Høiner, co-founders of We Will Write, the fast-paced, anonymous, team-based writing game already used by more than a million students worldwide. This conversation covers how two childhood friends from Oslo built a platform that is making students beg to write instead of avoiding it, and why the most important thing happening in the room might be the silence right after the timer starts.</p> <p>Daniel and Erlend walk through the design decisions behind We Will Write: the timed challenges that level the playing field for every w...

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  Episode #88

  Ep. 88: Designing Schools of the Future... Today

  May 22, 20261 hourS0

  <p>Marc and Nick sit down with Dr. Sabba Quidwai, CEO and founder of Designing Schools, former education executive at Apple, lecturer at UC Irvine, and author of Designing Schools: How Design Thinking Makes You Irreplaceable in the Age of AI. This conversation covers what it actually means to lead schools through the current moment in AI, and why the fear of being replaced may be pointed in entirely the wrong direction.</p> <p>Dr. Quidwai reframes the AI replacement conversation from the ground up, makes the case that we are not facing a critical thinking crisis but an agency...

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  Episode #87

  Ep. 87: Telling Isn't Teaching

  May 16, 202644 minS0

  <p>Marc and Nick, joined by guest co-host Kate Crimmins, high school English chairperson, sit down with Kristina Smekens, president and lead consultant at Smekens Education and one of the most in-demand literacy consultants in the country. Kristina has spent the better part of two decades helping K-12 teachers master reading and writing instruction, and this conversation zeroes in on a distinction that changes everything: the difference between modeling what to do and the think-aloud that makes invisible thinking visible.</p> <p>Kristina walks through the free throw analogy that stopped a room full of new teachers cold, explains why...

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  Episode #86

  Ep. 86: Rewriting the Rules of Student Engagement

  May 9, 202650 minS0

  <p>Marc and Nick sit down with Stephanie Clinise, a ninth-grade English teacher at Hatboro-Horsham High School in suburban Philadelphia, to talk about what happens when a teacher leads with the hook every single time. Stephanie found We Will Write, a gamified writing platform out of Norway, got her students engaged in meaningful writing on their first try, and ended up on the floor at FETC 2026 sharing the story with anyone who would listen.</p> <p>The conversation digs into the teaching philosophy underneath all of it: why context has to come before content, how a classroom timeline stretching from...

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