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Hosted by Jordan Pridemore · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 10 episodes
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Jordan Pridemore hosts Teach for the Stars, a education show with 10 episodes published.
Using The Breakfast Club as a lens, Tayler and Jordan explore how labels, assumptions, and bias can shape school discipline. We’ll examine why some students experience disciplinary consequences more often than others and
We're back! Before we dive into another season of iconic movies and evidence-based conversations about education, we're taking an episode to catch up. Join Tayler Pawlak and Jordan Pridemore as they reflect on what's cha
In the season finale, Jordan Pridemore and Tayler Pawlak reflect on The Holdovers—a story about the people who remain when everyone else leaves. They explore what the film reveals about teaching, loneliness, and the mome
No one mourns the gifted. In this episode, Jordan Pridemore and Tayler Pawlak ask what happens when giftedness is misunderstood, unsupported, or outright rejected? Using Wicked as the lens, they explore how schools handl
From Autonomy to Assimilation, this episode explores what The Faculty gets right about how underfunding and compliance cultures ‘infect’ schools, and how psychological safety, teacher autonomy, and student voice inoculat
What can Mean Girls teach us about classroom culture, leadership, and the role of teachers in shaping student experiences? In this episode of Teach for the Stars, we break down the iconic high school comedy through an ed
This week on Teach for the Stars, we’re breaking down Lean on Me, the 1989 biopic where Morgan Freeman plays bat-wielding principal Joe Clark, a man on a mission to “save” a failing high school with tough love, locked do
We aren't analyzing a movie teacher this week, just the two real ones behind the mic. Meet Tayler and Jordan, your hosts of Teach for the Stars, as they share their why, their work, and their favorite classroom moments.
What happens when a Hollywood action hero trades his gun for glue sticks? In this episode of Teach for the Stars, we revisit the 1990 cult classic Kindergarten Cop to examine the real-world role of police officers in sch
What makes a great teacher? Billy Madison might not be the obvious place to look, but we’re breaking down the film to see what it gets right (and wrong) about the essential qualities of effective educators.
Tayler and Jordan are back, and this time, they’re heading to Hogwarts! In this episode, they dive into what makes Hagrid’s class the ultimate Career and Technical Education (CTE) experience. From hands-on learning to ap
Welcome to Teach for the Stars, the podcast where pop culture’s most iconic teachers meet research-based best practices in public education. In today’s episode, we’re taking a closer look at Ferris Bueller’s Day Off to u
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