The Broken Copier

<p>Many teachers and educators have strong feelings about “no-zeroes” or minimum grading policies. Quite often of late, strong negative feelings.</p><p>A few weeks ago, Matt Brady wrote a piece for his newsletter called...

<p>Surveys show students increasingly turning to AI as a tool for their school work. Teachers who want to limit AI usage during instructional time still have many options on table—but what should they do about homework...

<p>After a couple quieter months, we are back and rolling with The Broken Copier. Today’s Unjammed episode is built around a simple-if-implausible idea: what happens when teachers are given enough time to do their...

<p>The conversation about reading across education has taken a front-and-center position in many places, so it felt like the right time to have a conversation about it—especially since Adrian Neibauer recently wrote a...

<p>Given that we are at the finish line of a very-busy 2025 with The Broken Copier, the goal of this short episode is first and foremost to express gratitude for what has been an incredible year of conversations and...

<p>It is a very easy word to say in education, right? Full-stop: everyone wants to be supported and everyone wants to be supportive. </p><p>However, making that support a reality that is experienced and sustainable in...

<p>The Broken Copier began a little over three years ago with a very simple idea: we wanted to uplift the type of conversations that happen so often between teachers in the margins of the school day: in the hallway...

<p>Over time, school years can fold into each other, in a way, with each eventually becoming indistinguishable from the next. This is why the goal of this episode, quite simply, is to pause before the month of November...

<p>“What happened to helping them interrogate what it means to be human?”</p><p>In his book Teaching without Teaching, Scott F. Parker makes a case for re-centering teaching around core human values—and away from what...

<p>There is a lot of conversation happening in education around the topic of AI—but is it the right conversation? Recently Stephen Fitzpatrick wrote a piece around this, arguing that instead of two different AI...

<p>This is the third episode of our new Unjammed series, with a topic that a lot of teachers still are struggling with in their classrooms: chronic student absences and the consequent empty desks in the...

<p>For our second episode of our new Unjammed series, the focus is on a pattern Marcus was noticing in his own responses in the classroom this school year: finding himself losing his patience a bit more quickly than in...

<p>After over twenty Kicking The Copier episodes that focused on specific teaching strategies and mindsets, we’re going to make a slight pivot this school year.</p><p>While still designed to be shorter, single-topic...

<p>This is a conversation between two teachers who noticed the same thing early into this school year: it feels heavier than usual.</p><p>After Adrian Neibauer wrote a piece in his newsletter around this idea, he joined...

<p>With the school year underway, the word “assessment” is front-and-center in many classrooms—so what can we do as teachers to shift our thinking and practices around assessment to be more responsive to and uplifting...