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Welcome to The Play Ed3 Podcast — where educators, learners, and behind-the-scenes change-makers all have a voice. Hosted by Tisha Poncio and Rick Butterworth, this show brings real stories, practical insights, and meaningful conversations from across the world of education.
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When Did Learning Stop Being Fun? with Scott Bricker (opens the original)
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When did learning stop being fun? Rick and Tisha put that question to Scott Bricker — founder and CEO of AweFull Learning, and a 25-year veteran of classrooms, ed tech offices and school leadership — and the answer goes back to a logo sketched on a napkin in a Denver restaurant. Scott's whole company came out of one realization: for a lot of students, learning has become awful — A-W-F-U-L — and the job is to make it AweFull instead. The three of them dig into why the 11-to-12 age range is where
What Lessons Were We Taught and No Longer Believe? (opens the original)
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What did you believe at 25 that you'd now call complete bollocks? Tisha and Rick go off-script for this one — no plan, no guest, just the two of them working through the things they were taught and no longer believe. It starts funny: you won't always have a calculator with you, eat your carrots and you'll see in the dark, eat your crusts and your hair will go curly. Then it gets honest. Hard work doesn't guarantee recognition, loyalty or security. Once you've learned a lesson, you'll still strug
Teachers Have Accommodations Too, So Why Are We So Judgy? with Dr Amy Mathews-Perez (opens the original)
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What do you do when the meeting meant to help your child feels like a poker game — everyone holding cards, nobody showing them? Rick and Tisha sit down with Dr. Amy Mathews-Perez, who spent 34 years in Texas public education as a teacher, speech pathologist, diagnostician, special education supervisor, assistant principal, principal and director of special education. Amy has sat on every side of that table, and she's refreshingly blunt about what happens on it. They get into why lawyers end up i
Are Neurodivergent Teachers Hiding Who They Are at School? with Jennifer Osborne (opens the original)
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How many teachers walk into their classroom every day hiding a part of themselves? Rick and Tisha sit down with Dr. Jennifer Osborne, Assistant Principal and founder of Neuro-AFFIRMing Schools, to talk about what it really costs neurodivergent educators to stay silent. Jennifer's PhD research explored the lived experiences of neurodivergent educators, and she brings that research — plus her own story — into a conversation that gets honest fast. They dig into the silent grief of a late diagnosis,
Why Won't AI Solve Education's Real Problems? with Jeffrey Bradbury (opens the original)
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AI keeps getting pitched as the fix for everything wrong with education. Rick and Tisha sit down with Jeffrey Bradbury — founder of TeacherCast Educational Network — to make the case that it isn't. Jeffrey shares his journey building TeacherCast into a resource reaching educators in 180 countries, and why the real work of teaching still comes down to self-care, community, and consistency — not technology. They explore the surprising parallels between music and teaching, why every teacher is esse
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