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The most powerful change in education? It doesn’t come from the top down—it comes from teachers like youWelcome to The Teacher Leader Podcast, where everyday educators become agents of change.
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Kris Ferrell on the Power of Hot Cheetos (opens the original)
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A first-grader kept missing every other Friday and Monday. The school decided he was defiant and filed a petition to bring him into truancy court, a six-year-old standing in front of a judge. It took his court-appointed attorney about two minutes to find out why: his parents had split up, and on his dad's weeks, dad wouldn't drive him to that school. Nobody had ever asked him. That attorney was Kris Ferrell, and that story is the heart of this episode of The Teacher Leader Podcast.Kris has spent
Saira Galindo on SEL Beyond the 20-Minute Block (opens the original)
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Every school has an SEL block on the schedule, and most of them have a collective eye roll to go with it. Saira Galindo, Transformative Social Emotional Learning Specialist with Denver Public Schools, has a clear diagnosis for why. SEL got handed to teachers as a prepackaged twenty minutes with no explanation, when it's actually the thing they already do every time they check in with a student, ask a colleague for help, or take a day because they're not showing up as their best self. In this con
Breanna Wilson: Keep Your Revolutionary Optimism (opens the original)
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Breanna's path into teaching didn't look like the brochure. A teacher's-kid childhood, a false start at a "best in the nation" education program, family obligations that pulled her home to Denver, nearly a decade as a full-time para while she was also a full-time student — and finally, in her late twenties, a kindergarten classroom of her own at the school she never left. In this conversation with Jody, Esther, and Allison, she unpacks what that road taught her: that identity work is the actual
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