After the Bell: Teaching Tips With a Twist

For Summer Sessions 4, Roy and Martin return to the back garden as Ned digs for sticks. Join the Stunt Brothers for another summer session far away from the classroom. The ease of a summer chat turns to summer movies and blockbusters from the past. Roy accepts the challenge of an on air quiz while Martin shares memories of his brother entering the Guinness Book of World Records in 1979. Come along...

For their third summer session, the Stunt Brothers head to Ambleside Beach in North Vancouver where two bald eagles watch from above and ocean waves tickle the toes of children in the surf. The warm July sun finds Roy and Martin in a nostalgic mood so summertime in the seventies comes to mind. Reminisce about jumping through sprinklers and backyard camping, hockey cards on your bicycle spokes and...

For their second summer session, Roy and Martin get into full summer mode live from The Shipyards in North Vancouver, Canada. Join the Stunt Brothers as they reminisce about the greatness of this most majestic of seasons, fondly recalling peaches and cream and barbecues with friends. These summer sessions are a little slice of summer wrapped up in a podcast. Our goal is to help you unwind from a h...

The summer sessions begin. These are short and snappy sessions that will usually have absolutely nothing to do with teaching. Roy and Martin want to relax and unwind and get as far away from teaching as you do! Our first session sets the tone though we do touch on teaching as we name The Top Ten Signs That Teachers Are On Summer Vacation . Put your feet up, relax, have a listen and get ready for s...

The final episode of Season 1 of After The Bell: Teaching Tips With a Twist . Roy and Martin are giddy and we hope teachers are too as we approach the coming summer vacation. The Stunt Brothers look back at the success of Season 1, getting in the spirit of the season by completing a self assessment on their first 21 episodes. Or is that 25?  Then the Stunt Brothers have some fun with movies and sh...

In the penultimate episode of Season 1, Roy and Martin go outside to where the wild things are. In Martin's back garden with the calming sounds of a stream and the birds, the Stunt Brothers sit down for a fascinating and eclectic conversation with Victor Elderton. Victor currently teaches at both SFU and UBC and also spent 30 years as a teacher and principal at North Vancouver's Cheakamu...

Roy Hunt claims to be Ethan's cousin while Martin makes everyone uneasy with his crush on Tom Cruise. Before anyone finds it impossible to listen to this episode, the Stunt Brothers look at just how impossible teaching in 2025 can be. The Nugget brings a review of all the great advice coming out of the previous 18 After The Bell episodes, advice that strives to help make teaching sustainable...

Longer days and warmer weather must mean the end of the school year is coming. And with endings comes goodbyes. As the Stunt Brothers wrap up Season 1 with their final 5 episodes, the long goodbye begins. Roy and Martin share one especially long goodbye from their past and that one time a staff member really was voted off the island. Once Martin gets the theme of today’s episode figured out correc...

Despite warming days and more time in the garden, somehow Martin gets on his soapbox again and starts ranting about recycling. Roy takes the bait and, using family members as sacrificial lambs, agrees that everyone is political, even if they don't know it. To take this theme further, they visit Clint Johnston , President of the BC Teachers' Federation.  The BCTF represents over 51 000 pu...

The final countdown. Six weeks to go before the end of the school year and teachers are weary. As Roy and Martin know, at this time of the year life in the classroom is winding up and not down, despite what non teachers sometimes think. Now Martin does make the mistake of saying he feels weary too so Roy sends him for a time out in the corner. This helps gets the focus of the episode back on track...

Roy is pleased that this is Episode 15 and not Episode 2000 and hopes Martin keeps his dirty garden hands away. As it looks like the episode may slip into the world of the mundane and go for quantity over quality, they quickly change direction and share some listener comments that can be found on their website stuntbrothers.ca . Fearful that they may get voted off the island by Mr. Anonymous they...

Dr. Brad Baker , a proud member of the Squamish Nation and the Superintendent of Indigenous Education for the province of British Columbia in Canada, is our special guest today. His two core guiding principles are "Truth Before Reconciliation" and "Go Forward with Courage". Our conversation explores how teachers can do this, how all Canadians can grow from this, and how we go b...

Roy starts the episode by filing for bankruptcy and Martin freaks out! The Stunt Brothers soon get their financial house in order but show their age as they stumble over current social media lingo. Change is inevitable, they realize, but you don't need to jump on the bandwagon and throw everything you do out the window. Join The Stunt Brothers as they learn not to freak out about the constant...

Daughters and Dads. Roy decides to go on a vacation to Iceland with his daughter, Camille, while Martin gets ready to head off to Africa with his daughter, Savannah. But nothing will stop this podcast! The Stunt Brothers bring the listeners an exploration of diversity and inclusion in the classroom with a special guest, school trustee Cyndi Gerlach . This episode will be sure to evoke discussion a...

Roy and Martin try something different by recording an episode in Martin’s kitchen on a sunny but crisp North Vancouver morning. Snowball fights in Texas, Martin’s crow friends and Roy’s rockstar-like return to the school from which he retired are all fodder for this episode. Martin drops a line from Severance which leaves them wondering if teachers can really have severance from their work life,...

Whether it is an angry shopper waiting in the checkout line at your local supermarket, being yelled out by some impatient driver, or online rudeness, incivility is on the rise. Many teachers have also seen a rise of incivility, or rudeness in the classroom. Is incivility , what academics define as rude, discourteous, or disrespectful behaviours that disrupt the learning environment and violate nor...

Whether it is an angry shopper waiting in the checkout line at your local supermarket, being yelled out by some impatient driver, or online rudeness, incivility is on the rise. Many teachers have also seen a rise of incivility, or rudeness in the classroom. Is incivility , what academics define as rude, discourteous, or disrespectful behaviours that disrupt the learning environment and violate nor...

The Stunt Brothers are away for another week, enjoying spring break. They encourage listeners to do the same. Even if you don't have a spring break, find time for yourself to do something special. We will be back with a new episode on March 31. In the meantime, we have two Bonus episodes. We're calling them The Fieldtrip Interviews . These will include four of our guest interviews that w...

The Stunt Brothers will be off enjoying spring break for the next two Mondays and they encourage listeners to do the same. Even if you don't have a spring break, find time for yourself to do something special. We will be back with a new episode on March 31. In the meantime, we have two Bonus episodes. We're calling them The Fieldtrip Interviews . These will include four of our guest inte...

As teachers in many jurisdictions around the world will soon head off for a well deserved spring break, Roy and Martin proclaim that the time has come to celebrate. This episode brings a little Christmas cheer to the month of March as The Stunt Brothers began this episode in December. Roy shares some family traditions while Martin goes all bromance on Roy. Then comes The Homework Board and a metap...

In Episode 8, Roy shows his kindness through creative food drives while Martin talks of lessons learned from Billy Bragg and The Milk of Human Kindness. This leads to the power of the union and the supports that help make teaching much easier to navigate. You are not alone. To prove this, Roy and Martin head out on another field trip, this time visiting with Katrina Russell, Past President of the...

This is the way. How often have you been told that? In Episode 7, Roy and Martin dive deep into the whiplash effects of always having to change course within an ever changing educational landscape. Be open to change, try something new, but be true to yourself. You don't need to change just for change's sake. Roy and Martin share personal stories of finding their own way in this life whil...

In Episode 6, Roy and Martin get themselves into a box. Martin puts his tubers into a box while Roy finds silverfish among his ancient lesson plans. The nugget is to get started with all those boxes we accumulate as teachers by dealing with one box at a time. The homework leads to a purge party which makes this episode a bit of a horror show. That gets Roy excited about metaphors again and Martin...

In Episode 5, Martin is happy being the supreme leader of the vegetables in his garden while Roy wonders if the recent weather that included a bomb cyclone and atmospheric river might lead to a snowmaggedon in February. The theme of this episode is leadership and what it means both inside and outside the classroom. The nugget is finding a simple way to promote leadership with your students while t...

In Episode 4, Roy and Martin are feeling lonely. Martin finds solace with a trumboncino squash while Roy finds comfort teaching in a variety of different classrooms. Roy talks about the transmission of a car and just shakes his head when Martin attempts a metaphor that deserves to stay on the moon. Then it's off on another field trip and a visit with Kulvir Mann, an elected school trustee fro...