Brewing Education

Shoutout to Google Gemini for helping Professor Grinsteinner organize her stream of consciousness regarding reinforcement, punishment, and public, private, and group consequences into a semi-coherent outline!

The acronym CPPE is very familiar to all DSU teacher education students--let's make that the case for teachers everywhere!

Schools around the country continue to struggle with the cell phone question--should students be allowed to have their devices? What if a school doesn't have the resources to provide 1-to-1 devices for students? What about parents who are upset and want their students to be able to contact in cases of emergency? This week we look at a research study exploring the effects of cell phone bans, an...

We are back after a short break! This week is largely focused on banter with a discussion about InTASC Standard 10.

This week we share another of Professor Grinsteinner's sessions from the NBEA convention in Cincinnati. Even though we've talked flipped lessons on the podcast before, we thought this was a great refresher on the topic (plus it includes some great questions and interaction from the audience!).

A goal of every effective teacher is to create meaningful learning experiences in their classrooms. Sometimes the best way to do this is to break out of the four walls of the school building. Professor Crossingham shares about the experience her students have visiting Cannonball Elementary tribal school and suggests ways for teachers to promote constructivism in their classes.

Coming to you live from the National Business Education Association annual convention in Cincinnati! Professor Grinsteinner recorded her session on how to redesign assignments to help stem the tide of cheating with AI.

We dissect an article that advocates for less grading in the classroom, but as we move through we realize the problem maybe isn't too much grading but rather poor grading practices.

I'm wondering if this week's title is going to cause some contention...give it a listen and email us if you think it does!

This one's for you, Swifties! We are celebrating the drop of Taylor's new album (well, Professor Crossingham is celebrating. Professor Grinsteinner is supporting her love of Tay-Tay) by discussing how to connect lessons to student interests and pop culture phenomena.

We only had 20 minutes to record but we didn't want to ghost again, so here's a flash episode with some classroom management tips. BONUS: the podcast goes on a little field trip!

The word "disruption" evokes memories of students acting out in class, but what about the student who doesn't make a scene but is just as disengaged in learning? This week we discuss recognizing those students and offer suggestions for bringing them back into the lesson.

After 6 months of ghosting, guess who's back?! We kick off Season 4 with a banter-filled episode to catch up on life. Our excitement to be back is so great we couldn't wait until Friday to post 🫶

We haven't vanished off the face of the earth! We are back this week with part II of the series on learner development discussing schema theory and how to connect to students' prior knowledge to help them learn.

Happy 2nd birthday podcast! This week we discuss dispelling seven common myths that persist in the field of education.

This week we begin a series on learner development by discussing attention and moving content into the working and long-term memory. We are also dropping this episode on a Tuesday to make up for missing last week!

This week is all about the importance of teaching self-advocacy skills and how these skills can impact students well into adulthood.

We kick off 2025 with a casual, banter-laden episode

It's finals week, so you know what that means--special guests!! I'm not saying anything else, you'll just have to listen :)

We are nearing Christmas break, and student behavior shows it. This week we talk about ways to manage the learning environment during this exciting/stressful time.

This week is all about incorporating gratitude into classrooms in a non-cheesy way. As a bonus, Professor Grinsteinner raps on this episode.

Professor Crossingham leads a discussion about ways EPPs can be more intentional about integrating ethics education into coursework.

This week we talk about the importance of making decisions based on data and offer some tips for doing so.

Happy Halloween! This week we talk about implementing thematic days to turn craziness into controlled chaos.

We continue our discussion of effective questioning by talking about different ways to get all students involved in the conversation to avoid the dreaded crickets.