Punk Rock Classrooms

S4 Reflection 05 Mike – Compromises and Comfort Zones Reflection is an important part of what we believe in here at xPRCx. Working on ourselves to better parts of our community, better educators, and better people. If we want our scene to be one where we all get better, we need to reflect on where we are at and what we have done. On this episode Mike is talking about getting out of our comfort zon...

S4 Episode 06 – Thankful Punks Josh and Mike are using this season to search their campuses and the educational world around them for examples of PASSION, UNITY, and DIY! But this week we are getting all thankful! We want to take a break this week from the hustle and bustle of the normal podcast and chat about the things at work, at home, and in our lives that we appreciate and that we are thankfu...

S4 Episode 05 – Educators with Passion Josh and Mike are using this season to search their campuses and the educational world around them for examples of PASSION, UNITY, and DIY! On this episode, Josh and Mike share some of the passion they are seeing from the educators on their campuses. Mike shares about the SEL impact of the yoga and mindfulness being brought by one of his teachers and Josh sha...

S4 Collaboration 03 – Gabbi Buckley One of the awesome things we would see in punk is at shows when musicians from different bands would join forces on stage or when one of your favorite punk singers would lend their growl to some gang vocals on another band's record. We wanted to create that same thing here at PRC. High School Principal and all-around rad educator, Gabbi Buckley is back with Josh...

S4 Collaboration 02 – Hanging at TeachBetter22 part 2 One of the awesome things we would see in punk is at shows when musicians from different bands would join forces on stage or when one of your favorite punk singers would lend their growl to some gang vocals on another band's record. We wanted to create that same thing here at PRC. It’s PART 2 of our TeachBetter22 interviews! We had such a blast...

S4 Episode 04 – Our TeachBetter22 Experience Josh and Mike are using this season to search their campuses and the educational world around them for examples of PASSION, UNITY, and DIY! On this episode, we throw that all out the window and just share our experience of being at TeachBetter22! We share our favorite conversations, connections we made, and talk about what it was like to finally be in t...

S4 Collaboration 01 – Hanging at TeachBetter22 part 1 One of the awesome things we would see in punk is at shows when musicians from different bands would join forces on stage or when one of your favorite punk singers would lend their growl to some gang vocals on another band's record. We wanted to create that same thing here at PRC. On this collaboration, Mike and Josh found themselves at TeachBe...

S4 Reflection 04 – Josh: First Year Admin Ups and Downs Reflection is an important part of what we believe in here at xPRCx. Working on ourselves to better parts of our community, better educators, and better people. If we want our scene to be one where we all get better, we need to reflect on where we are at and what we have done. Josh is using this season’s reflections to share about his first y...

S4 Reflection 03 – Mike: Loose Plans Reflection is an important part of what we believe in here at xPRCx. Working on ourselves to better parts of our community, better educators, and better people. If we want our scene to be one where we all get better, we need to reflect on where we are at and what we have done. Mike is supposed to be running the Chicago Marathon this year but those plans might b...

S4 Episode 03 – School Crew, Tried and True Josh and Mike are using this season to search their campuses and the educational world around them for examples of PASSION, UNITY, and DIY! On this episode, Mike and Josh share how they are seeing the folks on their campuses come together like that punk rock crew, everyone lending a hand, in order to support students. Mike discusses his behavior interven...

Sometimes life happens. So, this week we are taking it waaaaaaay back with a Punk Rock Throwback of Episode 01 The intro. Bringing a punk rock mindset to the classroom has begun! In this episode, Mike and Josh introduce themselves and discuss how growing up punk influenced their education philosophy. They key up some topics that will be discussed in future episodes and end with what they have been...

S4 Reflection 02 – Josh: Change is Tough But Change Can Be Good Reflection is an important part of what we believe in here at xPRCx. Working on ourselves to better parts of our community, better educators, and better people. If we want our scene to be one where we all get better, we need to reflect on where we are at and what we have done. It’s a new school year and a new role for Josh Buckley. Th...

S4 Episode 02 – CommUNITY to Start the Year Josh and Mike are using this season to search their campuses and the educational world around them for examples of PASSION, UNITY, and DIY! On this episode, they discuss where and how they saw UNITY and community kick starting the year in their schools! Mike shares about morning meetings with gratefulness journals and how his staff is coming together to...

Season 4 Reflection 01 – Mike on The Beginning of the Year and the Importance of Your Crew Reflection is an important part of what we believe in here at xPRCx. Working on ourselves to better parts of our community, better educators, and better people. If we want our scene to be one where we all get better, we need to reflect on where we are at and what we have done. The beginning of the school yea...

S4 Episode 01 – Back to School Favorites Sometimes its good to look back while you look ahead. It’s the start of a new school year and the start of our fourth season! Mike is starting his 9th year as the principal at his campus and Josh just started his first year as an assistant principal on two campuses. In order to help us kick off the year with the right PMA (yeah we got that attitude) we thou...

Season 4 Promo Whoa…you’re telling us that summer is over? Well then…I guess we better get Season 4 ready to go! Mike and Josh are super pumped to start another school year! Josh has a new role this year as an elementary assistant principal on not one but two campuses and Mike is ready to kick off another year with the awesome educators at his school! The boys share what they want to talk about th...

It’s a PUNK ROCK REWIND! Punk Rock Collaboration with Danny Papa We’ve got two weeks before we kick off Season 4 of the podcast, so we are throwing it back to one of our favorite interviews with another punk turned educators! On this punk rock collaboration, Josh and Mike sit down with Danny Papa. Danny is a K-12 Supervisor of Social Studies, Art, and Technology Education but before that he was ro...

Season 3 Summer Conversation Series with Carly Spina We are back again this summer with our Summer Conversation Series! Our goal is to hit up as many educators as we can and share their response to a single summer question. Last year we asked all our guests a question about an external goal for education. “What’s one thing you want to change about education?” This year though we are going with a m...

S3 Summer Conversation Series with Dr. Joy We are back again this summer with our Summer Conversation Series! Our goal is to hit up as many educators as we can and share their response to a single summer question. Last year we asked all our guests a question about an external goal for education. “What’s one thing you want to change about education?” This year though we are going with a more intern...

S3 Summer Conversation Series with Genessee Montes We are back again this summer with our Summer Conversation Series! Our goal is to hit up as many educators as we can and share their response to a single summer question. Last year we asked all our guests a question about an external goal for education. “What’s one thing you want to change about education?” This year though we are going with a mor...

S3 Summer Conversation Series E03 with Gabbi Buckley and Elijah Carbajal We are back again this summer with our Summer Conversation Series! Our goal is to hit up as many educators as we can and share their response to a single summer question. Last year we asked all our guests a question about an external goal for education. “What’s one thing you want to change about education?” This year though w...

S3 Summer Conversation Series E02 with Bob Hayes We are back again this summer with our Summer Conversation Series! Our goal is to hit up as many educators as we can and share their response to a single summer question. Last year we asked all our guests an question about an external goal for education. “What’s one thing you want to change about education?” This year though we are going with a more...

S3 Summer Conversation Series with Alfonso Mendoza Jr. We are back again this summer with our Summer Conversation Series! Our goal is to hit up as many educators as we can and share their response to a single summer question. Last year we asked all our guests an question about an external goal for education. “What’s one thing you want to change about education?” This year though we are going with...

S3 Summer Conversation Series – The Kick Off We are back again this summer with our Summer Conversation Series! Our goal is to hit up as many educators as we can and share their response to a single summer question. Last year we asked all our guests an question about an external goal for education. “What’s one thing you want to change about education?” This year though we are going with a more int...

It's A PUNK ROCK REWIND! We are throwing it back to Season One Episode 08! "Breaking the Status Quo" What's more punk rock than bucking the system, fighting the man, and tearing down some walls? That courage to stand up, speak out, and change the system that can be found in punk rock should be found in education too! Join Mike and Josh as they discuss how they see breaking the status quo as key to...