The Middle Men

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discuss non-traditional public school routes students take to learn.

Brian and Brad interview Mark Morello, music teacher of 29 years of one of the largest middle school music programs in California.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discusses the history of male teachers and how we got here. Links to our research: 1. PBS: Only a Teacher 2. MIT: The Feminization of Teaching in America 3. Center for Evaluation and Education Policy: The Status of Male Teachers in Public Education Today 4. The Atlantic: The U.S. Teaching Population is Getting Bigger, and More Female

Brad, Brian, and Derrick enter the fishbowl. They answer a series of both teacher related and unrelated questions.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discuss the proxy war that schools and educators have become.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick interview Eddie Smith. Former football player at Oregon University, former school counselor, and current first year vice principal at the school Brian and Derrick work.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discuss some history of teaching, but focus more on the changes to education in the last 15 years. We highly recommend The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein (we get nothing from this link. It's just a great book). Some of the sources we used for the discussion: 1. 25 Ways American Education has changed in the last decade 2. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical P...

Brad, Brian, and Derrick follow up last weeks interview with a discussion on the practicality of special education.

Brian and Brad talk with Eric Hulstrum, a special education teacher who served at both our sites, to pick his brain about the services to a small population of our students.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick have an amazingly average philosophical discussion on the relationship between sports and schools.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick do some research, look at the history of school discipline and, in particular corporal punishment, and discuss. Articles used for this podcast discussion: School Discipline History How School Disciplinary Policies Have Changed Over The Years A Brief (And Tortuous) History Of Corporal Punishment In Our Public Schools Is Corporal Punishment Making A Comeback?

Brad, Brian, and Derrick actually do some research and talk about a few new laws in education from California, Texas, and Florida.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick have a meta conversation about the podcast. We've been winging it up to this point, but what do we want to do moving forward? We also discuss holidays with family and teaching in a tragedy. For some, these could be considered the same thing.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick talk about how our experience as students informs our approach to teaching.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discuss how teachers are depicted in film and it's relation to real life.

Brad, Brian, Derrick and Mikey discuss the new Fortnite update before diving into how this year has been going.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick talk about the work that goes into making a lesson both in the beginning of our careers and now.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discuss difficult interactions with parents and how parents can best reach out to teachers.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick talk about school violence. A timely discussion because of a recent issue in our community.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discuss possible classes that should be added for this current generation.

Brad, Brian, Derrick, and Mikey talk about grading. Do you give 50% for missing work? What does this do to students grades and to their psychology?

Brad, Brian, Derrick and Mikey with a Halloween special. What are our fears as teachers? What might keep us up at night or causes serious concern?

Brad, Brian, and Derrick talk about how our personal lives and beliefs can affect our careers, either real or imagined.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discuss the moral aspect of teaching. In such a diverse world, with diverse views, how does a teacher address issues of right and wrong?

Thanks to a listener suggestion, Brad, Brian, Derrick, and Mikey offer advice to new teachers who have probably been on the job for a few weeks.