The ThoughtStretchers Podcast

Drew Perkins talks with Helen   Lee  Bouygues, President of the Reboot Foundation, about their new survey that reveals alarming facts about TikTok's impact on children. Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Kareem Weaver about his role with the Oakland  NAACP Education Committee, leader of Full and Complete Reading is a Universal Mandate (FULCRUM), and the Right to Read Documentary. Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Jermaine Fowler, founder of The Humanity Archive and author of NY Times Bestseller, The Humanity Archive: Recovering the Soul of Black History from a Whitewashed American Myth. Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with renowned educational researcher, John Hattie, about his new book Visible Learning: The Sequel Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Matt Bardin, founder of Zinc Learning Labs, about raising middle and high school students' reading levels through conscious reading. Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Shelby Kretz, founder of Little Justice Leaders, about her work and thinking to help engage teachers and parents in conversations and activities to learn about social justice issues with kids in grades K-8th. Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with author and journalist, Katherine Marsh, about the educational and technological forces affecting kids' love of reading.  Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode.

Drew Perkins talks with Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, Professor of Medicine at Stanford University and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research, about our public health response to COVID-19.  Click to View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with David Bernstein about his book, Woke Antisemitism, and his experience with critical social justice activism in education. Click to View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Dr. Tabia Lee about a broader understanding of race ideologies and her experience of being dismissed from her role as a DEI Faculty Director for not toeing the line of contemporary anti-racist ideology. Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Julie Lammers, Senior VP of Advocacy and Corporate Social Responsibility for non-profit American Student Assistance (ASA), about career readiness and work-based learning experience.  Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Brantley Turner, East Asia Education Director for the Dwight Schools, about her perspectives and experiences as a global educator. Click to Visit Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with cognitive psychologist Daniel Willingham about his new book, Outsmart Your Brain: Why Learning is Hard and How You Can Make It Easy. Click to View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Jon Basset and Gary Shiffman about their 4 Question Method, and accompanying book, to engage students in deeper learning of history and social studies. Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode.

Drew Perkins talks with Max Roach, founder of the JonAyves Learning Club, about tutoring and bridging the learning gap for children's education post-pandemic. Click to View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Lorea Martinez about her newly developed professional development, Growing Your HEART Skills, to help build SEL skills in educator adults. Click To View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with teacher and author, Jessica Lander, about her new book, Making Americans: Stories of Historic Struggles, New Ideas, and Inspiration in Immigrant Education. Click to view links and resources mentioned in this episode

  Drew Perkins talks with Stacey Alicea and Heather Hill of RPPL The Research Partnership for Professional Learning) about their research brief, Building Better PL: How to Strengthen Teacher Learning. Click to View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

  Drew Perkins talks with Vicki Collet about her new book, Differentiated Mentoring and Coaching in Education. Click to View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode.

Drew Perkins talks with Dana Stangel-Plowe and Kobi Nelson about the pro-human approach of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.  Click to View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins  talks with Emily Hanford, Natalie Wexler, Micki Ray, and Kate Winn in this first ever TeachThought Podcast Live! panel discussion on the 'Reading Wars'.Our panelists: Click to view panelists, links, and to view the video recording of our discussion on YouTube.

Drew Perkins talks with Danielle Ross, educator and co-author of Culture to the Max! Culturally Responsive Teaching and Practice. Click to View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Ronn Nozoe, Chief Executive Officer of NASSP, about leading and learning as we emerge from the past few years of turmoil in our country. Click to View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Paul Kirschner about the roles of explicit instruction and inquiry in the context of cognitive science and his recent (co-authored) books, How Teaching Happens and How Learning Happens. View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode

Drew Perkins talks with Nadine Levitt, founder of Emotion Wonderland, about her work to help students build emotional intelligence. View Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode