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The ThoughtStretchers Podcast

Dialectic Conversations For Intellectually Rigorous Educators

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Latest Episodes:

Empowering Student Agency Through PBL Nov 18, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with Gever Tulley, founder of Tinkering School and SF Brightworks, about their use of PBL to develop student agency and deeper learning that works.

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Ep. 270 Personalization And The Trouble With 'Teaching Machines' Nov 12, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with Audrey Watters about her new book, Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning.

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Ep. 269 A Theory For Change: The Future Of Smart Nov 03, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with Ulcca Joshi Hansen about her new book, The Future of Smart: How Our Education System Needs to Change to Help All Young People Thrive, and how she thinks about a structural and sustainable human-centered liberatory approach to better meet the needs of students and the modern world.

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Ep. 268 Connecting Classrooms To Help Build Human Centered Empathy Oct 26, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with Travis Hardy, Director, Programs & Partnerships at Empatico, about their efforts to connect students around the world in ways that highlights our shared humanity.

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empatico.org
expedition.empatico.org
Empatico on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, and Pinterest

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Ep. 267 A Conservative Case For Liberal Education Oct 15, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with Jonathan Marks, conservative political theorist and professor, about his new book, Let's Be Reasonable: A Conservative Case for Liberal Education.

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Ep. 266 Clarifying Misconceptions About Inquiry Learning Oct 11, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with Kath Murdoch, inquiry teaching and learning author and consultant, about her new children's book and some of the misconceptions and criticisms of inquiry teaching and learning.

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Ep. 265 The Power Of Not Embracing The Easy Way Oct 03, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with educational psychologists Claire McGuiggan and Peter D'Lima about their project called Not The Easy Way, which helps children learn how to face life's challenges in ways that can empower them.

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nottheeasyway.org
On Instagram, Twitter, YouTube

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Ep. 264 Harnessing The Power Of Anxiety Sep 08, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with world-renowned neuroscientist Dr. Wendy Suzuki about her new book, Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion.

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Ep. 263 Bob Moses, Civil Rights Activist/Educator Sep 01, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with historian Stewart Burns about the life and legacy of educator and civil rights leader Bob Moses.

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Union Institute and University
Institute for Social Justice (TISJ) at Union Institute & University
Algebra Project
Young People's Project (extension of Algebra Project, led by its student alums)
Laura Visser-Maessen, Robert Parris Moses (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2016)
Barbara Ransby: Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003)
Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Univ. of California Press, 1997)
Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr., Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (Beacon Press, 2001)
Robert P. Moses et al, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools (Beacon Press, 2010)
Stewart Burns, To the Mountaintop (bio of MLK, 2004, 2018), winner of Wilbur Award (first published by HarperCollins in 2004)

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Ep. 262 Moving Beyond Cancel Culture In Our Classrooms Aug 11, 2021

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Drew Perkins talks with Andrea Keith. Executive Director of Moral Courage Ed and Let Grow, about building independence and resilience and the ability to navigate disagreement and discord productively in children and students.

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