Teachers' Lounge

Mar 21 2025 157 ep. 45 mins 22
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Host Peter Medlin connects with teachers, students and leaders in education as they discuss the biggest issues impacting classrooms.We want to hear your experiences as an educator. Send us a note to [email protected]

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A Morris teacher who came home to continue the legacy of the teachers who inspired her | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Mar 21 2025 48 mins  
Andrea Gustafson! She’s an English teacher, speech team coach, and head of the drama department at Morris Community High School.Morris is her hometown, so it’s been really meaningful to build a career at the same school she went to and continue the legacy of the teachers who inspired her.

Microwaved rubies and can races: an Aurora educator teaches physics by playing | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Mar 07 2025 47 mins  
On a brand-new Teachers' Lounge, Julie is a physics teacher who encourages her students to learn through play. Sometimes that looks like rolling food cans down the hallway and sometimes that looks like her students growing synthetic rubies in a microwave!

The Jazz Problem: how schools fueled the first modern moral panic | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Feb 21 2025 42 mins  
On a brand-new Teachers' Lounge Podcast, we’re talking about America’s first school culture war: JAZZ!"Jazz was seen as more of a lifestyle, and so if you are interested in jazz, you were, as critics believed, also interested in drinking, in smoking, some degree of sexual activity. The belief was that if you could dissuade young people from not being interested in jazz, that al

What's the purpose of social studies? | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Feb 07 2025 45 mins  
What’s the point of social studies?"Some students will go on and be doctors and some will be lawyers and some will be blue collar workers, but all of them are members of society," said Teresa Kruger. "The whole point of social studies, to me, is to prepare you to be that really active, participatory person in our in our democracy."Helping students find their voice and use their p

The education issues we're watching in 2025 | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Jan 24 2025 68 mins  
NIU's Jason Klein joins the show to dive into some of the most important education issues of 2025

Meet the students behind Hinckley-Big Rock's first theater production in a decade | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Jan 10 2025 23 mins  
A group of northern Illinois students put on their school’s first ever theatre production this fall. Hear the full journey from auditions through opening night. It’s on a new Teachers' Lounge, out now on WNIJ.org or wherever you get podcasts.

Some of our best education stories of 2024 | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Jan 02 2025 53 mins  
On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast, before we kick off 2025…we’re looking back one more time on some of the best education stories we told on Teachers’ Lounge in 2024.

Some of our favorite conversations of 2024 | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Dec 20 2024 64 mins  
On our last episode of the year, we're revisiting some of our favorite Teachers' Lounge conversations of 2024.

A teacher helping bilingual students across the country | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Dec 06 2024 48 mins  
On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast, why being bilingual is a superpower…and how many schools are teaching it in 2024.

From 1,800 degree kilns to 3D printers: a ceramics teacher's cutting edge classroom | Teachers' Lounge CLASSIC

Nov 22 2024 47 mins  
"If you're working with clay, some people may think 'oh, this is just a teapot.' That teapot can be a lot more. There can be a lot of other issues spinning around up there."