Teachers' Lounge

Dec 06 2024 149 ep. 45 mins 20

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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 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."

Inside the real work of school boards and teachers' unions | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Nov 15 2024 55 mins

On a new Teachers' Lounge, a social studies teacher who’s also an elected school board member talks about why you should pay attention to your local school board.

A Rock Valley College professor helping students get out to vote | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Nov 01 2024 58 mins

A Rock Valley English professor helping his students get registered to VOTE…and answer questions for students who have never voted before…“One of my favorite questions. Was, it was actually a student in my class, and she said, Okay, so I show up at a community center or a church and like, what happens?”We’re putting the COMMUNITY in community college on a new Teachers' Lo

Composing the Climate & Teaching Music | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Oct 18 2024 54 mins

A music teacher puts a soundtrack to climate anxiety…with classical music…“If I'm going to continue spending hours each day practicing music from the past, then I also need to find a way to bring that to bear when coping with the present.”Composing the Climate…hear the music and conversation on Teachers’ Lounge.

A Rockford educator teaches us how to think like a physicist | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Oct 04 2024 61 mins

"I don't need a student to like my class. I know that I've done my job when a student says, 'Oh my gosh, I can't drive my car without thinking about physics anymore!' or 'I'm always seeing physics through everything, and it's driving me crazy!'"We’re headed to the lab on a new Teachers' Lounge podcast.

An award-winning P.E. teacher on helping kids feel strong and confident | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Sep 20 2024 51 mins

Middle school can be an awkward time…let alone middle school P.E. class…so any breakthrough is a big deal!“I love those moments. I even go and have those personal conversations with those kids, like, ‘hey, it was awesome to see you out and moving today. This was probably the best day ever,’ and then they sit there and smile,” she said. “They take that home with them.�

Teachers' Lounge 5-Year Anniversary Spectacular

Sep 06 2024 49 mins

On a SPECIAL episode of TL, our education show turns 5 YEARS OLD and we’re celebrating by revisiting some of our favorite moments over the years.Join us for a “Best of” Teachers’ Lounge out now on WNIJ.org or wherever you get podcasts.

'Never smile until Christmas': tales from teaching in the 1960s | Teachers' Lounge CLASSIC

Aug 30 2024 37 mins

Kathy started her teaching career in 1965 and…to say they threw her right into the deep end…oof."When I started teaching, as a teacher, you were extremely isolated," she said. "You were closed in this room with them. In my second year of teaching, I had 50 3rd graders!"We talk about how in the world you teach that many kids at once, how she evolved as a teacher as she got older

We all want good food and a beautiful home | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Aug 16 2024 50 mins

On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast -- we all want to eat good food and we all want to live in a beautiful home. So, when you teach Food and interior design like Katey -- it’s not that hard to make the lessons feel relevant.