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Dr. Kate Foley sits down with Seamus to discuss her new book, Radically Excellent School Improvement, now available where you buy books and on The Ippy Dippy Content Library.  Radically Excellent School Improvement presents a model for ambitious improvement and tireless focus that ensures every student grows, thrives, and achieves their fullest potential.  Learn from Kate's experience on how to improve your school through key takeaways and anecdotes. 

Raymond Tran breaks down why he left his high paying investment job as an investor to be happier teaching AND didn't have to sacrifice his earnings.  He is on a mission to helping other teachers live financially free.

Seamus' sister and veteran math Teacher, Maeve Siu, joins The Ippy Dippy to talk about shifting career goals, helping humanize math, and sharing her math songs with the audience.  Listen to discover her journey and tips for getting the best out of your students by tapping into your creativity.  Mentioned in this episode, @mathlovesiu, @TheMathGuru, @thespacegal

Seamus welcomes Rachel Rahmlow from Teacher to Millionaire to discuss her mission to ensure educators make the best of their money and become financially secure in their careers.  Rachel also shares insights into her life, her practice, professional development, and where she goes for inspiration.  Also mentioned in this episode are Instagram accounts; @eastnash.teacher, @funny_math_teacher, @TeacherFinancialPlanner, @TheMathGuru, and @pgliljedahl.

Despite microphone issues, Seamus welcomes Brittany Wheaton to the show to talk about her work toward making greater connections with students.  Listen to Brittany share her experience with Teaching to a Riot and empowering other educators to shift their mindset when managing behaviors, especially for neurodivergent students.  Be sure to Check out Brittany at Teaching_to_a_Riot on Instagram for more resources.

Kristal Funk narrates the case of Play-based literacy at Near West Intergenerational School.  Title Teacher, Brittany O'Donnell teamed up with Coach, Jameson Lowery to explore what play can bring to primary literacy.  Betty Jean Quimby and Sean Wheeler join Seamus O'Hara in the Ippy Dippy Roundtable to debrief the play-based literacy efforts. 

Thought Leaders:  Sean Wheeler joins Seamus to deep dive into how Chat GPT and AI should change the way you teach, how schools are likely to respond, and how they SHOULD respond.  Learn what you can do with AI to lighten your load and make lesson planning easier while boosting in-person classroom interactions.

In this Thought Leaders segment, Seamus welcomes Dr. Cathy Whitehouse to discuss her journey to creating 3 schools founded on developmental learning.  Listen to understand the benefit of developmental learning.

Sean is quitting...teaching that is.  How did a 17-year career come to an end?  Was it the pandemic, was it the riots, did those things have anything to do with it?  Find out today, in THOUGHT LEADERS.

Seamus and Sean welcome back Joseph Ciesielski and new guest, Patrick Britton to the studio to ask the questions; What is TFA? Why is it so polarizing? Is TFA effective? Should we be ok with TFA in our schools?

Join Seamus, Sean, Kerrie, and Jacqui as they offer hot takes on education and technology.  They discuss the freedom of teachers and administrators, overuse of iPads in the classroom, student-to-student sexting issues, the state of technology, and the use of Wikipedia as a source.

Join Seamus and Sean on summer break at the north shore.  Spanish teacher, Ken, and Band teacher, B.J. join the discussion of hot summer topics such as; How much school time should be devoted to testing? The College board is worth billions so why do they get an army of free teachers to proctor their tests? Do new school leaders have new ideas? What's with the Say Yes to Education initiative? EdPOP's summer membership drive and the Teach better Conference. Why do students stay up so late?

Seamus and Sean continue their conversation about the hiring process and interview questions.

Katharine narrates the curious case of principal Eric Juli’s effort to make for authentic learning and learning-by-doing at the high school level.  Hear what X-block is all about and see what generalizes to your practice.

Friends of the show, Rose Martin, joins Seamus in the studio to play a little game about making ok classroom practices better by reviewing the book, Best Practice, Fourth Edition: Bringing Standards to Life in America's Classrooms by Steven Zemelman, Harvey "Smokey" Daniels, and Arthur Hyde.

Sean gives us another fantastic set of thoughts regarding the overuse of data, choices, and keeping fresh as an educator.

Seamus invites his wife, Lauren, into the studio to discuss Betsy DeVos’ comments on class size.  They go further by exploring the idea of using biomimicry to better understand the class size debate.

Seamus announces the end of the EdPOP semester and explains what to expect for EdPOP’s Summer Sessions RAW.  In addition, there is a very exciting announcement about a giveaway with our membership drive!

On our final episode of the semester, we have an exciting announcement about our membership drive,  we discuss DeVos’ comments about class size in Listener Mail, Sean gives his perspectives on making choices in Thought Leaders, Rose Martin joins us to take a look at the Best Practice book on Journal Club, We examine changing the education paradigm through Design Lab’s X-block in our Case Study and Round Table, and continue discussing the hiring process on EdPOP Extras.

This month, we dig into getting the best out of your faculty that you inherit, new resume considerations, top 10 takeaways from the book No-Drama Discipline, a case study on creating relevant advisories, making sure we do the math on school bathroom use policies, and what really motivates teachers.