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Overthrowing Education

Overthrowing Education

Batsheva Frankel Education Podcast Network

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Batsheva Frankel presents an edgy and entertaining educational podcast for teachers, students, parents, administrators and anyone else who cares about the state of education. While it is playful and fun, I also address the revolutionary changes that are happening and need to happen to create more meaningful and engaging education. We’ll celebrate students, educators, and schools who are getting it right and give tools and guidance for inspiring everyone else. Each episode starts with a fauxmercial - a commercial parody for fake educational products we wish were real. And every interview ends with the guest playing The 5-Minute Game Show which is written specifically for the topic and guest of each episode. Who knew that revolutionizing schools could be so fun?

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Overthrowing Education - Mike Kaechele: Combine PBL and SEL for Super-Powered Learning
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07/12/21 • 40 min

In this episode, I have a great conversation with the wise and wonderful educator, Mike Kaechele, who clearly lays out why Project-Based Learning is such a natural partner for growing Social Emotional Learning skills and how to combine them together to create a better education for all students. Mike provides lots of great examples and tools (not just tech tools, either) to design incredible PBL units, with great SEL opportunities. We top off this important discussion with an acronym based The 5-Minute Game Show that is a lot of fun!

I’d like to give a special thank you to Mike Kaechele and to Linda Korn for the wonderful Paradigm Shifters jingle on today’s fauxmercial.

Links and resources:

http://www.michaelkaechele.com

Twitter: @mikekaechele

CASEL competencies

Trello Boards

Padlet

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Overthrowing Education - Monica Burns: No Fear Tech Talk

Monica Burns: No Fear Tech Talk

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03/19/20 • 66 min

In this incredibly challenging time of new realities every day, I have put together a special episode with Educational Tech expert Dr. Monica Burns and long-time awesome home school mom Kelila Sicilano who started OURSandYRS: Our Online Village They each bring lots of sage advice, tools, tips and strategies for helping educators and parents figure this out and try to make it work. Please share this episode with everyone you know! And go to www.overthrowingeducation.com for tons of great resources.

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Overthrowing Education - Ron Berger - Education is a Team Sport
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09/07/20 • 55 min

Ron Berger, my educational hero, joins me to talk about his new book, We Are Crew: A Teamwork Approach to School Culture and presents some important and beautiful ideas about what education should really be all about. I was so grateful to get this opportunity to speak with and learn from Ron and learn how we can all work together to “get everyone to the top of the mountain.”

My very special thanks to Ron and to Yossie Frankel for his voice work on this episodes fauxmercial.

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Overthrowing Education - Nick Covington and Chris McNutt: Human Centered Learning
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02/09/20 • 50 min

Nick Covington and Chris McNutt are fun, passionate advocators for great education. We discuss the importance of human centered learning and what they are doing with The Human Restoration Project, a fantastic free resource for educators. Then they compete with each other in a nerdy throw-down during The 5-Minute Game Show. And on In the Trenches today, we have a mystery guest! Our fauxmercial stars this week are Barbara Heller, Elliot Schiff, Jill Moray and Yossie Frankel.

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Overthrowing Education - Loui Lord Nelson: Using Universal Design for Learning
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08/23/21 • 46 min

This episode celebrates Overthrowing Education’s 2nd anniversary with Universal Design for Learning expert educator and author Loui Lord Nelson. Our conversation explores what UDL is and how to incorporate this important framework into lesson designs. Play The 5-Minute Game Show along with Loui and see if you can do as well as she did, cause she slayed it!

My special thanks to Loui and to my fauxmercail helpers Tuvia and Yossie Frankel. I also want to thank all of the wonderful guests and fauxmercial actors that have contributed so very much these last 2 years (check them all out on the previous 54 episodes!). And a big shout out to Distant Cousins, the band behind my theme song and Casey Arrillaga for his The 5-Minute Game Show theme music.

Important Links and Resources:

CAST

UDL Guidelines

UDL in 15 Minutes Podcast

Design and Deliver (Book)

A Tree for All: Your Coloring Book of UDL Principles and Practice

Go Fishing with UDL cards -An awesome card game about UDL that creates an ocean of possibility for your learners!

Culturally Responsive Design for English Learners (Book)

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Overthrowing Education - Nadav Zeimer: Overthrowing Transcripts and Standardized Tests
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10/03/21 • 39 min

I have a pretty radical guest today, Nadav Zeimer, an educator with a strong background in education and digital media, who is definitely doing his part in trying to overthrow education. He talks about how to completely overhaul our flawed transcript system that particularly effects high school students, and he has a plan for eradicating standardized testing that pretty much effects all students.

I had really high hopes that when we moved to predominantly remote learning in 2020, and it became clear to people just how absurd most standardized testing was. I was sure that we’d finally see some big changes. Unfortunately, I don’t see that happening. In my disappointment with the continuing status quo, I realized this was the perfect time to shake things up. And Nadav is certainly trying to make that happen.

And stay tuned to after the interview for the 5-Minute Game Show. And the fauxmercial for this episode is a parody of the classic cartoon “Mighty Mouse” where I get a chance to use my editing skills. It’s a lot of fun!

I would like to thank my special guest Nadav Zeimer. I also want to give a huge shout out to my fellow voices on the fauxmercial, Yossie Frankel as Almighty Mouse and Tuvia Frankel as the announcer. They are both really great sports and I appreciate it!

Links and Contacts:

[email protected]

Nadav’s Blog

Nadav’s book: Education in the Digital Age

Make One Change book

Radio: An Illustrated Guide by Ira Glass

Out on the Wire (graphic help for radio etc. ) by Ira Glass and Jessica Abel

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Overthrowing Education - Lindsay Portnoy: Using Play and Game-Based Learning
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05/31/21 • 53 min

My awesome guest on this episode is educator, author, and lovely, charming human being Lindsay Portnoy who joins me today to talk about why playing games, and playing in general are the best way to learn and how to incorporate games and play into any subject or grade. Lindsay has so many inspiring and wise approaches to education and we really geek out together on this favorite topic for both of us. As for the 5-Minute game show, Lindsay racks up lots of imaginary points as she slays it!

And speaking of slaying, don’t forget to listen to the hilarious live radio drama that I’m in called The Last Day of School, which I also helped write with some really funny education podcasters. It’s all a part of Edupodlooza on June 27th. Follow me on Twitter @overthrowinged and/or @Batshevafrankel, because I will be tweeting all about it.

Thank you so much to Lyndsay Portnoy and also to Yossie Frankel, the deep voice that joined me on the Edugamara fauxmercial.

Resources:

www.lindsayportnoy.com

Game On? Brain On!

Designed to Learn

The episode that Lindsay mentions that has the singing game show, featuring the amazing voice of Barbara Heller: Kevin Stoller: Why Kids Hate Math and How to Fix it.

The episode with Micaela Blie’s hilarious story about the Oregon Trail game she played with her students: Jon Cassie: Game-Based Learning

Batsheva’s workshop on Deeper Learning Games (and other workshops): https://www.newlensed.com/workshops

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Overthrowing Education - Aviva Levin: Transparency in Teaching Matters
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06/13/21 • 54 min

My guest is educator and podcast host of Lesson Impossible, Aviva Levin, who joins me to discuss why teacher transparency is so important, and how to make it happen. The Bonus of this episode is that we also include a little bit about how to incorporate improvisation games into your classes. Both Aviva and I have performed and taught improv, so I surprised her with an improv twist to The 5-Minute Game Show. And then she turns the table on me!

Aviva and I co-wrote and performed the fauxmercial for this episode. It was a blast to do. And she and I co-wrote a hilarious radio comedy with a group of really funny Ed podcasters for Edupodlooza that we are performing live on June 27th. Check back for links on how to watch or follow me on Twitter: @Overthrowing Ed or @BatshevaFrankel.

Important Links:

Website: www.lessonimpossible.com

Twitter: https://twitter.com/avivalevin

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lessonimpossible/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lessonimpossible/

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aviva-levin-8483511a7

Celebrating my 50th episode:

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Overthrowing Education - Micaela Blei: The Secret Power of Storytelling
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10/20/19 • 66 min

Award-winning storyteller and educator, Micaela Blei, joins for a great conversation about how to use story frames to bring learning alive, engage students and provide deeper learning. The fauxmercial parody, “Story Surprise” starts us off and after her interviewed, Micaela plays a hilarious version of The 5-Minute Game Show. In the Trenches, wonderful storyteller/educator, Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff gives practical tips on bringing history classes alive by creating powerful, relevant connections.
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Engaging educator, author and speaker Antero Garcia discusses how cell phones and games can be used effectively in a class, as well as other important issues surrounding cell use, games and technology. And then Antero nails The 5-Minute Game Show! The fauxmerical parody, “TAC vs. Worksheet” starts us off and we finish with students from St. Mary’s High School in Owen Sound, Ontario sharing the ideas they came up with after analyzing an “anti-cell phone for teens” article on the In the Trenches segment.

Special thanks to Antero, Anna, Max, Eamon, Rachel and Laura Honegger

Big thanks to the fauxmercial stars, Ben Elterman as TAC and Spencer Krull as Worksheet.

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How many episodes does Overthrowing Education have?

Overthrowing Education currently has 132 episodes available.

What topics does Overthrowing Education cover?

The podcast is about Stories, How To, Gameshow, Podcasts, Education and Humorous.

What is the most popular episode on Overthrowing Education?

The episode title 'Mike Kaechele: Combine PBL and SEL for Super-Powered Learning' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Overthrowing Education?

The average episode length on Overthrowing Education is 45 minutes.

How often are episodes of Overthrowing Education released?

Episodes of Overthrowing Education are typically released every 13 days, 23 hours.

When was the first episode of Overthrowing Education?

The first episode of Overthrowing Education was released on Aug 19, 2019.

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