Chase Mielke is a writer, speaker, and award-winning high school teacher. He holds a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction and runs affectiveliving.com He is the author of The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again. His work has been featured on CNN and on these websites: We Are Teachers, Edutopia, HuffPost, and Cult of Pedagogy.

We're all struggling to manage more demands on our schedules and too little time to give those demands the attention they require.  Have we reached the point where we need to take a more minimalist approach to educating our students?

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Tammy Musiowsky-Borneman is an ASCD author, professional learning facilitator, and Head of Teaching & Learning at Kokua Academy in Kona, Hawai’i. She also has experience teaching and leading Singapore, New York City, and Edmonton, Canada. As an active member of ASCD, she stays connected to her Emerging Leader classmates and is the Past-President of the Emerging Leader Alumni Affiliate. Tammy has also written several guest blogs for ASCD digital publications, EdWeek Teacher blog, and Achieve the Core. She writes on topics such as creating minimalism in education, cultures of learning, inclusivity, and student agency.

Christine Arnold is an Australian educator with experience in Australia, Japan, Singapore, Belgium, and The Netherlands. She has worked as a teacher, coach, mentor, co-teacher, coordinator, tutor, and supervisor from early childhood education to adult education. Her dedication to teaching has led her to serve on the board of the Singapore chapter of SENIA, publish educational articles, and present at various international and Australian conferences. Her interests in education include exploring research-based pedagogy and practice, inclusive education, quality early childhood education, inquiry, and promoting well-being for students and colleagues.

Tammy and Christine co-authored the recently published ASCD book, The Minimalist Teacher, as well as other digital publications for ASCD.

We’re seeing increased demand in the world and the workplace for complex thinking skills, but in education, we often struggle to teach these competencies. In this episode, we discuss three barriers and explore five strategies that can help surmount them.

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Jay McTighe has co-authored 14 books, including the award-winning and best-selling “Understanding by Design” series with Grant Wiggins. He recently co-authored Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making with Harvey Silver. He is the director of the Maryland Assessment Consortium, a state collaboration of school districts working together to develop and share formative performance assessments.

Our guest shines a bright light on the connection between policies, practices, and mindsets when it comes to equity in education.  Join us as we unpack the critical indicators of success that we should track to confirm progress made and continued unmet needs

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Jill Harrison Berg is a leadership coach, school improvement consultant and professional learning leader.  She is a regular columnist in ASCD's Educational Leadership magazine, and the author of the forthcoming book, Uprooting Instructional Inequity: The Power of Inquiry-Based Professional Learning (ASCD, December 2021).

Too often instructional coaching makes teachers feel diminished and undervalued.  In this episode, we unpack the elements that produce more impactful, and supportive coaching that leave teachers feeling respected and empowered.

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Jim Knight is a senior partner at the Instructional Coaching Group and a senior research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. His recent book is The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching.

Too often instructional coaching makes teachers feel diminished and undervalued.  In this episode, we unpack the elements that produce more impactful, and supportive coaching that leave teachers feeling respected and empowered.

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Jim Knight is a senior partner at the Instructional Coaching Group and a senior research associate at the University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning. His recent book is The Definitive Guide to Instructional Coaching.

Many education leaders have discovered that equity initiatives are a lot easier to launch than to achieve.  In this episode, we unpack the essential elements of successful equity initiatives and identify the common pitfalls that typically derail them.

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Dr. Dwayne Chism, dean of the school of education at Peru State University, and an expert on school equity. He's written a February article on building coherence in equity strategies.

The challenges of pandemic teaching and learning have sparked heightened interest in student well-being and engagement. Join us as we explore a new vision for organizing schools around what’s important and meaningful to students.

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Andy Hargreaves is a Research Professor, Boston College, Director of CHENINE (Change, Engagement & Innovation in Education), University of OttawaPresident & Co-Founder, ARC Education www.atrico.org

He co-authored Five Paths of Student Engagement with Dennis Shirley and authored Well-being in Schools,

As we all push through another exceptionally challenging school year, we pause to talk about proven ways to sustain our emotional energy and resilience. Join us as we separate what works from what doesn't.

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Elena Aguilar, a widely known expert on instructional coaching, is the president of Bright Morning Consulting, a speaker and presenter, and the author of several influential education books, including Coaching for Equity and Onward: Cultivating Resilience in Educators.

Our guest acknowledges what most of us know intuitively, punishing students is a marginally effective way to manage student discipline issues. Join us to learn about an approach that can encourage new behaviors and give us a language to talk with students about their efforts and their progress.

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Jeffrey Benson, a veteran educator and administrator, studied and worked side by side with national leaders in the fields of special education, learning theory, trauma and addiction, school reform, advisory programs, math curriculum, adult development, and conflict resolution. He is the author of numerous influential books, including Improve Every Lesson With SEL (ASCD, 2021).

In this episode, we look at why ignoring what teachers are really thinking and feeling in the name of being unwaveringly “positive” can actually undermine school culture and create a toxic work environment. Listen in as we unpack why our collective efficacy requires school leaders to leave space for faculty to express negative feelings and talk about what’s not working in our schools.

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Paul Emerich France is a National Board Certified Teacher, keynote speaker, and education consultant. He is the author of two books, Reclaiming Personalized Learning and Humanizing Distance Learning, and his work has been featured in numerous publications, such as Edutopia, EdSurge, ASCD’s Educational Leadership, and Learning Forward’s The Learning Professional. You can learn more about Paul at www.paulemerich.com.