Classroom Caffeine

About Classroom Caffeine

Education research has a problem. The work of brilliant education researchers often doesn’t reach the practice of brilliant teachers. But the questions and challenges from teachers’ practice sometimes don’t become the work of education researchers. Classroom Caffeine is here to help. In each episode, listeners hear from a leading education researcher or practitioner who shares what they want others to know about their work. Each conversation offers new insights into teaching and learning.

Publisher

Lindsay Persohn

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

4 Nov 2020

Latest episode

15 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

1 of 124 episodes have a transcript.

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   15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   A Conversation with Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

   Host [Host Name] interviews Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz, Professor of English Education, about building scholarship from student stories and fostering racial literacy for educators.

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   12 May 2026

   Another Conversation with Shea Kerkhoff

   Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dr. Shea Kerkhoff talks to us about adolescent literacy, student engagement, and how teachers can support middle and high school students as readers and writers in today’s complex literacy landscape. Drawing from her new book, Adolescent Literacy: Integrating the Sciences of Reading and Writing in Grades 4-12, Shea discusses ways educators can foster motivation, meaningful literacy literacy experiences, and authentic learning opportunities across content area...

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   14 Apr 2026

   A Conversation with Rachel Hatten: Passing the Mic

   Send us Fan Mail A big change is happening at Classroom Caffeine, and we wanted you to hear it directly: the podcast is continuing in partnership with the University of South Florida College of Education, with Dr. Rachel Hatten stepping in as the new host and executive producer. We talk with Rachel about the bridge we’re always trying to build, getting education research into the hands of teachers in ways that actually fit the realities of classrooms, schools, and district systems. Rac...

Inside a recent episode

A Conversation with Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

Published 15 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] So for me, these students are very much still in my heart. And what they taught me was really to question the stories that schools and institutions tell about students. And really to ask more of what happened? What were the circumstances? What were they carrying? And most importantly, what brilliance have we failed to see in them? And so that experience of teaching those students for those years remains the heart of my work today, I would say, because what I want teachers to know, and really great teachers know this, that before we can truly teach young people, we have to be willing to excavate our own assumptions about them and to listen deeply to their stories and to see beyond the labels that the institutions have assigned them. […]

Who has been a guest on Classroom Caffeine

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
• Elfrieda "Freddy" Hiebert
• Margaret Vaughn
• Dixie Massey

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

22 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

53

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

77

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