Education Upgrade is a podcast exploring education, human development, purpose, and the systems that shape our lives. Through conversations, interviews, and essays, host Jake Schulke examines learning, personal growth, culture, and the ideas that influence how we think and live.
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What are police searches actually teaching students?
What do police searches communicate to students?
Dr. Sebastián Sclofsky and I discuss school searches, student trust, discipline, and the difference between responding to a behavior and addressing what may be causing it.
From Episode 11 of Education Upgrade.
3 Oct 2026
What if teachers directed their own professional development?
What if teachers had more control over their own professional learning?
In this featured segment from Education Upgrade, Dr. Derek Riddle discusses self-directed professional development and how teachers can identify their own learning needs, set meaningful goals, and seek out resources that help them improve their practice.
We explore adult learning, reflection, teacher choice and motivation, and the many ways educators learn beyond traditional professional development. We also consider why even well-designed PD can fall short when it doesn't connect to what an individual teacher actually needs.
Featured segment from Episode 12 of Education Upgrade: Why Teacher Professional Development Fails, and What Works Instead with Dr. Derek Riddle.
22 Sept 2026
What does the research say about successful teacher PD?
What does the research actually tell us about effective teacher professional development?
In this featured segment from Education Upgrade, Dr. Derek Riddle explores the research on teacher professional learning, including six design features that shaped the field for decades: format, duration, collective participation, content, active learning, and coherence.
We also discuss research that challenged that traditional consensus and an important factor that can get lost when professional development is designed: the teacher. What motivates teachers? What intellectually engages them? What makes professional learning meaningful? And how much voice should teachers have in determining what they need to learn?
Featured segment from Episode 12 of Education Upgrade: Why Teacher Professional Development Fails, and What Works Instead with Dr. Derek Riddle.
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