Fund for Teachers - The Podcast

About Fund for Teachers - The Podcast

Fund for Teachers is a national nonprofit that awards grants for self-designed fellowships to America's most innovative preK-12 teachers. This is a podcast to elevate these public/private/charter school educators as inspiring architects of their careers, classrooms and school communities.

Publisher

Carrie Caton

Category

business · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

17 Mar 2020

Latest episode

12 Aug 2026

Latest episodes

63 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   12 Aug 2026

   Reinterpreting the Indigenous Story

   When considering what education looked like for members of Native Tribes of North America, the conversation falls along the timeline of pre- and post-colonization. Prior to Westward Expansion, young children primarily learned by observing elders, through rituals and oral histories and always in community. As we know, however, those communities were decimated or displaced. In the case of the Cherokee Nation, the forcible removal from their homelands in the form of a forced march of more than 1...

2. 

   28 Jul 2026

   Breaking the Mold (and the Polar Ice)

   Today's episode is a break from our normally scheduled podcast. Because today's guest is breaking the mold of how Fund for Teachers Fellows' engage their students from a fellowship. Today, we are learning from Sabina Sully, middle school teacher at Patterson Park Public Charter School in Baltimore, MD. Sabina used her $5,000 Fund for Teachers grant to collect data, photographs, and interviews across Iceland’s volcanic landscapes, renewable energy sites, and Arctic ecosystems to create a...

3. 

   20 Jul 2026

   Talking About a Revolution

   Champion of the French Revolution's Reign of Terror, Maximilien Robespierre famously declared, “The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is keeping them ignorant.” Although Robespierre ultimately met the guillotine, his belief in the transformative power of education resonates with Jeff Glikman. Jeff knows that access to education alone doesn't guarantee success, but it does create opportunity—the same kind of opportunity Fund for Teachers gave him this su...

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

37,725

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

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Quality

23

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

76

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