School Me

About School Me

A podcast fueled by educators. Each month, School Me brings you advice from fellow educators, expert breakdowns of education trends and news, and the encouragement you need to give your students your very best each day. Brought to you by the National Education Association.

Publisher

National Education Association

Category

business · education · education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

8 Jan 2018

Latest episode

13 Nov 2025

Latest episodes

22 of 140 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   13 Nov 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Protecting Schools and Sacred Spaces From ICE

   For more than 30 years, schools, hospitals, and places of worship have been considered "sensitive locations" — spaces protected from immigration enforcement. But recently, President Trump has moved to strip away those protections, opening the door for ICE to enter campuses and target families. Now, a coalition of educator unions, community organizations, and families has come together to fight back. Our guest is Karen Tumlin, Founder and Director of the Justice Action Center, and one of the attorneys leading the PCUN v. Noem lawsuit, which seeks to restore these decades-old protections and defend every student’s right to learn without fear.

2. 

   29 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Making Labor History Relevant for Young People

   Jennifer Albert Mann joins the show to discuss her book "Shift Happens, The History of Labor in the United States," a labor history book for teens and young adults. Shift Happens was the September young adult book recommendation on NEA’s Read Across America Calendar, under the theme “invite transformation.”

3. 

   1 Oct 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Teaching Kids the Science of Perception, Misinformation, and Disinformation

   Jacqueline B. Toner is a trained clinical psychologist and author of more than 10 books for young readers, including True or False? The Science of Perception, Misinformation, and Disinformation. Her book is an NEA Read Across America-recommended book for middle-grade students that teaches them about the brain in order to help them recognize misinformation and disinformation. In a world where false claims can spread faster than ever, how can we help kids build the skills they need to sort fact from fiction?

Inside a recent episode

Protecting Schools and Sacred Spaces From ICE

Published 13 Nov 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] We will not come to your pickup lines. We will not come to graduations. We will not come to baseball games and try to inquire about immigration status or apprehend individuals. We will do that in other places and we will only come to schools if it's been flagged in advance approved by headquarters and we think there's some kind of terrorists in threat. Well that's just good saying policy because what we need in this country is we need teachers to be able to teach schools to be able to do places of learning and people to be able to go hold their parents hand at a hospital when their parent is dying and not have to do the calculus of is it safe for me to sit by my mom's bedside today or might I run into an immigration agent? […]

Who has been a guest on School Me

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

• Lisa Graves
• Hannah St Clair
• Cynthia Blankenship
• Alice O’Brien
• Lubna Alam

Reach and audience

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

YouTube views

243

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

60 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100

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

Quality

85

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

98

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Based on episode analysis; this does not confirm that the show is currently accepting guests.

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