
School of Practice
Hosted by Kristin Leong · Edutopia
4.7from 51 ratings
- 26
- Episodes
- 12
- Transcribed
- 51
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2025
- First episode
About School of Practice
School of Practice, the first podcast from the team at Edutopia, brings you ready-to-use strategies to improve your teaching today. Join us for 15-minute episodes filled with smart, pedagogy-shifting advice—backed by research and test-driven by teachers just like you.
- Publisher
- Edutopia
- Category
- education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 16 Sept 2025
- Latest episode
- 8 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
12 of 26 episodes have a transcript.

8 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
5 Common Teacher Mistakes and How to Fix Them

25 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
How Nicholas Ferroni is Rewiring His Classroom for Human Connection

11 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
Research: 5 Principles of Superb Classroom Design
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5 Common Teacher Mistakes and How to Fix Them
Published 8 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We're very activity oriented. It's, oh, I have to design this. I have to create this. This is going to be really fun. We confuse engagement with entertainment. And then if we're reflective about what students are giving us, we start to catch ourselves and think, OK, maybe this was a really fun way to spend a Wednesday afternoon, but maybe it didn't have the results that I was looking for. But that takes time to be able to see that. So you're looking at what students produced. We're looking at the data and we realize, oh, All this activity-oriented busyness isn't creating the deep learning kids need. […]
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- Miriam Plotinsky
- Nicholas Ferroni
- Youki Terada
- Steve Merrill
- three educators
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Kristin Leong host the show. Published by Edutopia.
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