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Second Look Education

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Second Look Education is a practitioner-scholar podcast hosted by experienced educators. Each episode begins with real moments from classrooms, teacher preparation, policy, and professional life — the moments that make us pause and take a second look. From there, we engage in shared inquiry, examining development, relationships, professional judgment, and the systems shaping teaching and learning. Thoughtful, evidence-informed, and grounded in practice, this podcast resists oversimplification and centers the conditions that make good teaching possible.

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20 episodes

  1. The Teacher Is Part of the System 29:44
  2. When the Framework Becomes the Lens 23:44
  3. When Behavior Charts Work, What Actually Changed? 39:49
  4. When Did We Decide We Were Too Old to Play? 39:34
  5. Does Play Still Count as Learning? 39:09
  6. The Teachers We Learn to Be 35:51
  7. When Teacher Me Wakes Up: Why Going Back Begins Before School Starts 31:58
  8. When Does Commitment Become Compulsion? | A Conversation with Dr. Matthew Cooney 43:07
  9. Authentic Self Care: Beyond Bubble Baths 43:05
  10. What Do We Think Summer Is For? 49:15
  11. Who are Evaluations For? 38:25
  12. When Screens Became the System 42:45
  13. The Screens Schools Gave Them 30:01
  14. Who Gets to Love Learning? 33:14
  15. The Edges of Inclusion 31:39
  16. How did we lose the joy this early? 36:15
  17. Inside High-Stakes Testing 37:32
  18. Read Across America — What Do We Do About Dr. Seuss? 24:29
  19. When Learning Has to Leave a Trace 39:13
  20. Why We’re Taking a Second Look 17:23