Teachers' Lounge

Teachers' Lounge

Podcast de Northern Public Radio

Host Peter Medlin connects with teachers, students and leaders in education as they discuss the biggest issues impacting classrooms.We want to hear your experiences as an educator. Send us a note to teacherslounge@niu.edu

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episode A Morris teacher who came home to continue the legacy of the teachers who inspired her | Teachers' Lounge Podcast artwork
A Morris teacher who came home to continue the legacy of the teachers who inspired her | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

Andrea Gustafson! She’s an English teacher, speech team coach, and head of the drama department at Morris Community High School.Morris is her hometown, so it’s been really meaningful to build a career at the same school she went to and continue the legacy of the teachers who inspired her.

21 mar 2025 - 48 min
episode Microwaved rubies and can races: an Aurora educator teaches physics by playing | Teachers' Lounge Podcast artwork
Microwaved rubies and can races: an Aurora educator teaches physics by playing | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

On a brand-new Teachers' Lounge, Julie is a physics teacher who encourages her students to learn through play. Sometimes that looks like rolling food cans down the hallway and sometimes that looks like her students growing synthetic rubies in a microwave!

07 mar 2025 - 47 min
episode The Jazz Problem: how schools fueled the first modern moral panic | Teachers' Lounge Podcast artwork
The Jazz Problem: how schools fueled the first modern moral panic | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

On a brand-new Teachers' Lounge Podcast, we’re talking about America’s first school culture war: JAZZ!"Jazz was seen as more of a lifestyle, and so if you are interested in jazz, you were, as critics believed, also interested in drinking, in smoking, some degree of sexual activity. The belief was that if you could dissuade young people from not being interested in jazz, that all these other vices would would also go away."How the Jazz Problem set the stage for modern moral panics.

21 feb 2025 - 42 min
episode What's the purpose of social studies? | Teachers' Lounge Podcast artwork
What's the purpose of social studies? | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

What’s the point of social studies?"Some students will go on and be doctors and some will be lawyers and some will be blue collar workers, but all of them are members of society," said Teresa Kruger. "The whole point of social studies, to me, is to prepare you to be that really active, participatory person in our in our democracy."Helping students find their voice and use their power in a democracy. That’s on a new Teachers' Lounge.

07 feb 2025 - 45 min
episode The education issues we're watching in 2025 | Teachers' Lounge Podcast artwork
The education issues we're watching in 2025 | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

NIU's Jason Klein joins the show to dive into some of the most important education issues of 2025

24 ene 2025 - 1 h 8 min
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