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Facilitated by Dan Butler, Nick Duffy, and Andrea Townsley, Iowa Educational Chat (#IAedChat), is a weekly Twitter forum focused on the latest trends in education taking place each Sunday at 8:00 PM CST. This podcast aims to capture the thoughts and highlights shared within the Twitter discussion. On the last Sunday of the month, Dan, Nick, and Andrea host #IAedChat LIVE at 8:00 PM CST which features educational thought leaders through a live video stream. This takes place via Google Hangouts on Air/You Tube Live and is uploaded to the podcast upon completion. Join #IAedchat Sundays at 8:00 PM CST to engage in dialogue about critical issues in education and grow your Personal Learning Networ…
A pineapple on a classroom door becomes your invitation to rethink how teachers learn from each other.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A practical look at student-created media, reflection, and stronger home-school connection.
Digital tools matter most here as a way for students to capture their own thinking. The review follows Dr. Brad Gustafson and fellow participants as they talk through uses for Seesaw and Flipgrid: photographing a book, recording a response, and sharing or curating work for an…
Guided reading, burnout, and odd little life lessons keep this education chat grounded.
Iowa Ed Chat Live treats education as both classroom craft and lived experience, and this conversation is most engaging when it lets those registers sit side by side.
A practical conversation about coaching veteran teachers through grading, assessment, and change.
A coaching question about veteran teachers gives the episode a clear, useful center. Rick Warmly starts with common ground, then moves from homework, attendance, and grades into the larger purpose of assessment and whose voice belongs in those decisions.
Kim Strobel makes feedback feel less like a verdict than a tool for choosing growth through discomfort.
Feedback is the spine of this single-episode review, as Kim Strobel talks through the sting and usefulness of evaluations that offer two positives and one area to improve.
A grounded case for trauma-responsive discipline, with attention to suspensions, staff resistance, and the slow work of consensus.
Trauma-responsive school discipline comes through as a shift in how a school reads harm, responsibility, and the adult role in repair. Jim Sporlater lays out why discipline at his school had to look different, from moving away from an automatic three-day removal after a student…
Héctor and Beto dissect Mexican grammar, slang, and news in native-speed Spanish conversations.
Small habit changes meet hands-on AI experiments.
A call-in helpline where listener questions turn into reported science and history investigations.
["Brad Gustafson says his first show with Ben Gilpin, Real Deal Ed, was fun but not mission-driven, and that failure led to Unearthed Ed.", "He tells Dan Butler and Andrea Townsley that Reclaiming Our Calling comes from the tension he feels when one test or metric starts labeling students, teachers, and schools.", "The conversation stays practical, with examples from 30-second book talks, Seesaw, Flipgrid, TouchCast, Google Expeditions, and a 360 Fly camera.", "Brad keeps returning to one question: whether a decision serves learning that lasts, or only a surface-level metric."]
Iowa Ed Chat Live brings Greg Detmeyer and Jenny Hillebrand onto the show to discuss Instructional Coaching Corner, their two-year podcast about instructional coaching and classroom practice.
Rick Warmly argues that grades should report evidence of learning, not homework, behavior, or compliance.
["Iowa Ed Chat Live brings on Kim Strobel to talk about teacher happiness, growth mindset, trauma-sensitive classrooms, and a public-education \"revolution.\"", "Dan Butler says he is an elementary principal at Epworth Elementary School in the Western Dubuque District, and Andrea Townsley says she is a former fourth-grade teacher turned instructional coach with Grantwood AEA in Cedar Rapids and surrounding schools.", "Kim says she launched Strobel Education in January 2016, runs 30 miles a week, and uses gratitude and her \"Ethel\" inner-critic story to retrain her brain.", "She argues that schools need more social curriculum, more trauma-informed practice, and more right-brain creativity, including genius hour, if teachers and students are going to feel safe and valued."]
Jim Sporleder says Lincoln Alternative School moved from punishment-first discipline to a trauma-responsive model after a 2010 John Medina conference changed how he saw student behavior.
Jennifer Gonzalez joins Iowa Ed Chat Live to explain how Cult of Pedagogy grew from a first blog post shared with friends into her full-time work supporting teachers.
Iowa Ed Chat Live features Jimmy Casas and Jeff Zoll discussing school culture, leadership capacity, teacher identity, and professional learning.
PJ Capozzi, superintendent of Meridian 223 in Illinois, argues on Iowa Ed Chat Live that teacher evaluation should prioritize growth rather than compliance and sorting.
Iowa Ed Chat Live interviews Josh Allen, Lewis Central’s technology integration specialist, about GoOpen and openly licensed educational resources.
Joe Mazza connects 20 years in education, including nearly eight years as a building principal, to work on family engagement and Maker Dads.
Iowa Ed Chat LIVE from #saiconf17 features six Iowa education leaders discussing leadership paths, school improvement, technology, and student support.