KINL Podcast Network

KINL Podcast Network is a Keep Indiana Learning feed built around educators talking with other educators about the work of schools. The scope is wide. Recent episodes move among math instruction, middle school teaching, blended learning, counseling, college admissions, picture books, outdoor learning, and professional learning events. The strongest through-line is practical classroom sensemaking. In Math and Other Things, Courtney Flessner and Ryan Flessner talk through student thinking, math understanding, teacher assumptions, and what classroom moments can reveal. Stories from the Field turns everyday observations into questions about how students learn mathematics and how adults interpret their thinking. Middle School Masterclass brings Jeff Harker into conversations about middle school practice, including Building Thinking Classrooms and the realities of having students work at boards. Teaching Forward focuses on instructional design and technology, with attention to learning management systems, Canvas, discussion boards, collaborative tools, feedback, and keeping a human connection around digital work. Homegrown brings in school counseling and policy-facing topics, including college admissions questions connected to the new Indiana diploma. The feed also has room for literacy and childhood curiosity, including picture books, nature, New York City, the Statue of Liberty, and Dolly Parton's Imagination Library. That range makes the network feel more like an educator commons than a single-topic show. The conversations are friendly but not vague. They often stay with the messy middle of practice: what students actually do, what teachers notice, where a strategy helps, and where it needs adjustment. The register is conversational, school-centered, and grounded in Indiana professional learning. It suits a listener who wants education talk that stays close to classrooms while still connecting to conferences, policy, and broader instructional shifts.