Education conversations with a human pulse.
Lasting Learning is a reflective education show built around candid conversations with people trying to make learning matter beyond the moment. Episodes move between classroom practice, personal transformation, leadership, parenting, and the messy work of turning obstacles into usable wisdom.
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Lasting Learning is a conversational education show about growth that lasts after the lesson, the workshop, or the difficult season ends. It is grounded in interviews rather than polished lectures. The show often brings in educators and people whose personal stories sharpen the professional conversation. Some episodes focus directly on classroom practice: questioning, AI, leadership, collaboration, engagement, and support for teachers. Others move through confidence, recovery, parenting, racial bias, peace, and the daily choices that shape a person’s circle of influence. The tone is earnest and loose. The host gives guests room to connect school improvement with identity, values, and lived experience. Amber Miller’s return centers inner knowing, alcohol abuse, loss, and the decision to stop looking outward for validation. Dr. Amy Mathews-Perez’s episode argues for celebrating progress without abandoning excellence. Connie Hamilton’s return frames good teaching as a connected cycle of inquiry, culture, support, and leadership rather than a plug-and-play fix. Nadia Bennett’s conversation challenges surface-level support and asks what adults really believe about Black and brown children. Moshe Fried’s Classtars episode turns student engagement into a question of early warning, invisible progress, and teacher connection. Dr. Jen Forristal’s episode brings parenting and coping into the same frame as education. The show is not built for quick hacks. It is better suited to listeners who want professional reflection with room for discomfort, humor, and personal admission. The pacing can be chatty, but the through-line is clear: learning lasts when people examine what they value, notice who is being missed, and act before problems harden. Lasting Learning works best for educators and school leaders who want ideas with a human pulse. It keeps returning to the same durable question: what helps people grow in a way that actually changes how they live and teach?
Made for: Educators, school leaders, parents, and reflective professionals who want classroom ideas tied to personal growth, bias, resilience, and leadership. It especially suits listeners who prefer candid long-form conversations over tightly packaged teaching tips.
What sets it apart: The show connects school practice to personal transformation, letting conversations about questioning, AI, engagement, and support open into identity, confidence, bias, recovery, and care. Its strength is the bridge between professional learning and the inner work behind it.
Discussing the imperfections of our journeys.Sharing the obstacles we shape into opportunities.Focusing on the focus.This is Lasting Learning!In this raw, uncut, unscripted podcast we explore ways to make learning last. We talk to people who have found what matters. We talk to difference makers.This isn’t a show about gimmicks and tricks. It’s a show about learning that lasts.
This is the show that asks whether one donut, one question, or one brave conversation changes everything.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
Amber Miller makes inner knowing and personal influence feel practical rather than performative.
Amber Miller returns to Lasting Learning with a story about living by hard-won wisdom rather than simply admiring it from a distance. Once described as drunk and broke, she now talks about loosening the need to know exactly why a path is calling, trusting inner knowing, and…
A grounded conversation about celebrating small progress without pretending mastery has already arrived.
Lasting Learning's conversation with Amy turns a sharp question into something usable: what counts as progress when personal growth and mastery do not arrive at the same time?
A clear, practical case for linking questioning with engagement, inquiry, and stronger school culture.
Connie Hamilton returns to Lasting Learning for a focused conversation on why questioning so often belongs at the front of school work around instruction and engagement.
A clear, candid episode on the gap between public solidarity and the inner work of changing schools.
Lasting Learning uses its conversation with Nadia to look plainly at what school change requires once public gestures have faded. She pushes against the assumption that Black and brown children bring lesser values, then turns the question back on adults: what might they actually…
A subway-game observation gives preventative care in education a vivid, human starting point.
Lasting Learning uses a subway ride to frame a clear argument for preventative care in education. Moshe Fried remembers watching a passenger play Subway Surfer with striking precision, then draws a line from that instant feedback to classroom tools that can help teachers notice…
Thoughtful teaching talk with classroom roots.
Careful conversations for better teaching.
Creative ELA ideas with classroom roots.
Classroom creativity, treated as real work.
Lasting Learning episode 234 brings Amber Miller back to talk about still coming up with 'new versions of myself' after her episode 170 appearance.
Amy Mathews-Perez says 32 years in education took her from middle-school teaching to speech pathology, educational diagnostics, assistant principal, principal, director of special education, and director of special programs.
["Lasting Learning episode 232 brings Connie Hamilton back after episode 88, which the host says was the show's last pre-COVID release and still sits in the network's top 10.", "Hamilton, an author and conference presenter, discusses Hacking Group Work and the upcoming Invest in Your Best with TJ Berry, Joseph Jones, and Todd Whitaker.", "She argues that schools should support strong teachers instead of overloading them, and she ties that to student apathy, post-pandemic stamina, and better questioning.", "The episode closes on AI assessment redesign and a study of about 12,000 classrooms that found 83% of standards at higher levels but 76% of classroom instruction at recall."]
Lasting Learning centers on Nadia Bennett, founder and CEO of When Brown Girls Lead, and Reagan's conversation with her about anti-racist school leadership and psychological safety for K-12 leaders.
Lasting Learning episode 230 centers on Moshe Fried's Class Stars work on classroom engagement and student visibility.
The host introduces a podcast about learning lasting lessons from extraordinary people, and teases an upcoming interview with two friends who inspire him.
The host introduces a guest expert to discuss raising successful kids and creating a proud destiny, focusing on lasting lessons.