Rebel Teacher Alliance

Teachers discuss the end of the school year, counting down days, packing up classrooms, and a Star Wars poster with life lessons.

The hosts of Rebel Teacher Alliance welcome back John Meehan for a casual conversation about gamification and authentic engagement in education.

The hosts struggle with an awkward introduction and welcome back guest Jeremy Sederquist, who updates them on his life and a feud with Fabian.

Tisha Richmond describes Canva for Education as free for K–12 educators and says she supports districts with professional development.

Rebel Teacher Alliance Episode 271, "Finding Our Pregnant Women," starts with Fabian Hoffman and Jamie Halsey trading spring-break updates, scuba diving with children, five sea turtles, and an octopus.

Rebel Teacher Alliance opens with John Meehan saying his school is slated for closure in three to five years, even as he has shifted into a 0.8 staff development role and a 0.2 student-facing role.

["Port-A-Potty Gate and Hawaii weather disruptions frame Rebel Teacher Alliance, as Jamie moves from a Kona Low and campus closures into California labor fights and AI teaching changes.", "Jamie says John is traveling and busy, then describes a scuba iTerm, 30-plus students learning in a pool, and a boat dive at the end of the week.", "She reports two Sacramento-area districts on strike, one with 800 students without a regular teacher, sub six hundred dollars a day to cross the picket line, and administrators taking a 15% raise with allowances.", "The back half covers the Learning in the Brain conference, where John Spencer, Talithia Williams, Saba Kwidwai, and George Kuros push AI as process, not product, through handwritten drafts, Gemini revisions, and \"grading the buns\"."]

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Rebel Teacher Alliance hosts Fabian Hoffman and Jamie Halsey interview Jenny Chan, founder of Pacific Atrocities Education, about researching and teaching World War II atrocities committed in Asia.

Rebel Teacher Alliance centers this episode on AI in education, opening with Tyler Cowen's line that pretending AI is not here yet is "negligent." Fabian Hoffman says his IB school has an AI working group, student interviews, and teacher sessions on writing report-card comments with AI.

John Meehan says UDL needs more than YouTube subtitles: teachers need classroom activities they can use.

The hosts of Rebel Teacher Lines welcome returning guest Candice Healing, who shares a story about her tire being slashed at Target, leading to banter about Canada's lack of Target stores.

Teachers discuss fall break and finding spirit animals at the San Diego Zoo.