K-12 Education Podcasts

Teachers Like Us features Alyssa and Andre, two middle school teachers talking about the job through the lens of equity. In The Tipping Point, recorded over a hotspot, one host says: "If somebody tried to teach me anything right now in my current state, I could not learn it." The line matters because it turns at once toward students: if the adults are struggling, so are the kids. In Do People Still Want To Be Teachers? the pair note that remote work now offers the flexibility people once assumed teaching had.

Teachers Talkin', hosted by Dustin Tatroe and Ghazali Abdul Wahab, is more of a workshop. In Stories That Stick: Using Edutainment to Inspire Learners, guest Ryan Leung describes an anti-scam story world with a theme song, a fictional agent, real newspaper articles and victims' accounts. He took it to elderly audiences, school students and the special needs community.

The Teacher's Forum, hosted by David Harris after 32 years in private, public, and charter schools, centres educators of colour. In Equity Under Construction | Daniel Harris, the talk turns to a student who took a listening process to her administration and board and got it approved. For classroom craft, EDVIEW360's Teacher, Parent, and Author Lindsay Kemeny’s Journey to Science-Based Reading Instruction has a small, usable moment. A teacher asks for "anthologies," meets blank faces, explains the word, and soon hears students using it. The Teaching Methods page and the Professional Development page go further.

Leadership shows are the most procedural part of the genre, and the good ones make procedure human. Leadership Talks comes from Ontario, hosted by Lawrence DeMaeyer and Susie Lee-Fernandes. In S2 EP12 - Bring a Critical Friend on Your Leadership Journey, two Near North District School Board principals, Jillian Kaganich and Krista Tucker-Petrick, describe a friendship built on pushback. Tucker-Petrick credits "a brave person you know who will tell you that your perception is skewed by emotion." It runs 22 minutes.

Reimagine Schools, hosted by Greg Goins, is at its most concrete in Leading with Parents with Dr. Ted Huff. Huff recalls a PTO president warning "we are dying on the vine." He also describes opening difficult meetings by asking parents about their hopes and dreams for their child. On #ELB Education Leadership and Beyond, Andrew Marotta asks early in #ELB Podcast with George Mendoza (OR) whether it is the process or the results. The La Grande superintendent, once a migrant student himself, describes how he listens before planning.

Et Bedre Skole-Norge, led by Øyvind Børven, tests claims against data. Terje Ogden – Utfordrende elevatferd – dette ser vi fungerer i Sarpsborg picks apart a survey. In it, 80 percent of respondents reported violence at their school, yet 83 percent said it occurred never, rarely or only sometimes. The episode also notes that teachers valued an extra adult in the room most. The Educational Leadership page continues from here.

Make EdTech 100 with LindyHoc is the practical counterpart. In Is AI Safe for Students? Part 2: It Depends on the Tool, Lindy Hockenbary asks for guardrails, teacher dashboards and short five-to-ten-minute uses. She would start students on NotebookLM to teach them to follow citations, after extensive AI literacy conversations, use of guardrail tools and demonstrations of how to verify information. Her warning: "please don't assume that students know how to prompt effectively."

Shifting Schools: Conversations for K12 Educators, hosted by Jeff Utecht and Tricia Friedman, turns to staff in What to Do When Teachers Are at Very Different Places With AI. It suggests building confidence from a personal passion, using a deep-research exercise for a group of Taylor Swift fans. Living On The Edge of Chaos is warier. In 221: Evolving Beyond the Hype: AI, Humanity, and the Cost of Progress, linguist Kimberly Becker says AI handles grammar and flow but currently "cannot get into complexity, sophistication, and depth of a human mind." The Educational Technology page covers more.

Black vs The Board of Education Podcast is the genre at its most urgent. It amplifies Black youth voices, and co-host Melissa, a UC Berkeley student, argues alongside the adults. What Families Need to Know Right Now (And What Schools Aren’t Saying) weighs a teachers' strike from the parent's chair. One speaker asks why teachers who never called home with good news now want families' trust. Near the end the hosts call for recovery plans and transparency. No Restraint: When School Safety Becomes Institutional Violence interviews an author who spoke with 50 families across 15 states. The guest insists that school discipline cannot be discussed without the people it affects. The cases are painful and described bluntly, and parents are treated as experts.

Education Incorporated (Edu Inc) Private School offers a calmer version of family guidance. Myth Busting IEB Accommodations with Dr. Claire Yorke presents the view that accommodations let a child work to their own optimal level, not match a differently wired peer. The episode cautions against "asking fishes to climb trees."

Some schools and districts run their own shows, and the candid ones are useful well beyond their catchment. Car Rider Line, from Clear Creek ISD, records live on Facebook. Episode 602: Incoming 9th Grade Course Selection explains which classes count toward class-rank GPA, so a student can take four years of band without it entering the ranking. Hello Olentangy's Student Agency lets two seniors and their English teacher describe a student-led gradeless structure. Eagles on the Air, from Salesian High School, has a lovely moment in Mike Breen ’79: How Salesian High School Shaped the Voice of the NBA. A guidance counsellor lists the hardships of medicine, then of broadcasting, and Breen realises only the second still appeals.

Classical Dialogues, hosted by Dr. David Stanton, gives the classical Christian case. In David Seibel (Coram Deo) and Faculty Spotlight, Seibel says the elective approach treats school "like a Chick-fil-A, like a la carte." Avalon Mentors teaches a subject outright. "Everything that rises must converge" by Flannery O'Connor (a reading) sets questions about the story's hat and its colours, then reads the story aloud. Disrupt Education Podcast, with Peter Hostrawser and Alli Dahl, pushes career-connected change. In 428 The College Board Move Most Educators Never Saw Coming, one host says flatly: "I cannot stand teachers who will not try new things." The Alternative Education page gathers more models.