Episodi

  • A Waubonsee automotive professor on how the car industry has evolved, and how education had to evolve with it | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    Nov 6 2026
    Car talk! We’ve got a fascinating conversion with an automotive technology professor about how the car industry — and auto education — has evolved. Teaching students how to repair and design the cars of the future. It’s on a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast…
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    53 min
  • A Seneca science teacher on the school field trip that changed her life | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    Oct 16 2026
    A Seneca science teacher talks about a fateful school field trip, Oreo experiments, and why she doesn't want to teach anyone but middle schoolers.
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    1 ora
  • Rockford's new Youth Community News Initiative wants to give students a voice | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    Oct 2 2026
    On a new Teachers' Lounge, why a group of Rockford students are starting their own community news service:"Yes, they wanted to write. Yes, they wanted to use some skill sets they had. But then the next statement would be, 'I'm here because youth need a voice. Youth need a voice, and we don't have it now, so we need to be it.'"We talk with the teachers helping them out.
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    1 ora e 1 min
  • She's a superintendent. He's a college president. We talk with an Illinois education power couple. | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    Sep 18 2026
    On Teachers' Louge, we’ve got an education power couple: Kelly Mandrell is the Superintendent of the Polo Community School District here in northern Illinois, and her husband, Jon Mandrell, is the new president of Sauk Valley Community College.
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    56 min
  • Meet the first-year Rockford teacher we'll interview every month this school year | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    Sep 4 2026
    This school year, our teacher correspondent is Kelcey Dodd. She’s a kindergarten teacher at Spring Creek Elementary in Rockford. Kelcey's in her first-year as a teacher, so we’re going to be checking in on her every month as she figures things out.
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    33 min
  • A Chicago teacher talks about the hidden cost, literally, of teaching | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    Aug 21 2026
    Picture Chicago in the dead of winter. It's a cold morning, still dark as students walk the icy sidewalks to school. On the far south side of the city, Dawes Elementary School teacher Anne Shippy watches her middle school students walk in without hats and without gloves. They often don't have school supplies either like pencils, notebooks, or folders. And the classroom needs books.
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    56 min
  • Composing the Climate & Teaching Music | Teachers' Lounge CLASSIC
    Jul 31 2026
    We’re revisiting our lovely 2024 conversation with Cacie Miller! She's a music instructor at College DuPage, director of music at United Lutheran Church in Oak Park, and creator of the musical project 'Composing the Climate.'
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    45 min
  • A recently-retired DeKalb teacher's love letter to Kindergarten | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    Aug 7 2026
    At the end of this past school year, Tracy found herself strutting down the hallway, wearing a sash and a crown, as kids held up homemade signs and mobbed her with hugs.She was retiring after 30 years as an elementary school teacher in her hometown of DeKalb.
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    1 ora e 7 min