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  • A Seneca science teacher on the school field trip that changed her life | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

    A Seneca science teacher on the school field trip that changed her life | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    2026/10/16
    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 時間
  • Rockford's new Youth Community News Initiative wants to give students a voice | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

    Rockford's new Youth Community News Initiative wants to give students a voice | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    2026/10/02
    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 時間 1 分
  • She's a superintendent. He's a college president. We talk with an Illinois education power couple. | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

    She's a superintendent. He's a college president. We talk with an Illinois education power couple. | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    2026/09/18
    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 分
  • Meet the first-year Rockford teacher we'll interview every month this school year | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

    Meet the first-year Rockford teacher we'll interview every month this school year | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    2026/09/04
    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 分
  • A Chicago teacher talks about the hidden cost, literally, of teaching | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

    A Chicago teacher talks about the hidden cost, literally, of teaching | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    2026/08/21
    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 分
  • Composing the Climate & Teaching Music | Teachers' Lounge CLASSIC

    Composing the Climate & Teaching Music | Teachers' Lounge CLASSIC
    2026/07/31
    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 分
  • A recently-retired DeKalb teacher's love letter to Kindergarten | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

    A recently-retired DeKalb teacher's love letter to Kindergarten | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    2026/08/07
    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 時間 7 分
  • Two Illinois teachers recruiting the next generation of educators | Teachers' Lounge Podcast

    Two Illinois teachers recruiting the next generation of educators | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
    2026/07/17
    You might think you want to be a teacher until you come face to face with 30 kids."There's nothing worse than getting to your junior year of college, being placed in your first observation, and going, 'I hate second graders.'"We talk with the teachers who lead the Southern Illinois Future Teachers Coalition about giving students early opportunities to see if the career's for them … and recruiting the next generation of teachers.
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    54 分