Busted Pencils

Have you ever wondered how exactly public schools are funded? Where does the money come from, and why? Today on the Producer’s Choice Show your host Producer Jakob has brought in two experts to answer his questions on this important subject. Drs. Johnny Lupinacci and Tim Slekar bring decades of experience as educators to the table, and boy do they have thoughts on our education system! So grab your textbooks, open to page one, and prepare to find out how school funding works on this episode of the Producer’s Choice Show!

The Producer’s Choice Show with Producer Jakob is part of BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk which is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!

Yo Pencil Busters, let’s kick it. While Dr. Tim Slekar is out on assignment studying the teaching practices of the uncontacted tribes of the Amazon (or he just couldn’t make it to the show today), Dr. Johnny Lupinacci and Producer Jakob are running the show. Do you think that teaching is all about rules and enforcement? Alright, stop. It’s about collaborating and listening. Dr. Johnny is back with a Class is in Session, because this concept has grabbed a hold of him tightly. He’s thinking about improving our schools daily and nightly. Will it ever stop? The answers no. Let him talk math and he’ll glow. Light up his students’ eyes like a candle and wax outdated practices like a vandal. Because education is about to change. Love it or leave it, you better gangway. Because when it comes to helping kids, Johnny don’t play.

Dope rhymes provided by Producer Jakob (care of Vanilla Ice…. care of Queen).

BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!

Dread it, run from it, the school year arrives all the same. Dr. Johnny Lupinacci has already spotted school supplies making their return to stores near him! Is it time to go back to school already??? Not quite, but the clock is ticking! Johnny and Dr. Tim Slekar discuss those latter days of summer when teachers start to sniff the return to class a’percolatin’ just beyond the horizon in THIS episode of BustED Pencils!

BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!

Today on BustED Pencils, Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci are joined by a very special guest. Rural Superintendent Mike Beighley of Whitehall School District in western Wisconsin has come to tell us about some exciting changes happening in rural schools. Mike and his organization, Liftoffs Learning, are taking a step back from the business-as-usual approach to education and embarking on a bold journey to reshape how schools approach learning. Mike may not represent the largest school district in the country, but he and his team are proving that small schools and big ideas can make a difference.

Producer Jakob has brought back the show’s old intro voice over in an exciting and unexpected move that Tim and Johnny welcome with open arms.

BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!

Last week on the Producer’s Choice Show we had two incredible guests battle to see who could answer the most questions about the 4th of July. Much fun was had. BUT today Producer Jakob is having the tables turned on him as HE is put to the test. Who asks better interview questions? Will it be Producer Jakob and the human team? Or will the AI generated questions prove to be too much to handle? Drs. Johnny Lupinacci and Tim Slekar will field both sets of questions and decide once and for all who wins in the battle of MAN vs MACHINES on this episode of the Producer’s Choice Show!

The Producer’s Choice Show with Producer Jakob is part of BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk which is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!

Today Drs. Timothy Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci discuss a recent article by Tim’s favorite A.I. commentator Ethan Mollick. The article dredges up a recent MIT study which found that writing performance appeared to dip in users of A.I. assistants like Chat GPT. What’s that all about? Do A.I. robot helpers hurt our ability to think on our own? Yes. But what do we think about that? Find out today on this exciting episode of BustED Pencils and DARE to stay off Chat GPT!

BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!

Drs. Tim Slekar and Johnny Lupinacci are joined by Producer Jakob to phone in a quick episode of BustED Pencils as they all recover from a wild 4th of July weekend. Now imagine if you will; a simpler time, a time before the modern world brought us down with fancy things. Those were the days. But they could come back! Because Tim Slekar is on the bleeding edge of a revolution in single-room-schooling! What’s that? Tim explains here for all to see! So please join us for an expedited journey into an exciting blast from the educational past!

Producer Jakob messed up the Moment of Zinn today. He will be disciplined accordingly. But hey, buttons, how do they work? Nobody knows.

BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!

Happy 4th of July weekend, guys and gals! We hope that each and every one of you has had a chance to spend time with family, friends, see some fireworks, or just get a few moments of rest and relaxation. On a downer note, Donald Trump’s fiscally and ethically irresponsible new budget bill has passed both houses of congress. It’s a tough time in America, but thankfully Drs. Johnny Lupinacci and Tim Slekar are here to get through it with you as we deal with the big bill bummer.

BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!

Today on our 4th of July Spectacular episode of the Producer’s Choice Show we’re honoring America by having guests Drs. Johnny Lupinacci and Tim Slekar battle to the death in the ultimate American trivia contest. After spending weeks plumbing the depths of the Library of Congress, our host, Producer Jakob, has come up with the GREATEST AMERICAN TRIVIA QUESTIONS OF ALL TIME! So sit back, fire up the colortini, and enjoy an especially American-y episode of the Producer’s Choice Show!

The Producer’s Choice Show with Producer Jakob is part of BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk which is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!

Wisconsin is well known for leading the world in several important categories; cheese, milk, leather hides, mooing. But what many don’t know is that we also lead the world in using technology to advance the field of milling lumber. Because right here in Antigo, Wisconsin, we’ve unveiled a cutting (ha) edge high tech training sawmill. Drs. Johnny Lupinacci and Tim Slekar are excited to see this news because they love localized education, investment in the trades, and the use of fancy tech to make education the best it can be. So join us as we learn about the new system turning students into lumberjacks of all trades!

BustED Pencils: Fully Leaded Education Talk is part of Civic Media. Subscribe to the podcast to be sure not to miss out on a single episode! Go to bustedpencils.com for swag, all of our episodes, and for information on partnering with us! For information on all of the programming across the Civic Media network, head over to https://civicmedia.us/shows. Join the conversation by calling or texting us at 608-557-8577 to leave a message!