For episode 3, I'm joined by Allison Glubish who talks about literature circles: how to create them, make sure they keep on running, plus pitfalls and strategies to make sure that students stay engaged throughout the process.

To access relevant materials to help you create your own lit circle, click here.

This time out, the crew gathers to discuss the impact of classroom environments on students. We look at how to create an effective environment, what it does to student engagement, and we explore some different ideas about what a classroom should look like. As usual, stick around for teacher wins and fails, plus timeouts.

Stuff we talked about in this episode:

The Third Teacher by O'Donnell, Wicklund, Pigozzi and Peterson

Torn by Justin Lee

This episode, I'm joined by Chris Aubrey who discusses his adventures in organizing a political debate for his Social Studies class. Listen in for everything from angry principals to proud parents.

This month, Shane is joined by Jon and Jeremy to talk about teacher/student relationships: how do we form them? what are the boundaries? are students our friends? Plus, listen in for the latest teacher wins and fails, as well as teacher timeouts.

For our inaugural "best practices" minisode, we're joined by Marc Bratt, who shares a project he's done with his English 8 and 9 classes.

Assignment Sheet: https://goo.gl/5wz42p

Podcast Exemplar: https://goo.gl/L0QFGU

Podcast Script: https://goo.gl/1boz32

To kick off the new podcast, the guys discuss their new year's resolutions. Also stick around for teacher timeouts, plus wins and fails.

A quick snippet of news about big changes coming for BYODCast.

For the final episode of the school year, the guys gather together to discuss how to handle cellphones in the BYOD classroom, as well as what teachers do in their time off in the summer. Finally, big changes for BYODCast are discussed, with an all-new format coming in September.

After a hiatus, the BYODCast crew is back. This time out, our wide ranging discussion covers the big questions, now that BYOD has become de facto: what's next? what do we need? where are we going? was all this technology a good idea in the first place?

The BYODCast crew talks to the school administrators about the genesis of the BYOD program at their school, from planning, to implementation, to the future.