"If you don't like my ideas, come up with your own." // 

"School should be more like the way the world works." // 

"Every day, I walk into class without the microphone, and I podcast." // 

Edward Brown is an English teacher at Loyola Blakefield, semi-professional pickleballer, professional troll, and lifelong member of the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English community. //

On Episode #106 of the Path to Follow Podcast, Jake and Edward discuss authenticity, strategies when teaching writing, technology in the classroom, sports literature, experiential memoir, the difference between emotion and empirical evidence as a sports fan, 'Heaven is a Playground,' writing about things you care about, issues facing teenagers today, and Edward's book recommendation, 'Switching Fields' by George Dohrmann (2022). 

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A special thank you to our producer, Cesare Ciccanti. //