Kwa NateKo episodes:

• May 21, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Next School Year, STEM, Niche History, Modern History Looking Backwards

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  "I'm going to be paired with a teacher that's new to the school, but I think has been teaching English for a while. And I had really made this big fuss over myself about really learning more of the humanities side of things. And I bought some history related books and I read through them and I noticed like one of the big challenges kids had was written responses related to prompts and essay assignments and historical assignments."

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• May 19, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Time. Morning reading. High school science. Practical intersections.

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  "And also it takes you away from, if you really have reading set, it takes you away from social media so you're not like bouncing around the latest thing. You get some like separation from that. I recently, for the end of the, during the end of the year and towards, towards our current, the summer coming up, I've started doing like workbooks related to our science classes or STEM classes. I went through chemistry."

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• May 17, 2025@kwa | Teacher's Journal: Student Influenced Learning

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  "Being able to visualize things is an important part of understanding the material. Social studies, reading. So there are ways to finagle intersecting math with that. But it may be a case where we just talk about the skills that are very important for those subjects. And science, maybe math and board of science, I don't know. But I like that idea. I like that they came up with that. The second I would say generally might be like habits in school, right?"

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• May 16, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Building a Toolkit

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  "There, there are other options or other approaches for this. And you may see what works across disciplines like humanities. I'll probably eventually have a humanity section too, but not now, but math, whatever, et cetera. And we'll see, we'll see how it works. And also I can take notes as I'm sitting there in the classroom and say like it's a way to, a more structured way."

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• May 16, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: Toolkit vs. Process, Fluidity vs. Structure. Pattern recognition. Visibility and credibility.

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  "You certainly need it versus versus content knowledge versus experience. Working with. Working with the content as an educator, which is different than just understanding it, because you've seen different ways that this has been done. You've seen a lot of ways that different methods have worked for the same kind of math problem or not have worked. You have exposure to the difficulties and successes kids go through while they're sorting these things out in their head."

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• May 15, 2025@kwa | Teacher’s Journal: A mixed bag. The unseen. Civil discourse.

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  "It's a lot of small things that just makes me want to be aware and probably of how I carry and present myself. I guess the other thing with the class that I subbed for, I just feel like I didn't teach the way I want. I more kind of tutored and went around and helped kids individually and I think on the outside looking in, kids might have not thought of it any particular way, but there's a certain way I know and like things run like a."

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• May 15, 2025@kwa | Economic History: Social Spending + Federal Purges

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  "And then he said you can choose a third specialty and I like that idea because you're basically talking about data and context and this first podcast is so interesting because even though it's about two years old it's it's so closely relates to a lot of what is going on particularly like the decisions and being made right now and historical parallels to that decisions even though those decisions even though this is two years prior and wasn't really speaking to this specific administration specific U.S. administration's decision and its relevance to the American or global economy at large."

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• May 14, 2025@kwa | Jari Eloranta Discusses the Global Economy

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  "I kind of took a pause to do some other reading, but I'm also listening to podcasts related to economic history and this, this app, this actually moves, this conversation actually really moves into more, more about current affairs and the current global economy and provide some historical context related to what's going to decisions being made and how that is likely to affect other things. I think it's a really, it's a really interesting listen."

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• May 14, 2025@kwa | My Son Asks Me To Talk About Him

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  "He kind of drooled sometimes into later ages and it turned out to be like some. Something with his. He had to go to speech therapy. Something with his like jar or something like that. But that was more to take care of because it turned out to be a chatterbox. All of a sudden around at 2 he was, he became the most unsy child. And I didn't know. I'm like who is this?"

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• May 13, 2025@kwa | Teacher's Journal: Saturday love. Tutor the Teacher. Systems.

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  "And it was simple, but it was effective enough to make me think We've really done some good work this year here, this year, and me included. And I don't give myself a pat on the back enough, but I just feel if the goal is to be effective, and I'm watching the kids go over things we've learned five months ago or four months ago, however many months ago, and using some of those same."

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