An extension of the conversation started in episode 10, executive producer Ken Woodard checks in with Urvi Morrison to talk about the lead-up to the SET Lab conference on June 1 and the particulars of where his investigation into student perspectives on in-class group learning is. Urvi and Ken talk about their collaboration to bring this survey-based study to a useful conclusion in the midst of other pressing job and life demands. This is for teachers who see themselves as lifelong scholars with interest in finding ways to squeeze real research into hectic lives.

In our first crosspost, Strategic EdTech's founder and owner Urvi Morrison interviews Lunch Duty Podcast Executive Producer Ken Woodard about his participation in SET Lab, a program that coordinates and guides working teachers to conduct original research.

In this episode the Lunch Duty team continues with the topic of interviewing for teaching jobs, but shifts emphasis from anecdotal accounts of job interviews to practical commentary. Producer Giovanna Basney interviews Montgomery County Public Schools Research Teacher Specialist Anna Gomez and Producer Abby Wineck aggregates and reads distilled wisdom from a panel of her former supervisors from across her storied career.

Almost all teachers have had at least one job interview. Exhausting in any circumstances and exhilarating when they go well, job interviews are small epics with a questing central character and interesting challenges. In this episode producer Giovanna Basney describes an interview of Homeric proportions and producer Abby Winek talks to one of her former teachers, George Shea, about how he navigated the interview that marked his transition from publishing to teaching.

The Lunch Duty team, including its superb interns Julia Burns and Maya Young, covered the pop-up art museum with the catchy acronym MoCAT. A conversation between art teacher and Lunch Duty producer Tom Doyle starts an episode that includes interviews of artists Sophie Cobb and Jay Zimmer. Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in Montgomery County, Maryland staged this three week art show at the end of 2017 and presented richly varied and socially oriented art by teenagers about the intensity of their lives in our rapidly changing world. If you missed the show in Bethesda, check out Lunch Duty’s first on-the-sport coverage of an event.

Stone Ridge School Advanced Placement United States History students, challenged to master some statistics and facts related to the American Market Revolution of the first half of the 19th century, came up a variety of mnemonic devices. Sofia Rojas wrote her facts into a rap, recruited some background vocal talent, and in Studio 390 recorded this indelible piece of a capella brilliance. Try to listen to this without smiling….

Graceful Endgame #5 by Lunch Duty Podcast Team

Teacher Anecdote Jam: Stories From the Classroom #4 by Lunch Duty Podcast Team

Career Changers: Three Teachers From Different Professional Backgrounds #3 by Lunch Duty Podcast Team

From Gig to Vocation: A Snapshot of Teaching Becoming a Career #0 by Lunch Duty Podcast Team