The Middle Men

Brad, Brian, and Derrick interview Eddie Smith. Former football player at Oregon University, former school counselor, and current first year vice principal at the school Brian and Derrick work.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discuss some history of teaching, but focus more on the changes to education in the last 15 years.

We highly recommend The Teacher Wars by Dana Goldstein (we get nothing from this link. It's just a great book).

Some of the sources we used for the discussion:

1. 25 Ways American Education has changed in the last decade

2. 120 Years of American Education: A Statistical Portrait

3. History of Education

Brad, Brian, and Derrick follow up last weeks interview with a discussion on the practicality of special education.

Brian and Brad talk with Eric Hulstrum, a special education teacher who served at both our sites, to pick his brain about the services to a small population of our students.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick have an amazingly average philosophical discussion on the relationship between sports and schools.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick do some research, look at the history of school discipline and, in particular corporal punishment, and discuss.

Articles used for this podcast discussion:

School Discipline History

How School Disciplinary Policies Have Changed Over The Years

A Brief (And Tortuous) History Of Corporal Punishment In Our Public Schools

Is Corporal Punishment Making A Comeback?

Brad, Brian, and Derrick actually do some research and talk about a few new laws in education from California, Texas, and Florida.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick have a meta conversation about the podcast. We've been winging it up to this point, but what do we want to do moving forward? We also discuss holidays with family and teaching in a tragedy. For some, these could be considered the same thing.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick talk about how our experience as students informs our approach to teaching.

Brad, Brian, and Derrick discuss how teachers are depicted in film and it's relation to real life.