Drew Perkins talks with Fareed Mostoufi and Donnalie Wilson from The Pulitzer Center about their work including the 1619 Project Education Network.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Curricular resources and webinars connected to The 1619 Project: www.pulitzercenter.org/1619
• Webinar with educators who used the project last year: pulitzercenter.org/blog/teaching-1619-project-educators-share
• Facebook group for educators: facebook.com/groups/pulitzercentereducation
• Twitter: @pulitzercenter, IG: @pulitzercenter
• email: [email protected] or [email protected]
• Donnalie on Twitter: @talespinningDJ

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Drew Perkins talks with Steve Pearlman about his new book, America's Critical Thinking Crisis: The Failure and Promise of Education.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Critical Thinking Initiative
• stevenpearlman.com
• Amazon: America's Critical Thinking Crisis: The Failure and Promise of Education
• The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 251 American Exceptionalism, Confusing Opinion With Knowledge

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Drew Perkins talks with teacher Natalie Croney about teaching through the pandemic and racial reckoning of 2020-21 and her involvement with National Geographic's Both/And StoryMap project.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Both/And Stories
• Both/ And Stories blog
• Brave Teacher Kentucky
• The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 249 Drafting Principles To Protect K12 From Indoctrination

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Drew Perkins talks with Howard Burton about his book, Exceptionally Upsetting: How Americans are increasingly confusing knowledge with opinion & what can be done about it. 

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• EXCEPTIONALLY UPSETTING: How Americans are increasingly confusing knowledge with opinion & what can be done about it

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Drew Perkins talks with Cornelius Grove about his new book, "A Mirror for Americans: What the East Asian Experience Tells Us about Teaching Students Who Excel", and the points of convergence of East Asian education with 'progressive' education.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• amirrorforamericans.info
• Amazon: A Mirror for Americans
• The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 149 Is Constructivist Education Addressing Inequality?
• The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 197 Are We Teaching Reading Wrong By Omitting Knowledge?
• The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 188 What Might We Learn From Schools Around The World?
• Amazon: Kindly Inquisitors

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Drew Perkins talks with Greg Lukianoff about his work with F.I.R.E. (Foundation for Individual Rights in Education) and his attempt to create a durable set of principles to protect freedom of speech and thought in K12. 

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• The Empowering of the American Mind (Beta Version): 10 Principles for Opposing Thought Reform in K-12
• Link to email feedback: [email protected]
• @glukianoff
• @TheFIREorg
• Kindly Inquisitors
• The TeachThought Podcast Ep. 175 Are Good Intentions But Bad Ideas Growing Fragile Students?

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Drew Perkins talks with Lorea Martinez Perez about her new book, Teaching with the HEART in Mind: A Complete Educator's Guide to Social Emotional Learning.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• https://www.amazon.com/Teaching-HEART-Mind-Educators-Emotional/dp/173606200X
• https://loreamartinez.com/
• @loreamart
• Lorea on Facebook

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Drew Perkins talks with Leesa Carter-Jones, president and CEO of the Captain Planet Foundation, about their work to engage young people through project-based learning.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• captainplanetfoundation.org
• Project Learning Garden
• PBL Exemplar – The Straw Project

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Drew Perkins talks with former broadcaster Clement Townsend about his work to help grow critical thinking by engaging them in the video creation process.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• videojournalismpro.com
• @ClementTV_
• Clement Townsend on Facebook

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Drew Perkins talks with Jason Glass, Kentucky's Commissioner of Education, about the complexities of education in the modern world.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• @KYCommishGlass
• Office of the Commissioner of Education

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