Unprofessional Development

EDUPODLOOZA 2022!

Mealey and Tudisco have teamed up with education podcasters from around the world to share, reflect, and be unprofessional.

For our first segment, we host a round table of edupodcasters to ask one question:  how has podcasting changed you and your teaching?

This is only Part 1 of the Round Table.  Check back next week for Part 2!

THE ROUND TABLE:

Aviva Levin of Lesson Impossible

Rob Baier of Debate Math

Jack of Educhaos

Nick Zaveri of Can We Please Talk?

Mealey and Tudisco of Unprofessional Development

 

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Mealey and Tudisco talk with Dr. Nolan Higdon, an author and a university lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz. We discuss how to disagree respectfully, how to settle disagreements with people of different authority levels, and what exactly is covered in his book...

 

Check out his four books, including Let's Agree to Disagree

Follow his work on Project Censored!

Read his publications on Anthro(dendum) (formally Savage Minds)!

Follow him on Twitter @Nolan_Higdon

 

And, just for fun, what color do you think the dress is?

 

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Mealey and Tudisco are taking today off to get ready for EDUPODLOOZA!  Instead of a normal episode, here is an episode of The Ed Podcast featuring Shane-- a soon to be host of Unprofessional Development!

 

Check out the Ed Podcast here!

 

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Mealey and Tudisco meet Coach Victor Hicks, the coach, coder, and educator!  We discuss how to incorporate culture into coding, the pros of HBCU's, and why tokenism may just be bad...

 

Follow Coach Hicks on Twitter @CodingWCulture

Check out his website to learn more about Coding with Culture!

 

And, just for fun, here's a song by Discovery.

 

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Mealey and Tudisco meet Dr. Daniel French-- a rhetorician, author, comedian, and teacher.  We discuss how we use rhetoric for good and evil, the difference between persuasion and manipulation, and how Daniel is basically a jedi...

 

Follow him on Twitter @RhetoricWar

Check out his YouTube channel to see him as a rhetoric warrior or as a stand-up comedian.

Read his book, 21 Coliseums of Persuasion

 

And, just for fun, here's John Mulaney's bit about a horse loose in a hospital (explicit content)

 

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Mealey and Tudisco meet our Twitter friend, Bastard Teacher!  We discuss our controversial grading strategies, how teachers act as bureaucrats, and Mealey snitches on his friends...

 

Follow him on Twitter @BastardTeacher

 

And, just for fun, here are our favorite episodes of Epic Rap Battles of History (Warning:  Explicit Content):

- Mealey:  Dr. Suess vs. William Shakespeare

- Bastard Teacher:  Easter Philosophers vs Western Philosophers

- Tudisco:  Romeo and Juliet vs. Bonnie and Clyde

 

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Mealey and Tudisco meet the Math Nerds, Shelby Strong and Justin Aion!  We discuss how to fix math curriculum, why real life math is so important, and whether or not a hot dog is a sandwich...

 

Check out Shelby's website at strongermath.com

Want to see math new math routines that could help your classroom?  Check out their summer Math Routine Collaborative!

See them in upcoming NCTM conferences!

See them in Harrisburg at the upcoming PCTM conference!

 

And, just for fun, here's a math lesson from Abbot and Costello.

 

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Mealey and our guest host, Shane Lawrence from The Edpodcast, inteview Beth Donahoe, a Maine teacher and teaching union rep.  We discuss common misconceptions about union reps, what teachers can do to help their unions, and what Mealey keeps hidden in his desk...

 

Just for fun, check out our first conversation with Shane on Unprofessional Development's 18th episode:  "The 'Ed Podcast' Podcast

 

Listen to more of The Edpodcast!

 

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Mealey and Tudisco get schooled by professor, author, podcaster, psychologist, and musician Art Markman!  We discuss the psychology tips all teachers should know, why projects and unanswered questions are important, and how Art joined the dark side...

 

 

Check out Art's Podcast, Two Guys on Your Head.

Check out his many, many books!

Follow him on Twitter @abmarkman

Read his many articles on psychology here!

Check out his article in Psychology Today!

 

And, just for fun, enjoy his ska band, Phineas Gage!

 

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Goodniks is a podcast series exploring the journey and meaning of doing good in the world — for people who do good or are just thinking about it.

 

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Mealey and Tudisco meet Anthony Colannino, an educator, administrator, author, and full blooded Bostonian.  We discuss how to teach with head and heart, how admin can really create student growth, and what "chitlins" means...

 

Follow Anthony Colannino on Twitter @AJCMindset

Check out his website, which features his book and his blog.

 

And, just for fun, check out our episode with Matthew Dicks to hear more about funny teacher stories.

 

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