Over time, school years can fold into each other, in a way, with each eventually becoming indistinguishable from the next. This is why the goal of this episode, quite simply, is to pause before the month of November comes to a close and ask a simple question:

What has this school year taught us so far?

For this reflective conversation, we invited on one of our favorites: Adrian Neibauer, a 5th grade teacher who writes weekly about his own classroom with his Substack, Adrian’s Newsletter.

Along with listening to Adrian and Marcus share their own answers to this question at this point in the school year, we invite you to join in: what lesson have you learned so far?

Feel free to reply in the comments, send us a longer email reflection, or even record your own learning for a future episode! We would love to include more perspectives and voices around this question going forward. As we say often at The Broken Copier, teaching is community work.

What better way to live that out than by sharing our learnings with each other?

Links to follow-up with Adrian’s work:

* “Now Spinning” (mentioned at the beginning of the conversation)

* “The Redress of Teaching” (mentioned at the end of the conversation)

Thanks, as always, to:

Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for writing and recording original intro music; Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden; and Courtney Milavec for graphic design.

Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com, and on Instagram @banduncivilized.

Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com, and on Instagram @djsynchro.

Email us here with feedback or any other questions as well: [email protected].

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