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Podcast Update

Being the 45th podcast, this is an update on where it is headed, and where it has been.  The point of this podcast is to help families navigate the world of parenting teens and to contend with the many issues involved in education, for thi...

September 05, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 45 • 7:38

The Classroom of Tomorrow

Ryan makes a prediction, as well as a wish, for what the middle and high school classroom will look like tomorrow. And spoiler alert... tech and tradition are not in direct combat with one another, but rather can supplement each other perfectly...

August 29, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 44 • 18:14

Education Through Entertainment

The way to teach a concept that you hope will stick, is to package it through entertainment.  Just as the producers of Jurassic Park, The Martian, and countless other sci-fi movies, if you don't agree.  Ryan elaborates on this topic i...

August 22, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 43 • 10:56

Artificial Intelligence in Education

As with any new technology, the arrival of AI in education is being viewed with extreme skepticism.  Will it make us dumber as a society, or propel us to new heights? Maybe the best way to think about it is to review how the pa...

August 15, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 42 • 13:00

End the Teacher Shortage Overnight

The best solutions are simple ones.  In this episode, Ryan explains how we fundamentally have mischaracterized what a teacher needs to look like.  Once we address this, the shortage will disappear, with no increase to the education bu...

August 08, 2025 • Season 1 • Episode 41 • 12:36

Fan Mail

This is a great one ! So many high schools are so lame, especially in inner cities. Why wouldn’t you graduate early and go to community college for your junior and senior year? Especially true if you didn’t have rich parents that we’re gonna pay for all of your college so you could go wherever you want right out of high school.

Santa Cruz, California