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Celebrating our 10th Season!
Welcome to the How We Teach This Podcast
You won't want to miss the season 10 of How We Teach This. We have several interviews lined up with exceptional teachers and experts in education. We interview the inductees into the National Teachers Hall of Fame and learn strategies they found successful in their classroom, talk about Project-Based Learning, counseling, plus many more topics.
Have you just found out about HWTT? We have 50+ episodes for you to listen to, with so many topics to explore: self-care, happiness, gamification, social-emotional learning, and so much more!
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Season 10, Episode 19 - June 4, 2025
“He told me I was the reason he was still in school..."
This powerful moment is one of several shared by Kansas Master Teachers as they reflect on their work in middle and high school classrooms. As a continuation of our earlier episode featuring elementary educators, this conversation highlights the importance of student relationships, adaptability, and creating meaningful, real-world learning experiences. Find out why you might want to have a squirrel or a box of ties in your classroom.
Listeners will hear from experienced educators who offer both inspiration and practical insight drawn from years of service in secondary education.
Guest Host
Interim Academic Program Specialist
Emporia State University
The Teachers College
2023 KS Master Teacher
Sixth-Eighth Grade STEM Teacher
Fort Riley Middle School
USD 475
2019 KS Master Teacher
Mathematics Teacher
2022 KS Master Teacher
Executive Director of the Kansas Scholastic Press Association & Lecturer in the William Allen White School of Journalism
University of Kansas
2022 KS Master Teacher
Social Studies Teacher
Dodge City High School
USD 443 Dodge City
2019 KS Master Teacher
English Language Arts
Council Grove Junior-Senior High
USD 417 Morris County
2024 KS Master Teacher
Engineering Teacher Maize Middle School USD 266 Maize
2022 KS Master Teacher
Chemistry/Physical Science Teacher
South High School
USD 305 Salina
2023 KS Master Teacher
Social Studies Teacher
Blue Valley Southwest High School
USD 229
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How We Teach This, produced by members of The Teacher College, features one-on-one interviews to provide insight into education. The podcast is available through Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, and other listening apps on which podcasts are available, as well as from its web site, www.emporia.edu/HWTT. Topics of future episodes include mental health, trauma-informed and sensitive practices, and establishing culturally relevant, healthy environments for educators of all levels and students, to help them, their colleagues, and families.
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