This podcast is relatively short and drops once a week on Sundays. It's by the creator of the "Forty Hour Teacher Work Week Club", which focuses on doing less things, better. While I have not participated in the Forty Hour program, I do find that this podcast helps put teaching into perspective in an inspiring way. Angela Watson was an elementary school teacher, but this is a good resource for any K-12 teacher.

Ok, so this includes several different podcasts that I have found helpful as a teacher, and as a human. These are the tips and tricks that organized and productive people use to make more meaningful lives.

Organize 365 is a whole program created by Lisa Woodruff, who is a professional organizer that used to be a teacher. This podcast drops several times a week and is focused on getting your house organized, but she also has strategies for staying organized at school (or in any office). This is helpful because work and life tend to overlap, and because it is focused on human-centered design. So if something isn't working in your home or your classroom, then you will need to take steps to create a new system or procedure that does work for you and your students.

The Productive Woman is a weekly podcast created by Laura McClellan, a busy real estate lawyer who is trying to balance the demands of being a working woman while building a meaningful life. Very useful for organizational strategies in the work place.

Before Breakfast and The New Corner Office are short daily podcasts by time management expert and author, Laura Vanderkam. These both include useful strategies for organizing your time. Before Breakfast specifically deals with time management, while The New Corner Office is a response to working from home during the shelter in place order and gives tips and tricks for being productive even when you are working virtually.

I use these podcasts to fill in details and add context to class discussions. Often I listen to them on my own before class, but may create a lesson or extra credit opportunity from Stuff You Missed in History Class or Throughline. Both of these podcasts are around a half an hour long.

Stuff You Missed in History Class has interesting details that are not often touched on during class, and the earlier ones tend to be shorter with younger hosts that are appealing to students. A particular favorite in class is on The Radium Girls.

Throughline gives a timeline for related historical events, and then explains the consequences of those events on our lives today in a compelling manner. The recent podcast comparing the 1918 Flu to the current Covid-19 crisis was particularly relevant to students this year, and I included it in a choice-board activity for students when we began distance learning.

The History Chicks is a long format podcast of about 1.5 hours. This is an entertaining deep dive into the lives of historical women, which often get short shrift in the history books. While it's too long to provide to students, I use it to gain insights into the lives of women like Josephine Baker (1920's singer, flapper, early civil rights proponent, WWII spy!), which add a lot of depth and interest into class discussions.