The Minimalist Educator Podcast
A podcast about paring down to focus on the purpose and priorities in our roles.
The Minimalist Educator Podcast
Latest Episodes
Episode 105: Grammar That Sticks with Patty McGee
Grammar doesn’t fail because kids “just don’t get it.” It fails when we teach it like a scavenger hunt of labels and then hope it magically shows up in student writing the next day. We sit down with national literacy consultant and author Patty...
Episode 104: Clarity-Driven School Leadership with Casey Watts
“We’ve told them the expectation” can be true and still leave a staff completely unsure what to do next. That gap is where frustration grows, where initiative fatigue sets in, and where leaders start calling normal uncertainty “resistance.” We ...
Episode 103: Unpopular Opinions Part 2 with Guests
We keep our unpopular opinions rolling with a hard line on what counts as real intervention, a critique of rigid pacing guides, and a push for repair after conflict instead of removal without follow-up. We argue for qualified support where it m...
Episode 102: Unpopular Opinions in Education Part 1 with Guests
Join past guests, Naomi Church, Sheila Kennedy, Krista Leh, and
Episode 101: Raising Resilient Students with Josephine Hunt
What if the kindest thing we can do for students is to stop rescuing them? We sit down with educational leader and mentor (and Plan Z Coach) Josephine Hunt to unpack how natural and logical consequences—not punishments, not prize boxes—grow rea...
