Welcome to Homeroom, Class! Let’s get this week started with some trending news. First up: a private Catholic school seeks public funds. Then, a few takeaways from the growing push for “school choice”- otherwise known as public school funds theft. Tim and Producer Jess share their strong responses to these stories. We can’t help wondering […]

Marc Watkins, first time Pencil Buster and longtime education advocate, joins the show. Marc is the Assistant Director of Academic Innovation at the University of Mississippi, where he also directs the AI Institute for Teachers. AI is advancing at a mind-boggling, human society-altering pace. Many of us, our esteemed hosts included, feel like we’re barely […]

Welcome to another week of Pencil Busting! Let’s get started with some trending news. First, it turns out DEI initiatives bring great value to educational institutions even beyond increasing their diversity and equity. Well, duh. We all do better when we all do better. Still, always nice to get some recognition and reinforcement of this! […]

Chad Schultz, Assistant Director at the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletics Association (WIAA), joins Dr. Johnny for this week’s First Downs and Friday Night Lights. Refs take a lot of flak. And they are simply indispensable to a well-run athletic event. It’s not easy to be an athletic judge- as Johnny can well attest. And there’s a […]

So many of us value truth and honesty. Yet we struggle to identity consistently what that truth is and how to live by it. Returning Pencil Buster Dr. Sarah Stitzlein joins Dr. Tim to guide us through it. Sarah is a world-class scholar with a focus on teaching honesty- she quite literally wrote the book […]