Dr. Johnny Lupinacci
Rethinking Pencils-
Busted Pencils is excited to rekindle our relationship with Rethinking Schools, a Milwaukee-based social justice education advocacy and publication group. Special guest Cierra Kaler-Jones, executive director of Rethinking Schools, is with us to bust pencils today! Rethinking Schools got their start with challenging corporate text books that further diminished marginalized perspectives. Now, they work at […]
Testing Education: What Have All Those Tests Done to Education?
Kathy Greeley, 40+ year career educator and author of Testing Education, is here to bust some #2, standardized-testing-ready pencils. Over the past decades, America has instituted dozens of standardized tests and policies designed to raise standards. As much as those tests and those standards were designed to measure and increase learning, they’ve done incredible harm […]
What Does Learning Really Look Like?
Is there only one way that learning happens? Guest Jethro Jones is a nationally awarded educator and school leader, podcast network creator, and author. He is passionate about challenging myths surrounding learning loss and learning gaps. Just a hint- learning doesn’t look the same for everyone, nor for any one person throughout their lives. And […]
