August 3, 2026
Who Gets to Lead? Expanding Student Voice with Rachel Thrash
When schools picture a student leader, they often imagine the confident speaker, the high achiever, or the student who already understands how to succeed within existing...
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July 27, 2026
How do we teach students to sit with evidence longer?
What happens when historical research uncovers a truth you are not sure you want to know? In this episode of Shifting Schools, Tricia speaks with author...
July 22, 2026
How Nolan's Odyssey and Cover Songs Help Us Talk About AI
Christopher Nolan's Odyssey just earned nearly $300 million retelling a 3,000-year-old story — so what actually separates imitation from transformative interpretation? In this episode, Tricia makes...
July 20, 2026
Ted Lasso's Cristo Fernández: Fútbol Is Life, and It's Never Too Late to Dream
You know him as Dani Rojas on Ted Lasso. He's also a professional footballer with El Paso Locomotive FC, a filmmaker, and now the author of...
July 18, 2026
When Students Go After Real Problems
When Alex Campbell set out to teach sociology through true crime, he wasn't trying to catch a murderer. He was trying to make the stakes real. Nine years later, his high school students in Appalachia have restored names to victims of the "redheaded murders," helped families, and become the subject of a limited series with a perfect critic score. But as Alex tells it, the thing that mattered most was never on the syllabus: how much his students came to care....
July 15, 2026
Do you want to better understand your team?
Every team has communication habits, but how many of those habits have ever been discussed out loud? In this episode, Tricia introduces The Shared Kitchen, a...
July 13, 2026
The perfect middle grade book for readers during The World Cup
Award-winning author Christina Diaz Gonzalez joins Tricia to discuss Offside, her new bilingual middle-grade graphic novel about soccer, friendship, ambition, identity, and finding the courage to...
July 7, 2026
AI Literacy Is Problem-Solving Literacy
Tricia Friedman shares a real-life story about a flooded basement, an insurance claim, and what it revealed about AI literacy. After a major storm in Ottawa...
July 6, 2026
Jerry Spinelli: What Young Writers Need to Know About Stories
Newbery Medal-winning author Jerry Spinelli joins the podcast for a conversation about writing, perseverance, childhood, and the stories that stay with young readers. Known to many...
July 5, 2026
Colin Woodard on Civic Identity, Trust, and the American Story
In this Fourth of July weekend episode, Tricia Friedman speaks with Colin Woodard, director of Nationhood Lab at Salve Regina University's Pell Center, about national identity,...
July 5, 2026
Teaching the Declaration Beyond the Fourth of July
In this Fourth of July weekend episode, Tricia Friedman speaks with historian and author Katie Kennedy about her new book, The Declaration Decoded, and the stories...
June 29, 2026
What 600 Letters Can Teach Us About WWII
In this episode, Tricia speaks with Jan Cress Dondi about the years-long research journey behind her USA Today bestselling WWII book. What began with the discovery...