August 24, 2026
Game Design Could Transform Assessment in the AI Era
What if students didn't simply complete an assessment—but designed an experience for someone else? In this episode of Shifting Schools, Tricia Friedman pitches Jeff Utecht a...
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August 19, 2026
What will be your anchor for wellness this school year?
The beginning of a school year often arrives with a familiar message: do more, organize more, and somehow become a brand-new person before the first bell...
August 17, 2026
Lisa Gardner on Creativity and Curiosity
What can ELA teachers learn from a bestselling suspense novelist who begins writing without knowing who the villain is? In this episode of Shifting Schools, Tricia...
August 10, 2026
How to Raise a Reader from Birth with Sandra Magsamen
What can a board book offer a baby who cannot yet speak or even hold it independently? Award-winning author, illustrator, and art therapist Sandra Magsamen joins...
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...
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...