The Productive Struggle Podcast

The Productive Struggle Podcast

Podcast for educators by educators from Blaine High School in Blaine, Minnesota.We recognize that learning is messy and rarely goes in a straight line. Each episode, we’ll focus on a different instructional topic and talk to educators who can tell us about the ways they’ve innovated and engaged in productive struggle around these topics. We hope that the themes of these episodes is just the start of a greater conversation around professional growth and student learning.

Episodes

December 12, 2024 7 mins

In this episode we hear how teachers engage students in strategies to help them access their prior knowledge and prime them for new learning. Transcript:    http://bit.ly/3ZyhNlR

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In this episode, we talk with teachers who share how they have leveraged stations in the classroom to differentiate instruction and engage students. 

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January 4, 2024 13 mins

In this episode, we talk with teachers who share how they are utilizing AI in the classroom. 

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November 28, 2023 11 mins

In this episode we sat down with a collaborative team to discuss what lesson closure is, it's importance, and some of the nuances in making it a consistent part of lesson design.    Transcript:   https://tinyurl.com/2n98v9ud

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October 6, 2023 10 mins

This episode explores how teachers begin their lessons in purposeful ways and the impact it is having on their classrooms.  Transcript: https://tinyurl.com/2p9hd3jb

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April 7, 2022 9 mins

This episode looks at how teachers are using ideas taken from escape rooms to integrate problem solving and gamification into the classroom. Breakout activities can help students build the necessary critical thinking and collaborative skills necessary to solve complex problems. 

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February 8, 2022 12 mins

This episode looks into how teachers are effectively incorporating movement into their classrooms to engage students in the content.

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January 21, 2022 15 mins

This episode looks into how teachers are effectively incorporating cooperative learning strategies into their classrooms to engage students in the content.

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December 1, 2021 12 mins

This episode looks at the ways that teachers are integrating Growth Mindset research into their classrooms to impact student learning. 

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This episode is part two of our series that explores questioning and discussion strategies that teachers are using to engage students. 

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This episode explores questioning and discussion strategies that teachers are using to engage students.  This is part one of a two part series.

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September 17, 2021 9 mins

This episode explores what it means to "Be a Bengal" and how we can convey that to our students at Blaine High School. 

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