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Peter talks with Robin Bernstein about her new book Freeman’s Challenge:
The Murder That Shook America’s Original Prison for Profit, an explosive,
moving story about the entangled origins of prison for profit and
anti-Black racism. -
Peter talks with John Webb about his new book Molyvos: A Greek Village's
Heroic Response to the Global Refugee Crisis, including resonances with
John's own experience caring for Haitian migrants in the 1970s. -
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Peter talks with Greg Jackson of Action J Productions about their new
project focusing on how and why to have respectful conversations. (Graphic
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Shayfer James discusses his songwriting process. And, you know, lots of
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On 5 March 2024, Peggy McIntosh was inducted into the National Women’s Hall
of Fame. In honor of this momentous occasion, I’m re-sharing our 2019
conversation. -
One hundred and eighty years ago, on 19 December 1843, the first edition of
Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was published. To celebrate, I’m
releasing a special version of the story produced in 2001 with William R.
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The heart of this special episode is the Back-to-School Address to Oakland,
CA faculty and staff by Superintendent Dr. Marcus A. Foster, given in the
fall of 1973. You will hear a singular voice in U.S. education urging
teachers, administrators, and support staff to keep students at the center
of their work—while also honoring the complexity of the challenge. -
Capt. John Havlik knows a thing or two about stress. He retired in 2014
after more than 30 years of distinguished military service, nearly all of
them as a Navy SEAL. He graduated from West Virginia University as the
first swimmer in school history to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Swimming
Trials. He served as tri-captain of the first undefeated men’s swim team in
WVU history his senior year.
Just this spring, he defended his doctoral dissertation at the University
of Pennsylvania, a study comparing stress-management strategies of U.S.
National Team swimmers and Navy SEALs. Today’s conversation focuses on four
key commonalities:
1. Absolute trust in their training
2. Adherence to a strict routine
3. Focusing only on what they could control
4. Utilizing healthy and adaptive distractions -
My remarks from the Winter Institute of the New York State Council of
School Superintendents in March 2023. -
Rinde Eckert is a celebrated writer, composer, librettist, musician,
performer and director, but I'm not sure even this list of roles captures
his extraordinary versatility. This episode focuses on his recent project
of rebuilding his piano technique from the ground up. -
For nearly 60 years Jonathan Kozol has been one of the most widely read and
highly honored education writers in the nation. Ready for a sneak preview
of his next book? -
My dad’s last—and maybe best—sermon, preached the day he died, 25 years ago
this week. -
Created in 2020 as a benefit for the Graycliff Conservancy, this very
condensed performance of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol was filmed in
various locations on the spectacular Graycliff Estate designed by Frank
Lloyd Wright. -
A departure from the usual Point of Learning format, this episode is
basically the audio version of one segment from a new video series for high
school English teachers that I’m putting together with Greg Jackson. Here’s
22 minutes about how to approach the college essay—for writers and their
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As a playwright, Ellen McLaughlin has breathed new life into ancient Greek
texts. Today we focus on her versions of classic plays by Aeschylus,
Sophocles, and Euripides, exploring the questions they once raised for
ancient audiences, and still raise for contemporary audiences. For
instance, the major tragedians were all war veterans, writing for audiences
composed predominantly of war veterans, a dynamic that has not existed in
Western theatre for 2500 years. What do ancient Greeks have to teach us
about the costs of war, and what we owe to veterans? -
In this classic episode (recorded 11 August 2020 and released 2 September
2020), I talk with Dr. Errick L. Greene, Superintendent of Jackson [MS]
Public Schools about contending with a public health crisis, systemic
racism, and effective organizational leadership: it’s really three episodes
in one. Unfortunately, as you are no doubt aware from this week’s news,
Jackson is facing a new public health crisis with its chronically unsafe
water supply. Things are changing on a daily basis, but as of now it’s
unclear when the city’s residents will be able to drink from their taps
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Sophie Brickman focuses on the intersection of parenting and technology in
her book Baby, Unplugged: One Mother’s Search for Balance, Reason, and
Sanity in the Digital Age (HarperOne, 2021), which we’ll be discussing on
this episode. Brickman is a writer, reporter and editor based in New York
City. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Wall
Street Journal, Saveur, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the anthologies
Best Food Writing and Best American Science Writing, among other places. -
I believe this conversation with Paula Roy from July 2017 is well worth
revisiting in this moment where book-banning seems to be edging out
baseball as the national pastime here in the Home of the Free, and too many
legislators and governors have convinced themselves that they know more
about education than professional educators do. -
The Very Reverend Ward B. Ewing is former Dean and President of The General
Theological Seminary in New York City. Dr. Ewing has met in and with
Alcoholics Anonymous groups as a non-alcoholic for more than four decades,
also serving as Trustee and Chair of the General Service Board of
Alcoholics Anonymous for the U.S. and Canada. In addition to the book that
grows out of that experience, Twelve Steps to Religionless Spirituality:
the Power of Spirituality with or without God, which we discuss in this
episode, he has also written one volume each on the Book of Job and the
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A January 2022 survey conducted with over 3600 teachers who belong to the
National Education Association found that 90% believe teacher burnout is a
serious issue. Fifty-five percent indicated that they are more likely to
leave or retire from education sooner than planned because of the pandemic,
almost double the number saying the same in July 2020. As I thought about a
classic episode of Point of Learning that could be very helpful for
teachers, teacher leaders, and building administrators who are looking for
professional encouragement, it didn't take long to settle on my
conversation with Jill Harrison Berg, recorded in the fall of 2018. Jill's
book, Leading in Sync, which we discuss in this episode, is a text I
recommend to anyone interested in more collaborative structures that can
make schools function better for everyone--students, faculty, and staff.
Arguing that leadership is influence, Berg lays out how to build and
strengthen systems of collaboration and communication in an organization so
that folks are pulling in the same direction--as opposed to working at
cross purposes. - Mehr anzeigen