Cool Cat Teacher Talk
Cool Cat Teacher Talk
Podcast Description
Want to supercharge your teaching with research-backed strategies that actually work? Join veteran educator Vicki Davis as she shares practical, real-world solutions to into spaces where every student thrives.
Help and Hope for Teachers
🎙 Are you striving to improve student learning without increasing your workload? Education is changing fast, but practical, research-backed strategies can help you work smarter, not harder.
Join veteran educator Vicki Davis, a full-time teacher, instructional technology coach, and award-winning podcast host, as she shares real-world insights from the classroom.
Each 1-hour episode features top researchers, expert educators, and classroom teachers who are tackling today’s biggest challenges—like student engagement, AI in education, classroom management, lesson planning, and teacher burnout.
✨ What You’ll Get in Every Episode:
🎯 Cut through the AI hype—learn what works (and what doesn’t) in real classrooms
📚 Engage students in meaningful ways without overwhelming yourself
🚀 Stay ahead in teaching with research-backed strategies that make an impact
🎤 This show is a blend of expert interviews and solo discussions, designed to give you real, actionable solutions you can use tomorrow.
🏆 Why Listen to This Podcast?
✅ Named Top Podcast Host in Education (Bammy Award)
✅ Recognized as a Top Global Edruptor (ICS Research, 2022 & 2023)
✅ 23-year classroom veteran & instructional tech coach helping educators from K-3 to college
✅ AP Computer Science Principles teacher with a 100% student pass rate
🌎 Join thousands of educators worldwide who trust Cool Cat Teacher Talk for authentic insights, inspiration, and practical strategies.
📅 New episodes released every Thursday!
📲 Subscribe now & leave a review to help more teachers discover the show.
🌐 Get show notes & connect with Vicki at coolcatteacher.com
Join a community of passionate teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders who believe in teaching smarter, not harder.
About Your Host:
Vicki Davis is a practicing classroom teacher, instructional technology coach, and creator of the award-winning 10-Minute Teacher Podcast. With over 7 million downloads and 20+ years of experience, she brings you tested strategies that help students thrive.
🔹 New episodes drop Thursdays! Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
📌 Get full show notes and resources at coolcatteacher.com.
Podcast Insights
Content Themes
The podcast focuses on key educational themes such as student engagement, AI in education, classroom management, lesson planning, and teacher burnout. Episodes delve into practical strategies, like the implementation of project-based learning and student-centered approaches, featuring discussions with guests like Dave Burgess on engagement strategies and experts on the neuroscience of learning.
Want to supercharge your teaching with research-backed strategies that actually work? Join veteran educator Vicki Davis as she shares practical, real-world solutions to into spaces where every student thrives.
Help and Hope for Teachers
🎙 Are you striving to improve student learning without increasing your workload? Education is changing fast, but practical, research-backed strategies can help you work smarter, not harder.
Join veteran educator Vicki Davis, a full-time teacher, instructional technology coach, and award-winning podcast host, as she shares real-world insights from the classroom.
Each 1-hour episode features top researchers, expert educators, and classroom teachers who are tackling today’s biggest challenges—like student engagement, AI in education, classroom management, lesson planning, and teacher burnout.
✨ What You’ll Get in Every Episode:
🎯 Cut through the AI hype—learn what works (and what doesn’t) in real classrooms
📚 Engage students in meaningful ways without overwhelming yourself
🚀 Stay ahead in teaching with research-backed strategies that make an impact
🎤 This show is a blend of expert interviews and solo discussions, designed to give you real, actionable solutions you can use tomorrow.
🏆 Why Listen to This Podcast?
✅ Named Top Podcast Host in Education (Bammy Award)
✅ Recognized as a Top Global Edruptor (ICS Research, 2022 & 2023)
✅ 23-year classroom veteran & instructional tech coach helping educators from K-3 to college
✅ AP Computer Science Principles teacher with a 100% student pass rate
🌎 Join thousands of educators worldwide who trust Cool Cat Teacher Talk for authentic insights, inspiration, and practical strategies.
📅 New episodes released every Thursday!
📲 Subscribe now & leave a review to help more teachers discover the show.
🌐 Get show notes & connect with Vicki at coolcatteacher.com
Join a community of passionate teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders who believe in teaching smarter, not harder.
About Your Host:
Vicki Davis is a practicing classroom teacher, instructional technology coach, and creator of the award-winning 10-Minute Teacher Podcast. With over 7 million downloads and 20+ years of experience, she brings you tested strategies that help students thrive.
🔹 New episodes drop Thursdays! Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.
📌 Get full show notes and resources at coolcatteacher.com.
Teaching is hard, and it keeps changing. Vicki Davis opens with the 200-question test she gave the second week of her first year — a disaster that made her ask what she actually wanted students to be able to do, and set off the chain of changes that led to the internationally recognized Flat Classroom Project. Then, a 2012 study of 242 teachers in the UK and the Netherlands: 93% and 96% of them believed the learning-styles myth, and the teachers who knew more general facts about the brain believed more of the myths, not fewer. So what do we do? We keep learning, and we check the evidence. Today is about encouraging us to learn and grow.
Three educators show what that looks like. Ross McGill of Teacher Toolkit spent 18 months reading MRI research for his new book on the science of learning, and he used to confiscate fidget spinners — “maybe if I had been more evidence-based, I might have been a bit more compassionate.” He explains cognitive load in plain English, why learning styles don’t hold up while dual coding does, why highlighting and rereading are the least impactful study habits, and his own twist on a classic: Think, Pair, Share, Show Me.
Starr Sackstein, co-author of Actionable Assessment with Michael McDowell, defines formative and summative in a way any teacher can repeat, explains why a grade stops feedback from doing its job, walks through Four Corners and the Post-It trick for equity of voice, and tells on herself about the project whose directions were so unclear that most students missed the point.
Sean Morrisey spent eight years as a school psychologist testing struggling readers before deciding to teach them himself. Eighteen years into fifth grade, he shares the 60-second routine for teaching a word, why morphology unlocks whole word families, why words can’t be one-offs, and what he tells teachers carrying guilt about the science of reading: you gotta let it go and get a little better every year.
Then, Vicki (that’s me!) closes with ideas you can try tomorrow, a few for parents, and why changing how you teach puts you out on a limb — and why you should go out there anyway.
Show notes, the full transcript, and every resource mentioned: https://www.coolcatteacher.com/bettereveryday – we can all grow, and improve. And sometimes our biggest mistakes lead to the things that set our career up for success.
If this one helped, share it with a teacher who needs the encouragement this week.
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