Chalk Dust
by Nathaniel Swain
Latest episode
Season Two, Episode 12: Big-style Belonging with Dr. Staci Bain
Season Two, Episode 12: Big-style Belonging with Dr. Staci Bain
About this podcast
Welcome to Chalk Dust, the podcast that gives you a front row seat into some of the best classrooms in the world. There are lots of great conversations about teaching and education happening around the world right now. There are already so many fantastic podcasts out there about evidence based practice, and we're so excited to bring you one more, but this one has a distinctive difference.
Each episode, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain break down real classroom footage to illuminate the moments that make great teaching great. Teaching is both a science and an art. There are proven techniques that we know to work, but applying them in real classrooms is where the complexity lies.
Our goal? To help you develop the eye of an expert observer, so you can see what makes lessons effective and apply those insights into your own teaching or coaching practice.
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Episodes
The newest 20 of 23 episodes
- Season Two, Episode 12: Big-style Belonging with Dr. Staci Bain · 37 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by Dr Staci Bain, literacy leader, co-founder of Educate America and author of Empowered to…
- Season Two, Episode 11: The Penny Promise with Kris Boulton · 43 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by Kris Boulton, founder and CEO of Unstoppable Learning, to explore atomisation, an approach…
- Season Two, Episode 10: Professor Anna Stokke on Effective and Engaging Math(s) Instruction · 36 minSummary In this special in-person episode of Chalk Dust, recorded at researchEd Melbourne at Haileybury, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by Professor Anna Stokke…
- Season Two, Episode 9: Every Class is a Reading Class · 40 min · Season 2 Episode 9Summary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by Andrew McCrorey, an experienced educator and instructional leader at Monterey Secondary…
- Season Two, Episode 8: Getting Hands-On · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 8Summary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by STEM educator Amber Haven to explore what happens when explicit instruction meets genuinely…
- Season Two, Episode 7: Everyone can learn mathematics with John Mighton · 51 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by renowned mathematician, educator and founder of JUMP Math, John Mighton. Drawing on…
- Season Two, Episode 6: The Knowledge Rich Classroom of Laura Stam · 44 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Dr Nathaniel Swain are joined by Laura Stam, a third grade teacher in Wyoming, writer of The Knowledge Exchange on…
- Season Two, Episode 5: The choreography of learning · 39 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Dr Nathaniel Swain are joined by Hannah Pointon, a Year 3/4 teacher at Woodstock School in Hamilton, New Zealand. Hannah…
- Season Two, Episode 4: The power of precision · 20 minSummary In this second part of their conversation with Adam Boxer, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain move from behaviour and presence into the micro-detail of questioning…
- Season Two, Episode 3: Getting nitty gritty with it · 36 minSummary In this special episode of Chalk Dust, Nathaniel Swain and Rebecca Birch sit down with Adam Boxer to explore the thinking behind Carousel Teaching’s new video library…
- Season Two: Episode 2: Expertise Goes Global · 34 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Dr Nathaniel Swain are joined by Jo-Anne Dooner and Geoff Ongley from Get Reading Right, Training 24/7 and Learning 24/7…
- Season Two, Episode 1: Starting right · 32 minSummary In this Season Two opener of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Dr Nathaniel Swain unpack what it means to start the year “right” through classroom routines that are warm…
- Episode 10: More consistency means more freedom · 40 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by educator, designer, and author Peps Mccrea, Director of Education at Steplab and writer of…
- Episode 9: Kaitlyn's Classroom Glow-Up · 33 minSummary In this episode of the Chalk Dust podcast, Nathaniel Swain and Rebecca Birch are joined by Teach Well General Manager, Katie Webster, and Western Australian primary…
- Episode 8: Building trust with high expectations · 39 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Dr Nathaniel Swain are joined by Denarius Frazier, Regional Superintendent of Instruction for Uncommon Schools in New…
- Episode 7: How to avoid just teaching yourself · 31 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Dr Nathaniel Swain and Rebecca Birch are joined by John Hollingsworth, co-founder of DataWorks Educational Research and co-author of…
- Episode 6: Real-time teaching · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 5Summary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Dr Nathaniel Swain are joined by Dr Carl Hendrick, Professor of Education at Academica University of Applied Sciences and…
- Episode 5: Start the Way You Mean to Finish · 38 minSummary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by instructional coach, author, and classroom management expert Dr Mark Dowley. Together, they…
- Episode 4: Check, then Challenge · 35 min · Season 1 Episode 4Summary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain are joined by instructional coach and Knowledge for Teachers podcast host Brendan Lee. Together, they…
- Episode 3: Running the Secondary Room · 34 min · Season 1 Episode 3Summary In this episode of Chalk Dust, Rebecca Birch and Nathaniel Swain explore effective teaching practices in secondary education, focusing on engagement strategies; the…
