What Has This School Year Taught Us?

Over time, school years can fold into each other, in a way, with each eventually becoming indistinguishable from the next. This is why the goal of this episode, quite simply, is to pause before the month of November comes to a close and ask a simple question: What has this school year taught us so far? For this reflective conversation, we invited on one of our favorites: Adrian Neibauer , a 5th grade teacher who writes weekly about his own classroom with his Substack, Adrian’s Newsletter . Along with listening to Adrian and Marcus share their own answers to this question at this point in the school year, we invite you to join in: what lesson have you learned so far? Feel free to reply in the comments, send us a longer email reflection, or even record your own learning for a future episode ! We would love to include more perspectives and voices around this question going forward. As we say often at The Broken Copier , teaching is community work. What better way to live that out than by sharing our learnings with each other? Links to follow-up with Adrian’s work: * “Now Spinning” (mentioned at the beginning of the conversation) * “The Redress of Teaching” (mentioned at the end of the conversation) Thanks, as always, to: Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for writing and recording original intro music; Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden ; and Courtney Milavec for graphic design. Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com , and on Instagram @banduncivilized. Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com , and on Instagram @djsynchro. Email us here with feedback or any other questions as well: thebrokencopier@substack.com . Thanks for listening (and tell your friends)! This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit thebrokencopier.substack.com