MindShift Podcast

It’s easy to see a child’s education as a path determined by grades, test scores and extra curricula

Episodes

Total: 90

Seniors missed out on prom, signing yearbooks, sharing the news of college acceptances with friends

When Ashanti Branch started the Ever Forward Club, he was a high school math teacher trying to figur

We’re here just in time to unpack some of the extraordinary circumstances created by emergency dista

Teenagers are demanding to be heard on the issues that matter most to them including climate change,

Art has often been relegated as an additional activity in schools. But schools that put art at the c

Adults have designed how kids eat at school for generations, directing students into single-file lin

Privilege and power play out in the world all around us everyday. And kids notice. First grade teach

The kind of free play grown-ups had in previous generations is looked at with nostalgia in today’s e

Anxiety is running rampant in high schools around the country, both rich and poor. The driving facto

We asked what issues matter to you most and we listened. The fourth season of the MindShift podcast

Close to 24-percent of Oakland ninth graders drop out before their senior year of high school. Some

Ask almost any teacher why they teach and they'll give you similar answers: they love the kids. But

When kids live in violence-prone neighborhoods, the environment can enable trauma in their lives. On

Many people have experienced some kind of trauma in their childhood, such as loss of a caregiver, su

High school is an important time in the life of any teen: hormones are raging, social cliques are fo

Teachers can go an entire school year and only see a child’s parent once: on back to school night. A

This season, we investigate the intangible, and often overlooked, elements of academic success: emot

The KIPP charter school network has made a name for itself preparing kids from low-income communitie

High School English teacher Michael Godsey found the Serial podcast so compelling, he stopped teachi

Catlin Tucker and Marika Neto hoped that by redesigning the classroom experience they could shift wh