I love this podcast! I am a newer educator and teach nursing school. Some of the information is geared toward K-12, but I have found tangible advice that I have been able to apply to my teaching process and classroom activities. We incorporate active learning and clinical simulation during lectures, and thinking of new ideas for large groups of students in higher ed is so challenging! Thank you for making this podcast.

Thank you for episode 212 on reading and what works. It was thoughtfully put together & I loved how it talked about what happens in the classroom and what research says. As a parent of a former struggling readers and a teacher (former elementary and now middle school English/ Spanish teacher) this podcast hit so many important points. My district is slowly changing and I’m hoping students will have more systematic instruction especially with phonics.

I listen to these podcasts on my 35 minute drive to work and during my morning/evening walks. I have discovered so many resources in a short period of time. Jennifer addresses everything from social issues to technology in the classroom, and so much more. I feel extremely fortunate to have found this wealth of information for educators. What Jennifer shares on her website and on her podcasts are relevant to all those working in the educational field. I urge anyone who is looking for guidance in the teaching field to at least listen to one of these podcasts! Be careful though: It’s addicting...:)...

I struggle to take this seriously when the podcaster has no hisotrical overview of a conept that has been discussed since the 1950s when Carl Rogers wrote about it. One can change how one views disruptive behavior, if one is so fixated on bad behavior that a new 'lens' throgh which to view things is necessary. But, this does not change the behavior and the effects its has on reducing instrucional time and related, empirical affects pertaining to classroom dynamics.

I was first exposed to Cult of Pedagogy during grad school; a professor of mine shared with us a blog titled I think, “Find your Marigold”. I was very impacted by the blog that I started referencing the website when I needed support to find more valuable information. Now that it will be my first year teaching, I have been listening to the podcast and the wisdom and knowledge that I have been receiving, is making a huge impact on me. There was only so much my teaching program and student teaching were able to provide for me and now it is up to me to go out a find the resources to depend my learning and fill in a lot of those areas that I still do not feel prepared for as a first year teacher. I will reccommend this podcast and blog to anyone I know going into teaching.

The fact that this podcast attempts to frame CRT as “under attack” should tell you all you need to know. Always remember folks , “if the situation was hopeless, the propaganda would be unnecessary.” Please pray for this lost soul and all the lost sheep that think: “fact”-checking websites qualify as research. Or that anyone who disagrees with their agenda is a right-wing, q-anon. Or that can’ t be bothered to learn our actual, true histories that go so far back, comtaining the roots of esoteric knowledge long before it was deliberately hidden from us all of which was never taught in the schools that these people want to indoctrinate our young minds in.

Years ago I stumbled across this podcast and almost immediately started using things discussed in my classes. Years later, I’m now a beginning teacher mentor, and I guide my mentees to strategies and topics that are discussed. I appreciate Gonzalez’s willingness to teach and share her craft with the world. I appreciate her thoroughness and thoughtfulness. Highly recommend to anyone looking to step up their teaching and stay on top of all things education.

This podcast is so well organized and so thoughtful. Thank you!

I used to really like this podcast, because it gave me good insight into k12 best practices : I’m a college professor who often teaches first years, so I’m always interested in where they are coming from. Some of these episodes have been useful in my own pedagogy. But lately I’ve become kind of worried about “the blind leading the blind” in the episodes. There are guests who speak confidently about psychology… without being certified psychologists, or even having an understanding of psychological principles (or even statistics). Most thinkers in education make their money by selling pd training and books, and there’s no peer-review process for those things. If it sounds “right,” then it flies. And if you have something that matches your own “intuition” (or confirmation bias), or is a little new, you’ll buy into it. This is an endemic problem in education as a field and even more as a practice. I’m thinking of “learning styles” of thirty years ago, and “whole language” reading instruction, which we are just now understanding the devastating effects of. The episode that shook me was the one on trauma-informed teaching that positions people as victims who must be pitied, rather than heroes of their own stories. None of the strategies were informed by best CBT practices and might have been damaging to all involved. When you need listeners, you’ll tap into your perception of the group’s expectations and engage in groupthink, while also seeking novelty. Something more extreme or that asks for more from administration (and instructors). I might still skim the archives, but I’m unsubscribing.

My principal recommended this Podcast. Now it is my favorite resource. Jennifer Gonzalez’s materials and topics expand my expertise. I am a National Board Certified English teacher who has taught for over 15 years. Jennifer’s topics and relevance never get old and always add to my improvement!

our only hope for the future

I’m late to the game, but what I’ve heard so far is thoughtful and useable! Great content, tips, and strategies!

I am not exaggerating when I say that I have listened to days worth of this podcast. I love it so much and it was this podcast that took me from a newbie teacher with lots of fire but no real know-how to a classroom innovator. I owe majority of my good classroom ideas to the Cult of Pedagogy and Jennifer Gonzalez. If you want to be an awesome teacher, put your headphones on and listen up!

I love this podcast! I teach immunology to a variety of students at a medical campus (medical, dental, physician assistant, graduate) and find many of the podcasts useful for my teaching. This podcast is not just for elementary or high school! This applies across ALL education levels!!

I am student teaching right now and am going to be licensed to teach this summer. Listening to this podcast has helped me so much and given me tools to use right away that help with classroom management and building relationships with students. It also has just given me so many amazing ideas to implement in my classroom in the future and gives me hope that I can truly be a teacher who makes a difference in her students’ lives!

As a training middle school teacher focusing in math and reading, this podcast helped me a lot. I appreciate the steps and examples of how that would be “acted out” in the classroom environment. Thank you for making these podcasts, they really help me get excited about becoming a teacher and gives me very good strategies to implement into the classroom.

Used to love listening. Too much to sift through now that she includes political propaganda.

I love every single episode! As a math teacher I don’t often listen to ELA driven information but this is so far from that! Jennifer Gonzalez has a way of taking content she is familiar with and presenting it in a way that is applicable to everyone. The guests and topics are so progressive and I never know what to expect next. She has been a life line for the last three years and my teacher friends know the Jennifer Gonzalez name by heart because I quote her show so much. Thank you for being a clear and actionable place for teachers to come and really think about their practice!

This episode was so smart, articulate, and helpful. Thank you for it and introducing your audience to Katie!

I used to love this podcast. It inspired me to be a better educator. I’d listen to it, reflect, and practice ideas that were presented. I’m sad to say that it has changed into a political podcast that is far left leaning. It has an agenda which includes CRT, trans issues, and anti-racism. Both sides of these issues are not explored. I think it would be more interesting if she presented both sides with an intellectual dialog. Without these important conversations, it reeks of an agenda. I wish it stayed focused on education and left politics for political podcasts.

I first heard about this podcast at a tech teacher training. I am hooked! There are so many topics and I have learned a lot. Sometimes it just reenforces that I’m doing a good job at other times it reminds me of areas I can improve. Thanks!

This podcast has very helpful and practical information for educators. I found this podcast after searching for information on starting a teaching job mid-year and have been a listener ever since. Give it a try, you won’t regret it!

I am so grateful I found Jennifer’s podcast. I had seen her podcast earlier but never joined. I’m now returning to the classroom after a long child-care leave extended by the pandemic and looked for her podcast. Listening to her has been incredible for preparing my teacher brain, introducing me to new educational practices and reminding me how versatile teaching can be when we are open to it. She does the research so you don't have to BUT motivates you to learn more with all the links to resources. Love her and her voice is very soothing to listen to. Thank you Jennifer for your fabulous contribution to teachers, education and to students. Binge-listener here.

Send this to my administrator- bit did it piss him off. Another reason everything about this episode is true.

Really appreciated hearing good perspectives on CRT. It’s sad that there are so many that don’t understand the harsh reality of racism and doggedly insist on denying reality.

This podcast used to be very helpful research-based practices that I used in PD for my teachers. It has become leftist propaganda.

Let me lead by saying I have gotten SO much value from Jennifer and owe a lot of breakthrough insights to her and the books she has recommended. The last episode on anti-CRT was troubling though. 1. Instead of a fair assessment of the parents, “steel manning” their view, they got the straw man treatment, being assumed as ignorant and wrongheaded from the start. This isn’t intellectually honest. 2. Gonzalez and the interviewees think parents ought to be overridden when it comes to what content is taught to their children. If mom and dad don’t have a say in their children’s education, who is accountable to who? 3. When parents organize and use the proper non-violent, legal outlets for their concerns (PA meetings, social media, legislation), they are bullies. But at the end of the episode, Gonzalez urges her followers to take the same means to champion their cause. I repeat: I’m not against González. I’ve learned a lot and intend to continue learning from her, but this was a hurtful episode.

The CRT movement is harming teachers, students, America, because it’s pseudoscience. This podcast lost credibility.

I really loved Jennifer’s early podcasts but have found her newer episodes to be much less helpful.

This program has helped me find calm in my teaching. JG talks about what matters and what works. We’ll worth the listen!

I am currently student teaching and listen every day on my commute to school. So informative and helpful. Thank you for your hard work and the questions you ask.

Thank you for speaking the truth, listening, and supporting my growth! I appreciate that you do not shy away from the hard stuff!!!!! Wishing you well!!!!

This episode is SO SPOT ON. Thank you for saying this!

Every episode of Cult of Pedagogy is a well planned, thought out and researched perspective on how to improve my practice as a classroom teacher. This latest episode finally identify the real crisis educators across the country are facing during the 21-22 school year. I’ve been asking myself why is it so much harder than last year, and Jen delivers the answers to that why. As well as some tough solutions for both teachers and administrators. She speaks uncomfortable truths in this one and and I found myself challenged in a different way than ever before. I think educators need to use remaining energy to come together and say “no” to undue responsibilities being added to our jobs each day. Thank you, Jen for looking at all of our responses and helping us organize our collective thoughts.

As an educator and third grade teacher, I look forward to this podcast! Each one shares innovative ideas and thought provoking teaching methods. Keep them coming Jen!

A worthwhile masters in teaching from a very attuned person —that I can get at 4:30AM while my kids are asleep. Returning to FT classroom after years freelancing, these episodes feel like concrete security blankets. I take notes and am so grateful.

I was turned on to this podcast from a well-respected colleague who found Jennifer Gonzalez and her content to be a beacon of light during and emerging from trenches of online teaching during the pandemic. This year I took a new position back in the classroom after working with adjudicated youth and adult learners. Jennifer brings a refreshing perspective to many of today’s teaching struggles; technology integration, project-based learning, SEL, curriculum design and much more. The most memorable podcast I listened to to-date was episode 170- ‘No More Easy Button:A Suggested Approach to Post-Pandemic Teaching’. Gonzalez uses the analogy that we as humans are wired for the ‘easy button’, everything from picking produce that is easiest to prepare and eat, to watching Netflix over reading a book, it’s easier. The ‘easy button’ refers to how teachers often use resources, lesson materials, and assessments that are easiest for us to grade (think: multiple choice). This doesn’t allow students to demonstrate their learning, it gives them the chance to give a really good guess. By increasing short answer and essay questions, it allows students to display their level of understanding of a concept which allows the teacher to truly understand their depth of knowledge. I subscribe to this philosophy, but I also turn to the ‘easy button’ at times, we all do. This was just one of the many eye-opening podcasts I listened to over the past few weeks. I have a list of episodes I want to hear, one day at a time 😀

I was writing a book for teachers in 2020 with a co-writer called Emotionally Naked: A Teacher’s Guide to Preventing Suicide and Recognizing Students at Risk (published august 2021). I interviewed a lot of teachers and have spent a great deal of time in schools but I needed more insight on education and started to listen to this podcast to give me that foundation. It helped with the language, thoughts and ideas and triggered questions I needed to ask in the pre writing interviews with educators. I refer to this podcast in the book and found it to be an valuable resource for me. I am now an avid listener for that reason and because she knows how to break things down into simple steps. She is a pro interviewer.

I am in love with this podcast. Jennifer does such a great job in explaining teaching strategies and research. There are example after example in every episode to guide you with your teaching. Try out this podcast, it’s totally worth your time. 💕💕

I'm a veteran middle school teacher with over 25 yrs in the classroom, and I am SO glad I discovered this teacher's podcast, website, and blog. I've already shared several episodes with colleagues - both vets and newbies. Jennifer Gonzalez is clear, thoughtful,and engaging, and her pod episodes are SO helpful. Thanks!

When I have down time I tune in to listen. I love love love every episode recorded here. It challenges my thinking, refreshes me, and teaches me new things! Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for putting this out there! For a first time teacher facing start of school jitters, this podcast is an absolute god send! It’s like talking to a mentor every time I plug in my headphones!

Every single episode is so incredibly worth while. Even the topics you don't think apply to you, really do (ex. I don't teach foreign languages but had so many take aways from episode 131 "How World Language Teaching Has Evolved"). I wish every educator would listen to this podcast and implement the immense wisdom offered. Jen curates the best of the best and I devour each episode (many times relistening several times in a row and then sharing with my colleagues how her pearls apply to them). I really, really enjoy this podcast immensely and am sure you will too! :-D

This podcast is amazing. Jennifer is an absolute geek about the specific teaching techniques. I spent the first three years of teaching looking for information on how to actually teach. Almost always I’d run into people who talked about teaching philosophy and general terms. While her podcasts have that, they are full of techniques I used to transform my classroom into a learning space where nearly every student fully engaged.

I am a new teacher, I am working through an alternative certification program since I was in the healthcare field for 20 years before deciding to become a teacher. I find Mrs. Gonzales’ podcast a wonderful view into the evidence-based practices for teaching. She asks the questions that come to mind when speaking to her guests. Thank you.

All educators should listen to this podcast. Great ideas, strategies, thoughts, and mindset ideology.

I’m so glad to have found this podcast! I would love to give it five stars but the audio is really uncomfortable to listen to. The host’s audio is often significantly softer than the guests and intro music making me have to constantly adjust the volume.

I am a teacher of Language Arts myself, and found this podcast as a requirement for some classes I am taking. Really glad I found this! There is always something interesting, really good tips, and a wide variety of subjects covered by guests in the trenches. I will likely continue to listen at least as long as I am in the field. Well done!

I learn more from this than I learned in my teacher education program. Five stars. Currently binging on the series.

Have been listening for awhile, and it is safe to safe that this podcast has something for everyone in their archives! Worth a look AND a weekly listen!