Zach Diamond
Co-Host of Modern Classrooms Project Podcast
Zach Diamond has hosted 73 Episodes.
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Episode 185: Teacher and Student Collaboration
April 21st, 2024 | 54 mins 27 secs
Zach is joined by Megan Kindred to talk about collaboration at all levels - between students, between adults, and even between students and teachers.
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Episode 184: Visual Arts
April 14th, 2024 | 1 hr 26 secs
Zach is joined by Dana Pelzman to talk about teaching visual arts using MCP, as well as some more general discussion on accommodating, flexible mastery checks for creative work.
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Episode 177: Gamification
February 18th, 2024 | 1 hr 1 min
Zach is joined by Chad Collins to discuss the gamified materials he's designed and how he approaches gamified teaching in general.
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Episode 174: Planning for Multiple Preps
January 28th, 2024 | 1 hr 6 mins
Zach is joined by Steve Schlarman to discuss the challenges of teaching multiple different courses simultaneously and some of the solutions Steve has discovered to ease them.
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Episode 172: Genially
January 14th, 2024 | 48 mins 39 secs
Zach is joined by Cat Spencer of Genially to discuss the platform and how it can be used to enhance blended materials in a modern classroom and beyond.
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Episode 157: Ungrading
September 17th, 2023 | 1 hr 7 mins
Zach is joined by Christine Walker and Craig Meyers to discuss Ungrading, an alternative approach to assessment, teaching, and learning laid out in Susan Blum's book of the same name.
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Episode 156: Progress vs. Grades
September 10th, 2023 | 55 mins 3 secs
Zach is joined by Dacia Guffey and Paul O'Donoghue to talk about the distinction between tracking progress and assigning grades and how teachers can help students and other stakeholders shift their mindsets around learning and displaying progress data.
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Episode 155: Grading Beliefs and Mindsets
September 3rd, 2023 | 48 mins 41 secs
Zach is joined by Kaitlyn McGillicuddy to discuss mindsets around grades and grading, and in particular her use of standards-based grading to address some of the problems inherent in traditional grading systems.
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Episode 152: Embracing Resistance
August 13th, 2023 | 49 mins 6 secs
Toni Rose and Zach discuss the variety of emotions that can come with implementing an alternative educational model and beginning a new school year.
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Episode 151: Humanizing Teaching Practices
August 8th, 2023 | 57 mins 24 secs
For Season Four's inaugural episode, Zach is joined by Paul France to discuss practices that foster personalized learning and make teaching more sustainable.
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Episode 147: Shortcast - Episode 23: Manageable Grading in a Modern Classroom
July 9th, 2023 | 14 mins 10 secs
In this week's episode, we discuss systems and strategies Modern Classroom educators employ to make mastery-based grading sustainable in their classrooms.
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Episode 145: Shortcast - Episode 18: Building Effective Instructional Videos
June 25th, 2023 | 18 mins 15 secs
On this week's episode, we discuss the benefits of using instructional videos in a self-paced class, best practices for building instructional videos, and strategies educators can use to build engagement with their video lessons
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Episode 143: Shortcast - Episode 2: Rolling Out the Model
June 11th, 2023 | 13 mins 47 secs
Kareem and Zach are joined by Monte Woodard, a middle school Science Teacher and Modern Classrooms implementer, to discuss rolling out the model and introducing students and families to the Modern Classrooms approach
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Episode 142: Shortcast: Highlights from Episode 1
June 4th, 2023 | 16 mins 21 secs
Modern Classrooms Project co-founder and Executive Director Kareem Farah, and Modern Classroom Mentor Zach Diamond, discuss the origins of their instructional model as well as their experiences implementing it.
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Episode 138: La Revisión y las Pruebas de Dominio
May 7th, 2023 | 59 mins 40 secs
For this episode entirely in Spanish, Zach is joined by Marlene Tapia Garcia to explain the MCP model and discuss how mastery checks facilitate revision in a self-paced class.
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Episode 137: Going School-Wide with MCP
April 30th, 2023 | 42 mins 8 secs
Zach is joined by Maureen Delgado, the principal at Clinton Elementary School in Chicago, to talk about how she is rolling out the model to her entire school.