Kareem Farah
Co-Host of Modern Classrooms Project Podcast
Kareem Farah spent his teaching career as a math educator in Hawaii and Washington, DC. He earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and later received a master’s degree in secondary education at Johns Hopkins University. Instead of using a traditional lecture model, Kareem taught math through a blended model where students accessed content through his self-made videos. The cornerstone of his classroom was the ability for students to work at their own pace and Kareem’s ability to assess students on mastery. Kareem co-founded the Modern Classrooms Project to empower teachers worldwide to redesign their classrooms around blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning.
Kareem Farah has hosted six Episodes.
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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 144: From the Archive - Episode 5: Supporting Disengaged Students
June 18th, 2023 | 51 mins 46 secs
Kareem is joined by Dacia Guffey and Shane Donavan to discuss some of the reasons students disengage and ways to address disengagement in the classroom and in remote learning.
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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 2: Rolling Out the Model
August 23rd, 2020 | 52 mins 38 secs
district of columbia, middle school, science
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 1: Introducing the Modern Classrooms Model
August 4th, 2020 | 1 hr 10 mins
district of columbia, high school, math, middle school, music
Kareem and Zach discuss what led them to start a podcast about Modern Classrooms and their experiences with the model.