Zach Diamond

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Episode 136: Formative

April 23rd, 2023  |  35 mins 1 sec

Guest host Monte Woodard is joined by Carlo Schmidt, Director of Product at Formative, to talk about the platform, its features, and some interesting use cases.

Episode 133: Providing Effective Feedback

April 2nd, 2023  |  52 mins 23 secs

Zach is joined by Jerod Brown and Dan Ronchak to discuss strategies for providing effective feedback as well as ways that a Modern Classroom can be conducive to providing targeted feedback.

Episode 132: Universal Design for Learning and MCP

March 26th, 2023  |  52 mins 12 secs

Zach is joined by Devin Schrock to discuss Universal Design for Learning and the many ways it is evident in the MCP model.

Episode 131: Implementing MCP at an Independent School

March 19th, 2023  |  1 hr 4 mins

Zach is joined by Carmen Welton to discuss her experience teaching at an independent boarding school and the advantages and disadvantages of implementing the MCP model in that context.

Episode 129: Teacher Collaboration

March 5th, 2023  |  56 mins 9 secs

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Zach is joined by Brook Lee and Rick Smith, two members of a 6th grade math teaching team, to talk about working with other teachers (who may or may not implement the MCP model) to collaboratively develop curriculum and instruction.

Episode 123: Goal Setting

January 22nd, 2023  |  52 mins 7 secs

Zach is joined by Stephanie Howell to talk about different ways teachers can scaffold student goal setting and ways we can support our students in keeping themselves accountable to their goals.

Episode 119: Metacognition and Reflection (Part II)

December 18th, 2022  |  1 hr 15 mins

Zach is joined by an all-star teaching team from the International School of Kenya to continue the discussion on metacognition and reflection, in particular focusing on several of the incredible tools this team has developed for implementing metacognitive and reflective routines in their classes.

Episode 117: Metacognition and Reflection (Part I)

December 4th, 2022  |  54 mins 59 secs

Zach is joined by Lydia Crush to talk about their philosophy toward metacognition and reflection in their ESL Geography class, as well as how they use the MCP model to facilitate and promote metacognitive and reflective thinking.

Episode 114: World Language Acquisition

November 13th, 2022  |  59 mins 15 secs

Zach is joined by Xiaomin Sun, a middle school Chinese teacher and collegue at DC International school, to talk about how he uses the MCP model to develop language skills as well as foster more personal connections with his students.