Zach Diamond

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.

Episode 113: Motivation

November 6th, 2022  |  44 mins 21 secs

Zach is joined by Jennifer Stephens to discuss student motivation: the reasons why students may be unmotivated, ways we can motivate them extrinsically and intrinsically, as well as how we can leverage the MCP model to help motivate our students.

Episode 111: HS Media Production

October 23rd, 2022  |  45 mins 48 secs

Zach is joined by Afton Dean to talk about how she used the model in her high school Media Production class and about using the model in creative, project-based classes more generally.

Episode 107: Updates and Q&A

September 25th, 2022  |  47 mins 23 secs

Toni Rose and Zach have some MCP updates for you, after which we tackle some great listener questions! Remember you can email us questions at podcast@modernclassrooms.org

Episode 102: Elementary Science

August 21st, 2022  |  48 mins 51 secs

Zach is joined by Hilary Stover to talk about how she implements the model in her elementary science class, including how she transitions into the science block, how she has students conduct experiments, and how she incorporates science demonstrations.

We're taking the week off!

July 10th, 2022  |  1 min 42 secs

We're taking the week off! Check back next week for a brand new episode, and make sure to check out our episodes in the coming weeks as we launch Season Two of the Modern Classrooms Project Podcast.

Episode 91: Wrapping Up Season One

May 29th, 2022  |  35 mins 10 secs

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Kareem joins Toni Rose and Zach to wrap up our first official podcast season, which focused on self pacing! We look back on the season and discuss our takeaways, as well as giving some updates on how VSI is going and what to expect over the summer and in August when we launch our second podcast season. Thanks for listening!

Episode 90: Q&A for May, 2022

May 22nd, 2022  |  38 mins 53 secs

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Toni Rose and Zach tackle some more listener questions on our last Q&A episode of the Spring 2022 season! Topics include explaining MCP to stakeholders, classifying lessons, displaying data in a very large class, and dealing with internet outages.

Episode 87: Troubleshooting Self Pacing

May 1st, 2022  |  1 hr 3 secs

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Zach is joined by Charlie Moynahan, who shares the story of how he rapidly rolled out a modern classroom and then went about troubleshooting it, and both of them share some ideas on how implementers may troubleshoot common issues that arise in self-paced classrooms.

Episode 86: Q&A and Feedback for April, 2022

April 24th, 2022  |  42 mins 17 secs

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Toni Rose and Zach tackle listener questions! Topics include motivation, guided notes, collaboration, tech tools, teaching novels, and standardized tests in the context of MCP.

Episode 84: Teacher Spotlight - Visual Arts with Aimee Plueger

April 10th, 2022  |  39 mins 59 secs

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Zach is joined by Aimee Plueger, one of his former mentees, to chat about how she uses MCP in her visual art classroom and how she provides her students with creative freedom using the model.