Zach Diamond

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.

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.