Zach Diamond

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.

Episode 83: Misconceptions About Self Pacing

April 3rd, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins

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This week, Zach is joined by Andrea Mahr, Beth Benavides, and John Tyler to address six common misconceptions about self pacing and self-paced classes.

Episode 82: Feedback and Q&A for March, 2022

March 27th, 2022  |  41 mins 36 secs

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Toni Rose and Zach tackle feedback and questions! For this month, we have feedback on different teaching contexts and physical vs. digital trackers, and questions on structuring breaking up work time in class, instilling a sense of urgency, and structuring units.

Episode 81: Self Pacing with Adult Learners

March 20th, 2022  |  41 mins 33 secs

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Zach is joined by Elizabeth Armstrong and Kathleen Shafer, both TOSAs who work with teachers, to talk about how MCP principles can be applied when working with adult learners.

Episode 80: Summer 2022 with MCP

March 13th, 2022  |  38 mins 33 secs

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Zach is joined by Kareem to talk about why summer is an important time for planning and innovations, how educators can engage with MCP over the summer through the Virtual Summer Institute, and a few other updates.

Episode 78: Feedback and Q&A for February, 2022

February 27th, 2022  |  39 mins 14 secs

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Zach is joined by Sam to cover some listener feedback and tackle questions on self-pacing as well as reporting mastery grades, managing mastery checks and video production time, and motivating students in a self-paced class.

Episode 77: Self Pacing in Secondary Education

February 20th, 2022  |  58 mins 10 secs

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This week, Zach is joined by Amy Azaroff and Jesse Buck to talk about implementing Modern Classrooms in the secondary context - from middle to high school - and the unique opportunities and limitations we have when we teach older students.

Episode 75: Tools for Self Pacing

February 6th, 2022  |  1 hr 3 mins

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This week, Zach is joined by Emily Johb, Dave Read, and Karla McEachern to talk about a wide variety of tools they use to facilitate self-pacing in their Modern Classrooms.

Episode 74: Feedback and Q&A - January 2022

January 30th, 2022  |  37 mins 36 secs

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Zach is joined by a surprise guest to tackle listener feedback and answer your questions in this season's first Q&A/Feedback episode.

Episode 70: What to Expect in 2022

January 2nd, 2022  |  27 mins 6 secs

This week, Toni Rose shares some updates on what's coming in 2022; she's also joined by Allison Vanterpool to talk about MCP Scholarship opportunities, and then she and Zach provide some updates on the podcast itself.

Episode 64: Health and P.E.

November 21st, 2021  |  44 mins 12 secs

Zach is joined by Janelle Meisenheimer and Sarah Gershon to talk about the unique considerations of implementing the MCP model in Health and P.E. classes.

Episode 62: MCP in Performing Arts Classes

November 7th, 2021  |  59 mins 55 secs

Zach is joined by a panel of performing arts teachers - Karis Sloss, Katherine Lewiston, and Sam Boerboom - to talk about their unique and diverse approaches to implementing the MCP model in their dance, drama, and band classes.

Episode 57: Implementing MCP in AP Courses

October 3rd, 2021  |  47 mins 31 secs

Zach is joined by Shane Donovan and Bernadette DeSario, both experienced AP teachers, to discuss how they manage the dense, advanced content of these classes and how they see their role in preparing students for the exam in addition to life after the exam.

Episode 52: Sharing the Model with Stakeholders

August 29th, 2021  |  43 mins 31 secs

Kate and Zach chat with Cheyenne Dickson about sharing the MCP model with stakeholders, including both communicating with students and families as well as explaining our teaching model to colleagues and administrators.

Episode 49: Q&A From the Community #8

August 8th, 2021  |  51 mins 42 secs

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Toni Rose and Zach field more of your questions on topics relating to rolling out the model at the beginning of the year, meaningful mastery checks on topics learned by rote, and using rubrics.

Episode 47: Lesson Classifications in a Modern Classrooms

July 25th, 2021  |  44 mins 41 secs

Zach is joined by Monte Woodard and Sarah Moon to discuss their approaches to lesson classifications (must-do, should-do, and aspire-to-do lessons) and how the different types of lessons facilitate self-pacing, access to content, and mastery-based grading.