YES WE DID! Game of Thrones and Education! A perfect pair right? What can the battle for the iron throne teach us about school leadership? Turns out...plenty! Join Molly and Weston and play along as we build the perfect school leader using Game of Thrones characters.

Jack Donaghy from 30 Rock helps us understand the importance of metacognition, the "Think Aloud", and finding more teachable moments within our content objectives. It's after six and Molly and I are in our tuxedos! I mean, what are we, farmers?

The art of self-evaluation courtesy of Scrubs! With a challenge for listeners!

Using the Breakfast Club to help kids peel back the layers and evolve beyond their labels. 

Gandalf, love, and the law of source and resource on this week's episode!

Remembering it's their time and teaching our little Goonies with love and logic on this week's episode! 

Finding Forester gives us insight into peer tutoring and maintaining our focus on the main event in our lessons. 

The power of repetition and the need to teach the whole child on this week's episode!

Who's your Yoda? Learn you will! Yoda schools Molly and Weston on giving full effort, relinquishing control, and spreading knowledge on this week's episode!

Can we avoid labeling kids? How much is too much to know about kids before they walk into our classrooms? Legally Blonde provides a few answers. 

The Wizard of Oz shows teachers three things they need to be successful: Heart, Brains, and Courage!

Leaders are not born they are made! Talking formal and informal leadership with William Wallace and Braveheart.

Derek and Hansel give us insight into digital citizenship, kids as digital natives, and ghost apps on this week's episode!

Andy Dufresne gives us a lesson in persistence. Anything worth having (i.e. knowledge & wisdom) is worth the hard work it takes to attain it. We'd never let students try something challenging and then quit if it doesn't go well the first time. Why should we allow it for ourselves?

How do we value all of our students' skills? How do we mitigate cultures of elitism in our schools? How can we help students to understand exactly what plagiarism is and why it's wrong? Good Will Hunting shows us how!

Louder and slower is not a strategy. The Big Short shows us how students make meaning by connecting to existing schema. We also talk Professional Learning Networks and why teachers need communities of connected educators to be successful. 

Molly & Mr. Holland take me to school in this week's episode. I learn why educators need to be more patient & encouraging when passion is present. Additionally, Molly finally reveals the reason why we have a piano in our house. 

"It's the weekend. I don't know you. You do not exist." Cure your holiday hangover with Bradley Cooper, The Hangover, & a serious discussion about work/life balance.

Molly and Weston talk Charlie Brown teaching. What is it that makes adults so boring to kids? How do we connect with them in ways that are authentic so that we aren't just noise in the room? Are you a big ME little you communicator? Also...can you conquer the Charlie Brown head drawing challenge?

"Last week I gave a fire safety talk and nobody paid any attention. It’s my own fault for using PowerPoint. PowerPoint is boring." 

Curiosity is the root of engagement. How do we allow kids to experience curiosity in excellent experiential learning moments? How do we avoid the pitfalls of bad experiential learning. Dwight Schrute and his pals from The Office show us what NOT to do. Molly and Weston guide us toward what great experiential learning looks, sounds, and feels like.