Jill & Colleen

Anti-picks for summer reading

In this episode, Colleen and Jill discuss ways to get kids to read over the summer, specifically through trickery.

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Risk taking & resilience

A recent study has shown a drastic drop in risk taking behaviors among teens. This episode unpacks why this is NOT a good thing for kids, and how risk taking in the classroom is still important.

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Learning Languages

After experiencing “Italian for Survivors” in a high school in Perugia, Italy, Jill realizes that our students back here in the US do not have much exposure to other languages. Even students who study Spanish for their whole lives have not had enough language hours to have conversational Spanish when abroad. We discuss passion for…

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