The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

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273: The Art of Classroom Timing: 10 Ways to Fit it All In

4/27/2026 • 26 min

It can ruin even the most carefully designed lessons: An activity you had planned takes way longer than you thought it would. Or worse, it takes way less time. And sometimes it can be both, with some students finishing a task in five minutes while others need half an hour. Getting classroom pacing just right is an art that takes practice and technique. In this e… Play episode

272: The Replacement Skills Approach: Teaching Behavior Instead of Managin…
271: Meet Ellis: Your On-Demand Classroom Companion
270: Eight Ways to Squeeze Writing Instruction Into a Few Minutes
269: Bringing the Power of Debate to Math Class
268: What is a Warm Demander?
267: How Inquiry-Based Freewriting Can Deepen Student Writing
266: Six Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2026
265: Growth Discourse: A Framework for Discussing Hard Topics with Students
264: How Schools Can Support Neurodivergent Teachers
263: Five Skills that Get Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning
262: Three Fresh Strategies That Get Students Engaged With Texts
261: How and Why to Use Concept Maps
260: Seven Teaching Practices that Nurture Student Voice
259: Making Project-Based Learning Accessible for Everyone
EduTip 33: Answer more questions with questions.
258: The Power of Centering Student Exemplars
257: Bringing Joy into Our Schools: A Conversation with Gholdy Muhammad
256: Community Supplies in the Classroom: Clearing Up the Confusion
255: Before You Decorate Your Classroom, Here's a Better Idea
254: Dusting Off an Old Practice to Make Reading Fun Again
EduTip 32: Don't put kids in Charlie Bucket situations.
253: Fully Seen and Fully Known: Teaching that Affirms Disability
EduTip 31: Be the first dork.
252: Where Discipline Reform Has Gone Wrong (in Some Schools)
EduTip 30: Do something after formative assessments.
251: Holding Students Accountable in the Age of AI
EduTip 29: Build relationships with a spreadsheet.
250: Nine Easy Ways to Add Retrieval to Your Lessons
249: A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning
248: Why grammar instruction stinks, and how we can change that
EduTip 28: Add gestures to strengthen learning.
247: Five Listening Skills That Will Improve All of Your Relationships
EduTip 27: Get Better Participation with Icons
246: How to Keep Teaching Well When DEI is Under Attack
245: A System for Meeting Absent Students' Needs
EduTip 26: Give lots of quizzes.
244: Three Ways You May Be Cognitively Overloading Your Students
EduTip 25: Use neutral language to keep things cool.
243: Small Changes to Make Your Classroom More Neurodiversity-Affirming
EduTip 24: Use "I" statements to promote your teaching ideas.
242: How to Do a Close Reading Lesson in Any Subject Area
EduTip 23: Calm an out-of-control class with a notebook.
241: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2025
240: When Your Classroom Management Goes Off the Rails
239: Avoiding the Pitfalls of Multitasking in School
238: How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom
237: Curating a More Inclusive Library
236: Five Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right
235: Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

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