The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

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264: How Schools Can Support Neurodivergent Teachers

11/23/2025 • 80 min

Neurodivergent educators, like those with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other forms of cognitive diversity, are essential voices in our schools. They bring innovation, empathy, and authenticity. Yet they often work within systems that weren't built with them in mind, and this can make the job of teaching especially challenging. In this episode, we'll learn about t… Play episode

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
234: Four Fun Classroom Games to Add to Your Toolbox
233: Meeting the Core Human Needs of a Teacher
232: How Metacognition Can Optimize Learning
231: Teaching Executive Functions to All Students
Summer 2024 Update: What I'm Working On Over the Break
230: What is a Semantic Pulse Survey, and Why Should You Try it?
229: Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subje…
228: A Conversation About School Choice
227: Two Effective Ways to Teach Annotation

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