The Teacher Collaborative Podcast

Meet The Teacher Collaborative Team! Learn about the challenges teachers are facing, what they need, and how The Teacher Collaborative is committed to helping them get there.

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Meet Raymond Zapata, 6th and 7th grade science teacher at Boston Green Academy in Boston. Learn about how Raymond balances his identities in and out of the classroom, and how he works to make his classroom a safe and responsive space for his students. 

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Meet Althea Terenzi, high school English teacher at Revere High School in Revere, MA. Learn about Althea’s journey with boundary setting as an educator, as well as her hopes for the next generation of teachers. 

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Meet Julie Lundstedt, 6-8th grade ASD Sub-Separate teacher at Joseph F. Plouffe Middle School in Brockton, MA. Learn about the unique challenges of special education, and about Julie’s experiences as a new teacher navigating her career both during and after Covid. 

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Meet Eva Soto Perello, AP Spanish teacher at Excel Academy Charter High School in East Boston. Learn about how Eva’s migrant journey informs and fuels her passion for teaching, and how her work has become a positive force for identity affirmation. 

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Meet Denise Cote, middle school Language Arts teacher at Springfield Conservatory of the Arts in Springfield, MA. Learn about Denise’s evolution as an educator and how setting boundaries has helped her continue to do the work she loves. 

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Coming soon: Season 6 of The Teacher Collaborative Podcast features teachers from across Massachusetts who have made change in their classrooms, schools, and beyond.

This season we're going to explore the teacher identity and take a look at how and why a teacher's job becomes a teacher's life. We'll hear from teachers in their own voices about the joy and challenge they find in this intersection,

Find yourself in their stories and be inspired!

In the final episode of Season 5: Changemakers, you will meet Lisa Brown, a veteran educator in the Nauset Regional School District on Cape Cod. You’ll learn about how she created a course called Exploring and Respecting Differences 22 years ago, long before similar courses were more popular in schools. 

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Bringing the real world into the classroom is a common enough goal, but - bees? For math teacher Benadette Manning, bringing a living bee hive into her classroom to support math teaching was only one of the many ways she has connected students to authentic learning experiences over the course of her career. In this episode of The Teacher Collaborative’s podcast, we’ll hear about how high school math can be brought to life with daring classroom changes—from building tiny houses to Button Algebra to bees.

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In episode 3 of season 5 of The Teacher Collaborative podcast, teacher Marcie Day from Seacoast High School in Revere (@marcielday) shares her work to create restorative justice and competency-based education programming that includes one magic ingredient that is all too often overlooked: student agency. Marcie shares her journey as a classroom teacher, coach and collaborator and how empowering students has sparked her passion for being part of school change.

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