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Vicki Davis - AP Computer Science teacher, author, and longtime educational technology blogger focused on practical strategies for teachers and school leaders.
Julia Garcia - Practical Habits For Building Hope, Reflection, Receiving Support, Reshaping Unhelpful Thought Patterns, And Teaching Through Grief.
Blake Harvard - Attention, Memory, Retrieval Practice, Spaced Practice, Pre-testing, Working Memory, And Cognitive Science Strategies For K-12 Learning.
Angela Cannava - Curriculum-aligned Educational Travel, Experiential Learning, International Student Trips, Classroom Relationships, Chaperone Planning, And Student Transformation.
Habits of Hope to Help Educators with Dr. Julia Garcia
July 13, 2026
Hope isn't just a feeling — it's a practice you can build. Psychologist and author Dr. Julia Garcia (The 5 Habits of Hope) joins Vicki Davis to redefine hope as something educators can practice, even in the hardest seasons. Recorded shortly after Vicki lost her father, this is an honest, encouraging conversation about hopelessness, grief, and the small habits that help us hold on to hope. In this episode, you'll learn: Why we experience hope as a feeling — and how to practice it instead The ...
How Students Actually Learn: Memory & Attention
June 19, 2026
How do students actually learn? AP Psychology teacher Blake Harvard — The Effortful Educator — shares the cognitive science of attention and memory that every K-12 teacher can use tomorrow. In this episode of the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast, Vicki Davis talks with Blake Harvard about why attention is a necessary component of learning, the simple pre-test that primes the brain, and the mistake of making hard content even harder. Blake breaks down the two strategies with more than a century of re...
Experiential Learning Through Travel That Sticks
June 17, 2026
Experiential learning through travel changes students for good — and Denver science and CTE teacher Angela Cannava proves any teacher can lead it. In this episode of the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast, Angela shares how curriculum-aligned international trips with EF Explore America transformed her students: a forensics lab in Great Britain where they did real DNA fingerprinting, and a Belize Ridge-to-Reef conservation expedition with a midnight bat workshop. She tells the story of a student who ba...
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