Episode 266 - Finding Our Funishment Line (S07E08)

Episode 266 - Finding Our Funishment Line (S07E08)

From Rebel Teacher Alliance by Rebel Teacher Alliance

January 29, 2026 · 52 min · Season 7 · Episode 7

About this episode

The episode discusses practical strategies for meaningful professional development and effective lesson planning.

Welcome back to Rebel Teacher Alliance! Today we pick up where the last episode left off, then get practical. We revisit key takeaways from our conversation with Sheri Schmidt, then jump into Fabian’s Articles of Confederation lesson flow: AI-made explainer with NotebookLM, image generation in Gemini’s Nano Banana, and a simple prompt-tracking organizer students actually complete. From there we build a no-nonsense rubric for meaningful PD, call out time-wasting icebreakers, and sketch what good conferences and staff days should look like: choice, niche tracks, protected passing time, and trust. Join @hofmannedu.bsky.social, @jedijamie.bsky.social, and @meehanedu.bsky.social by subscribing and leaving a rating on Apple Podcasts. Hop into the Discord at rebelteacheralliance.com to drop your PD must-haves, and find us on Instagram @rebelteacheralliance, on BlueSky @rtalliance.bsky.social, and on TikTok @rebelteacheralliance. Things mentioned on the show: - CoraQuest

People in this episode

Host: Fabian

Guest: Sheri Schmidt

Topics covered

  • education
  • professional development
  • lesson planning
  • AI in education

Keywords

  • funishment
  • rubric
  • icebreakers
  • conferences
  • staff days

Mentioned in this episode

Products: NotebookLM, Nano Banana, Gemini’s Nano Banana, CoraQuest

Books & works: Finding Our Funishment Line

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