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A school year in the life of a teacher, 2025-26
Jun 19, 2026
1h 47m 13s
An Illinois special education educator who teaches because of his experience as a special education student | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
Jun 5, 2026
29m 40s
Exploring the underlying purpose of education | Teachers' Lounge Classic
May 29, 2026
1h 07m 16s
The Illinois professor teaching the next generation of journalists | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
May 15, 2026
1h 04m 00s
The Highland Community College biology teachers uniting Women+ in Science | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
May 1, 2026
44m 02s
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| Date | Episode | Topics | Guests | Brands | Places | Keywords | Sponsor | Length | |
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| 6/19/26 |  A school year in the life of a teacher, 2025-26 | Ever curious what the school year is like for a teacher? We interviewed DeKalb middle school English as a Second Language teacher Caio Gomes every month to track a school year in his life. Follow his journey on a new Teachers' Lounge podcast! | 1h 47m 13s | ||||||
| 6/5/26 | An Illinois special education educator who teaches because of his experience as a special education student | Teachers' Lounge Podcast✨ | special educationteacher experience+3 | special education educator | — | Illinois | special educationteacher+3 | — | 29m 40s | |
| 5/29/26 | Exploring the underlying purpose of education | Teachers' Lounge Classic✨ | educationcurriculum+3 | Joseph Flynn | Northern Illinois UniversityNorthern Public Radio | — | educationequity+3 | — | 1h 07m 16s | |
| 5/15/26 | The Illinois professor teaching the next generation of journalists | Teachers' Lounge Podcast✨ | journalism educationreporting+3 | Jason | University of Illinois SpringfieldWNIJ | — | journalismeducation+3 | — | 1h 04m 00s | |
| 5/1/26 | The Highland Community College biology teachers uniting Women+ in Science | Teachers' Lounge Podcast✨ | Women in ScienceEducation+3 | — | Highland Community CollegeTeachers' Lounge Podcast | — | Women in ScienceHighland Community College+3 | — | 44m 02s | |
| 4/17/26 | An Illinois Valley teacher making college accessible for all | Teachers' Lounge Podcast✨ | college accessibilityneurodiversity+3 | Tina Hardy | Illinois Valley Community College | — | collegeaccessibility+3 | — | 47m 14s | |
| 4/3/26 | An NIU professor helped urban & suburban students team up to confront education inequality | Teachers’ Lounge podcast✨ | education inequalityhigh school collaboration+3 | — | NIU | suburbscity+3 | educationinequality+5 | — | 1h 04m 44s | |
| 3/20/26 | A Waubonsee professor brings her experience as an immigrant business owner to the classroom | Teachers' Lounge Podcast✨ | immigrant experienceentrepreneurship+3 | Dr. Nour Al-Nabir | Waubonsee | — | immigrantbusiness owner+6 | — | 48m 15s | |
| 3/6/26 |  An Illinois civics teacher showing her students how to take action | Teachers' Lounge Podcast✨ | civics educationstudent activism+3 | — | Teachers' LoungeNorthern Public Radio | Illinois | civicseducation+3 | — | 56m 52s | |
| 2/20/26 | The co-founder of Rockford's Womanspace on her half-century quest to create a comfortable and creative place for women | Teachers' Lounge Podcast✨ | women's empowermentcommunity building+3 | co-founder | Rockford's Womanspace | Rockford | WomanspaceRockford+5 | — | 59m 56s | |
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| 2/6/26 | A Morris teacher who's not afraid to set a standard of excellence | Teachers' Lounge Podcast✨ | educationstandard of excellence+3 | Morris teacher | — | — | Morris teacherstandard of excellence+3 | — | 48m 05s | |
| 1/23/26 | The top Illinois education issues to watch in 2026 | Teachers' Lounge Podcast✨ | education issuesIllinois education+3 | — | Department of Education | Illinois | educationIllinois+4 | — | 1h 05m 34s | |
| 1/9/26 | Meet the student-reporters from Kaneland High School's student-run magazine 'The Kaneland Krier' | Every semester, we feature a new group of "student correspondents." They're students in a club, sport, or activity. We interview them every month and bring you their journey. This fall, we highlighted the reporters and editors at Kaneland High School's student-run magazine "The Kaneland Krier" as they raced against their deadlines. | 22m 33s | ||||||
| 1/2/26 |  Some of our best education stories of 2025 | Teachers' Lounge Podcast | Before we get too far into 2026, let's take one more look back at some of our best education stories we reported in 2025. | 59m 35s | ||||||
| 12/19/25 |  Some of our favorite conversations of 2025 | Teachers' Lounge Podcast | On a new Teachers' Lounge, we're revisiting a few of our favorite education conversations of 2025 as we finish up the year. | 1h 09m 45s | ||||||
| 12/5/25 | An Ottawa teacher helping her special ed students transition to college | Teachers' Lounge Podcast | On a new Teachers’ Lounge Podcast, an Ottawa High School special education teacher helping her students transition to college…from knowing their rights to picking their classes. | 52m 20s | ||||||
| 11/21/25 | How an NIU music educator teaches music like a language | Teachers' Lounge Podcast | On Teachers’ Lounge, it's Ann Montzka Smelser.She's the Director of the Suzuki Strings Program at Northern Illinois University.Ann’s a practitioner of what’s called “the Suzuki method of music learning.” It’s based on the idea that music talent isn’t inherent, it’s something that’s nurtured through positive encouragement. | 54m 27s | ||||||
| 11/7/25 | A Crystal Lake teacher's adventure across Illinois | Teachers' Lounge podcast | On a new Teachers' Lounge, Bob Chikos! He’s a special education teacher at Crystal Lake Central High School.He's involved in education policy at the state level, working on reports about the teacher pipeline and school psychologist shortages.Bob also recently took a fascinating trip around Illinois | 58m 24s | ||||||
| 10/31/25 | The Four Freedoms and Beyond | Teachers' Lounge Classic | We're revisiting our 2022 chat with Princeton middle school social studies teacher David Gray.He and his students worked on a project called “The Four Freedoms & Beyond," based on President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union speech just before the U.S. entered World War II. | 39m 28s | ||||||
| 10/17/25 | An Illinois superintendent says public education is a gift not to take for granted | Teachers' Lounge Podcast | A fateful trip to Haiti showed Vienna superintendent Joshua Stafford why public education is a gift. We also talked about the history of education in America, standardized testing, school safety, and his recent journey to Singapore through the Fulbright program. | 1h 05m 26s | ||||||
| 10/3/25 | An NIU STEM educator explains why so many students misunderstand what science is | Teachers' Lounge Podcast | An Northern Illinois University physics educator knows that all it takes for kids to get excited about science is their natural curiosity about the world around them.“I've compared it to to listening to a song in a language you don't understand. You can you can hear the melody. You can appreciate the beauty. But if you learn that language, then all of a sudden you know what the song is about. You understand the subtext. So, we can appreciate the world around us, just like that song, but it's written in the language of math and science."It’s here on a new Teachers' Lounge! | 1h 08m 28s | ||||||
| 9/19/25 |  A Waubonsee psychology professor on stress, first impressions, and finding your passion | Teachers' Lounge Podcast | On a new Teachers' Lounge, a psychology professor who comes into class every year a little mean to show students how often their first impressions are wrong. We also talk about giving her students tools to de-stress and her own journey into the classroom. | 50m 17s | ||||||
| 9/5/25 | 'The Forgottonia Project' student-led local history initiative asks rural students to get curious | Teachers' Lounge Podcast | Joey Brewer has spent the past two decades teaching history and social studies at rural schools in western Illinois -- the region of the state often known as Forgottonia. | 55m 17s | ||||||
| 8/29/25 |  Human rights, Holocaust education & the spark behind LIGHT | Teachers' Lounge CLASSIC | This week on Teachers' Lounge, we're revisiting our 2022 conversation with the founder of the LIGHT education initiative. It's a project to empower students to become human rights leaders in their community. | 56m 56s | ||||||
| 8/15/25 | Stillman Valley teacher shows the magic of music | Teachers' Lounge Podcast | John Gelasi knows school band can be really meaningful…“Kids tell me, 'the only reason I was able to get up and go to school this morning is because I knew I had band today,'" he said. The award-winning northern Illinois music educator on everything from the magic of learning an instrument to his previous career in actual magic. It's on a new Teachers' Lounge podcast. | 1h 03m 06s | ||||||
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