Sep 22, 2026 · 10 min · 8 segments
In the fifth episode of the fourth season, we learn about a teacher's first year at a new school, although she has been teaching for many years. In this episode, hosts Natalie Bennett and Ella…
Jill MeshwertGuest
Ella SprinkleHost
Natalie BennettHost
The University of Madison, Wisconsin says that studying the diversity of human experience helps us appreciate cultures, ideas, and traditions that are not our own and to recognize them as meaningful products of specific times and places.
If you could take your students on a time travel field trip to help them learn about another culture or historical event, where would you pick and why?
I think that I would pick the time right before the American Revolution, the colonial times, because I think that all of the events that led like the Boston Tea Party and the the quartering, all of those things help us as Americans to understand the spirit of independence and why that occurred, but also the freedoms that our country has today.
So I think in order for students to have a better understanding of why it's important to be involved in politics and understanding of America, I think that that would be a really interesting place to go.
the one that has been the most rewarding, those first seven years that I was at Burbank High School in South Sacramento, it taught me a lot about myself.
Being able to provide safe space for students to learn and to take risks with their learning and give them a place to go when they knew that they were cared for for that particular time and helping students recognize their own success and their own potential and overcoming challenges regardless of what's happening outside of the classroom.
The University of Madison, Wisconsin says that studying the diversity of human experience helps us appreciate cultures, ideas, and traditions that are not our own and to recognize them as meaningful products of specific times and places.
If you could take your students on a time travel field trip to help them learn about another culture or historical event, where would you pick and why?
I think that I would pick the time right before the American Revolution, the colonial times, because I think that all of the events that led like the Boston Tea Party and the the quartering, all of those things help us as Americans to understand the spirit of independence and why that occurred, but also the freedoms that our country has today.
So I think in order for students to have a better understanding of why it's important to be involved in politics and understanding of America, I think that that would be a really interesting place to go.
the one that has been the most rewarding, those first seven years that I was at Burbank High School in South Sacramento, it taught me a lot about myself.
Being able to provide safe space for students to learn and to take risks with their learning and give them a place to go when they knew that they were cared for for that particular time and helping students recognize their own success and their own potential and overcoming challenges regardless of what's happening outside of the classroom.
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