Ep. 99: Top Five Teacher As… Episodes/ Upcoming 100th Episode!
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Transcript:
Melissa Milner 0:09
Welcome to another Teacher As... minisode. I do want to apologize for the quality of my voice. Once again, I am having some kind of laryngitis thing going on. I'm feeling fine though. So sorry about that. I'm taking a short pause from my Teacher As Filmmaker minisodes for the winter break, and I'll start them back up again in January.
In this minisode, I want to reflect on the episodes that have been most popular to celebrate my upcoming 100th episode that's coming up next week with Penelope Pelizzon. When I say most popular, I mean that these episodes received the most downloads. In other words, the most people listening. Out of the top five episodes, the top four were math chats that I had with Ann Elise Record and Dr. Nicki Newton. The fifth was my episode Zooming In on Summer Break... more about that later.
These math episodes with Dr. Nicki and Ann Elise are great for elementary and middle school math teachers, as well as math coaches, or math curriculum coordinators. These episodes started out as a collaborative draft of top 10 whatever the topic was, so top 10 math manipulatives, top 10 math games. Eventually we decided to drop the draft part with the vetoes and all that and just have the math experts share their topics. Top 10 Math Routines, which was published in February of 2021, was the first of these collaborative math episodes and it has the most downloads of all of my episodes since I started in July of 2020.
The episode with the next highest downloads is Top 10 Math Manipulatives, which was in July of 2021. The third most popular chat was Top 10 Ways to Get Students Problem Solving and that was an April of 2022. Meaningful Math Games was the last episode we just recently did in March of 2023, and it's the fourth most popular Teacher As... episode. On this Thanksgiving weekend, I want to share how thankful I am for Dr. Nicki Newton and Ann Elise Record's support of The Teacher As... Podcast and continually taking time out of their busy schedules to record their mathematical brilliance for all to hear. The popularity of these four episodes is in large part due to Ann Elise Record promoting the episodes in her email newsletters and social media posts, as well as the fact that they both have many followers who tune in to hear them. So, thank you again.
The fifth most popular episode was a solo episode just by me Zooming In on Summer Break from June 2022. It was a 16 minute episode in which I did a few things. I had clips from Anna Przybylsky, reminding us to take it easy on ourselves. She's a quirky Instagram content creator, who just makes me... just makes me laugh. I reflected on my short third season and why I was proud of it even though there were less episodes. I spoke about my upcoming knee replacement surgery and how the season is short because I needed to prep my, new at the time, podcast Ponzinomics 101 with Robert FitzPatrick before I went into surgery. The Teacher As... episode with Robert, by the way, about multi-level marketing and why it should be avoided, was very popular as well and Robert and I decided to team up to do a podcast to share his valuable knowledge. In this summer break episode, I share some short audio clips from the first three episodes of Ponzinomics 101. I'm not sure why this episode receives so many downloads. It might have been the MLM topic, but I'm very proud of it.
I'm going to list some more of the popular episodes that received a good number of downloads. Ways to Make Read Alouds More Dynamic in May 2023 and that was just me. Zooming In on Staying Positive with Birch Meadow Staff from November 2021 and that was me and a lot of my Birch Meadow colleagues. Zooming In on the Journey with Youth Runner Michael Studer in October of 2022 was a popular one that was just me and Michael chatting. Zooming In on MLMs with Robert Fitzpatrick in 2022, like I mentioned. My three part series about podcasting with students from 2021 did receive a lot of downloads, and Teacher as Extreme Cleaning Specialist. This was an early episode. This was with Matt Paxton from Hoarders, and that was in 2020. That was right in the heat of the pandemic. And again, he's best known for Hoarders and that was a great episode. I'll put the links to all of the episodes that I've mentioned on my minisode page on theteacheras.com, so you don't have to search for each one of these episodes. So, when you go to theteacheras.com, you can go into podcasts, you want to look up the minisode Top Five Popular Episodes and in that minisode page, you'll find all these links.
It's crazy to look back at all my episodes, whether they received a lot of downloads or not, whether I was just starting my podcast journey, and the sound was horrible. I'm proud of all of them. I'm also thankful to all my guests, some friends, some family, and some who were complete strangers who I reached out to, and they were so generous with their time and expertise. Thank you all. Lastly, um, thank you to all my listeners. There are some of you that I don't even know. Please reach out to me to be on the podcast if you're an educator with something to say. Go to theteacheras.com and use the Contact Us page or email me at melissa@theteacheras.com. Thanks for listening.
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