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The Broken Copier What Has This School Year Taught Us?Over time, school years can fold into each other, in a way, with each eventually becoming indistinguishable from the next. This is why the goal of this episode, quite simply, is to pause before the month of November comes to a close and ask a simple question: What has this school year taught us so far?For this reflective conversation, we invited on one of our favorites: Adrian Neibauer, a 5th grade teacher who writes weekly about his own classroom with his Substack, Adrian’s Newsletter. Along with listening to Adrian and Marcus sh...

2025-11-2657 min

The Broken Copier The Heaviness of TeachingThis is a conversation between two teachers who noticed the same thing early into this school year: it feels heavier than usual.After Adrian Neibauer wrote a piece in his newsletter around this idea, he joined The Broken Copier to reflect collaboratively with Marcus about how the school year is going, what is creating the “heaviness” they both are feeling, and moving forward what a lighter, more-hopeful path could look like for their respective classrooms.Links to follow-up with Adrian’s work:* “The Redress of Teaching” (mentioned many times in this conversation)* Adrian...

2025-09-2657 min

The Broken Copier Adrian and Marcus: Talking TeachingWith the help of several really thoughtful questions from listener and readers—including some from those about to go into the classroom for the first time this upcoming school year!—Adrian Neibauer and Marcus had a chance to reflect on their own perspective as teachers and offer advice on several different topics:* How to establish systems in the classroom, what to do if they aren’t working—and what to do if you feel like the systems in your school building don’t align with your own philosophy of what is best for your students?* Navigating...

2025-07-101h 13

The Broken Copier Let's Talk About TestingRecently, Adrian Neibauer wrote a reflective piece about his experience with standardized testing that began with these words: I’m a hypocrite.In today’s episode of The Broken Copier, he shares more about the conversation with his own children that resulted in these words—along with the myriad, contradictory feelings he has about testing in this current moment. Also: how do you feel as a teacher when it comes to standardized testing? Feel free to answer in the Substack comments or, if you’re inspired, to leave an audio message via Fanlist that we may resp...

2025-04-241h 01

The Broken Copier "Is 100% Engagement a Myth?" with Adrian NeibauerThe idea of “100% engagement” is a loaded one in education, particularly when it comes to the expectations and implications for the classroom. Adrian Neibauer tackled this idea with conviction but more importantly humility in a recent post on his Substack called “The Scary Teacher”—and he was generous enough to hop back on The Broken Copier to expand on this reflection and discuss his views on the idea of “100% engagement” more broadly, particularly when it comes to how teachers should move in their classrooms.For more of Adrian’s writing, check out Adrian’s Newsletter. Plus, a few other resource...

2025-03-0554 min

The Broken Copier "Becoming an Everyday Changemaker" with Alex Shevrin Venet and Adrian NeibauerAfter their months-long, slow-read journey through Becoming an Everyday Changemaker, Adrian Neibauer joined Marcus in this episode to talk with the author, Alex Shevrin Venet, about this transformative book she has written for educators. In this conversation, Alex shares her intentions behind the book and responds to both Adrian and Marcus’s questions at end of their respective reading journeys through it. To learn more about Alex’s work, you’re encouraged to check out her website www.unconditionallearning.org—and if you’re interested in this book we’ve spent so much time with, here’s a link of wher...

2025-01-0548 min

Teachers on Fire DESIGN THINKING in the English Classroom with ADRIAN NEIBAUER🔥 What does it mean to create a classroom of abundance? 🔥 How can we make multiple iterations of work an integral part of our learning culture? 🔥 How can we build strong relationships with our students at the start of the school year? Join me for this conversation with ADRIAN NEIBAUER as he shares his insights on these and other critical leadership questions. About This Guest: Adrian is a public school educator in Colorado with 20+ years of experience in helping students find their voices. His elementary classes rely on design thinking as a process for creativity and innovation. Forever a student of teaching...

2024-09-2138 min

The Broken Copier "Falling in Love with Teaching—Again" with Adrian NeibauerAfter a great conversation at the beginning of summer about what the 5th grade classroom is like, Adrian Neibauer was generous enough to return to the podcast to share about the mindset he is taking into this school year and the incredible community that is already building in his classroom.In this conversation, Marcus asks him about the choices he made in preparing over the summer and especially in the opening weeks of his school year—and then they dive into some deeper questions about the idea of “loving teaching” more broadly. Two pieces by Adrian...

2024-09-1249 min

The Broken Copier "What the 5th Grade Classroom Feels Like" with Adrian NeibauerMarcus finally gets a chance to talk with Adrian Neibauer, a 5th grade teacher who just finished his 21st year of teaching and also happens to be the author of Adrian’s Newsletter—probably Marcus’s favorite weekly read on teaching out there.In this conversation, Adrian reflects on his path into the elementary classroom; what it was like to leave the classroom for a different role and then return with a new perspective; and what his classroom looks and feels like at this point in his career. Towards the end, Marcus also asks him about some points...

2024-06-1558 min

The Broken Copier We're Done Talking About BreakWelcome to 2024! As many of us are in a moment of reflection & adjustment, we were finally able to sit down & reconnect for this latest episode. We continue to be grateful for your support, especially since our recording schedule has become a little sparse in 2023–but we assume our audience of educators can understand a busy schedule, so thanks for sticking with us! Thanks to Adrian Neibauer Colorado for sending in a great audio clip from Colorado! Adrian helps us reconnect to the college conversation we had in October. We spend most of the episode responding to Adrian, as well as...

2024-01-0745 min

Teachers on Fire How to OVERCOME the FALL ENERGY SLUMP: Top Posts on Education X This WeekWelcome to Saturday Morning Teacher Talk, airing LIVE on YouTube every Saturday morning at 8:30 Pacific and 11:30 Eastern! Join the conversation and add your comments to the broadcast. MAKING NEWS on X THIS WEEK: What advice would you give a new teacher feeling that late-fall energy slump? (from Teacher 2 Teacher) Annick Rauch, full-time teacher and author of PheMOMenal Teacher, shares why she pushed herself to go for a run after 11 hours of report card writing. Tyler Rablin questions the need for tests or big assessments at the end of units that measure learning against a handful of standards at once. Tom...

2023-11-0420 min

5 Questions for Interesting People 5 Questions for Interesting People #1: Adrian NeibauerIn the very first episode of 5 Questions for Interesting People, I’m joined by Adrian Neibauer, a public school teacher from Colorado. In answering the five questions I have for him, Adrian talks about place, family, and teaching as a way of making his “drop in the bucket” a meaningful one.You can check out (and I highly recommend you do) Adrian’s absolutely gorgeous website at:https://adrian-neibauer.com/There you can learn more about him and contact him. He also has a Substack of his own in the works atAdrian’s Newsletter...

2023-06-3023 min