Podcasting and Empowering Our Students’ Voices

John Arthur, 6th Grade Teacher 
Holladay, Utah
Twitter: @9thEvermore

Is it really safe to take our masks off in school? To answer this difficult question, John Arthur’s sixth-grade students produced an episode for the podcast City Cast Salt Lake, posing their most pressing COVID-related questions directly to Dr. Angela Dunn, Utah’s state epidemiologist throughout the pandemic. In this video, John Arthur shares the writing assignments, recording tools, and podcasting tips he learned along the way so you can empower your students and civically engage them through podcasting too! 

John Arthur is the 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year and 2021 National Teacher of the Year Finalist. He is a National Board Certified Teacher, a Utah Teacher Fellow with the Hope Street Group, and an adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Education at Westminster College. 

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