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3 Ps in a Pod: An Education Podcast

Dec 1, 2022

Today, we welcome author and Minnesota’s 2014 Teacher of the Year Tom Rademacher to the podcast. 

Hosts Donnie and Kathleen talk with Rademacher about his two loves of teaching and writing. His books, It Won’t Be Easy, An Exceedingly Honest (and Slightly Unprofessional) Love Letter to Teaching and Raising Ollie:...


Nov 10, 2022

This week of Veterans Day, we’re revisiting an episode from November 11, 2020, when hosts Angelia and Danielle welcomed Dr. Nancy Pratt to 3Ps in a Pod to share about her military experience and how that has carried into her education career.

Then the Director of Instruction and Innovation at Cave Creek Unified School...


Nov 3, 2022

One year ago, the Arizona Department of Education and Northern Arizona University came together to announce the creation of the Arizona Teacher Residency. Housed within the Arizona K12 Center, the Arizona Teacher Residency now has its first cohort of residents working in the classrooms of supervising teachers in Osborn,...


Oct 27, 2022

Just three days after being named the 2023 Arizona Teacher of the Year, chemistry teacher Ty White joined us for a conversation about what brought him into teaching, how he approaches his practice, and about receiving this exciting honor. 

3Ps in a Pod host Josh Meibos welcomes Ty White to the podcast, who talks through...


Oct 20, 2022

Arizona has been in a teacher shortage for years, and today we explore this issue with Dr. Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and expert on the K-12 teaching force, about what he sees as the foundational issues of this shortage and what steps may help us move forward.

Ingersoll is...