KTC #9: Don’t Forget How Often You’ve Been Wrong

The ninth episode of “Kicking the Copier”—and the first of 2024!—is centered around the value of reflecting on our own past “mistakes” as teachers: practices and mindsets that existed in previous versions of our teaching that we no longer believe are the best for our students.

This isn’t about being hard on ourselves—growth is a part of this work! Rather, Marcus makes the argument in this episode that reflecting on how we have previously changed as teachers can allow us to remain humble in the present moment and also open-minded towards different perspectives and future growth.

The work of teaching is always ongoing, after all—never about a fixed destination. And thinking about past versions of ourselves as teachers and how we’ve changed since then is important to not lose sight of where we need to go moving forward.

As always, thanks to: Alberto Lugo, one of Jim’s former students, for contributing their music to The Broken Copier podcast and also Tom Csatari for allowing us to use his band’s recording of “Woodstock” from their 2020 album, Garden; and Courtney Milavec for graphic design.

• Find Tom’s work at uncivilizedtom.com, and on Instagram @banduncivilized.

• Find Alberto’s work at djsynchro.weebly.com, and on Instagram @djsynchro. 

• Email thoughts to thebrokencopier@substack.com or leave feedback at fanlist.com/brokencopier.

Thanks for listening, and take care of yourselves!