More than just a podcast:

We give teachers the inspiration, support, and tools to challenge the status quo no matter where they are in their teaching journey.

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BRAVE NEW TEACHING.

WELL, HELLO, AND WELCOME TO BRAVE NEW TEACHING!

Teaching shouldn't be a frantic search for "what to do tomorrow" - it should be a deliberate, sustainable practice.

We’re Marie & Amanda, and we’ve been teaching in real classrooms with real students for over 30 years combined (and we’ve been podcasting about it since 2020). In all that time, we’ve learned a lot of lessons and one continues to ring true time and time again - TEACHERS NEED ACTUAL SUPPORT, NOT MORE “STUFF.”

We designed Brave New Teaching University to curate years of strategies and best practices into a streamlined professional development curriculum.

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You asked. We listened.

We built a complete professional learning hub for building sustainable, engaging ELA instruction.
BNTU is the entire Brave New Teaching catalog re-organized and built to serve teachers - find what you’re looking for AND what you need *fast*.
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Listeners of the podcast, never fear! You’re still getting the weekly conversations, classroom strategies, and honest teacher talk.
Expert guest interviews.
Practical teaching strategies.
Real talk about modern classrooms.
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BNT UNIVERSITY

In order to better support our teacher community, we’ve organized everything inside BNTU into three focused departments so you can start exactly where you need support.

Stop drowning in planning. Build a sustainable machine.

Wake them up. Make learning rigorous and active.

Get them reading again - without all the struggle.

Take our "Placement Exam" to see which BNTU department will help you MOST right now!

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We Didn’t Create More

We Organized Better

Brave New Teaching has always been about helping secondary ELA teachers work smarter, not harder.

But as our library of resources grew, one thing became clear:

Teachers don’t just need more strategies. They need structure & real support.

So we did the hard work behind the scenes — auditing, reorganizing, and rebuilding our entire ecosystem around what teachers actually need in real classrooms.

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THE RESTRUCTURE: BRAVE NEW TEACHING UNIVERSITY

A fully organized professional learning hub designed to solve the three biggest pressure points in modern ELA teaching:

Sustainable planning systems
Authentic student engagement
Meaningful modern literacy

This isn’t more content.

It’s the right content, finally in the right place.

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WHERE ARE DOWN WITH THE READING QUIZ & flat shakespeare?

We still have all of our signature resources like Down With the Reading Quiz (our masterclass for when you’re done playing “gotcha” games with your students and need some new inspiration for formative assessment), Flat Shakespeare (he’ll become your students’ new best friend), and even our lesson for Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (such a fun way to start a unit on dystopia)… You’ll find them all in the 100-level (FREE) courses in BNTU!

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Our Mission

Here at Brave New Teaching, our goal is to reach and support as many educators as possible. We have a vision for the future of education — a future that challenges students through inquiry and keeps teachers feeling inspired instead of burned out. Every episode recorded, resource created, and masterclass taught by Amanda & Marie is designed to do just this: make a teacher’s life joy-filled and refreshingly challenged.

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COUNTRIES SERVED BY BNT

The Brave New Teaching podcast is downloaded in over ten countries serving teachers all the way from Australia to Austria.

30+

Years of combined wisdom

Between both Amanda & Marie, each episode features their combined experience as seasoned classroom educators.

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Join the hundreds of thousands of teachers who have listened, learned, and transformed their teaching one episode at a time.

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The Brave New Teaching Podcast is hands-down the most inspirational teacher podcast out there! I am in my 20th year of teaching and Amanda and Marie have reenergized my passion, drive, and creativity! EVERY time I listen, I walk away with a nugget that has helped transform my teaching in some way! This podcast is — the BEST!

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Jump in headfirst with us.

Teaching has never been an easy job and we know first-hand that the work of an educator is only getting more and more stressful, complex, and overwhelming. We want to be by your side as you navigate the ever-changing landscape of education and be your biggest cheerleaders as you take on new approaches and challenge yourself, your admin, your fellow teachers, and your students to grow and do better when we know better.

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The course catalog is A LOT, but there’s no pressure - enroll for free, take the “Placement Exam,” and start wherever suits you best!

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listen to our most loved episode

It’s the most downloaded for a reason - everyone loves a truly candid conversation about Essential Questions! BUT BE WARNED: you will get hooked!!

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