Teachers' Lounge

Our podcast Teachers’ Lounge is on the radio! We’ve got all of the interviews with Illinois teachers and education stories you love -- along with exclusive segments -- in a monthly, hour-long show on WNIJ on the last Friday of each month at 11 a.m. You can also listen right here, right now!

On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast -- we’re live from an ACTUAL teachers’ lounge at North Grove Elementary School talking to teachers about how the pandemic has changed them.We recorded these conversations on video, as well, so you can go over to our WNIJ Facebook and Instagram RIGHT NOW and check those out. You can watch the full interviews on our WNIJ YouTube channel

On a new Teachers' Lounge podcast, a school librarian on media literacy, technology, censorship and more.

Before the New Year, we're reflecting on a few of our favorite Teachers' Lounge conversations from 2022.

Revisit some of the best education reporting from Teachers' Lounge this year.

As we wind down 2022, we take a look back at three of our favorite conversations with educators this year.

On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast, Rheon is an educator who writes children’s books based on his experience as a school counselor. But those social emotional lessons? They’re not just for kids! We talk about his Dizz Wizz book series AND how writing books about fathers and sons has changed him as a father.

On a new Teachers' Lounge, we’re jumping in a Time Machine on route to the 1940s. We’ll hear about Illinois students who learned in one-room schoolhouses AND how students now are revisiting President Roosevelt’s 1941 “Four Freedoms” speech.

On a new Teachers’ Lounge, David Gray! He’s a social studies teacher at Logan Jr. High in Princeton, Illinois.

One-room schoolhouses, coal mines, watermelon seed spitting contests, and a traveling bookmobile. That’s all on a new Teachers’ Lounge!