Reach Every Student with Jon Bergmann.

Do Oral Assessments Really Work? A Skeptic’s Hardest Questions, Answered Honestly

Episode 98: grade weight, rubrics, recordings, and scale, including the answers I don’t have yet.

Nov 2 • Jon Bergmann

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October 2026

They Got the Right Answer. They Didn’t Understand Why.

Episode 97, what an oral assessment caught that my tests missed, and one podcast I think you should hear.

Oct 26 • Jon Bergmann

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If You Can’t Defend It, You Don’t Get Credit

Episode 96, my conversation with Vicki Davis, the Cool Cat Teacher, on oral assessments, AI-written work, and why AI only magnifies what students…

Oct 19 • Jon Bergmann

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Stretched Thin, and the Human Moments That Kept Me Going

Episode 95 — a tired week, a few unexpected connections, and what happened when I asked for help.

Oct 12 • Jon Bergmann

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Why "Being Flawed" Is Now a Job Skill in the AI Era

Episode 94 |My conversation with entrepreneur and educator Don Wettrick — on why a perfect, AI-written email might be costing you the deal.

Oct 5 • Jon Bergmann

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September 2026

My Students Stopped Saying 'I Didn't Prepare'

Episode 93 — what changed in round two of the Summative Mastery Vivas, and the first Mastery Flip course just launched in Spanish

Sep 28 • Jon Bergmann

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Tony Wagner's Eighth Survival Skill for the AI Era | Ep 92

My conversation with Tony Wagner — what he added to his own 30-year-old framework, and what happened when I told him about Mastery Vivas for the first…

Sep 21 • Jon Bergmann

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A Harvard Researcher Landed on the Same Answer I Did | Ep 91

Her one-sentence rule for teaching in the AI era — and why it's much harder to actually live by than it sounds.

Sep 14 • Jon Bergmann

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18 Kids Took Me 55 Minutes. I Know Some of You Have 30. #90

My first real summative oral assessments — what worked, what didn't, and the one part I still won't hand off to AI.

Sep 8 • Jon Bergmann

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August 2026

An MIT Report Just Echoed What I've Been Building #89

My conversation with Justin Reich — and the story out of Buenos Aires that shows exactly why.

Aug 31 • Jon Bergmann

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They have Sabbaticals – I have August

MIT's faculty got a report. I got a plan that survives a bell schedule.

Aug 26 • Jon Bergmann

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Selfie Videos, Friday Emails, and a Level-4 Trick for My Mastery Vivas #88

Two relationship-building habits, a fix for my Viva timing problem, and why a new 26,000-student study out of China has me thinking harder about how I…

Aug 24 • Jon Bergmann

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