The 28 Best Education Podcasts for Teachers in 2025

We’re living in the golden age of podcasts, where anyone can find a podcast dedicated to practically any interest, profession, philosophy, or pursuit. Podcasts are an excellent way to immerse yourself in a topic you’re passionate about, with hosts whose opinions and voices you respect and enjoy — including leaders in the education space!

This versatile audio medium offers a way for teachers to pursue professional development without setting aside significant time or even making a lasting commitment. Whether you’re looking for practical classroom management tips, advice from education luminaries, conversations between thoughtful working educators, or simply a few laughs about the daily realities of the classroom, there’s an education podcast out there for you.

Why Listen to Teaching Podcasts?

Teachers are encouraged — and often required — to pursue professional development throughout their career. However, the busy life of a teacher hardly leaves room for extra classes or workshops on top of full workdays, side jobs, and life commitments. Thankfully, there’s plenty of informative, enjoyable professional development content that comes in an easy-listening audio format — what’s not to love?

The following are just some of the reasons teachers love podcasts for professional development:

• They’re convenient and portable: Podcasts offer a convenient and accessible way for teachers to stay informed about the latest research, trends, and best practices in education. When accessed via smartphone, podcasts go wherever you go!
• They offer diverse perspectives: Education podcasts feature a variety of voices, including those of experienced educators, researchers, and experts in niche fields. Listening to different perspectives can broaden our understanding of various teaching methods, learning styles, and student needs, even if we don’t encounter them in our own classrooms.
• They promote efficient learning: Podcasts enable teachers to engage in professional development without the need for a structured time commitment. You can listen to podcasts during your commute, while exercising, on a coffee break, or during other downtime, making it a flexible and time-efficient way to stay informed.
• They’re practical and entertaining: Many education podcasts share practical tips, strategies, and classroom management techniques while making you laugh and think at the same time. You can gain valuable insights and actionable ideas that you can implement in your classroom immediately, while feeling like you’re being seen by your peers (through the good and the challenging parts of teaching).
• They build community: Whether they have large or small followings, podcasts create a sense of community among listeners. By following certain education podcasts and sharing them with colleagues, teachers can feel connected to a larger network of professionals experiencing similar challenges and successes. This sense of community can be motivating and help combat feelings of isolation.
• They provide inspiration and motivation: Education podcasts feature success stories, innovative projects, and inspiring anecdotes from real educators. Hearing about the positive impact teachers can have on students can boost morale and motivation, reminding educators of the importance of their work.
• They stimulate reflection: You can use the insights you gain from your favorite podcasts to reflect on your own practices, question your assumptions, and consider how you might adapt your teaching methods to better meet the needs of your students.
• They make expertise more accessible: Podcasts provide access to experts and thought leaders in education who may not be readily available for in-person workshops or conferences. This democratization of expertise allows teachers, regardless of their location, to benefit from the insights of influential figures in the field.
• They’re low-commitment and bingeable: You won’t like every teaching podcast you encounter — and that’s okay! Since most podcasts are free, you can listen to as many or as few episodes as you want without any commitment.

Best All-Purpose Teaching Podcasts

To get you started on your audio exploration, we’ve rounded up some of the most popular education podcasts out there today, ranked in no particular order. Our picks are organized into categories such as self-care, teaching strategies, and specializations, but you may find a lot of crossover as you start listening.

If you’re looking for an all-purpose teaching podcast to dip your toes into, start with the following titles.

• The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast: This podcast is hosted by Jennifer Gonzalez, educator and creator of the popular web platform of the same name. The Cult of Pedagogy website is known for providing a variety of resources, tools, and insights to help educators enhance their teaching practices. For each episode, Gonzalez interviews educators, students, caregivers, and administrators about the psychological and social dynamics of school, trade secrets, and “other juicy things you’ll never learn in a textbook.”

• This Teacher Life: Inspired by a “terribly” boring professional development experience, teacher Monica Genta created her own platform for teachers to access practical, meaningful, and impactful professional development that sticks. Every week, the six-time author, speaker, and educational consultant publishes a new podcast episode with so-simple-they’re-almost-ridiculous tips for improving the daily classroom experience for teachers and students alike.
• Let’s K12 Better: At the start of COVID-19 lockdowns, Amber Coleman-Mortley sat her kids down at their kitchen table and started a podcast. Together, they tackled the hottest issues K–12 educators and students face today, including civil discourse, reclaiming history lessons, and what it means to be a “geek” in the modern classroom. While the family is no longer producing new episodes, the topics remain as pertinent as ever, and the kids’ perspective provides an extra-relevant lens.
• The Creative Classroom with John Spencer: A major proponent of creativity and project-based learning, professor of education John Spencer brings podcast listeners into his world through well-researched explorations of human learning, thoughtful musings on what it means to be a teacher, interviews with other educators, and more. Many of his episodes are based on his own articles, but he does open the mic up to other voices on occasion.
• The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast: No time to get hooked on a new podcast? No problem! Vicki Davis understands how jam-packed a teacher’s schedule is, so she offers up bite-sized podcast episodes that can be completed in the time it takes to refill your coffee mug. Inspiration, reflection, and commiseration never sounded this fun.

Best Education Podcasts on Teaching Strategies

As a teacher, you never stop learning. The best teachers understand that there is always room to improve your personal practice, and these podcasts provide an opportunity to learn, grow, and even try out some new teaching strategies for yourself.

• The Shake Up Learning Show: Learning coach, speaker, author, and former middle school teacher Kasey Bell produces this weekly podcast all about using technology in the classroom. From incorporating Google Earth into geography lessons to creating lesson templates with Canva, Kasey and her guests offer up a plethora of ideas and inspiration to get your edtech wheels turning.
• Teachers on Fire: Host Tim Cavey interviews fellow educators who are “on fire” in their profession — innovating, experimenting, and learning (and sometimes failing) alongside their students every day in order to become better teachers. Every episode offers practical tips on topics such as managing anxiety, regulating your emotions in the classroom, and fostering excitement for learning. Cavey also maintains a YouTube channel where he posts helpful edtech tutorials for capturing students’ attention and imaginations.
• The Learning Scientists: This education podcast is a little bit different in that it’s produced by scientists, not teachers. In each episode, the hosts examine a different aspect of human learning cognition, with the goal of helping educators, students, caregivers, and administrators identify and develop better teaching and learning habits.

Best Education Podcasts on Self-Care

The job of teaching can sometimes feel relentless. Being “on” at the front of a classroom all day can take its toll if there aren’t strategies in place to mitigate burnout. While there are plenty of self-care podcasts available in the wellness space, these titles cater specifically to teachers, addressing challenges in a way teachers will understand first-hand.

• The Teaching Space: While this podcast is no longer turning out new episodes, the archive is full of thoughtful insights centered around teacher wellbeing and how to approach your work in a way that prioritizes your own health. Because if we can’t show up for ourselves, we can’t show up for our students, right?
• Truth for Teachers: This podcast takes on many topics that go unspoken — how student-centered learning actually manifests in the classroom, which teaching “best practices” might not actually be best for students, and how teaching can change you as a person. Even before social media, host Angela Watson was a true influencer in the education field, offering a safe space for “real talk” between teachers.
• Teachers Off Duty: Many of today’s teachers are, as the kids say, “extremely online,” which means that even someone with no personal connection to K–12 education can get a dose of teaching reality simply by scrolling through their preferred social media platform. Teachers Off Duty brings together TikTok’s favorite teacher content creators under the banner of the “#1 teacher entertainment platform in the world,” Bored Teachers. The podcast provides a platform for real teachers to share stranger-than-fiction tales from the classroom and really let their hair down before it’s time to start back up on Monday.
• Social Studies: In another crossover from social media, teacher-comedians Joe Dombrowski and Gaspare Randazzo pair up to share stories of classroom tribulations, foibles, revelations, and gripes. The subject matter occasionally strays from the educational realm, but if you’re just looking to spend 45 minutes hanging out with two friends who’ve been where you are, Social Studies is pure teacher comfort food.
• Self-Care for Educators: If you don’t even have ten minutes to spare for professional or personal development, this podcast is for you. Host Tina H. Boogren takes listeners on a brief vacation from the classroom to share practical self-care strategies that include breathwork, mindfulness, practicing gratitude, and setting boundaries.

Best STEAM Education Podcasts

STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) and STEAM (+ arts) initiatives remain as important as ever. There’s no shortage of blogs and resources out there providing lesson plan inspiration and guidance for teachers who want to breathe life into their science and math lessons. Rather than focusing on course content, these podcasts instead focus on ways in which teachers can leverage technology and teaching methods to make STEM/STEAM subjects more accessible.

• TeacherCast podcasts: The TeacherCast Educational Network, founded by educational technology specialist Jeff Bradbury, offers three podcasts aimed at helping teachers improve their digital literacy in the classroom. Digital Learning Today offers innovative strategies for incorporating more technology into your teaching practice; Ask the Tech Coach provides an audio huddle for digital learning leaders and edtech specialists; and the Jeff Bradbury Show offers guidance for building your unique educational brand.
• The EdTech Podcast: This podcast doesn’t focus solely on technology — topics include curiosity, inclusivity, lifelong learning, and career readiness, all filtered through the lens of education-centered tech tools. If you’re a teacher using the internet at all in your practice (which you most certainly are), this podcast is a must-listen.
• Mr. Barton Maths: How do you make a podcast about math? By coming at it from a human-first perspective and examining why so many students (and teachers) have an instinctual adverse reaction to the subject. Host Craig Barton is a former math educator and founder of diagnostic educational software company Eedi, so he has a fair bit of personal experience in the subject matter. U.S. listeners should note that Barton is based in the U.K.; while some of the references to the British education system may not resonate, the sentiment behind the content certainly will.
• The Elementary Music Teacher Podcast: Fulfilling the “A” part of STEAM, host and music teacher Jessica Peresta shares strategies for beating burnout, clearing mental blocks, and finding inspiration to get students excited about music. (Spoiler: The podcast is about a lot more than just teaching music.)

Best Education Podcasts on Current Events

Teaching current events is one thing; living them is quite another. These podcasts provide candid insights into what’s happening in, around, and outside the classroom, and how it affects a teacher’s daily reality.

• MindShift: From the Bay Area public broadcasting station KQED, MidShift examines the future of education, and how today’s educational policies, legislation, and social and political movements will impact tomorrow’s classrooms.
• Project 500: An initiative of the Black Educators Matter organization, this podcast centers the experience of Black teachers and their students. The hosts initially set out to share the unique stories of 500 educators, but the podcast has grown into a holistic exploration of what it means to be Black in today’s American classroom.
• Nice White Parents: This podcast had a short run during 2020, but much like its title, it didn’t need much airtime to get right to the point. The five-part series holds a mirror up to well-meaning parents and examines the subtle harm of political correctness when racial equity in schools comes into question. (See also: The Problem We All Live With, Parts 1 & 2, from This American Life.)
• Too Dope Teachers and a Mic: As the only teachers of color in their school, hosts Kevin Adams and Gerardo Muñoz understood the importance of elevating marginalized voices in the world of education. Together, they take on challenging topics such as race, optimism, equity, social politics, and more.
• Schooled: This podcast from National Public Radio can help answer the question, “Is this happening to anyone else?” Schooled provides boots-on-the-ground dispatches from Pennsylvania’s public school system, where more government dollars are spent per student than in any other U.S. state. The podcast aims to get to the bottom of why those funds aren’t working, and what needs to happen to make lasting positive change.
• Teaching While Queer: In the era of Black Lives Matter protests, anti-LGBTQIA+ legislation, and divisive political alignment, it’s more important than ever for students and teachers alike to feel seen, safe, and accepted simply for who they are. Teaching While Queer (now a nonprofit) features educators discussing the importance of visibility and what it’s like to show up authentically for themselves and their students every day.

Best Podcasts for School Leaders

These podcasts step out of the classroom and into the administrative wing, where principals, curriculum directors, and other school leaders share their zoomed-out view of modern education.

• The Empowered Principal: Certified Life Coach Angela Kelly Robeck helps school leaders harness their knowledge to get sustainable results in their schools and practice enjoying their positions.
• Black, Brown & Bilingüe: Hosted by two school administrators from the Chicago area, BBB (as it’s known) seeks to “unite the Black and Brown communities through education, storytelling, and community engagement” by affirming the experiences of educators and students who share parts of their respective cultural identities. BBB also offers professional development resources on topics such as culturally responsive leadership.
• Speaking with Students: Social studies and media production teacher Will Andresen turns the mic toward the reason we’re all here — the students themselves! While not explicitly geared toward school administrators, this podcast is nonetheless a valuable resource for educational leaders to tap into when they need a reminder of who they’re making decisions for.
• Leading Equity: The concept of equity remains widely misunderstood in schools. Featuring the voices of educators from a broad range of educational experiences, this podcast aims to provide practical tools for school leaders to promote and build upon equity in their schools.
• Better Leaders Better Schools: Touted as the “most downloaded podcast in educational leadership,” each episode features a different school leader discussing what works for them, what doesn’t, and what they see for the future of educational leadership with host Danny Bauer.

We hope these podcasts offer valuable teaching insights, perhaps delivered in a way you haven’t heard before! As teachers, it’s our job to ensure we’re building our personal bank of knowledge to best serve our students and colleagues — and, most importantly, to ensure we’re in the right healthy mindset to continue bringing our A-game to the classroom. Happy listening from the University of San Diego Division of Professional and Continuing Education!