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About Trevor Mattea
Trevor Mattea is the second and third grade teacher at Cascade Canyon School, an independent school in Marin County focused on relationships and the whole child. He previously taught at High Tech Elementary Chula Vista, a project-based school in San Diego, and Stevenson PACT Elementary School, a progressive school with parent participation in Silicon Valley. For the past four years, Trevor has consulted throughout the country to support teachers and administrators with deeper learning, digital portfolios, project-based learning, parent engagement, and technology integration. He is also the host of the New Books in Education podcast as well as the former director of Imagineerz Learning, a Bay Area summer camp integrating social-emotional learning with making and design thinking. As an educator, his interests include supporting student-directed learning, fostering community, and sharing high-quality student work outside the classroom. He is a Google Certified Educator and Trainer and was recognized as the Silicon Valley CUE Outstanding Emerging Teacher in 2015. He holds an M.A. in Education from Stanford University and an A.B. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis.NBN Episodes hosted by Trevor:
November 30, 2020
Digital Divisions
In this episode, I speak with Matt Rafalow, about his book, Digital Divisions: How Schools Create Inequality in the Tech Era (University of Chicago Pr…
September 15, 2020
Critical Thinking
In this episode, I speak with fellow New Books in Education host, Jonathan Haber, about his book, Critical Thinking (The MIT Press, 2020). This book …
September 9, 2020
Excluded by Choice
In this episode, I speak with Federico R. Waitoller about his book, Excluded by Choice: Urban Students with Disabilities in the Education Marketplace …
April 28, 2020
Finding America's Greatest Champion
In this episode, I speak with Terry Iverson about his book, Finding America's Greatest Champion: Building Prosperity Through Manufacturing, Mentoring …
June 25, 2018
Community Literacies en Confianza
In this episode, I speak with Steven Alvarez about his book, Community Literacies en Confianza: Learning From Bilingual After-School Programs (Nationa…
May 11, 2018
Nurturing Young Innovators
In this episode, I speak with Laura McLaughlin Taddei and Stephanie Smith Budhai about their book, Nurturing Young Innovators: Cultivating Creativity …
April 12, 2017
Teach Like Finland
In this episode, I speak with Tim Walker, the author of Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms (W. W. Norton & Company, 20…
March 21, 2017
Pat Farenga on John Holt's "Freedom and Beyond" (HoltGWS LLC, 2017)
In this episode, I speak with Pat Farenga about the new edition of John Holt's Freedom and Beyond (HoltGWS LLC, 2017). This book offers a broad critiq…
January 13, 2017
Restore the Respect
In this episode, I speak with Ondine Gross, the author of Restore the Respect: How to Mediate School Conflicts and Keep Students Learning (Brookes, 20…
January 11, 2017
What I Didn't Know
In this episode, I speak with Lee Gutkind, the editor of What I Didn't Know: True Stories of Becoming a Teacher (In Fact Books, 2016). His book shares…
January 9, 2017
Starting from Scratch
In this episode, I speak with Steven Levy, the author of Starting from Scratch: One Classroom Builds Its Own Curriculum (Heinemann, 1996). His book sh…
January 7, 2017
It's OK to Go Up the Slide
In this episode, I speak with Heather Shumaker, the author of It's OK to Go Up the Slide: Renegade Rules for Raising Confident and Creative Kids (Tarc…
January 5, 2017
Classroom Management in the Digital Age
In this episode, I speak with Heather Dowd, the author of Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Sp…
October 27, 2016
Teacher
Anyone who has spent time in a school as an adult probably knows how hard it is for teachers to leave their work when they come home every night. Ther…
October 18, 2016
Substitute
Parents often wonder what their children do at school all day. How different is it from what they remember years ago? Teachers often hear similar ques…
October 10, 2016
Confessions of a Bad Teacher
As you spend more time working in one role, organization, or field, it can become easy to lose perspective on how your work is similar or different fr…
October 7, 2016
The Way of Mindful Education
Time and resources are scarce for many teachers. Often times, these same teachers are under immense pressure to produce higher test scores and severel…
September 26, 2016
Education Nation
It feels like schools are in the midst of unprecedented change -- sometimes more in different places and sometimes more in different ways. Many people…
September 13, 2016
The Innovator's Mindset
One of the most commonly used words right now in education is "innovation." It seems to be part of any response to our collective anxiety over the fac…
September 7, 2016
A Curriculum of Fear
It can be tempting to generalize certain attributes of schools as either being good or bad. Magnet and charter schools are often characterized as bein…
August 29, 2016
#EdJourney
Whatever your role -- teacher, principal, or superintendent -- when you work in a school system, you experience tensions between your reasons for goin…
August 26, 2016
Digital Student Portfolios
Most of the time, school performance is not like performance in other arenas. In music, we want people to play something for us. In sports, we want pe…
August 24, 2016
Learning that Lasts
The school structures we present to teachers can sometimes resemble two extremes. In the first set of circumstances, teachers have enormous autonomy o…
May 18, 2016
The Bus Kids
Many of us are familiar with the court-mandated bussing programs created in an effort to achieve school desegregation in the 1960s and 1970s. Far fewe…