Updated Guest Guidelines (Aug 2020)

Interested in being a guest on Two Pint PLC? Are you a researcher with work that should inform classroom practice? Are you an educator who wants to contribute to the PLC? Here are our 2020 revised guidelines for hosting guests on the show.

Scheduling Guests

Guests appear on Two Pint PLC periodically and segments will be interspersed throughout our monthly schedule. We welcome researchers, teachers, and education-related content creators – anyone with a professional investment in education.

Generally, our scheduling process works thusly:

1. You express actionable interest in appearing on the show. We enter your name onto the list of possible future guests and request a topic.
2. You provide a topic of discussion and a month during which you’d like to discuss it. We share the current state of the queue and make the show notes available to you. At this point you are “booked”!
3. We reserve your chosen month, complete the show notes over time, and the preparation is finished.
4. We tape the show in the afternoon of your chosen date.
   • We prefer remote taping arrangements for the foreseeable future. We record via Zencastr, and interact via a Microsoft Teams web conference. Both links will be provided via the show notes.

Participation for Guest Hosts

When hosts join the discussion on Two Pint PLC, the conceit of their appearance is they are bringing a topic important to them and a perspective to share on that topic. The show has three segments, and here is how you could fit into each of those:

• You provide the topic (and potentially the citation) for the first segment. We join in the discussion you have seeded.
  • The literature must be of excellent quality (we are modeling professional discourse, after all). Quality considerations will be made in the following categories:
    • Recency: Must be from this year or last, and the newer the better.
    • Generality: The show’s audience is all teachers, so any topic benefits from having generalizable messages.
    • Diversity: Inclusion of literature from all parts of the world is desirable.
    • Quality: The work should speak to our classroom philosophy to promote thoughtful reflection, and perhaps a change in practice.
  • The literature should be sourced from the best professional writers.
    • Research: Peer-reviewed publications
    • Current Events: Reputable journalistic sources
      • Broad circulation
      • Established reputation of integrity
• We provide the topic and citation for the second segment. We all enter this conversation equally.
  • I will follow the same literature guidelines above.
• The third segment is more brief than the first two, and the format changes depending on current events.
  • There may be reading required, but not always. This is more informal, often includes news or listener comments, and only requires a small amount of preparation.

Miscellaneous Questions from Guests

• We can drink a beer of your choosing, you can drink something we choose, or you can drink something different from us (alcoholic or non-). We have a firm “drink what you want” policy.
• We will request that you provide a picture to include in the episode cover collage. The photo will have some branding requests, and you can see how they look from past guests.
• Note: The show is produced, and is not intended to present in a “live” format. Our general goal is that the show not take more than a full day of your time. Adequate preparation can be completed in the morning of the taping day, taping typically produces 1.5 – 2.5 hours of raw tape, and the final product is not allowed to exceed 45 minutes (although you have no responsibilities in the editing process). You can prepare more if you wish, but it is not an expectation.