Teaching Python

By Sean Tibor and Kelly Paredes

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Welcome to "Teaching Python Podcast,” the go-to podcast for anyone interested in the intersection of education and coding. Hosted by Kelly Paredes and Sean Tibor, this podcast dives into the thrills and challenges of teaching computer science through the engaging and versatile Python programming language. About the Hosts: Kelly Paredes brings a wealth of global experience in curriculum design and currently inspires sixth and eighth graders at Pine Crest School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Celebrating her seventh year of integrating Python into her teaching, Kelly has a knack for making complex concepts accessible and exciting. Sean Tibor, a Cloud, Infrastructure, and Networks leader at Pfizer, draws from a rich background that spans marketing, database design, and digital agency leadership. Having taught Python to seventh and eighth graders at Pine Crest School, Sean now extends his expertise by supporting interns and tutoring students in Python. Explore with Us: * Engaging Lessons: Discover how we make Python programming both fun and accessible for young learners, equipping them with the skills to tackle real-world problems. * Classroom Insights: Experience our journey through both triumphs and trials in the classroom, and learn what it takes to foster a vibrant learning environment. * Expert Interviews: Gain valuable perspectives from interviews with fellow educators and industry experts, who share their top strategies and success stories in coding education.

Episode Date
Episode 154: Are You Techie Enough?
Mar 03, 2026
Episode 153: 2025 Holiday Gift Guide
Dec 14, 2025
Episode 152: High School CS with Quincy Tennyson
Nov 26, 2025
Episode 151: AI in Practice: Learning from Law & Beyond with Pritesh Patel
Sep 29, 2025
Episode 150: LLMs with Simon WIllison
Aug 28, 2025
Episode 149: Guiding Education with Sheena O'Connell
Jul 15, 2025
Episode 148: PyCon 2025 AI Education Open Space
Jun 08, 2025
Episode 147: The Power of Teaching APIs
Mar 24, 2025
Episode 146: PSF Education Outreach Workgroup and the Education Summit
Jan 21, 2025
Episode 145: The Bigger Picture of Teaching Python
Jan 13, 2025
Episode 144: Python in Africa with Kudzayi Bamhare
Jan 06, 2025
Episode 143: Computational Thinking 2.0 with Dr. John Chapin
Dec 30, 2024
Episode 142: Middle School Magic: Integrating AI, Data Science, and Computational Thinking with Kelly Powers
Dec 22, 2024
Episode 141: Unlocking Python Expertise with Trey Hunner
Dec 14, 2024
Episode 140: Girls Programming Network with Renee Noble
Dec 01, 2024
Episode 139: Code Your Dreams with Brianne Caplan
Nov 24, 2024
Episode 138: Innovative Coding Education with Pamela Fox
Sep 30, 2024
Episode 137: Lifelong Learning with Kelsey Hightower
Aug 18, 2024
Episode 136: Learning Python with Dr. Chuck
Aug 11, 2024
Episode 135: Python for Lawyers
Jul 08, 2024
Episode 134: Interview with Jay Miller
Jul 01, 2024
Episode 133: Live from PyCon 2024
Jun 12, 2024
Episode 132: Getting Non-Coding Teachers into CS
May 28, 2024
Episode 131: Lightning Talks
May 15, 2024
Episode 130: Coding is Dead?
Apr 28, 2024
Episode 129: Quickbite: Live Coding and Codealongs
Mar 29, 2024
Episode 128: From Blocks to Code with PickCode
Mar 24, 2024
Episode 127: Setting Goals
Mar 02, 2024
Episode 126: Projects and Portfolios
Feb 19, 2024
Episode 125: Microlearning
Feb 05, 2024
Episode 124: Motivated with Coding in the World of AI
Jan 14, 2024
Episode 123: Five Year Anniversary
Jan 02, 2024
Episode 122: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Dec 16, 2023
Episode 121: The Board of Knowledge
Nov 24, 2023
Episode 120: Quick Bites: Failing
Nov 08, 2023
Episode 119: Quick Bites: Constructivism and Coding
Oct 24, 2023
Episode 118: Quick Bites: Testing Student Code
Oct 21, 2023
Episode 117: Intermediate Python With Yasoob Khalid
Oct 11, 2023
Episode 116: NLP with Ines Montani
Sep 09, 2023
Episode 115: DroneBlocks with Dennis Baldwin
Aug 24, 2023
Episode 114: The EduBlocks Evolution and Josh Lowe
Aug 06, 2023
Episode 113: ChatGPT and Studying Teachers
Jul 31, 2023
Episode 112: Dash, Plotly, and Learning
Jul 14, 2023
Episode 111: Generative AI with Eric Matthes
Jul 01, 2023
Episode 110: CircuitPython with Kattni Rembor
Jun 23, 2023
Episode 109: What We Did on Our Podcast Sabbatical
May 30, 2023
Episode 108: Hardware for Learning
Mar 12, 2023
Episode 107: AI In The Middle School with Dr. Nisha Talagala
Mar 05, 2023
Episode 106: Interview with Al Sweigart
Feb 23, 2023
Episode 105: PyCon Education Summit!
Feb 08, 2023
Episode 104: What We're Reading
Jan 24, 2023
Episode 103: ChatGPT and Learning
Jan 05, 2023
Episode 102: The Learner Variability Project
Dec 24, 2022
Episode 101: 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
Dec 11, 2022
Episode 100: Celebrating Motivation (with @mkennedy & @brianokken)
Nov 05, 2022
Episode 99: LIVE: The Art of Searching It Up
Oct 28, 2022
Episode 98: Robotics with RobotLab
Oct 20, 2022
Episode 97: Beyond Computer Science Classrooms
Sep 19, 2022
Episode 96: Decoupling Grading
Sep 03, 2022
Episode 95: Managing Your Teacher Workload
Aug 22, 2022
Episode 94: Anaconda in Education
Aug 01, 2022
Episode 93: Mission Encodeable
Jul 20, 2022
Episode 92: Let's Talk Teaching
Jul 13, 2022
Episode 91: The New Beta Python Micro:bit Editor
May 31, 2022
Episode 90: Equitable Learning
May 12, 2022
PyConUS 2022 Debrief!
May 01, 2022
Episode 89: FinTech Careers
Apr 20, 2022
Episode 88: Data Science Careers
Apr 05, 2022
Episode 87: Cybersecurity Careers
Mar 23, 2022
Episode 86: Thinking Globally
Mar 07, 2022
Episode 85: Teaching the Basics with Requests
Feb 16, 2022
Episode 84: Global Computer Science with Will Richardson
Jan 31, 2022
Episode 83: 2021 Year in Review (or something)
Jan 17, 2022
Episode 82: Helping Kids Navigate the Online World with Richard Culatta
Jan 03, 2022
Episode 81: Holiday Gift Guide
Dec 13, 2021
Episode 80: Reaching for the Stars with Dr. Becky Smethurst
Nov 29, 2021
Episode 79: Working with Student Data
Nov 18, 2021
Episode 78: Python Hardware in the Classroom
Nov 03, 2021
Episode 77: The Power of Bots in the Computer Science Classroom
Oct 15, 2021
Episode 76: Current Teaching Experiments
Sep 28, 2021
Episode 75: Lunch with Kelly & Sean
Sep 09, 2021
Episode 74: Bringing CS Standards to Life
Aug 06, 2021
Episode 73: Designing Curriculum with Quinten Sheriff
Jul 23, 2021
Episode 72: Catching Up
Jul 06, 2021
Episode 71: Summer Professional Development with John Mikton
Jun 21, 2021
Episode 70: Teaching with Visual Studio Code
Jun 08, 2021
Episode 69: Teaching with PyCharm Edu
May 26, 2021
Episode 68: Learning How To Learn with Barbara Oakley
May 18, 2021
Episode 67: Mu Editor: Part 1 of the Education IDE Series
May 11, 2021
Episode 66: Designing Projects with Python Libraries
May 04, 2021
Episode 65: Our Favorite Python Libraries
Apr 14, 2021
Episode 64: Rubrics & Assessments
Mar 31, 2021
Episode 63: Community Teaching With Discord
Mar 12, 2021
Episode 62: The New Normal
Mar 03, 2021
Episode 61: Object-Oriented Thinking
Feb 15, 2021
Episode 60: Shooting the "Stuff"
Jan 29, 2021
Episode 59: Crossover with PyBites!
Jan 22, 2021
Episode 58: Figure It Out
Jan 12, 2021
Episode 57: Holiday Gift Guide for Techy Kids
Dec 10, 2020
Episode 56: AI and Machine Learning for Kids with Dale Lane (@dalelane)
Dec 01, 2020
Episode 55: Unfiltered Friday Conversations
Nov 14, 2020
Episode 54: Making Projects Happen with Eric Matthes (@ehmatthes)
Nov 10, 2020
Episode 53: Developing for Mobile, the Web, and Desktop with Russell Keith-Magee ( @freakboy3742 )
Oct 27, 2020
Episode 52: Teaching the Full Stack with Ali Spittel (@alispittel)
Oct 20, 2020
Episode 51: Engaging Your Students With The Right Language Featuring @jolson_codes
Oct 08, 2020
Episode 50: Teaching Robotics With Python
Sep 30, 2020
Episode 49: Python Tutor with Philip Guo
Sep 22, 2020
Episode 48: What We Are Using in 2020 To Teach Python
Sep 15, 2020
Episode 47: Deconstructing the List Lesson
Sep 01, 2020
Episode 46: Musings About A Very Different School Year
Aug 28, 2020
Episode 45: The Lost Episode
Aug 16, 2020
Episode 44: Communicating With Video For Effective Learning
Apr 27, 2020
Episode 43: Writing Content for Asynchronous Learning with David Amos
Apr 14, 2020
Episode 42: Teaching Resilience and Building Equity with Elena Aguilar
Apr 06, 2020
Episode 41: Pythonic Parenting With The Shaw Family
Apr 01, 2020
Episode 40: A New Way of Teaching
Mar 28, 2020
Episode 39: Livestreaming about Distance Learning
Mar 20, 2020
Episode 38: Fun with the Arcade Library and Paul Craven
Mar 02, 2020
Episode 37: What Happens Behind The Scenes While Teaching Python
Feb 03, 2020
Episode 36: An Interview with Peter Chan, 4th Grade Teacher
Jan 12, 2020
Episode 35: Not Just Coders
Dec 18, 2019
Episode 34: Bonus: Holiday Buying Guide
Nov 28, 2019
Episode 33: Interview with Eric Matthes
Nov 25, 2019
Episode 32: Teaching Python With TwilioQuest
Nov 20, 2019
Episode 31: The School of 2024
Nov 11, 2019
Episode 30: Teaching Adult Learners
Nov 05, 2019
Episode 29: Non-Traditional Python Education
Oct 28, 2019
Episode 28: 10 Things We Wish We Knew
Oct 20, 2019
Episode 27: Automate the Boring Teaching Stuff
Oct 04, 2019
Episode 26: Building Lessons and Planning the Curriculum
Sep 03, 2019
Episode 25: The Best Editors and IDEs for Teaching Python
Jul 17, 2019
Episode 24: Avoiding the Summer Slide (For Teachers)
Jun 27, 2019
Episode 23: Being Reflective: A Year of Learning, Teaching, and Python
Jun 20, 2019
Episode 22: Talking About Teaching With Meg Ray
Jun 20, 2019
Episode 21: Agriculture and AI with FarmFemmes
May 28, 2019
Episode 20: Building Your Python PLN (Personal Learning Network)
May 18, 2019
Episode 19: No Longer PyCon Newbies
May 05, 2019
Episode 18: Mini-Episode: Pre-PyCon Top 5
Apr 24, 2019
Episode 17: Abstraction and Analytical Thinking
Apr 22, 2019
Episode 16: When Philosophy and Python COLLIDE! - Part 2
Apr 02, 2019
Episode 15: When Philosophy and Python COLLIDE! - Part 1
Mar 20, 2019
Episode 14: Innovation In An Innovative Field
Mar 07, 2019
Episode 13: Block-based Python with Josh Lowe
Mar 02, 2019
Episode 12: Intercontinental Python with Bob and Julian from PyBites
Feb 21, 2019
Episode 11: Signs of True Learning
Feb 14, 2019
Episode 10: Teaching with Python Turtle
Feb 04, 2019
Episode 9: Python For Future Engineers
Jan 29, 2019
Episode 8: Persistence in Python
Jan 21, 2019
Episode 7: Teaching with the BBC micro:bit
Jan 15, 2019
Episode 6: Gaining a Deeper Understanding of Python With Coding Challenges
Jan 10, 2019
Episode 5: Building Resilience
Dec 31, 2018
Episode 4: Top Python Books For Teachers
Dec 24, 2018
Episode 3: Anticipating the Click and Flow
Dec 17, 2018
Episode 2: The First Week of Python
Dec 10, 2018
Episode 1: Hello World
Dec 05, 2018