About BRN

BAM Radio was born in 2007 by early childhood professionals and began with a single online radio program called Body Mind and Child. The aim was to bring parents the latest insights from the leading experts in the fields of child development and the neurosciences.

From BAM Radio to BRN

We soon found that teachers, principals, and school leaders were also tuning in to the program and telling us they found many of the segments relevant and very helpful. We listened, and at the end of 2008, we began expanding the programming to serve a broader slice of the education community.

Through collaboration with the nation’s top education organizations, including  NAEYC, AASA, ASCD, NAESP, ISTE, and Education Week, BAM Radio eventually became the BAM Radio Network and grew into the largest all-education radio website in the world. With over two million monthly visitors, our sole purpose remained the same — amplify the voices of the nation’s leading education experts, advocates, journalists, and passionate classroom teachers.

In 2023 we changed the name to BRN to better encompass the 5,000 plus education podcasts we’ve hosted and produced over the last decade.

A Global Listening Platform

For seventeen years, BAM Radio Network has listened to educators, amplified your voices, and shared what works in education.  We recently realized that we’ve become something we hadn’t intended, a global listening platform.

Today BRN is a trusted place where educators from the US Secretary of Education to the UNICEF Global Director of Education and educators from K-12 to higher ed have come to openly voice their thoughts on every twist and turn the education community has taken over the last 17 years. BRN has become a repository for the evolving attitudes, interests, and concerns educators hold about the many initiatives that have come and gone over the past decade and a half.

Simply said, BRN is a primary source for a rich, diverse, nuanced understanding of the education community. A place where emerging trends surface weeks, months, and at times, years before they surface in the mainstream.  A source to access the kind of invaluable insights one gets by listening to educators daily with no agenda but to hear.

Our commitment continues!

 

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