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| Better Book Clubs In and Beyond the Classroom with Sara Kugler and Grace Choi | 23 May 2023 | 00:43:00 | |
In her comprehensive guide, Better Book Clubs: Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation, literacy coach and staff developer Sara Kugler shows you how to combine the power of book clubs with assessment-driven instruction to support your students as they talk and think about texts together. Using authentic book club conversations as an assessment of academic talk and text understanding, Kugler raises the bar on typical professional discussions about book clubs, moving beyond teacher-directed interactions and surface-level conversations to include:
With a dual focus on stronger comprehension and improved conversations, Better Book Clubs will help you establish effective book clubs that will engage your readers, enhance your learning communities, and become an indispensable component of your literacy classroom.
Better Book Clubs: Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation
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| Talking About Race in the Elementary Classroom: Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr | 16 May 2023 | 00:16:23 | |
In this episode of Teacher’s Corner, we tune into a conversation between Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr, authors of We’re Gonna Keep On Talking: How To Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Elementary Classroom. They discuss how they chose the book’s title, productive strategies for talking about race with young children, and what readers can expect in their new book. LINKS
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| What Does Teacher Appreciation Look Like? | 04 May 2021 | 00:24:45 | |
Originally broadcast in 2020. Paula Bourque, Matthew Kay, and Terry Thompson discuss the myth of the perfect teacher, what we get wrong—and right—about teacher appreciation, and how we can show appreciation year round. Links: Paula Bourque: Matthew Kay: Terry Thompson: | |||
| Equity, Access, Book Choice, and Student Connection | 20 Apr 2021 | 00:29:58 | |
Rebroadcast: Gravity Goldberg and Renée Houser, creators of the Teachers Toolkit for Independent Reading share their experiences and questions about helping kids access books and teachers, and what’s important as they look to the fall. LINKS! The Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading: https://www.stenhouse.com/1400.asp https://www.gravityandrenee.com https://www.drgravitygoldberg.com https://www.readwritethinkwithrenee.com @DrGravityG @ReneeDHouser | |||
| Text Sets in Action: Stories from the Classroom | 17 Mar 2021 | 00:34:53 | |
In the upcoming Text Sets in Action: Pathways through Content Area Literacy, Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes demonstrate how text sets can prompt serious thinking more effectively than any single text. Teachers who adopt this approach find that the texts’ various lenses enable students not only to meet curriculum standards but also to experience engagement and encourage inquiry across the disciplines. In this podcast, Mary Ann and Erika share their background and the origin and definition of a text set, what educators will learn from their new book, and are joined by Lorraine Leddy, a classroom teacher from New York, for an in-depth discussion about her experience collaborating with them to introduce text sets in her third grade classroom and the benefits of a text sets approach in curriculum design. LINKS Pre-order Text Sets in Action: Pathways through Content Area Literacy Keep up with Mary Ann and Erika www.teachingwithtradebooks.com | |||
| Building Skills to Navigate a Complex World | 05 Feb 2021 | 00:42:41 | |
What can we teach kids today that will have utility ten or fifteen years from now? Angela Kohnen and Wendy Saul propose an approach to information literacy that goes beyond the teaching of discrete, easily outdated skills. Instead, they use activity to help students build identities as curious individuals empowered to ask their own questions and able to navigate their information-filled world in pursuit of credible answers.
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| Sneak Peek at Building Fact Fluency for Multiplication and Division | 22 Jan 2021 | 00:47:46 | |
Graham Fletcher and Tracy Zager share a sneak peek of upcoming Building Fact Fluency Toolkit for Multiplication and Division and discuss the purpose and challenge of creating intriguing and accessible contexts for students. LINKS Want to be the first to know about Graham's new Toolkit? Building Fact Fluency; A Toolkit for Addition and Subtraction Building Fact Fluency Community Facebook Group Graham Fletcher: Tracy Zager: | |||
| Behind the Scenes of Why Do I Have to Read This? | 17 Dec 2020 | 00:47:15 | |
Cris Tovani teams up with her instructional coach/editor/friend Samantha Bennett for an engaging, often funny, always insightful discussion of their long relationship and the stories behind her new book, Why Do I Have to Read This? Literacy Strategies to Engage Our Most Reluctant Students. Don't miss it! | |||
| Expressing Gratitude in 2020: 5 Perspectives | 20 Nov 2020 | 00:41:12 | |
When we set about creating today’s episode, we knew we wanted to explore the idea of gratitude with several authors. What we could not have anticipated is how thoughtful and gracious they were. In our first segment, we speak with Lisa Lucas about what we experience physiologically when we express gratitude and how we can incorporate gratitude into our classroom and daily lives. Next, Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser discuss how gratitude is embedded in their teaching and its role within a growth mindset. In our last two segments, Jeff Anderson and Whitney La Rocca, each share how the changes forced by the pandemic provided unexpected gifts. LINKS Lisa Lucas: Twitter Gravity Goldberg Twitter Renee Houser Twitter Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading Jeff Anderson Twitter Whitney La Rocca Twitter | |||
| Streamline Your Instruction with The Literacy Workshop | 06 Nov 2020 | 00:41:09 | |
If reading and writing go hand in hand, wouldn’t it make sense to merge your reading and writing workshops occasionally? What would that even look like? And how would students respond? In this episode, authors Maria Walther and Karen Biggs-Tucker (The Literacy Workshop: Where Reading and Writing Converge) describe literacy workshop, how it looks in primary and intermediate classrooms, and how the streamlined nature of literacy workshop lends itself well to online and hybrid teaching.
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| Building a Curious and Playful Early Childhood Math Community | 20 Oct 2020 | 00:35:00 | |
Toni Cameron and Deanna McLennan in conversation with Stenhouse’s Kassia Omohundro Wedekind about creating a supportive, curious, and playful environment for mathematics in early childhood classrooms, the importance of stepping back to listen, and (of course!) what this all looks like these days. LINKS Deanna's Twitter | |||
| Graham Fletcher: Building Fact Fluency | 09 Sep 2020 | 00:50:33 | |
In Building Fact Fluency: A Toolkit for Addition and Subtraction, Graham Fletcher helps students learn their math facts by developing conceptual understanding and procedural fluency at the same time. This comprehensive, research-based toolkit provides everything a teacher needs to help students develop number sense on the way to fluency—from cards, games, and videos to online resources, a facilitator’s guide, and hundreds of highly-engaging activities and tasks. This episode of Teacher’s Corner revisits Graham's and editor Tracy Johnston Zager's discussion in 2019 while the Toolkit was in development. LINKS: Building Fact Fluency: A Toolkit for Addition and Subtraction | |||
| Conferring Across Math and Literacy with Gina Picha, Maria Walther, and Karen Biggs-Tucker | 02 May 2023 | 00:34:31 | |
Whether its literacy or math, the goal of conferring with students is to understand student thinking and support their learning in the moment, nudging them forward through brief, informal conversations. Today’s podcast features Gina Picha, author of Conferring in the Math Classroom, and Maria Walther and Karen Biggs-Tucker, co-authors of The Literacy Workshop, in discussion with Stenhouse’s Sarah Haynes-Dietzen about where conferring in math overlaps with conferring in literacy, as well as where the two diverge.
Conferring in the Math Classroom
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| J. Richard Gentry: Brain Words | 25 Aug 2020 | 00:08:01 | |
According to the NAEP, two thirds of American school children read below grade level proficiency. Some cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists argue that this is because of the gap between what we know about the science of reading and how reading is taught in the classroom. In their recent book, Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs Teaching, Richard Gentry and Gene Ouellete explain the latest research and theory on lexical representation and its relation to rapid and accurate word reading, a necessary skill to mastering literacy. In this episode, Dr. Gentry briefly explains brain words and how parents can understand their connection to their children’s reading development. Links: | |||
| Math Instruction in the Age of COVID-19 | 14 Aug 2020 | 00:39:05 | |
As we begin a new school year, Amanda Jansen and Chris Luzniak share their experiences teaching during the pandemic, how communication with students and colleagues has changed, and the challenges and opportunities presented in moving math discussion from the classroom to Zoom sessions. L I N K S : Mandy @MandyMathEd Rough Draft Math: Revising to Learn Chris @CLuzniak https://clopendebate.wordpress.com https://www.luzniak.com Up for Debate: Exploring Math Through Argument Flipgrid Kahoot | |||
| Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math | 28 Jul 2020 | 00:43:58 | |
Kassia Omohundro Wedekind, and Christy Hermann Thompson, have spent years comparing notes on how to build effective classroom communities across the content areas. Their research led to the development of Hands Down Conversations, an innovative discourse structure in which all students’ ideas and voices take the lead while teachers focus on listening and facilitating. That structure is detailed in their new book, Hands Down Speak Out: Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math, K-5. In today’s episode, Kassia and Christy share their thinking behind their book and the importance of investing time developing dialogue skills to deepen understanding of literacy and mathematics, and also of ourselves and our world. There’s loads of thoughtful and engaging talk here today, starting with Kassia sharing how she and Christy became friends. ----------------------------------------------------------------Links: Hands Down, Speak Out: https://www.stenhouse.com/content/hands-down-speak-out You can find Kassia and Christy online at https://handsdownspeakout.wordpress.com Twitter: @kassiaowedekind & @TeacherThomp Transcript available at our blog: https://blog.stenhouse.com/podcast-listening-and-talking-across-literacy-and-math
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| Using Book Choice to Build a Caring Classroom Community | 10 Jul 2020 | 00:30:49 | |
What if we viewed every read aloud as an invitation to learn more about literacy and ourselves? That’s the opportunity presented in JoEllen McCarthy’s new book, Layers of Learning: Using Read-Alouds to Connect Literacy and Caring Conversations. Earlier this summer, JoEllen joined us to talk about her new book, how to think differently about your classroom library, and offered several great choices of heartprint books. Layers of Learning: https://www.stenhouse.com/1291.asphttps://www.stenhouse.com/content/layers-learning JoEllen McCarthy: @JoEllenMcCarthy Book links available at the Stenhouse Blog. | |||
| Equity, Access, Book Choice and Student Connection | 24 Jun 2020 | 00:29:38 | |
Gravity Goldberg and Renée Houser, creators of the Teachers Toolkit for Independent Reading share their experiences and questions about helping kids access books and teachers, and what’s important as they look to the fall. LINKS! The Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading: https://www.stenhouse.com/1400.asp https://www.gravityandrenee.com https://www.drgravitygoldberg.com https://www.readwritethinkwithrenee.com @DrGravityG @ReneeDHouser | |||
| Building Skills to Navigate a Complex World | 18 Jun 2020 | 00:42:41 | |
What can we teach kids today that will have utility ten or fifteen years from now? Angela Kohnen and Wendy Saul propose an approach to information literacy that goes beyond the teaching of discrete, easily outdated skills. Instead, they use activity to help students build identities as curious individuals empowered to ask their own questions and able to navigate their information-filled world in pursuit of credible answers.
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| Open Middle ® Math with Robert Kaplinsky | 29 May 2020 | 00:19:47 | |
Imagine that you assign a math problem and your students, instead of getting discouraged after not solving it on the first attempt, start working harder—as if on a quest to figure out the answer. What could possibly make this fantastic scenario come true? The answer is: Open Middle ® Math by Robert Kaplinsky. With these practical and intuitive strategies, extensive resources, and Robert’s own stories about his journey learning to use Open Middle math problems successfully, you will be able to support, challenge, and motivate all your students. Today’s Teachers Corner features Robert reading the Introduction and Chapter 1 of Open Middle ® Math: Problems that Unlock Student Thinking, Grades 6-12. Links: https://www.stenhouse.com/1174.asp https://www.RobertKaplinsky.com Twitter: @RobertKaplinsky
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| What Does Teacher Appreciation Look Like? | 08 May 2020 | 00:24:31 | |
Paula Bourque, Matthew Kay, and Terry Thompson discuss the myth of the perfect teacher, what we get wrong—and right—about teacher appreciation, and how we can show appreciation year round. Links: Paula Bourque: Matthew Kay: Terry Thompson: | |||
| Read Aloud: The CAFE Book with Gail Boushey and Allison Behne | 04 May 2020 | 00:15:15 | |
For the past ten years, Gail and Allison have worked with hundreds of teachers and students nationwide, gaining insight into best practices for reading instruction. Using those insights, they developed The CAFE Book, Expanded Second Edition: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction to help teachers apply what their research has shown— that reading instruction isn't about the setting, the basal, or the book level. Effective reading instruction is based on what that students needs in that moment. Today's podcast features Gail and Allison reading aloud from The CAFE Book: Gail reads the Letter to Colleagues and splits the duties with Allison on the Introduction. https://www.stenhouse.com/1279.asp @TheDailyCafe | |||
| Lisa Lucas: Responding Instead of Reacting | 24 Apr 2020 | 00:33:56 | |
We discuss reframing our thinking, Lisa shares her 4 C’s and leads Nate in the Presence Pause, a simple and effective technique to ground and transition yourself and your students. Do it with us!
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Twitter: @DrLisaJLucas | |||
| A Peek Behind the Cover of We’re Gonna Keep On Talking with Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr | 17 Apr 2023 | 00:16:36 | |
What should conversations about race look and sound like in the elementary classroom? How do we respond authentically and truthfully to children’s questions about the world? And how can we build classroom communities that encourage these meaningful conversations about race? Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr take on these questions and more in We’re Gonna Keep On Talking: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Elementary Classroom. A companion work to Kay’s Not Light, But Fire, this book focuses on the unique and powerful role discussions about race can play in the elementary classroom. In this episode, Matt and Jen share a peek at We’re Gonna Keep On Talking with a reading of the Introduction.
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Follow Matt and Jen on Twitter: Matt: https://twitter.com/MattRKay Jen: https://twitter.com/jenorr
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| 1:1 Teaching Strategies for the Online Classroom with Diana Neebe and Jen Roberts | 17 Apr 2020 | 00:48:16 | |
With the sudden change to online learning, teachers have been asked to adapt to a mode that they may not be comfortable with or have the necessary training and support to thrive. Our guests today are educators Diana Neebe and Jen Roberts, co-authors of Power Up! Making the Shift to 1:1 Teaching and Learning, which provides a framework for reshaping a traditional classroom into a student-centered, technology-rich environment. Their work is especially relevant today, and we're excited to share their thinking in this conversation with Stenhouse's publisher, Dan Tobin. Links! Diana Neebe: https://www.diananeebe.com / @DNeebe Jen Roberts: https://www.litandtech.com / @JenRoberts1 Power Up! : https://www.stenhouse.com/1013.asp Companion Website: https://www.pluginpowerup.com Chapter 9: https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/5618249/PDFs%20and%20Downloads/PowerUpCh8.pdf
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| Simple Self-Care Strategies for Teachers with Dr. Lisa Lucas | 13 Apr 2020 | 00:12:41 | |
A couple of years ago we talked with Dr. Lisa Lucas about her then-new book, Practicing Presence: Simple Self-Care Strategies for Teachers. At the time, we talked about how to work with the sometimes overwhelming level of stress that educators face. Today, that seems an even bigger challenge and Lisa’s work is even more needed than it was before, so we're rebroadcasting Lisa's episode, originally aired in 2018. Links: Lisa's Website: https://www.practicingpresence.life Facebook: Paths to Mindful Teaching Twitter: @DrLisaJLucas
Practicing Presence: Simple Self Care Strategies for Teachers is available at Stenhouse Lisa has a wonderful website, it’s practicingpresence.life , which contains her extensive podcasts and blog entries. You can also catch her on Facebook as paths to mindful teaching and on twitter @DrLisaJLucas | |||
| Rick Wormeli | 03 Apr 2020 | 00:58:23 | |
If the playbook for grading and assessment went out the window a couple of weeks ago, what do we do in its place? Rick Wormeli, National Board Certified Teacher and author of Fair Isn't Always Equal, talked with Stenhouse’s Faye LaCasse about what matters most in student assessment. Several times throughout the conversation, Rick and Faye refer to his AMLE webinar "COVID 19: Assessment and Grading Concerns During Remote Learning" which you can sign up for at https://www.amle.com . Follow Rick at https://www.rickwormeli.com and @rickwormeli2. | |||
| Whitney La Rocca | 27 Mar 2020 | 00:35:53 | |
Stenhouse's Faye LaCasse talks to educator, author, and parent Whitney La Rocca about how she is adjusting to remote learning, social distancing, and homeschooling—all while trying to stay positive and connected, but also giving herself permission to lament her pre-COVID routine. | |||
| Matthew R. Kay: Not Light, But Fire | 13 Mar 2020 | 00:16:20 | |
Do you feel prepared to initiate and facilitate meaningful, productive dialogues about race in your classroom? Are you looking for practical strategies to engage with your students? Matthew Kay has spent his career learning how to lead students through the most difficult race conversations. Kay not only makes the case that high school classrooms are one of the best places to have those conversations, but he also offers a method for getting them right. | |||
| Shawna Coppola and Trevor Bryan | 27 Feb 2020 | 00:37:08 | |
We recently had the opportunity to put Shawna Coppola (Writing, Redefined) and Trevor Bryan (The Art of Comprehension) together in person, and instead of us interviewing them, we decided to step back and capture a discussion between them. What resulted was a great conversation about how their individual experiences complement one another, the role of visual arts in communication, and the importance of exploration and inquiry to engage students. | |||
| Amy Stewart: Close Reading in the Primary Grades | 13 Feb 2020 | 00:39:43 | |
Reading aloud from her new book Little Readers, Big Thinkers, Amy Stewart shows how close reading can teach even the youngest students new ways to enjoy texts, think about them critically, and share that thinking with peers and adults. | |||
| Katie Egan Cunningham | 31 Jan 2020 | 00:44:20 | |
Children come to school to become better readers, writers, and thinkers, but they also walk into classrooms hoping to be happy. In her new book START WITH JOY, Katie Egan Cunningham argues that happiness must be as much of a priority in teaching as proficiency or achievement. This episode of Teacher’s Corner features Katie’s conversation with Stenhouse’s Faye LaCasse, taped on location in downtown Baltimore, MD. Start With Joy: Designing LIteracy Learning for Student Happiness is available at stenhouse.com . Check out Katie's site www.katieegancunningham.com | |||
| Jennifer Fletcher | 16 Jan 2020 | 00:14:52 | |
If you’ve ever heard students ask in your English class “When am I ever going to need this again?” Jennifer Fletcher has just the answer. Teaching Literature Rhetorically helps your students develop transferable literacy skills that allow them to succeed not just in their English language arts classes, but, more importantly, their future lives in college, career, and beyond. | |||
| Gail Boushey and Allison Behne | 03 Jan 2020 | 00:30:42 | |
Gail and Allison share how their insights gained from working with hundreds of teachers and students informed the new edition of The CAFE Book. Check out TheDailyCAFE.com for even more great teaching.
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| Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman: Welcome to Writing Workshop | 20 May 2022 | 00:48:38 | |
Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman in discussion with Stenhouse’s Bill Varner. Stacey and Lynne are veteran writers and educators, and together co-authored the recent book Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today’s Students with a Model That Works. As you’d expect, today is all things writing workshop, including structure, small group instruction, and the role of teacher as writer— plus we'll learn about Jump Into Writing their new writing workshop curriculum with Zaner-Bloser. LINKS Follow Stacey at: Follow Lynne at | |||
| Jeff Anderson and Whitney La Rocca on Patterns of Power | 19 Dec 2019 | 00:20:17 | |
Jeff Anderson and Whitney La Rocca sat down with us recently to answer questions that came in from Patterns of Power Facebook Community members. If you already use these resources for your grammar instruction, you might learn some helpful, new tips. And if you’re less familiar with Jeff and Whitney’s work—listen in to find how you can use it to bridge the gap between your reading and writing instruction. | |||
| Kassia Wedekind and Allison Hintz | 06 Dec 2019 | 00:34:54 | |
Kassia Wedekind and Allison Hintz share what they’ve learned from a recent project they worked on together about the importance of listening in the classroom. They’ll share their stories, their research, tips and tools to help your students become better listeners, as well as ways teachers can become better listeners too. | |||
| The Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading | 11 Nov 2019 | 00:42:32 | |
Longtime friends and colleagues Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser reflect on the journey that led them to create the Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, a comprehensive collection of resources for grades 3, 4, and 5 that will give teachers everything they need to confer with confidence.
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| Graham Fletcher and Tracy Zager | 04 Nov 2019 | 00:49:50 | |
Our latest episode of Teacher's Corner features a fantastic conversation between Graham Fletcher and Tracy Zager about the development of the Fact Fluency Toolkit, available in 2020. | |||
| Trevor Bryan: The Art of Comprehension | 16 Oct 2019 | 00:11:41 | |
Today’s Teachers Corner features Trevor reading the Introduction from The Art of Comprehension. In The Art of Comprehension, Trevor introduces his signature method for enhancing students’ understanding and thinking about all texts—both written and visual. By using what he calls “access lenses” (such as faces, body language, sound/silence) you can prompt all your students to become active explorers and meaning-makers, which in turn can make your classroom more student-centered. To learn more, check out The Art of Comprehension at https://www.stenhouse.com/1168.asp | |||
| Teachers' Corner | 28 Sep 2019 | 00:25:19 | |
Using number talks in your math instruction will not only create number sense, but also transform how a teacher teaches and a student learns. This episode features Ruth Parker and Cathy Humphreys sharing how what they learned about writing Making Number Talk Matter and Digging Deeper can help you in your math instruction. | |||
| Mentoring New Teachers, Episode 6 | 24 Sep 2018 | 00:28:45 | |
Welcome to the final episode of this season of our Mentoring New Teachers podcast! In this episode, I offer Laura some advice about how to incorporate strategies for helping her students learn and retain sight words into her instructional routine. As many teachers who work with our youngest students know, it can be enormously difficult to balance phonics work and word play with opportunities to listen to and read connected text--not to mention everything else that teachers must juggle within what often seems like a few short hours! Because this is our final “formal” conversation for the podcast, Laura and I also reflect on this unique experience and the many ways in which it has impacted our work as educators.
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| Mentoring New Teachers, Episode 5 | 21 Sep 2018 | 00:26:25 | |
| Mentoring New Teachers, Episode 4 | 19 Sep 2018 | 00:35:25 | |
Laura shares how her mid-year literacy assessments led her to conclude that she needs to invest more time in helping her kindergarten students to practice decoding and encoding words. We discuss how to do this by modifying some of what she already does with her students, and I also suggest some ways to incorporate additional multisensory work with letters and sounds to help students create even more neural pathways in the brain than they’ve already created over the past several months. Finally, I share with Laura some common missteps that many teachers make--myself included!--when working to help students become more independent readers and writers. A tip: you may want to listen to this episode in small chunks--there’s a lot to absorb!
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| Terry Thompson, Paula Bourque, Matt Kay, and Brett Eberly | 18 Sep 2018 | 01:43:23 | |
In our premiere episode, Terry Thompson, Paula Bourque, Brett Eberly, and Matthew R. Kay discuss how they prepare their classrooms for success at the start of the school year. | |||
| What Does Teacher Appreciation Look Like? | 02 May 2022 | 00:24:30 | |
Paula Bourque, Matthew Kay, and Terry Thompson discuss the myth of the perfect teacher, what we get wrong—and right—about teacher appreciation, and how we can show appreciation year round. Original Airdate 2020. Links: Paula Bourque: Matthew Kay: Terry Thompson: | |||
| Mentoring New Teachers, Episode 3 | 02 May 2018 | 00:26:45 | |
| Simple Self-Care Strategies for Teachers with Lisa Lucas | 13 Apr 2018 | 00:10:58 | |
All of us feel overwhelmed at times, and research shows educators especially are stressed-out these days. So, how do you deal with it? Better yet, how do you rise above it? In this episode, we talk with Lisa Lucas, teacher-educator and author of the new book Practicing Presence: Simple Self-Care Strategies for Teachers about the stress teachers face today, her experience with "overwhelm", and why you may not want to begin your research in the self-help section of the book store.
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| Mentoring New Teachers, Episode 2 | 30 Mar 2018 | 00:20:11 | |
"We talk about social/emotional skills as being these so-called 'soft skills,' which drives me up a wall because they certainly are not soft in any way, shape, or form. They're foundational to anything and everything that we do." In the second episode of our podcast series focusing on mentoring new teachers, Shawna Coppola (RENEW!) continues her conversation with kindergarten teacher Laura. In this episode, Laura talks about the challenges she faces when it comes to facilitating students’ social-emotional learning without being overwhelmed by behavior charts. Head over to blog.stenhouse.com for the full writeup, transcript, and download.
RENEW! Become a Better-- and More Authentic -- Writing Teacher https://bit.ly/2xwJGfc | |||
| Stenhouse Publishers: Mentoring New Teachers | 01 Mar 2018 | 00:34:40 | |
Shawna and Laura discuss the enormous, all-too-familiar challenge of “fitting it all in”--particularly with regard to literacy--and how to maintain a daily schedule for her students that is meaningful, engaging, and developmentally appropriate. Like many teachers, though, Laura finds it difficult to balance building positive, healthy relationships with her students alongside "managing" them as a whole group. One of her biggest challenges is related to planning and making all of the (aforementioned) decisions she must make as a teacher--both ahead of time and “in the moment.” She worries about how to fit in valuable instruction around skills that many perceive as "non-academic" or “soft” along with more traditionally-recognized "academic" skills. | |||