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10 02, 2020

#150 Scaffolding Isn’t Spoon-Feeding (Jenn Kleiber pt.2)

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Hello everyone! Today we are continuing our talk with the fantastic Jenn Kleiber about culturally responsive teaching, but we are diving DEEP into practices, professional learning, and even how to set and manage goals for students to learn and grow. Jenn [...]

27 01, 2020

#148 End the Teacher Bashing (Chris Pombonyo pt.2)

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Hello everyone! Today, I am continuing my talk with Chris Pombonyo, and it is FILLED with ideas, inspiration, and perspective on why we should all stop bashing teachers for doing their jobs their way, when their way is working for them and [...]

13 01, 2020

#146 Reading Workshop, Ron Clark Academy Style, with Korey Collins (pt.2)

2022-06-08T21:55:16+00:00Comments Off on #146 Reading Workshop, Ron Clark Academy Style, with Korey Collins (pt.2)

Hello everyone! Last week, I sat down with the amazing Korey Collins and talked all about graphic novels, test prep, and the limits of BASAL reading programs. This week, I continue my talk with him and dive even deeper into what [...]

23 12, 2019

#143 These Kids: Inside the Mind of an 8th Grader

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Hello everyone! Coming off the major release of my spoken word poem THESE KIDS, where I say the line, "I'm tired of hearing ABOUT these kids, I want to hear from them..." I decided to do just that on this episode [...]

16 12, 2019

#142 Joy in Learning is a Necessity (Equity with Regie Routman pt.3)

2022-06-08T21:57:31+00:00Comments Off on #142 Joy in Learning is a Necessity (Equity with Regie Routman pt.3)

Hello everyone! Literacy Essentials by Regie Routman (Stenhouse 2018) is by far one of the most influential books I’ve read in my teaching career. It’s a book I turn to weekly for advice, insight, and encouragement in my work to bring authentic literacy [...]

9 12, 2019

#141 What’s Wrong and How to Fix It (Equity with Regie Routman pt.2)

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Hello everyone! Literacy Essentials by Regie Routman (Stenhouse 2018) is by far one of the most influential books I’ve read in my teaching career. It’s a book I turn to weekly for advice, insight, and encouragement in my work to bring authentic literacy [...]

2 12, 2019

#140 We Teach KIDS, Not Data Points! Talking Equity with Regie Routman (pt.1)

2022-06-08T21:58:49+00:00Comments Off on #140 We Teach KIDS, Not Data Points! Talking Equity with Regie Routman (pt.1)

Hello everyone! Literacy Essentials by Regie Routman is by far one of the most influential books I've read in my teaching career. It's a book I turn to weekly for advice, insight, and encouragement in my work to bring authentic literacy [...]

25 11, 2019

#139 Moving Teaching Forward (@TeachingSavesLives pt.2)

2022-06-08T21:59:41+00:00Comments Off on #139 Moving Teaching Forward (@TeachingSavesLives pt.2)

Hello everyone! It's time to talk about where we go now as educators. We live in a world of gun violence, quick fixes, and with communities that would rather see education fail than succeed. So, what do we do? We addressed [...]

21 10, 2019

#134 Sharing Resources Supports Equity (Kayse Morris pt.2)

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Hello everyone! Today we are talking about how teachers can support teachers by sharing and creating resources with the amazing Kayse Morris, one of the thought leaders in “Teachers as CEOs” and a truly magnificent human. Her work with the Go-Getter’s [...]

16 09, 2019

#129 The Get Your Teach On Experience with Halee Sikorski (pt.1)

2022-06-08T22:04:52+00:00Comments Off on #129 The Get Your Teach On Experience with Halee Sikorski (pt.1)

Hello everyone! This past July, I went to the Get Your Teach On national conference, and it was absolutely astounding, to say the least. I knew I wanted to talk about my experience, but I needed someone special to help me, [...]

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