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Why You Don't Need to Teach to the Test - 119
In this episode, Caitlin and Jessica discuss the drawbacks of focusing too strongly on testing skills in lessons: boredom, poor confidence, and lack …
5 years, 5 months ago
One Teacher’s Thoughts About Writer’s Workshop - 118
Today, we are interviewing teacher, writer, and podcaster Jacob Chastain, a middle school teacher who uses the writer’s workshop method every day in …
5 years, 5 months ago
Confessions of a Principal - 117
In this episode, Meredith takes us back to the beginning of her career when she almost quit her seventh grade teaching position. She candidly shares …
5 years, 5 months ago
A Creative & Engaging Way to Assess Students at the End of Your Poetry Unit - 116
Listen to this episode where we describe how to effectively assess students with shape, found, or blackout poetry. Better yet--give students a choice…
5 years, 5 months ago
How to Combine Poetry and Research to Push Your Students’ Reading and Writing Skills - 115
Today, we share our Elements of Poetry Mini Research Project so that you can consider including a research component in your next poetry unit. We ex…
5 years, 5 months ago
Stations Are the Key to Getting Your Students to Enjoy Poetry - 114
Today, we walk you through our favorite poetry resource--poetry stations. In just five stations, we explain how to get every student analyzing word …
5 years, 6 months ago
How to Make One-Pagers Rigorous and Meaningful - 113
Through our own trial-and-error, we were able to create a rigorous one-pager assignment that gave students the opportunity to showcase their best thi…
5 years, 6 months ago
Are Your Assessments REALLY Assessing the Standards? - 112
Today, we wrap up our three-week series on the EB lesson-planning framework and share how we create and assign end-of-unit “Beyond” lessons. Not only…
5 years, 6 months ago
Our Favorite Activities to Help Students Master ELA Standards - 111
Today, we discuss how looking closely at the standards will provide you with the exact topics and framework for your lesson plans. We share specific …
5 years, 6 months ago
Are You Making This Mistake At the Beginning of Your Units? - 110
Today, we share some of our favorite engaging “Into” lesson plan ideas that can be repurposed over and over again throughout the year so that your pl…
5 years, 7 months ago