Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchELA Electives with a Twist: Outside-the-Box Ideas to Inspire You
Season 9 Episode 366
Teaching an ELA elective that you've dreamed up yourself is such a joy. Today I want to stir up some ideas together for the next time you've got the…
1 year, 3 months ago
3 Easy Ways to Help Kids Build Better Arguments
Season 9 Episode 365
Like most of us, Christina Schneider didn't find teaching writing one bit easy at first. Despite her background as a journalist, putting all the p…
1 year, 3 months ago
Contemporary Authors to Feature this Black History Month (and all year long)
Season 9 Episode 364
It's February, the perfect time to feature work by contemporary Black authors in your book talks, poetry clip showings, First Chapter Fridays, book d…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Secret Sauce to Help Students Care
Season 9 Episode 363
How many times have you sat in a PD meeting that didn't apply to you? One where you were learning an 11 letter acronym for a strategy you'd never us…
1 year, 3 months ago
Art as Influencer: The Reason my Orwell Unit Failed and Why it Matters for your Students
Season 9 Episode 362
I've been reading Kylene Beers and Bob Probst's Disrupting Thinking: How Why We Read Matters this week, and one of their points that has really come…
1 year, 3 months ago
Amplify Argument Engagement with a Mock Trial
Season 9 Episode 361
This week I want to share a project idea that you can use for a ton of different texts - the mock trial. I'll tell you why the mock trial was one of …
1 year, 4 months ago
The Ultimate Guide to One-Pagers
Season 9 Episode 360
Open The New York Times today and you'll see photos, headlines, interactive infographics, audio, videos, and text articles. I could name almost any n…
1 year, 4 months ago
Don't Send Emails that Make your Heart Race
Season 9 Episode 359
This week I want to share a piece of advice that really comes from my wonderful husband and it's this: Don't send emails that make your heart race. T…
1 year, 4 months ago
Try this Easy New Year's Vision Board Activity
Season 9 Episode 358
There's a lot of takes on the New Year and how it fits into our lives. There's the change-everything-starting-January-1 take. The New-Year-Same-Me t…
1 year, 4 months ago
Your Writer's Craft Tournament
Season 9 Episode 357
Lately, I've been working on gamification. Not the kind where you get points and add custom outfits to your hamster avatar when you advance through a…
1 year, 5 months ago