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115: Time to Take a Look at Your Dress Code
Many dress codes unfairly target students in certain populations, doing more harm than good. Is your dress code due for an upgrade? In this episode, …
7 years, 1 month ago
114: Let's Give Our Teaching Language a Makeover
To master this craft, we need to choose our words carefully. This mini-makeover shows how revising our language in four common classroom scenarios ca…
7 years, 1 month ago
113: Global School Play Day: One Day. Nothing But Play.
Could your school stop its normal routine for a full day and devote it entirely to unstructured play? That's what thousands of schools all over the w…
7 years, 2 months ago
112: Six Tech Tools to Try in 2019
This year's collection includes a discussion monitor, a tool that analyzes writing, a virtual reality tour maker, and my favorite new game.
7 years, 2 months ago
111: Teaching Note-Taking with Stations
Quality note-taking is a powerful learning tool, but to do it well, students need to be taught how to do it. In this episode, I talk with instruction…
7 years, 3 months ago
110: Ten Ways Educators Can Take Action in Pursuit of Equity
Awareness of educational inequity is important, but we also need to take action. In this episode, professor and activist Pedro Noguera shares ten spe…
7 years, 3 months ago
109: Get Students Talking with Ongoing Conversations
High school English teacher Jeff Frieden shares his Ongoing Conversations strategy, a simple, effective way to get students to have rich, one-on-one …
7 years, 4 months ago
108: To Learn, Students Need to DO Something
In too many classrooms, we're expecting students to learn material without asking them to do much of anything with it. Why is this a problem? Where d…
7 years, 4 months ago
107: The Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
There's a lot of confusion about how to use leveled texts in the classroom. In this episode, I interview literacy expert Jen Serravallo about the mis…
7 years, 5 months ago
107: The Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
There's a lot of confusion about how to use leveled texts in the classroom. In this episode, I interview literacy expert Jen Serravallo about the mis…
7 years, 5 months ago