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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
106: The Danger of Teacher Nostalgia
When we blame our teaching problems on the collective inferiority of a generation, we only make things worse. In this episode, we explore the problem…
7 years, 5 months ago
105: Voice of Witness: Bring the Power of Oral History to Your Classroom
Voice of Witness is an organization that curates oral histories, stories told by people whose voices are rarely heard: Migrant workers. Refugees. Pri…
7 years, 6 months ago
104: What the Research Says About Note-Taking
In classrooms all over the world, students take notes every day. What does academic research tell us about the best ways to use note-taking in our cl…
7 years, 6 months ago
103: Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE Method
Want your students to have rich, complex discussions about the texts they read? In this episode, high school English teacher Marisa Thompson shares a…
7 years, 7 months ago
102: A Look Inside a Teacher Fellowship Program
Imagine a professional development scenario where you are given funding, choice, and time to collaborate with others in your specialty area who energ…
7 years, 7 months ago
101: A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing
The ability to tell a good story is one of the things that makes human beings extraordinary. Here's the process I used to teach my own students how t…
7 years, 8 months ago
100: Lessons in Personhood
To mark the milestone of 100 episodes, I'm sharing one of my favorite posts, Lessons in Personhood: 10 Ways to Truly Lead in Your Classroom. Thank yo…
7 years, 8 months ago
99: Quality-Check Your Tech: 6 Strategies
Is your tech tool doing the work you think it is? Or could it actually be widening the same gaps you're trying to close? In this episode we explore t…
7 years, 8 months ago
98: Improving the Way We Teach About Slavery
American Slavery is a difficult topic to teach, and for decades, we haven't been doing a very good job of teaching it. In this episode, I interview h…
7 years, 9 months ago