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HELPING WHITE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND WHITE GUILT, SHAME, AND THE HISTORY OF AMERICA
Season 14 Episode 3
This podcast is designed to help white people understand systemic racism, white guilt, shame, and the history of the United States of America. That's…
5 years ago
HELPING WHITE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND SYSTEMIC RACISM
Season 14 Episode 2
This podcast is designed for white people. Full disclosure: I am a white man. It also describes just some of the basic elements of systemic racism. I…
5 years ago
CRITICAL RACE THEORY: A BRIEF OVERVIEW
Season 14 Episode 1
Critical Race Theory has been much maligned, discounted, and discredited without fully understanding exactly what it is. It has been presented as a b…
5 years ago
WHAT IS A BALANCED READING PROGRAM?
Season 13 Episode 18
Reading programs need to be balanced (Cunningham & Allington, 2007te). This means that it’s is not all just one thing (like all phonics instruction, …
5 years ago
FAST-TRACK TEACHER PREPARATION PROGRAMS: THE SPAGHETTI MODEL
Season 13 Episode 17
One of the ideas for getting more teachers of color into the classroom has been to look at fast-track alternative teacher preparation programs such a…
5 years ago
HOW CAN WE GET MORE TEACHERS OF COLOR INTO OUR CLASSROOM?
Season 13 Episode 16
Problem: Only 16% of the US teacher force are teachers of color. This is a problem.
On Saturday, May 1st, 2021 a group of teachers, teacher educators,…
5 years ago
ACTIVITIES FOR WORD CLASS: A SELF-SELECTED APPROACH TO SPELLING INSTRUCTION
Season 13 Episode 14
The old, weekly spelling tests just don’t work. I have found no research to indicate that they do anything to improve students' ability to spell und…
5 years, 1 month ago
A BALANCED READING PROGRAM: 12 ELEMENTS
Season 13 Episode 15
Reading programs need to be balanced. This means that it’s is not all just one thing (like all phonics instruction, or all reading, or all writing, o…
5 years, 1 month ago
WORD CLASS: A SELF-SECTED APPROACH TO SPELLING "INSTRUCTION" - PART 1
Season 13 Episode 13
Weekly spelling tests have been the staple of elementary education for the last 100 years. Here students memorize a list of words each week and then …
5 years, 1 month ago
TEACHING WRITING: SELF EDITNG AND PEER-EDITING
Season 13 Episode 12
Editing checklists and peer editing tables are great ways to reinforce grammar skills - and they also provide the structure necessary for students to…
5 years, 1 month ago