Topic: Podcast

Kate and Maggie are joined by Jennifer Serravallo in today's episode as they talk about building out your library, finding moments for queer representation, and how to make the case for building representation into your curriculum.

Kate and Maggie are joined by LaMar Timmons-Long in today's episode as they talk about being vulnerable, the intersections of race and queerness, and building brave spaces in our classrooms.

How do we go beyond the cosmetic fixes of racial inequality in education and go further?

Kate and Maggie are joined by Jess Lifshitz in today's episode as they talk about normalizing language, digging deep into internal work, and how to discuss our identities in a school setting.

This week on the podcast we’re joined by Berit Gordon, author of The Joyful Teacher: Strategies for Becoming the Teacher Every Student Deserves.

Listen in or watch as Dr. Sonja Cherry Paul and Tricia Ebarvia talk about centering racial equity in our literacy practices and their upcoming (virtual!) Institutes for Racial Equity in Literacy. #IREL20 ⁠

Kate and Maggie are joined by Dana Stachowiak in today's episode for a wide-ranging conversation about LGBTQ+ identity in education.

Too often, structural and systemic forces keep children from believing that they are good at math, setting them too early on trajectories that determine their level of success.

Three years ago, we started this episode of the podcast by saying; not talking about racism is not a solution. We sought to have a conversation about dismantling racism in education after a Heinemann Fellows panel on the subject. As we listen to this conversation through the lens of 2020, it’s now not enough to talk about dismantling racism, rather we must take actions to be anti-racist.

Welcome to season two of Beyond the Letters! To kick things off, Kate and Maggie talk with guest Arhm Wild about supporting and learning from our students.

Leading a school is a lot to manage under normal circumstances, but what does it look like during a pandemic?

We're proud to be kicking off a new season of our podcast series Beyond the Letters. Listen to the first episode today!

Poetry can be a great teacher, and in teaching, it is imperative to speak to the multiple experiences and languages in a class.

Carla and Luz provide helpful tips for choosing multilingual texts while teaching remotely, and explain how you can teach these texts.

How does growing our classroom environment to be more collaborative reduce the stress of classroom management and improve student achievement?

Phenomenal Teaching charts a pathway for teachers to cultivate agency and foster understanding for every learner.

Today on the podcast, a special read aloud episode from Towanda Harris, author of The Right Tools.

What makes for a good writing workshop? The answer is less complicated than you might think.