Topic: Podcast

How can alerting readers to significant moments transform the way you and your students engage with a text?

It can be hard to strike the right balance between conventions and creativity when teaching writing. Too many rules can cause kids to disengage, while too few may lead to writing that fails to convey its intended meaning.

How can we effectively engage multilingual students and build meaningful connections?

Young children love to learn and use new words. How do we tap into this natural curiosity and excitement to support vocabulary development?

How can alerting readers to significant moments transform the way you and your students engage with a text?

What do we want students to get out of math class? Proficiency? A love of math? Job prospects? Kent and Steve discuss.

When you make the decision to move beyond long-used textbooks, you might wonder, what will kids read?

How can I fit poetry into my busy classroom schedule? And how do I even introduce poetry to students?

What is a Reading Salad, and how can you use this tangible comprehension strategy to help your students understand complex concepts?

Have you ever thought about what literacy might look like outside of the classroom?

How can we use big, essential questions when we plan lessons and experiences for our students?

A strategy for deepening understanding with a text. Excerpt from Kylene's audiobook.

Carol Jago speaks to the resilience she observes in both teachers and students.

How can we design instruction that deepens learning?

How can we support teachers who come to education through alternative certification?

The importance of positive math identities for both students and teachers.  

A guide for centering love, justice and liberation in schools.

This week on the podcast, Georgia Heard talks about teaching poetry today.