Episode 013, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDx2uyfe6z4

Dr. JaNay Brown-Wood is an award-winning author and educator. She completed her PhD from the School of Education at UC Davis and is a professor at California State University, Sacramento. You can connect with JaNay at www.janaybrownwood.com and find her on Facebook or Twitter.

In this episode we discuss:

-Early Childhood Education (ECE)

-What is hands-on learning?

-How hands-on looks in older grades

-Student Voice: Choice in learning

-Teacher Creativity

-Worksheets vs. Manipulatives

-The variability of resources and COVID’s effect 

-What comes first: Spelling or Sentences?

-Polarization in Literacy education methods

-Math Practices vs. Standards

-Why JaNay got into the field of Education

-Audiobooks as a tool or a crutch

-JaNay’s published works 

-The melding of writing and educating

-Alternative math systems besides base-10

-JK Rowling’s new book Ickabog

-Learning Styles

-The stigma around admitting a problem with literacy