Classroom Q and A

Administrator directed professional development often falls flat with teachers. In this episode we explore what works, what doesn't and why.

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Rick Wormeli, a long time classroom veteran, now award-winning author and teacher trainer, was one of the first Nationally Board Certified Teachers in America as well as Disney’s Outstanding English Teacher of the Nation in 1996. Today, he train teachers and principals in all 50 states and eight countries, writes for education journals and magazines, and is working on his 12th book. His latest book, The Collected Writings (So Far) of Rick Wormeli: Crazy Good Stuff I Learned about Teaching Along the Way, was released last year.

Increasing numbers of teachers are leaving the profession and nowhere is this more impacting than at high-needs schools. Despite the exodus of educators, we find that some teachers stay no matter what the conditions. What can we learn from them that might stem the loss of teaching talent?

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Sharon Jacobs is a National Board Certified teacher who has been an educator in North Carolina for over 19 years. She has served her community as a teacher for 9 years and as a school administrator for 10 years. The Last 7 years she has worked with staff to establish a thriving public Montessori Magnet school. Along with being named a New and Emerging Magnet School by Magnet Schools of America, recently Jacobs and her staff received the great honor of being named ASCD's Vision in Action- Whole Child Award Winner 2014.

This segment is the second in series exploring the variety of reasons why teachers leave high poverty urban schools. We close with recommendations to attract and keep more teachers in these schools.

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Karen Baptiste is a Supervisor of Teacher Development for Broward County Public Schools. She is responsible for providing training for 14,000 teachers, overseeing a district-wide Coach Credentialing program and managing grants. Pia Wong is a teacher education with over 20 years of experience in this field. She focuses on urban teacher preparation. Yvette Jackson is the CEO of the National Urban Alliance for Effective Education and adjunct professor at Teachers College, Columbia University. She has applied her research in neuroscience, gifted education, and the cognitive mediation theory of Dr. Reuven Feuerstein into her books.

Our guests share with us some of the powerful possibilities in small learning communities. We also discuss what works and what doesn't when embracing the model.

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ReLeah Cosette-Lent is, a former secondary teacher, is now an education writer and consultant. She is the author of 10 books, her most recent titled Overcoming Textbook Fatigue published by ASCD and Common Core CPR published by Corwin. Her new book, out in September, is on the topic of disciplinary literacy. Ted Appel is Principal of Luther Burbank High School for the past 11 years. Prior worked trained new high school teachers for the district.

For English language learners, speaking English is one challenge, speaking mathematics is another. In this segment we explore instructional strategies for teaching math to ELLs that align with the Common Core Standards.

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Dr. Gladis Kersaint is a Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of South Florida. A Teach For America alum, Ben Spielberg has taught middle school math and science, worked as a math instructional coach for middle and high school teachers, and served on the Executive Board of the San Jose Teachers Association. Blogs 34justice. Denisse R. Thompson is Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of South Florida.

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In this segment we look at the difference between student participation and student engagement and why it matters. We close with specific strategies to achieve maximum student involvement.

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Jennifer Gonzalez, NBCT, is a former middle-school language arts teacher who has also taught pre-service teachers at the university level. On her website, Cult of Pedagogy, she shares good ideas, curates fantastic resources, and gently prods teachers into making their work more effective and fun. Husband-and-wife team Bill and Pérsida Himmele are associate professors at Millersville University. They are the authors of 3 ASCD books: Total Participation Techniques, The Language-Rich Classroom, and Total Literacy Techniques.

The confluence of the growing popularity of education technology and the adoption of the Common Core Standards has created new challenges for teachers. In this segment we explore strategies for successfully marrying both.

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Michael Fisher is an author and educational consultant working with schools around the country to upgrade current curricula, design new curricula, and modernize instruction with immersive technology. He is the author of Digital Learning Strategies: How do I assign and assess 21st Century Work? and the co-author of Upgrade Your Curriculum: Practical Ways to Transform Units and Engage Students. Andrew Miller is an educational consultant who is on the faculty for ASCD and the Buck Institute for Education. He is also a regular blogger for Edutopia and ASCD.

In this segment we go searching for specific reading lessons that align with the Common Core Standards for complex text.

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Cheryl Dobbertin, a former secondary English teacher and administrator, is the author of Common Core Unit by Unit . Her work has also been published in ASCD's Differentiation in Practice: 9-12, Rachel Billmeyer's Strategic Reading in the Content Areas, ASCD's Education Leadership and EdWeek. She is also the program director for Expeditionary Learning's Teacher Potential Project, which supports novice teachers with Common Core implementation.

Doing projects and doing project-based learning are not the same. In this segment our guests identify the elements that distinguish each of these teaching strategies.

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A classroom teacher for 15 years, Jeff Wilhelm is currently Distinguished Professor of English Education at Boise State, director of the Boise State Writing Project and teaches middle schoolers each spring. He has authored 32 texts about literacy teaching including: the NCTE Promising Research Award for You Gotta BE the Book. Suzie Boss, education writer and consultant, is the author of several books, including Reinventing Project-Based Learning and Bringing Innovation to School. She is a regular contributor to Edutopia and the Stanford Social Innovation Review, and a member of the Buck Institute for Education National Faculty.

Many schools now agree with students that literature in not so important. How can we bring literature alive to students in the age of common core standards?

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Nancy Steineke consults nationally as a keynote speaker, workshop presenter, and literacy coach for middle and high school teachers. Sean McComb is the 2014 National Teacher of the Year, where he teaches at Baltimore's Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts and was honored at the White House. Husband-and-wife team Bill and Pérsida Himmele are associate professors at Millersville University.