Heinemann Podcasts for Educators

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Heinemann Podcasts feature insights and commentary from some of the most popular authors in K-12 education. Each Podcast provides practical teaching information and helpful advice about a specific topic in education. Tune in to Heinemann Podcasts to improve your teaching ability, build closer connections with your students, and better understand the changing landscape of today's educational world.

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Heinemann Podcasts for Educators episodes:

11.17.2010
Accelerating Response to Intervention (RTI)
Michael Optiz and Michael Ford discuss strategies and considerations for successfully implementing the Response to Intervention (RTI) framework and providing differentiated instruction to help accelerate progress and growth for all students.
11.07.2010
A Workshop Approach to Teaching Reading and Writing
Lucy Calkins, senior author of the Units of Study for Reading/Writing explains how the workshop model of teaching reading and writing differs from traditional and basal approaches. Listen as Lucy provides advice to help literacy teachers adopt the workshop model...
10.18.2010
Making Word Learning Fun for All Students
This introductory chapter from Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey's latest book on student vocabulary instruction and development, Learning Words Inside and Out: Grades 1-6, defines a framework for improving vocabulary instruction to make it more appealing and engaging for all...
10.06.2010
Secrets of a Master Writer: An Interview With Donald Graves
Donald Graves (1930-2010), a long-time University of New Hampshire literature professor and prolific educational author, is interviewed by Penny Kittle about his life and career as a writer. Learn where Don found his motivation, why he loved getting up each...
09.08.2010
Connecting With Reluctant Middle School Writers
Laura Robb (author of Teaching Middle School Writers) and Jim Burke (author of What's the Big Idea?) discuss teaching strategies to identify and support the hidden talents of writers in middle school.
08.30.2010
Reaching Generation Y Readers and Writers
In this video podcast educational authors Jim Burke (What's the Big Idea?) and Laura Robb (Teaching Middle School Writers) discuss the many challenges of connecting with and motivating today's digitally-minded students to build and nurture a love of reading.
08.25.2010
Overview of Units of Study for Teaching Reading
Lucy Calkins, founding director of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project at Columbia University, gives an overview of the Units of Study for Teaching Reading program, which provides effective instruction on using the workshop model to better engage students...
08.16.2010
Architecture of a Reading Workshop Lesson
An overview of the different types of minilessons and essential elements of elementary reading lessons using the reading workshop model developed by Lucy Calkins for the Units of Study for Teaching Reading series. Each lesson element is discussed in detail...
08.11.2010
Vocabulary Instruction to Boost Student Achievement
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey share tips and principles of vocabulary instruction from their latest book on providing effective vocabulary instruction to boost student performance in all subjects for grades 1-6, Learning Words Inside and Out.
08.02.2010
Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) for Response to Intervention (RtI)
Literacy consultant Joyce Gordon interviews guided reading intervention experts and educational authors Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell, and RtI expert Mary Howard to discuss how the Leveled Literacy Intervention elementary reading program meets requirements for Response to Intervention.
07.28.2010
Transcending Paper-Based Student Assessment
Harvey "Smokey" Daniels interviews Nancy Steineke, author of "Assessment Live! 10 Real-Time Ways for Kids to Show What They Know--and Meet the Standards" about how her book was developed to help educators use more innovative assessment methods to evaluate student...
07.26.2010
Designing K-12 Curriculum Around Big Questions
Jim Burke shares how, by organizing teaching around big questions, he's able to create curricular cohesion and avoid fragmentation by folding together skills, core content, and standards in a meaningful context that engages students of varying levels - even second-semester...
07.21.2010
Balancing Workshops with Basal Reading Programs
Lucy Calkins, author of the Units of Study reading workshop model, explains how to strike a balance between the reading/writing workshop approach and basal reading programs that include sustained silent reading or independent reading.
07.20.2010
Engaging and Motivating Digital Learners
Jim Burke shares how a question-driven classroom engages adolescents of the digital age inside school by tapping into the same kinds of self-motivated explorations that they conduct via digital media in their outside-school lives.
01.29.2010
Engaging and Motivating Clock-Watching Students
Clock Watchers authors Stevi Quate and John McDermott find out just how dramatic an effect the Six Cs of motivation and engagement can have in content-area classrooms when they interview two subject-area teachers.
12.10.2009
Avoiding Plagiarism: Conversations About Effective Prevention, Detection, and Response for the Cut-and-Paste Generation
"Plagiarism" author Barry Gilmore answers questions from Carol Jago (Come to Class) about his experiences in confronting academic dishonesty and how those experiences led him to more effective ways of dealing with it.
11.23.2009
Getting the Teaching Life You Want
Steve Zemelman and Harry Ross (authors of 13 Steps to Teacher Empowerment) interview two teachers who got the teaching life they wanted with help from the 13 Steps.
11.23.2009
Teaching Voice in Student Writing
Tom Romano, author of Crafting Authentic Voice and Zigzag, and Penny Kittle, author of the NCTE award-winning Write Beside Them, discuss the important place of voice in student writing. Learn more about what voice is and how to help students...
10.12.2009
Inquiry Circles in Action
Harvey "Smokey" Daniels interviews two master teachers from The Burley School in Chicago (Debbie King and Michele Timble) who use Inquiry Circles in their teaching.
09.22.2009
Principles for Success with Response to Intervention (RTI)
Mary Howard, author of RTI from All Sides, talks with Heinemann consultant Judy Wallis about RTI and what it means for teaching. She shares 7 keys to success and emphasizes the importance of high-quality instruction, sensible assessment, professional development, and...
08.24.2009
The Writing Process: Starting a Book
Kylene Beers and Robert Probst talk with author Chris Crutcher about how he begins writing a book.
08.17.2009
An Introduction to Writing Circles
Smokey Daniels (Literature Circles and Mini-lessons for Literature Circles) talks with Jim Vopat about what Writing Circles are, and why they represent a compelling, practical new approach to approach the workshop.
06.29.2009
Code-Switching in Academic Writing
David West Brown (In Other Words) and Rebecca Wheeler (Code-Switching) clarify what code-switching is with illustrations from literature and student work. Then they discuss ways of teaching writing and responding to it that help students transition from home-speech patterns to...
06.22.2009
Core Principles in the Middle of Great Teaching
Tom Newkirk, author of "Holding on To Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones", talks with Nancie Atwell, author of "In the Middle", about the core principles in their teaching, the obstacles that work against them, and the ways...

What's Heinemann Podcasts for Educators about?

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Heinemann Podcasts for Educators episodes:

Accelerating Response to Intervention (RTI)

A Workshop Approach to Teaching Reading and Writing

Making Word Learning Fun for All Students

Secrets of a Master Writer: An Interview With Donald Graves

Connecting With Reluctant Middle School Writers

Reaching Generation Y Readers and Writers

Overview of Units of Study for Teaching Reading

Architecture of a Reading Workshop Lesson

Vocabulary Instruction to Boost Student Achievement

Leveled Literacy Intervention (LLI) for Response to Intervention (RtI)

Transcending Paper-Based Student Assessment

Designing K-12 Curriculum Around Big Questions

Balancing Workshops with Basal Reading Programs

Engaging and Motivating Digital Learners

Engaging and Motivating Clock-Watching Students

Avoiding Plagiarism: Conversations About Effective Prevention, Detection, and Response for the Cut-and-Paste Generation

Getting the Teaching Life You Want

Teaching Voice in Student Writing

Inquiry Circles in Action

Principles for Success with Response to Intervention (RTI)

The Writing Process: Starting a Book

An Introduction to Writing Circles

Code-Switching in Academic Writing

Core Principles in the Middle of Great Teaching