Heinemann Podcasts for Educators

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 knowledge and meet academic standards.

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 seniors.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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 uncover what Don Murray calls "the music of the text."

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.

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 materials that support flexible implementation.