Learning Unlocked

Guests: Brit Bingold, Julia Salce, and Wendy Peterson

Our Professional Growth Instructional Specialists are 'put on the spot' as they discuss perspectives on teaching from veteran teachers. Listen to learn, be entertained, and "give 'them' a pencil"!

Guest: Jordan Hall, Instructional Coach

In this episode, Jordan and Brit celebrate episode 50 with one of our essential instructional routines: MOVEMENT! We discuss how purposeful movement utilizes strategies that allow students to move while processing content and how it enhances instruction rather than detracting from it.

Want to know more?

• Brit's GOGOMO Playlist on Spotify
• GOGOGO Strategy Explanation Video
• GOGOMO Sentence Frames
• Four-Corners Strategy/Video
• Quiz-Quiz-Trade Video/Strategy
• Kinesthetic Mapping Sample Video from Whole Brain Teaching
• Ready-To-Go Instructional Strategies that Build Collaboration, Communication, and Critical Thinking by Denise White and Alisa Braddy

Guest: Julia Salce, Instructional Specialist

In this episode, we 'unlock' formative assessment by discussing it through an instructional lens. How can educators provide students opportunities to say, do, make, or write, thus allowing teachers time to assess and collect learning evidence formatively? We discuss this question and work to answer it in today's conversation.

Want to learn more?

• Formative Assessment Reference One-Pager
• One Teacher's Take on Clipboard Cruising
• GOGOMO Strategy Video
• Blind Brain Dump Strategy Video

Guest: Shannon Jauregui, High School English Teacher

In this episode, Shannon and Brit share their love for Kagan cooperative learning strategies and how to use them intentionally in the classroom.

Want to learn more?

• Kagan Structures: A Miracle of Active Engagement
• Kagan Structures Elevate High School Achievement
• Cooperative Learning Quick Reference Guide

Guest: Trish Smith, 8th Grade Social Sciences Teacher

In this episode, Trish shares with Brit how she leverages different types of note-taking in her classroom to help her students comprehend the material and remember what they have learned to reference for future lessons.

Want to learn more?

• Link It - Learn It - Log It Notes
• INSTRUCTIONAL PRACTICE: Layering Notes
• Article III
• Economic Competition Notes-Smith
• Guidelines for Notes/Summaries in Social Studies
• Sample Student Notes Left side of Notebook pg
• Sample Student Notes Right side of Notebook pg

Guest: Wendy Peterson

In this episode, Brit and Wendy discuss two of John Hattie's highest rankings: Teacher Estimates of Student Achievement and Collective Teacher Efficacy. Despite their high effect sizes, both harbor "elephants" in the classroom, so we determine how to move past this to embrace and implement their power to accelerate student learning fully.

Want to know more?

• Wendy's Estimates and Efficacy Resource Handouts
• Wendy's Excerpts of Estimates and Efficacy Research
• Wendy's Estimates and Efficacy Presentation
• Wendy's Stems for Tough Conversations
• Introduction to John Hattie's Research

Guest: Julia Salce, Instructional Specialist

In this episode, Julia & Brit continue their conversation about using wait time in the classroom and its powerful effects on teachers. They also suggest strategies for Wait Time 1 & Wait Time 2.

Want to learn more?

• THE ARTICLE Budd Rowe.pdf
• Wait Time | Vanderbilt Tips for Implementation
• Wait-Time Strategies One-Pager made by Julia Salce

Guest: Julia Salce, M.Ed, NBCT & Instructional Specialist

In this episode, Julia and Brit GEEK OUT over their new learning about "wait time." We chat about how the brain learns through a "race-car vs. hiker brain" analogy and reveal how crucial wait time is for critical thinking and learner efficacy.

Want to learn more?

• THE ARTICLE Budd Rowe.pdf
• Using Think Time to Let All Students Show What They Know | Edutopia
• Teaching Tools in a Flash - Wait Time - Final.pdf
• Wait Time: Making Space for Authentic Learning | Kent State University
• Worksheets Don't Grown Dendrites by Marcia L. Tate

Guests: Courtney McIntosh and Jennifer Reagan, Special Education Coordinators

In this episode, Courtney and Jen answer four commonly asked questions from general education teachers about special education, including the similarities and differences between IEPs and 504 plans, as well as what basic understandings all teachers need to know about special education laws.

Guest: Lindsay Wilson, Instructional Coach

In this episode, Lindsay shares two strategies that create frequent opportunities to collect student classroom data that will help teachers make data driven decisions in their classrooms.

Want more? Here are the resources from this episode:

• "My Favorite No" Strategy from The Teaching Channel
• The Power of Data: Instructional Strategies to Help You Create a Data-Driven Classroom from Better Lesson
• 27 easy formative assessment strategies for gathering evidence of student learning from NWEA