Modern Classrooms Project Podcast

Toni Rose and Zach field more of your questions on topics relating to rolling out the model at the beginning of the year, meaningful mastery checks on topics learned by rote, and using rubrics.

Show Notes

Submit Questions for Q&A Episodes

MCP Podcast Episode #4: Building Authentic Relationships with Students (Toni Rose's first appearance on the MCP podcast)

MCP Podcast Episode #48: Building Equitable Classrooms (Toni Rose's first appearance as co-host)

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Quizziz

Quizlet

Keeping up with the Modern Classrooms Project

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Kareem is joined by Toni Rose Deanon, who will be joining the podcast as a cohost! They discuss the importance of building equitable classrooms, what it means to teach equitably, and how the model facilities and reinforces equitable teaching practices.

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Elena Aguilar - Coaching for Equity

SEL Do Nows - Kate's and Toni Rose's

Canvas: how to hide students' names when grading

QR Code Generator

Headphone Splitters

Donors Choose

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Zach is joined by Monte Woodard and Sarah Moon to discuss their approaches to lesson classifications (must-do, should-do, and aspire-to-do lessons) and how the different types of lessons facilitate self-pacing, access to content, and mastery-based grading.

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Edpuzzle Self-Paced Classroom Certification (Monte is highlighted in Practice #1)

The Five-E's

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In this episode, Kate is joined by MCP Program Director Debbie Menard to explore classroom set-up and systems that can help facilitate blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning.

Read a summary of this episode on the Modern Classrooms Project blog

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This week, Kareem chats with Zach and Monte Woodard about their experience as Modern Classrooms Mentors, diving into some of the most common feedback they give to mentees working through the MCP Mentorship Program.

Show Notes

Distinguished Modern Classrooms Educator credential - the first step in becoming a Modern Classrooms mentor.

Game board pacing trackers

MCP LMS Tutorials:

Hyperdocs

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In our 7th Q&A episode, Kareem and Zach field more questions from the MCP community on practice activities vs. mastery checks, creating instructional videos, and beginning-of-class routines.

Show Notes

Apply to become a Distinguished Modern Classrooms Educator

Explain Everything (and MCP tutorial)

Screencast-o-matic (and MCP tutorial)

Zach's MCP Zoom Recording Tutorial

Edutopia Video

Edutopia Article on Daily Goal Setting Do-Nows

YAMM - Yet Another Mail Merge

Zach’s Blog Post on Automating Emails with YAMM

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This week, Kareem is joined by Garner Andrews to discuss motivation in a Modern Classroom, with topics ranging from self-determination theory to more practical approaches to leveraging the MCP model to inspire students to strive for success

Show Notes

Distinguished Modern Classroom Educator Credential

The Internationals Network

Edutopia Video

Self-Determination Theory

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

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This week, Kareem is joined by one of his former students, Jayme Mims, to talk about the Modern Classrooms model from the student's perspective, how it facilitates learning and responsibility in school, and how it prepares students for success in college and beyond.

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Edutopia Video

Progress Trackers

The Warm Demander

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In this week's episode, we discuss systems and strategies Modern Classroom educators employ to make mastery-based grading sustainable in their classrooms.

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Submit your questions for our upcoming Q&A episodes here or tweet @modernclassproj with #askMCP and we may discuss your question on a future episode!

Mastery based grading: what does the research say?

Multiple studies on feedback & student learning (see Best Practices 2 and 3!)

Talking points app

Y.A.M.M. (Yet Another Mail Merge) - great for sending progress reports to parents from spreadsheet-based pacing trackers

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In our 6th Q&A Episode, Kareem and Zach answer questions about starting out with implementation, addressing pushback from parents, addressing academic dishonesty, and starting PLCs with other teachers implementing the model.

Show Notes

MCP Podcast Episode #39 on returning to in-person learning

Research on the impact and effectiveness of MCP, as well as the Johns Hopkins Report Kareem mentioned

Edutopia Video

Exemplar units

Modern Classrooms Project Free Course Guide

PLC Resources

School and District Partnerships

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