Amy, Jay, and Mindy explore how to set students up for success before asking them to speak in class. They break down why preparation matters, what helps students feel ready, and simple strategies teachers can use to build confidence, comfort, and meaningful participation so you never hear the sound of crickets in your classroom again.

Jay is back! Amy and Jay share their experience of presenting collaboration strategies at the AVID national conference and Jay shares with us his fantastic, collaborative strategy of Quiz the Class. For more supports and a template to implement explore this Teachers Pay Teachers resource linked here. Comment to let us know and share how you are using this or similar strategies in your classroom!

It’s our second episode with our first guest! Join Mindy, Amy, and special last-minute guest Zac Curtis to discuss the importance of and strategies for learning and pronouncing students names. We dig deeper into the practice of using Name Tents shared by Jay in our previous episode.

We anticipate the return of Jay in the next episode when he will share his much anticipated Quiz the Class speaking and collaboration activity we’ve all been waiting for.

Welcome to No More Crickets: A Podcast about Classroom Collaboration! In this Episode, your hosts Jay Rudel, Amy Guyaux, and Mindy Curtis introduce one another and share favorite memories from their careers in education. 

They discuss why classroom collaboration is essential to student learning and why they believe collaboration is often an overlooked classroom strategy. 

Jay shares his love of using Name Tents for knowing students’ names and encouraging students to know one another. Linked is a template that includes examples of and ideas for name tents. 

Next episode Jay and Amy will share and discuss an original classroom strategy they call Quiz the Class which can be used with all age groups and in all subject areas to get students speaking, collaborating, and learning.