In this episode, Katie Baker, a 7th-8th grade Texas and United States history teacher, shares how to focus our energy on effective retrieval strategies we can manage. She also explains that she was spinning from all the available resources and pulled back to focus on what she could accomplish in her classroom, and build from there.

Show Notes:

• Powerful Teaching by Pooja Argwal and Patrice Bain
• Examples from Katie’s Classroom:
• Literacy Grid Template
• Literacy Grid Example
• Power Ticket Example
• Kate Jones Retrieval Practice
• 5-12-13 Dylan Kane’s Substack
• Voices from the Field Substack
• The Knowledge Exchange Laura Stam’s Substack
• Distilled by Jamie Clark
• Gist Statements by Sara Quinn
• Science of Reading Classroom Substack
• Teachers Teaching Teacher Nights hosted by Science of Classroom and What I Should Have Learned in College Facebook Group
• Mini Whiteboards by Ben Cooper
• Make it Stick
• Step Lab documentary

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