This conversation with Patterns of Power grammar extraordinaires Holly Durham and Travis Leech will leave you ready to dive into authentic grammar instruction! Let go of ineffective worksheets and skill-and-drill grammar instruction as Holly and Travis describe the Patterns of Power Process with a focus on grades 9-12.   They explain why traditional grammar instruction focuses too often on rules and what’s right or wrong instead of a true understanding of usage. In Kylene Beers’s words, “...master teachers, Jeff, Travis, and Holly, make things such as colons and commas, apostrophes and appositives, phrases and fragments, become more than things to be learned. Instead, they were turning conventions of language into conversations I wanted to have with kids.”

Episode Mentions:

• Patterns of Power 9-12: Teaching Grammar Through Reading and Writing - Grades 9-12
• Kylene Beers
• Pointless by Sarah Zerwin
• (An) Indian Father's Plea
• Larry Ferlazzo
• Tim Ferriss 
• Patterns of Power (Facebook) Community

Holly and Travis Recommend:

• Everyday Editing by Jeff Anderson
• Image Grammar by Harry Noden 
• Teaching Grammar in Context by Constance Weaver
• 180 Days by Penny Kittle & Kelly Gallagher 

Connect and Learn with Holly:

• at her website & email
• on Twitter 
• on Facebook
• on LinkedIn

Connect and Learn with Travis:

• at his website & email
• on Twitter 
• on Instagram
• on Facebook

#solutionsfromschoolutions #schoolutionsinspires #schoolutionspodcast #patternsofpower #grammarinstruction #authenticgrammarinstruction #grammarusageoverrules #POPteacher #teachersfollowteachers #education #student #school 

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.

José Luis Vilson is best known as an architect for a hopeful future and an advocate for teacher voice. José describes his math pedagogy in this episode and why math is a social justice lever. He illuminates the restrictions we put on mathematics unknowingly as a society. José encourages us to ensure our classrooms and learning communities are interconnected and to look to the future with hope. José is also an integral part of the EduColor Community, which amplifies the works and ideas of students, educators, and communities of color through supportive on- and off-line networks and professional development.

Episode Mentions:

• Ted Ed Talk
• Waiting for Superman
• Bob Moses
• EduColor Movement
• FutureMe

Connect and Learn with José:

• at his website & blog
• on Twitter 
• on Instagram
• on Threads
• on Facebook
• on LinkedIn
• on TikTok
• on YouTube

#thejosevilson #mathpedagogy #architectforahopefulfuture #educolor #educolormvmt #mathcommunity #teachersfollowteachers #education  #mathteacher #student #school

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.

The renowned Dr. Molly Ness shares key points from her most recent book, Read Alouds for All Learners: A Comprehensive Plan for Every Subject, Every Day. Molly helps listeners understand the critical role read alouds play in the science of reading, along with current research and trends. Listeners will leave informed and inspired with a process and plan for integrating read alouds across all content areas.

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Episode Mentions:

• Dr. David Portnoy
• Scarborough's Reading Rope 
• Molly's think-aloud clips
• Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
• Reach Out and Read
• USO Reading Program
• Dollar General Literacy Foundation 
• Read with Malcolm
• Kristi Yamaguchi’s Always Dream

Be Inspired by Molly’s Writing:

• The Power and Promise of Read-Alouds and Independent Reading
• Thinking Aloud is Key to Developing Successful Reading Comprehension
• Supercharge Every Storytime

Connect w/ Molly:

• website & End Book Deserts podcast & The Coalition for Literacy Equity 
• IG @a_reading_mother @endbookdeserts
• FB @drmollyness @endbookdeserts @mollyness
• Twitter @drmollyness @endbookdeserts

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.

Are you dreaming about creating a humanities course for students in your high school? Learn from teachers Heather Roberts and Tom Bateson how to turn that dream into reality! Heather and Tom describe their first-year step-by-step process for designing their co-taught humanities course. They offer detailed strategies alongside struggles and successes to support colleagues in beginning their journey to making history engaging and relevant for learners.

• Episode Mentions:
  • Holland Patent Central School District
  • Cris Tovani
  • Sam Bennett
  • Enduring Issues
  • Syracuse University's Project Advanced (S.U.P.A.) courses
  • Utica University 
  • Declaration of Independence 
  • Declaration of the Rights of Man 
  • U.N.’s Declaration of Human Rights
  • Letter to My Future Self 
• Connect and Learn with Heather:
  • at her email:  [email protected]
  • on Instagram
  • on Facebook
• Connect and Learn with Tom:
  • at his email: [email protected]
  • on Facebook

#humanities #highschoolteacher #makinghistoryrelevant #coteaching #planning

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.

Beth Skelton and Tan Huynh call for us to shift the long-term English learner (LTEL) label and mindset to honor multilinguals’ valuable life experiences and academic potential instead.  Beth and Tan’s book, Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals, offers a brilliant and accessible guide for cross-curricular implementation - designed explicitly for secondary content teachers.  

Thank you to Tan, Beth, and Corwin, who are so generous in offering a 25% off PROMO CODE (C23104) for Long-Term Success for Experienced Multilinguals. 

• Episode Mentions:
  • SDUSD - Marshall Elementary
  • Understanding by Design
  • WIDA 
  • Zaretta Hammond - turbocharging
  • Lev Vygotsky
  • Allison Zmuda
• Connect and Learn with Tan:
  • on his website 
  • on Twitter 
• Connect and Learn with Beth:
  • on her website 
  • on Twitter 
  • on Facebook
  • on LinkedIn

#experiencedmultilinguals #assetbasedthinking #heritageculture

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.

Renowned literacy expert, Ellin Oliver Keene, welcomes us into her Literacy Studio - a new, integrated approach to reader’s and writer’s workshop. Her latest book, The Literacy Studio: Redesigning the Workshop for Readers and Writers, offers a practical step-by-step approach to providing more autonomy and choice to students while gaining back time by combining reading and writing instruction.

Episode Mentions:

• Ellin Oliver Keene
• PEBC
• Heinemann & Heinemann Journal & Heinemann Fellows Initiative
• The Literacy Studio: Redesigning the Workshop for Readers and Writers
• Dr. Donald Graves 
• To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension
• Sam Bennett
• Debbie Miller
• The Literacy Studio (Heinemann Companion Resources)
• Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
  • Stephanie Harvey, Ann Goudvis, Debbie Miller, & Cris Tovani (book group)
• Talk About Understanding 
• Dr. Fabiola Bagula - Schoolutions S2E4 -  Cognitive Bias Codex

Connect and Learn with Ellin:

• at her website & email ([email protected])
• on Twitter      
• on Instagram
• on Facebook
• on LinkedIn

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.

Join the brilliant M. Colleen Cruz as she illuminates why mistakes are not the problem but part of learning.  Colleen’s most recent book, Risk. Fail. Rise.: A Teacher's Guide to Learning from Mistakes offers strategies for exploring why mistakes happen and how we can destigmatize mistake-making to encourage a risk-taking learning culture.

Thank you to Colleen and bookshop.org, who are so generous in offering a 10% off PROMO CODE (RISK10) for Risk.Fail.Rise.: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Mistakes.

Episode Mentions:

• Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul
• Kathryn Schulz 
• Eduardo Briceño     
• Restorative Justice
• Arlène(Elizabeth) Casimir    
• UDL (Universal Design for Learning) 
• Akasegawa Genpei 
• Thomasson & Hyperart
• De’Andre Arnold    
• Disability Spread
• Gloria Ladson-Billings
• Mariame Kaba
• Nilofer Merchant
• AJ Crabill
• Maxine Greene
• The Millionaire’s Magician
• James Howe

Connect and Learn with Colleen:

• on her website 
• on  Twitter     
• on  Instagram
• on Threads
• on  LinkedIn

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.

Christy Lynn Anana is a Mindfulness Director with Whole School Mindfulness at Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary, located on the land of The Tulalip Tribes in Washington State, north of Seattle. In this episode, Christy offers listeners two guided meditations alongside a peek into her published book series called I Am Healing. 

Episode Mentions:

• I Am Healing Book Series
  • I Can Feel Better: A Tapping Story
  • A Safe Place: Strategies to Feel Better
    • Dr. Francine Shapiro -  EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing)
  • Waves of Emotions: A Mindfulness Story
  • A Guide for Lonely Kids
• Quil Ceda Tulalip Elementary
• University of Washington - Leadership for Learning (L4L) Program  - Facebook
• Dr. Anthony Craig  (Schoolutions S1 E5: Accessing the Wisdom of Tulalip Tribes' Elders as Cultural Guides in Public Schools with Dr. Anthony Craig)
• Tulalip Tribes
• Rainbow Dance - Boston Children's Foundation
• Dr. Bruce D. Perry
• EFT - Emotional Freedom Techniques
• Whole School Mindfulness
• Kobayashi Maru 
• Tricia Hersey - Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto
• Sam Bennett's Circles (Types) of Engagement

Connect with Christy:

• at her website
• at Whole School Mindfulness
• on Twitter
• on

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.

Rebekah Macden is a globally-renowned international educator, consultant, speaker, and coach. In this episode, she offers listeners an overview of Maracujá, her co-created, character-driven SEL program that continues to have a life-changing impact on thousands of students in schools around the globe. Listeners will leave inspired by Rebekah’s commitment to students feeling safe within their authentic selves in an environment where relationships are prioritized.

Episode Mentions:

• Lisa Nichols Companies (Rebekah is a Speaker Advocate Coach)
• Tricia Friedman (Be a Better Ally Podcast - E91: Advance the Agenda of Joy with Rebekah Macden)
• Taylor Swift Accepts The 2023 iHeartRadio Innovator Award

Connect and Learn with Rebekah:

• at her website 
• on Twitter (@rebekahmacden)
• on Instagram (@rebekahmacden)
• on Facebook (@macdenr)
• on LinkedIn

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.

Global changemakers Renée Dinnerstein and Larry Leaven have a shared commitment to children when it comes to reviving choice time, inquiry, exploration, and play in schools around the world. Their inspiring anecdotes and creative out-of-the-box solutions will help listeners immediately put choice time into action.

Episode Mentions:

• Vivian Gussin Paley
• Deborah Meier
• PS 321
• NAEYS
• Loris Malaguzzi
• Fanny Roman
• Why Every Kindergarten and First-Grade School Day Should Begin with Inquiry and Imaginative Play by Olivia Wahl
• S1 E8: Bringing Joy to the Start of Each Day Through Play with Mary Anne Camel
• Dalton School Hong Kong
• Susan Harris MacKay
• AnjiPlay
• Nancy Du
• Defending the Early Years Organization
• Making Your Environment "The Third Teacher" by Margie Carter

Connect and Learn with Renée:

• at her website and blog
• on Twitter (@RDinnerstein)
• on Instagram (@reneedinnerstein)
• on Facebook (@renee.dinnerstein.7) & Choice Time Facebook Group 
• on LinkedIn
• check out: 
  • Choice Time: How to Deepen Learning Through Inquiry and Play, PreK-2 by Renee Dinnerstein
  • Is Kindergarten Ready for the Child?  by Renee Dinnerstein
  • Renee Dinnerstein’s Revolution Grows in Brooklyn by Susan Ochshorn

Connect and Learn with Larry:

• on T

When coaches, teachers, administrators, and families work hand in hand, it fosters a school atmosphere where everyone is inspired and every student is fully engaged in their learning journey.