Teaching Channel Talks

A trauma-informed approach emphasizes that a student is hurt, not bad, and that although their behavior is disruptive and problematic it's an adaptive response to their environment. They are not broken, so we don’t have to fix them. Learn key steps from Christie Badry and Wendy Amato for integrating a trauma-informed approach across your district so that every adult is ready to help support students who need the most care. 

Professional Learning

• 3-credit continuing education course: From Trauma-Informed to Trauma-Invested: Creating a Culture of Safety

Videos

• Watch a webinar with tips and tricks for Social-Emotional Learning for school leaders
• Building Relationships: Share Passion with Students
• Build Relationships: Teach More Than 'Just Math'

Articles

• 6 Ideas to Support Students in a Fight, Flight, Freeze Response from Christie Badry and Andrea Gutmann
• Building Relationships with Students: Being Rewarding, Not Exhausting by Lily Jones

Charlotte Danielson's Framework for Teaching is changing soon! Hear from Dr. Jim Furman, Executive Director of the Danielson Group, and Wendy Amato as they discuss those upcoming changes and how they'll help support the individual and collective efforts of teachers and administrators in positively impacting student learning. You'll also hear instructional coaching strategies that will educators grow at every stage of their careers.

Professional Learning

• Learn more about how you can use The Framework for Teaching and Teaching Channel to support teachers at your school or district

Videos

• Watch a webinar with education experts from the Danielson Group and Teaching Channel
• Coaching for Equity
• Effective Coaching Systems

Articles

• How to Build a Professional Learning Community With the Framework for Teaching

Families are a key part of the instructional team, especially after more than a year of remote learning. Hear from Leana R. Malinowsky and Wendy Amato as they discuss ways to manage the teacher-family relationship as the leader of your classroom. You'll hear strategies to avoid being consumed by emails and tips for communicating effectively with families of all backgrounds. You'll also hear different ways to structure your teacher-family conferences to ensure that you have open communication with your families all year long.

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Courses

• Take a 3-credit continuing education course to dive deeper into engaging parents for student success
• Join a year-long program designed for new teachers to get all the tools, strategies, and resources they need to thrive in the classroom.

Articles

• How Teachers Can Communicate With Families This Year by Leana R. Malinowsky
• Lesson Planning GPS: A Practical Navigation Guide by Leana R. Malinowsky
• Collaboration and Communication: Teaching During the Pandemic by Leana R. Malinowsky

Videos

• The ABCs of Parental Involvement
• New Teacher Survival Guide: The Parent-Teacher Conference

Unfinished learning is usually a result of disruption in learning, causing students – particularly those students who are marginalized -- to miss out on skills and concepts required to progress to subsequent content. Listen in to this week's episode as Wendy Amato and Kelly Mokashi share strategies that teachers at any grade level can use to help every student as they head back into classrooms. You'll learn strategies to bridge the learning loss gap with acceleration, recovery, and retention (Check out this course by Kelly Mokashi to dive deeper into this topic: Bringing Students from Unfinished Learning to Soaring Achievement).

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Courses

• Learn more about Kelly's Learners Edge course: Bringing Students from Unfinished Learning to Soaring Achievement

Articles

• The Great Unknown: Unfinished Teaching and Learning
• What’s the Best Way to Address Unfinished Learning? It’s Not Remediation, Study Says
• School Hesitancy Among Parents and Their Preferences for COVID-19 Safety Practices in Schools

Videos

• Differentiating with Learning Menus
• Three Ways to Formatively Assess Content & Language
• Building Relationships: Share Passion with Students

The wait is almost over! Teach Like a Champion 3.0, the long-awaited update to Doug Lemov’s guide to best classroom practices, will be released on September 14th, 2021 (although you can preorder now!). In this episode, Wendy sits down with Doug to discuss the changes he's made since writing Teach Like a Champion ten years ago and how the switch to teaching online has changed the teaching profession forever. You'll also hear about the extensive cognitive science research that anchors all of the practices recommended in Teach Like a Champion 3.0 so that educators understand the "why" and "how" of everything they do.

You don't have to spend your first year of teaching alone. Learn from Keely Keller and Amy Anderson as they talk with Wendy Amato about how new(er) teachers can find great mentors to help them survive and thrive in the classroom. You'll also hear about the advice that Keely and Amy wish they knew when they started teaching. Get access to more support like this by registering for Cultivate: A Program for New Teachers. You'll join a team of new(er) teachers around the country as you complete a year-long program packed full of tools, resources, live Q&As with experts, and more.

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Courses

• Learn more about Cultivate: A Program for New Teachers, a year-long program designed to give new(er) teachers the tools, education, and support they need to thrive in the classroom.

Downloadables

• Download a free introductory teacher-to-family email template from Keely

Videos

• Watch the Advice for New Teachers webinar recording featuring Keely and other expert educators

Blogs

• Three Tips to Help New Teachers Collaborate With Colleagues
• Ten Teaching Tweaks for New Teachers
• 5 Risks Every New Teacher Should Take

What if you could engage reluctant readers by asking them to play a video game? On this episode of Teaching Channel Talks, Wendy Amato speaks with Kwamara Thompson about how the Read to Lead program is doing just that. You'll hear about Read to Lead's free games that encourage reading and writing through workplace simulations like managing a health clinic or working as the editor-in-chief at a digital magazine. You'll also hear them discuss more strategies for differentiating reading lessons for learners of all ability levels. 

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Explore

• Learn more about Read to Lead and how it can be implemented in your classroom
• Explore the different games available for free on Read to Lead

Events

• Sign up Read to Lead's "Million Words Challenge" to promote even more student reading

Read

• Summer Reading in Middle School – Reimagined
• 3 Reasons Why More Educators Are Introducing Project-Based Learning (PBL) in Their Classrooms
• Nurturing the Whole Learner through Read to Lead

Learn from the research of the Teach Like a Champion team as Wendy Amato interviews Doug Lemov and Hilary Lewis about the most important lessons from the 20/21 school year. In this asynchronous conversation, you'll hear specific, actionable strategies that teachers are using to build connections with their students through lesson content and classroom routines. You'll also hear Doug and Hilary's recommendations for how to use the lessons learned from this year to come back stronger in the fall.

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Articles

• Read an excerpt from Teach Like a Champion 3.0 - "Phrasing Fundamentals for Questioning"
• Get ideas from the TLAC team on what students can do this summer to reduce learning loss

Events

• Follow Doug on Twitter to join the next Teach Like a Champion Twitter chat

Videos

• Watch all of Teaching Channel's Teach Like a Champion webinars
• Watch a 7th-grade English teacher's hybrid lesson and read observations from the TLAC team

Join Wendy Amato and Michelle Trujillo as they discuss how social-emotional learning (SEL) can take center stage this fall. You'll learn about red flags to look out for in your students and simple but effective emotional check-ins that you can incorporate into any lesson. Wendy and Michelle also chat about how educators who want to focus on SEL need to begin by focusing on adult SEL first. 

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Read

• Read "5 Ways to Ignite Hope with Adult SEL" by Michelle Trujillo
• Purchase Michelle's book "Start With the Heart: Igniting Hope in Schools Through Social and Emotional Learning"

Attend

• Register for a free webinar with Michelle and Wendy to learn about SEL as a Way of Being for School Leaders

Watch

• Watch SEL as a Way of Being for Educators, a webinar from Michelle, Wendy, and Keely Keller
• Observe a pre-K class as they work on identifying feelings in "Building Emotional Literacy"

After the chaos of this school year, many educators are feeling worn down, exhausted, or even burned out. Learn strategies for dealing with uncertainty and stressful situations as Susan Lubar and Wendy Amato discuss ways that educators can incorporate mindfulness into their existing classroom schedules both for themselves and their students. You'll also hear Susan bust a few of the common misconceptions that many people have about the practice of mindfulness. 

Want to hear more from Susan and Wendy? Join a free webinar series this summer to learn more about incorporating mindfulness practices at your school.

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Events

• Join a free webinar series with Wendy and Susan to dive deeper into mindfulness practices

Resources

• Begin "Everyday Resilience:Foundations of Mindful Well-Being", a 10-hour professional learning course from Growing Minds and Teaching Channel
• Explore how Growing Minds helps educators incorporate mindfulness in schools
• Try out free mindfulness practices for adults and youth at Growing Mind's website

Videos

• Mindfulness in the Classroom (10 min.)
• Using Guided Relaxation in the Classroom (3 min.)