Teaching Unscripted

How do we go beyond the cosmetic fixes of racial inequality in education and go further? There is no quick fix, and we all need to do the work.

Today on the Heinemann Podcast we’re preparing for Social Justice Saturday at The Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project which will be on Saturday - September 15th (2018).

Heinemann author Sonja Cherry-Paul is one of the organizers of the event and a speaker. Also, among the day’s speakers are Heinemann Fellows Dr. Kim Parker, Tiana Silvas, and Tricia Ebarvia. Tricia and Kim also organize Disrupt Texts, a crowdsourced effort for teachers to challenge the traditional canon with the goal of creating a more inclusive, representative and equitable language arts curriculum.

For today’s podcast, Sonja leads the fellows in a conversation on racial literacy and racial justice in education.

Click here for more information on Social Justice Saturday

Learn more about Disrupt Texts here.

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This week on the Heinemann podcast, how do we create a culture for our classrooms that can last a full school year? Sonja Cherry-Paul and Dana Johansen, co-authors of Flip Your Writing Workshop and Teaching Interpretation: Using Text-Based Evidence to Construct Meaning, are currently finishing up their third book, due out in spring of 2019. Both Sonja and Dana want to help teachers build learning communities that propel students’ growth as readers, help them view the world through multiple lenses, and skillfully integrate digital resources.

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Today on the Heinemann Podcast… think back to when you were first taught math. Did you feel engaged? Did you feel you had a deep understanding of the material in front of you? Or, like many students, did you memorize and regurgitate facts that you struggled to explain the meaning of?

Authors Patsy Kanter and Steve Leinwand want to change that narrative.

In their new book, Developing Numerical Fluency, Patsy and Steve present what they call pivotal understandings, and put an emphasis on a school-wide culture that values and nurtures numerical fluency.

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Have you ever stopped and asked yourself, "what’s the best that could happen?" By turning that old phrase on its head, author Debbie Miller says she’s asked herself a more beautiful question.

Inspired by journalist Warren Berger’s book, A More Beautiful Question, Debbie explores how questions help us look beyond the limitations of what we’ve always done and discover powerful new opportunities for teaching and learning.

In today’s special read-aloud podcast, Debbie takes us through the start of her journey, where her inspiration came from, and how she came to find her questions.

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This week on the podcast we’re wondering, what’s the best that could happen? 

Are you familiar with this quote: “The most damaging phrase in the language is ‘We’ve always done it this way!’”? Its credited to the Navy’s Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper. The computer science pioneer also noted “Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’

Well, not author Debbie Miller. She wants to create space for possibilities.

In her newest book; “What’s the Best That Could happen?” Debbie encourages us to tune into that “thing” that doesn’t feel right and then investigate it and see what kind of questions it leads us to.

In What’s the Best That Could Happen, she both models for us how to ask those questions of ourselves and leads us on a personal journey of her own inquiry answering questions about her teaching.

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This week on the Heinemann Podcast, we're excited to bring you the final of three special minisodes to invite you all into the conversations of the Heinemann Summer Book Study, hosted in the Heinemann PD Teaching and Learning Facebook Group.

This year, we are hosting a conversation on two books with intersecting themes: Kids First from Day One by Christine Hertz and Kristine Mraz, and Being the Change by Sara Ahmed. Our book study facilitator, Jaclyn Karabinas, sat down with Jessica Lifshitz, a Heinemann Fellow from cohort one, to discuss this week's theme: Designing Informed and Responsive Curriculum

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Today on the Heinemann Podcast, how do we address the gaps between formal assessments and really knowing our students as readers? In her newest book, Understanding Texts and Readers, NYTimes best-selling author, Jennifer Serravallo, narrows the distance between assessment and instruction.

On today’s podcast, Jen shares a story from Understanding Texts & Readers where she worked with a reader who was baffling her teachers and struggling with comprehension.

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This week on the Heinemann Podcast, we're excited to bring you the second of three special minisodes, and invite you all into the conversations of the Heinemann Summer Book Study, hosted in the Heinemann PD Teaching and Learning Facebook Group.

This Year, we are hosting a conversation on two books with intersecting themes: Kids First From Day One by Christine Hertz and Kristine Mraz and Being the Change by Sara Ahmed. Our book study facilitator, Jaclyn Karabinas, sat down with Amy Clark, a Heinemann Fellow from cohort one, to continue the conversation on this week's theme: Growing Socially Literate Citizens.

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Today on a very special podcast, Heinemann author and lead staff developer with the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, Cornelius Minor sits down to interview NYTimes Best Selling author Kwame Alexander. In a wide ranging conversation, Cornelius asks Kwame about his first teachers, the people who prepared him for the work he does today, and how he connects students to poetry.

Kwame Alexander is a poet, educator, and the New York Times Bestselling author of 28 books, including SWING, SOLO, and REBOUND, the follow-up to his NEWBERY medal-winning middle grade novel, THE CROSSOVER.

Kwame’s newest book The Write Thing is available now. Kwame is also the forward author on Cornelius Minor’s forthcoming Heinemann book, We Got This! Equity, Access, and The Quest To Be Who Our Students Need Us To Be, due out this fall.

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