Teaching Unscripted

This week on the Heinemann Podcast, we're excited to introduce the first 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.

In this year's Book Study, 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 Aeriale Johnson, a Heinemann Fellow from cohort two, to talk about this week's theme: Building and Practicing the Real Skills of a Strong Community.

Find the Book Study Group here.

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Today on the Heinemann Podcast, we’re excited to announce a new series of professional books. Joining us to talk about this special series is Heinemann author and editor Katie Wood Ray. Katie serves as the series editor of the forthcoming Classroom Essentials Series, and is also an author on one of the series titles. 

In the words of author Carl Anderson, “Good teachers aren’t born good teachers. Good teachers learn to be good teachers.”

Books in the Classroom Essentials Series seek to distill the most essential, student-centered practices, and bring the transformative power of foundational ideas to today’s busy teachers, reimagined in new and engaging ways. In each book, readers will see how today’s most progressive practices are built on a solid foundation of research and professional literature.

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How do we recognize engagement?

Today on the podcast, a special read aloud by author Ellin Oliver Keene from her new book Engaging Children: Igniting a Drive for Deeper Understanding.

Ellin says true engagement often takes us by surprise, and is so overpowering, we may not recognize it when it happens! Finding the moments when we are engaged, reflecting on them, and sharing them with our students is the key to teaching engagement.

It is through learning how to recognize our own moments of engagement that we are able to celebrate and foster engagement in our students.

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Today on the Heinemann Podcast, Lucy Calkins, author and series editor of the Units of Study for Reading and Writing, shares details on the latest, groundbreaking work to come out of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project: the new Units of Study in Phonics for grades K–2.

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Writing is no easy task, and often times the hardest part is just getting started! Quickwrites, is a writing method author and classroom teacher Linda Rief is known for. In fact, she wrote the book on it! She says it provides students with a low-risk writing exercise to get ideas out, and brainstorm how they might like to write about a topic they are interested in. Quickwrites also allows students to push past the doubt and uneasiness that can keep a young writer’s pencil hovering above a blank piece of paper. In Linda’s words, “You don’t know what you know until you put words down on paper.”

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, a special conversation between Linda Rief and Penny Kittle. Both are at the Boothbay Literacy Institute. Penny talks with Linda about her new “The Quickwrite Handbook: 100 Mentor Texts to Jumpstart Your Students’ Thinking and Writing.

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Today on the Heinemann podcast, we’re packing our bookbags for summer camp!

Teaching writing can feel intimidating, but New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Serravallo says that the best way to be a strong writing teacher is to be a strong writer. And to be a strong writer? Well, you have to write!

Jen is the author of the The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers. This summer, Jen will be hosting a free interactive, five-week-long online Writing Summer Camp for teachers built around the strategies in her book. Each week she will focus on a different genre of writing to give participants practice across a wide range of writing styles.

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Today on the Heinemann Podcast, a special read aloud from Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O’Dell, co-authors of Beyond Literary Analysis: Teaching Students to Write with Passion and Authority About Any Text.

Run-of-the-mill analysis essays have their place, but when is the last time your students were excited to write them? And when were you last excited to read them? In Beyond Literary Analysis, Allison and Rebekah expand on the idea of what is open to analysis from class novels to sports to Games of Thrones and everything in-between.

When students are given the opportunity to write thoughtfully about the things they love -whether it be a film, a song, a sports game, or a piece of art- they’re able to focus on developing their analytical skills and growing into strong writers.

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Today on the Heinemann Podcast, empathy…

In Sara Ahmed’s book Being the Change, she writes about how empathy has become a buzzword and its practice tends to get lost under high achievement goals

And In their book Kids First from Day One, Christine Hertz and Kristi Mraz write:.

"You might think that being an empathetic teacher is just part of the gig, but in the heat of the moment and the stress of the job, it is easy to want kids to see it from our point of view rather than to see it from theirs. Yes, empathy is a feel-good idea, but there’s more to it than that.”

In today’s podcast we’ve brought together authors Sarah Ahmed, Christine Hertz and Kristine Mraz, to discuss empathy not as something we have, but rather as an ongoing, daily practice that must be prioritized in our minds and actions. 

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