Teaching Unscripted

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March 22, 2018 Sara Ahmed on Her Book Being the Change
Today on the Heinemann Podcast we’re talking about tough conversations in the classroom. Do you find yourself struggling with how to respond to students when topics like race, gender, politics, region and sexuality are brought up at school? These subjects are part of our students’ lives.
So then how do we create learning conditions where kids can ask the questions they want to ask and have tough conversations? Author Sara Ahmed says it begins with discomfort and not trying to save the moment.
In Sara’s new book, Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension, she explores what happens when we step back as teachers, and allow students to take the lead. She says, when we welcome discomfort in the classroom, we promote student growth and deeper conversation.
We started our conversation learning about the inspiration behind Sara’s book. To learn about Sara's new book, click here.
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21 min
March 16, 2018 Sara Ahmed: Being the Change, a Story
On the Heinemann podcast today, something different. We offer a story from author Sara Ahmed. A story about compassion, empathy and most importantly, identity. This is a story about Being the Change:
Today's podcast is also the letter in the opening chapter of Sara's new book, Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension.
In her book, she explores how student growth can happen in the moments when we embrace discomfort and have candid conversations together. Sara writes there is no magic formula for making the world a better place. But bringing social issues and identity into the classroom is certainly a start.
Learn more about Being the Change, visit Heinemann.com.
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11 min
March 08, 2018 Science is Poetry with Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz
It's been said that poetry and physics are the same thing, so on today's Heinemann Podcast we're examining the poetry of science. Language and literature can work in the same way science does. Both literature and science have stability and change. Both also have cause and effect.
In their book; Sharing Books, Talking Science, this is what authors Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz call "crosscutting concepts". In today's conversation they're joined by author, Amy Ludwig VanDerwater, poet and author of Poems Are Teachers. They've come together to explore how different lenses can help us to better understand complicated concepts.
Our journey to this conversation is an interesting one. We start the podcast by learning how these author's ideas intersected.
Our thanks to Amy, Mark and Valerie for their time today. If you'd like to know about both books; Poems are Teachers by Amy Ludwig Vanderwater and Sharing Books, Talking Science by Mark Lubkowitz and Valerie Bang-Jensen, visit the Heinemann website for more on both books. You can listen to podcasts from the authors, read sample chapters and watch videos with them.
You can also follow Heinemann on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram as well as our various Facebook Groups. Plus you can get a daily teacher tip - right on your phone directly from Heinemann authors by downloading the Heinemann Teacher Tip App. All this and more on Heinemann.com
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28 min
March 01, 2018 Nurturing Informed Thinking with Sunday Cummins
Knowing how to analyze all the different sources that enter into our world has never been more important. On today’s podcast we’re speaking with author Sunday Cummins about her new book: Nurturing Informed Thinking: Reading, Talking and Writing Across Content-Sources.
Sunday says we need students to be able to ask questions and then actively seek out answers by reading, listening or viewing multiple sources. She says we should be able to analyze any form of those sources too, whether it’s a video, photo, info-graph or a book. Sunday also writes that students need to be able to connect ideas, weigh viewpoints, and balance differing perspectives comfortably.
Sunday explores what this can look like in the classroom, from planning to execution. She provides support for teachers as they plan for, and teach, with multiple sources on a regular basis. She says the more teachers incorporate multiple sources into instruction, the more students will conduct thorough research practices on their own.
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12 min
February 22, 2018 Kate Roberts and A Novel Approach
Today on the podcast, whole class novels and choice. How do we have it both ways; reading literature deeply and also fostering joyful, independent learning?
In Kate Robert's new book, A Novel Approach: Whole-Class Novels, Student Centered Teaching and Choice, Kate examines the troubles and triumphs of both whole-class novels and independent reading. She says we can find a student-centered, balanced approach to teaching reading.
As an English teacher, Kate has seen whole-class novels build community, but she’s also seen too many kids struggle to read them—and either abandon reading altogether or become the reader who’s been left behind. Kate’s had better success getting kids to actually enjoy reading when they choose their own books within a workshop model.
Many know Kate from her work with Teacher’s College Reading and Writing Project, but she’s been thinking about this topic since before then. For Kate, the idea started back when she observed the paradox her father, an english professor, struggled with in his teaching.
A Novel Approach is accompanied by classroom videos where you can watch Kate put her ideas into practice with students. We’ll be previewing these videos on the Heinemann blog and on Kate’s website. To see the videos, read blogs from Kate, and to download a sample chapter, visit blog.Heinemann.com. Be sure to also follow Kate on Twitter @TeachKate
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23 min
February 16, 2018 Kids First From Day One with Christine Hertz and Kristi Mraz
The classroom of your dreams starts with one big idea. Kids First from Day One shares how to put your deepest teaching beliefs into action. Listen in!
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29 min
February 09, 2018 Project-Based Writing with Liz Prather
The idea that students should be “college and career ready” when they leave high school has become a major focus in education, but much of this conversation has been on reading readiness. What about writing readiness?
Today on the Heinemann Podcast, author Liz Prather. In her book, Project-Based Writing, Liz shows us how teachers can bring students into the lesson planning process, inviting agency, independence, and inquiry into the classroom community.
Through this community, students care about what they're writing, and learn to manage their time to write. Liz argues that teaching students the real-world lessons they need to become real-world writers begins by inviting their learning preferences into the classroom.
My colleague Michelle began their conversation by asking Liz about the primary goals behind Project-Based Writing and how it came to be?
If you’d like to learn more about her new book: Project Based-Writing, check out Heinemann.com where you can read a sample chapter and blogs.
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18 min
February 02, 2018 Beyond Literary Analysis with Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O'Dell
In your daily life, would you voluntarily sit down to write an analytical essay on The Odyssey? Or on Catcher in the Rye? Probably not. Would you like to read and grade more than one hundred identical essays about these novels instead? Probably not. So, why do we ask our students to this year after year?
Today on the Heinemann Podcast, authors Allison Marchetti & Rebekah O’Dell explore alternatives to the dreaded literary analysis essays in their new book, Beyond Literary Analysis. Allison and Rebekah explore the meaning of analysis from an entirely new perspective, in hopes of challenging traditional notions of what students should be analyzing and how they should write about. They want student writing to be where passion and analysis meet by redefining the meaning of the word “text.”
We began our conversation discussing how this new understanding of analysis came to be.
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22 min
January 26, 2018 Reclaiming the Principalship with Tom Marshall
What is the role of a principal and how can a principal use their knowledge to be the best head-learner they can be?
Heinemann Author Tom Marshall discusses his approach these questions in his new book: Reclaiming the Principalship:Instructional Leadership Strategies to Engage Your School Community and Focus on Learning.
As a former teacher and staff developer, Tom writes about his philosophies behind effective leadership and what that look like? Tom says that while the days are filled with decisions we can keep our focus on student-centered learning and the school’s mission. Tom writes If you approach a problem from a learner’s perspective, it’s easier to keep learning as the focus in the community.
We started our conversation exploring the meaning behind what a Principal can be?
My thanks to Tom for his time today. If you’d like to learn more about his new book: Reclaiming the Principalship, check out the Heinemann website. Here you can read a sample chapter, blogs and more from Tom. You can also follow Tom on Twitter: @TomLitTogether.
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17 min
January 12, 2018 Jennifer Serravallo Talks about Strategies in Action
On today’s podcast we’re talking with New York Times, Best-selling author Jennifer Serravallo about a new on-demand course called Strategies in Action: Reading and Writing Methods and Content.
Drawing from Jen’s best-selling resources The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book, this new on-demand course was designed by Jen to help educators understand how to find goals for their readers and writers and how to support them over time as they work toward those goals.
Learn more about Jen's upcoming on-demand course.
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18 min