On this episode of GrapeSEED Friends, we welcome Jhoan Montolio, a GrapeSEED teacher in southern Japan!

In this series, we have asked some of our former teacher guests to come on and share their expertise on a couple questions per episode. On this fourth episode, we welcome Aaron Jones, Will Rice, Bruno Di Stefano and Matthew Green!

Questions for this episode:

#1: How do you store the GrapeSEED materials at your school?

#2: How do you encourage students to speak in full sentences?

The focus component in this Take a Step episode is Unit 9's My First Book of Poems.

In this series, we look at the learning objectives and Quick Checks for the focus component and how the day-to-day instructions in the Lesson Plans guide us to achieving those goals!

This is another episode in the Ten Things series, where I sit down with a coach or former teacher and have a fun, relaxed conversation about GrapeSEED.

The guest for this episode is Linda Cho, a GrapeSEED Coach supporting teachers in Thailand!

On this episode, we have five more suggestions for you to do today to be more effective in the classroom and make the GrapeSEED program at your school even better!

On this episode of GrapeSEED Friends, we welcome Sandy Nguyen, a teacher in Vietnam!

In this series, we have asked some of our former teacher guests to come on and share their expertise on a couple questions per episode. On this third episode, we welcome Aaron Jones, Alina Shishina, Will Rice, Bruno Di Stefano and Matthew Green!

Questions for this episode:

#1: What is your best tip for teaching Writers effectively?

#2: Assembly lessons on the whiteboard start in Unit 4. What have you found to be effective in teaching these effectively in the first few lessons?

The focus component in this Take a Step episode is Unit 8's Pink, with a big emphasis on how Shared Reading materials in this unit tie in to teaching concepts of print alongside the Let's Start Reading cards.

In this series, we look at the learning objectives and Quick Checks for the focus component and how the day-to-day instructions in the Lesson Plans guide us to achieving those goals!

In this episode of This and That, Miklos and I discuss the English Environment- why it is so important, how to set it up with a new GrapeSEED class and how you can reset expectations on a class that you may inherit without a strong English Environment.

Starting with this episode and dropping again around once a season, the A Look Back series will recap some of the recent podcast episodes. If you happened to miss some episodes recently or you are new to the podcast, this will help orient you on the content available!