Guests: Natalie Krafft, Oak Tree Elementary - Music and Marissa Gomez, Boulder Creek - Art
In this episode, Brit chats with Natalie and Marissa about their world in special areas. We dive into the secrets of how these spaces boost brainpower for all students and snag some nifty tips on sprinkling art and music into regular classrooms too. Tune in for a chat that's sure to spark some joy!
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Guest: Elizabeth Evans, Director of Civic Education Programs at Arizona State University
In this episode, Brit and Liz bond over their common enemy: perfectionism! They share their own stories of overthinking and struggling to please others, while giggling their way through practical tips for beating the perfectionism blues. With their help, you'll be able to perform your best, without losing your sanity in the process!
Guest: Leslee Mizen-Stroud, Middle School Social Studies Teacher
In this episode, Brit gets all the details on how Leslee is leveling up her teaching game with Classcraft! This edtech gem is a gamified tool that even non-gamers can rock with their students. Listen in as Leslee "spills the tea" on how Classcraft has revolutionized her teaching style and made her classroom a more engaging and dynamic space for learning.
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Guests: Trisha Shores & Marcus Hire, High School English and Social Science Teachers and Instructional Coaches
In this episode, we discussed the intersection of teacher credibility and grading practices and beliefs, namely what it takes to shift the learning focus away from traditional grading and some of the toxic behaviors it can unintentionally create, to a culture that values mastery of learning. The heartfelt moments and candid conversations had about the learning roadblocks teachers can unknowingly build left us wanting more! This conversation takes an honest and hard look at effective teaching and learning in 2023.
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Guest: Jammie Zimmer, Second Grade Teacher
Joining Wendy for this podcast is Jammie Zimmer, a second grade teacher who excels at Building Community and Connection. Although she teaches young children, many of her ideas can easily be transferred to classes with older students. Most importantly, catch Jammie's enthusiasm, passion, and pure joy; her love of teaching will reignite yours!
Guests: Brit Bingold, Julia Salce, and Wendy Peterson
Our Professional Growth Instructional Specialists are 'put on the spot' as they discuss perspectives on teaching from veteran teachers. Listen to learn, be entertained, and "give 'them' a pencil"!
Guest: Jordan Hall, Instructional Coach
In this episode, Jordan and Brit celebrate episode 50 with one of our essential instructional routines: MOVEMENT! We discuss how purposeful movement utilizes strategies that allow students to move while processing content and how it enhances instruction rather than detracting from it.
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Guest: Julia Salce, Instructional Specialist
In this episode, we 'unlock' formative assessment by discussing it through an instructional lens. How can educators provide students opportunities to say, do, make, or write, thus allowing teachers time to assess and collect learning evidence formatively? We discuss this question and work to answer it in today's conversation.
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Guest: Shannon Jauregui, High School English Teacher
In this episode, Shannon and Brit share their love for Kagan cooperative learning strategies and how to use them intentionally in the classroom.
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Guest: Trish Smith, 8th Grade Social Sciences Teacher
In this episode, Trish shares with Brit how she leverages different types of note-taking in her classroom to help her students comprehend the material and remember what they have learned to reference for future lessons.
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Guest: Wendy Peterson
In this episode, Brit and Wendy discuss two of John Hattie's highest rankings: Teacher Estimates of Student Achievement and Collective Teacher Efficacy. Despite their high effect sizes, both harbor "elephants" in the classroom, so we determine how to move past this to embrace and implement their power to accelerate student learning fully.
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Guest: Julia Salce, Instructional Specialist
In this episode, Julia & Brit continue their conversation about using wait time in the classroom and its powerful effects on teachers. They also suggest strategies for Wait Time 1 & Wait Time 2.
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Guest: Julia Salce, M.Ed, NBCT & Instructional Specialist
In this episode, Julia and Brit GEEK OUT over their new learning about "wait time." We chat about how the brain learns through a "race-car vs. hiker brain" analogy and reveal how crucial wait time is for critical thinking and learner efficacy.
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Guests: Courtney McIntosh and Jennifer Reagan, Special Education Coordinators
In this episode, Courtney and Jen answer four commonly asked questions from general education teachers about special education, including the similarities and differences between IEPs and 504 plans, as well as what basic understandings all teachers need to know about special education laws.
Guest: Lindsay Wilson, Instructional Coach
In this episode, Lindsay shares two strategies that create frequent opportunities to collect student classroom data that will help teachers make data driven decisions in their classrooms.
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Guest: Shawn Abele, District Technology Coordinator
In this episode, Shawn shares several great tips and technology tools to assist students and teachers. We discuss how to use tech for engagement, efficiency, and ease.
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Want to learn more from Shawn (or get the list of the Robot library)?
shawn.abele@gilbertschools.net
Are you a GPS Employee? Check out the Instructional Framework Technology Resources page! It is amazing.
Guest: Julia Salce, Instructional Specialist
In this episode, Julia and I chat about the ways the brain learns and how and WHY the 'link-it-learn-it-log-it' strategy for note-taking and the 'blind brain dump' strategy for retrieval practice help ALL students learn.
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Guests: Sarah Erhart, Ayn Kelly-Harris, Tammie Borden, and Wendy Peterson
In this episode, a few of our district instruction coaches stopped by to discuss the role of an instructional coach and explain how coaches are an essential part of student-centered learning and collective teacher efficacy.
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Visit: https://www.dianesweeney.com/
Guests: Julia Salce and Wendy Peterson, Instructional Specialists
In this season finale, we discuss the last domain of our district Instructional Framework. The Reflect domain wraps of the mini-series we have done within Season 4.
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"Is Your Lesson a Grecian Urn?" by Jennifer Gonzalez
Rapid Fire Questions from the Dare to Lead Podcast hosted by Brene Brown
Guests: Julia Salce and Wendy Peterson
In this episode, we chat about what we are currently reading and provide a 'taste' of each instructional book and what it has to offer educators.
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