Episodes

In this episode: I talk about the what, why and how of maintaining the community that you’ve worked hard to cultivate all year long. We talk about: 1.What it means to cultivate community. 2. Why cultivating community during our post testing era matters. 3.How to cultivate community after the state testing in upper elementary. Quotables: -Cultivating community means to foster the growth and closeness of a group of students and/or staff members so that they feel a sense of belonging. -Teachers...

In this episode: I talk about the what, why and how of keeping literacy learning front and center at the end of the school year. We talk about: 1.What does it mean to keep learning front and center. 2. Why keeping learning front and center during our post testing era matters. 3.How to infuse your literacy block with purposeful learning after the state testing in upper elementary. Quotables: -Oftentimes the end of the school year will have us chunking the progress students have made right out ...

In this episode: I talk about the what, why and how of leveraging the behind the scenes of being an upper elementary reading teacher to help you end the year strong-ish. We talk about: 1.What is the behind the scenes of teaching. 2. Why you should focus on controlling the controllables at the end of the school year. 3. What is your M.S.O. and how do you plan for it? Quotables: -Teaching requires a lot of teachers and most of what it requires is intellectual. This means that there is often not...

In this episode: I talk about the what, why and how of casting a vision that will help you finish the year strong-ish We talk about: 1.What it means to cast a realistic vision for the end of the school year in your upper elementary literacy classroom. 2. Why casting a vision is a form of self care that your future self will thank you for. 3.How asking yourself 4 simple questions will help you cast a vision for ending the year strong-ish. 4. What the research has to say about how casting a vis...

In this episode: Listen in as we talk about what the research says about the What, the Why and the How that finding similarities and differences across texts plays in their reading lives. We talk about: Listen to the final episode in our compare and contrast mini series. We are talking all about contrasting, what it is, why it matters and how it impacts your literacy classroom. We will also talk about how to help students compare and contrast across multiple texts. Quotables: -When we contrast ...

In this episode: Listen in as we talk about what the research says about the What, the Why and the How of making comparisons in your upper elementary literacy classroom We talk about: Listen to the first episode in our compare and contrast series. We are talking all about comparing, what it is, why it matters and how it impacts your literacy classroom. Quotables: -When we compare we are using a higher or thinking skill to discern the relationship between two or more things to decide how those t...

In this episode: Listen in as we talk about what the research says about the role modeling plays in increasing a student’s self-efficacy and self-regulation. This is a sneak peek at a workshop all about teaching students how to internalize what you've taught them. We talk about: What the research has to say is the missing link between what you’re teaching students and how to get them to internalize what you’ve taught them. Quotables: -Modeling plays a vital role in the first two levels of self-...

In this episode: Listen in as we talk about what the research says about the importance of modeling in your literacy classroom. We talk about: What modeling is, what the research says about it and how you can impact it so that you can increase student learning in your classroom. Quotables: - Modeling is the process by which learners pattern their thoughts, beliefs and behaviors after those displayed by one or more models. -Models provide students with examples of others who have successfully c...

In this episode: Listen in as we talk about what the research says about self-regulation, why it matters and how it impacts students in your classroom. We talk about: What self-regulation is, what the research says about it and how you can impact it so that you can increase student learning in your classroom. Quotables: - Self-regulation as the capacity to understand and direct one’s own learning. -Self-regulation skills can and should be explicitly taught and frequently reviewed in order to h...

In this episode: Listen in as we talk about self-efficacy and how it impacts your upper elementary literacy classroom. We talk about: What self-efficacy, why knowing what it is matters in your literacy classroom and how to help raise it. Hear what the research says its impact is in your literacy classroom and what you can do to impact it. Quotables: -Self-Efficacy refers to what a student thinks they are able to do as it relates to learning and their ability to perform a task. -Self-efficacy c...