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A Shifting the Balance podcast, featuring authors Katie Egan Cunningham, Dr. Jan Burkins and Kari Yates.
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Reimagining Independent Practice in the Literacy Classroom
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In this podcast episode, Katie Egan Cunningham, Jan Burkins, and Kari Yates, the authors of Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This much-awaited sequel to the first Shifting the Balance book introduces six more shifts for elementary teachers. In this episode, the authors discuss the six…
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In this podcast episode, Katie Egan Cunningham, Jan Burkins, and Kari Yates, the authors of Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This much-awaited sequel to the first Shifting the Balance book introduces six more shifts for elementary teachers. In this episode, the authors discuss the fif…
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Reclaiming Word Reading Instruction in Intermediate Grades
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In this podcast episode, Katie Egan Cunningham, Jan Burkins, and Kari Yates, the authors of Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This much-awaited sequel to the first Shifting the Balance book introduces six more shifts for elementary teachers. In this episode, the authors discuss the fou…
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In this podcast episode, Katie Egan Cunningham, Jan Burkins, and Kari Yates, the authors of Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This much-awaited sequel to the first Shifting the Balance book introduces six more shifts for elementary teachers. In this episode, the authors discuss the thi…
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Rethinking the Role of Strategy Instruction in Learning to Comprehend
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In this podcast episode, Katie Egan Cunningham, Jan Burkins, and Kari Yates, the authors of Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom discuss the second new shift, which involves rethinking the way we teach comprehension strategies. They unpack two important misunderstandings about strategy ins…
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Reconsidering How Knowledge Impacts Comprehension, Grades 3-5
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In this podcast, Katie Egan Cunningham, Jan Burkins, and Kari Yates, the authors of Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This much-awaited sequel to the first Shifting the Balance book introduces six more shifts for elementary teachers. In this episode, the authors discuss the first new s…
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In this podcast, Katie Egan Cunningham, Jan Burkins, and Kari Yates discuss the background and origin of their new book, Shifting the Balance 3-5: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Upper Elementary Classroom. This much-awaited sequel to the K-2 book introduces six more shifts for elementary teachers. In this conversation, Katie, Jan, …
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Better Book Clubs In and Beyond the Classroom with Sara Kugler and Grace Choi
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In her comprehensive guide, Better Book Clubs: Deepening Comprehension and Elevating Conversation, literacy coach and staff developer Sara Kugler shows you how to combine the power of book clubs with assessment-driven instruction to support your students as they talk and think about texts together. Using authentic book club conversations as an asse…
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Talking About Race in the Elementary Classroom: Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr
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In this episode of Teacher’s Corner, we tune into a conversation between Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr, authors of We’re Gonna Keep On Talking: How To Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Elementary Classroom. They discuss how they chose the book’s title, productive strategies for talking about race with young children, and what readers can exp…
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Conferring Across Math and Literacy with Gina Picha, Maria Walther, and Karen Biggs-Tucker
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Whether its literacy or math, the goal of conferring with students is to understand student thinking and support their learning in the moment, nudging them forward through brief, informal conversations. Today’s podcast features Gina Picha, author of Conferring in the Math Classroom, and Maria Walther and Karen Biggs-Tucker, co-authors of The Litera…
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A Peek Behind the Cover of We’re Gonna Keep On Talking with Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr
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What should conversations about race look and sound like in the elementary classroom? How do we respond authentically and truthfully to children’s questions about the world? And how can we build classroom communities that encourage these meaningful conversations about race? Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr take on these questions and more in We’re Gonn…
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Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman: Welcome to Writing Workshop
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Stacey Shubitz and Lynne Dorfman in discussion with Stenhouse’s Bill Varner. Stacey and Lynne are veteran writers and educators, and together co-authored the recent book Welcome to Writing Workshop: Engaging Today’s Students with a Model That Works. As you’d expect, today is all things writing workshop, including structure, small group instruction,…
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What Does Teacher Appreciation Look Like?
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Paula Bourque, Matthew Kay, and Terry Thompson discuss the myth of the perfect teacher, what we get wrong—and right—about teacher appreciation, and how we can show appreciation year round. Original Airdate 2020. Links: Paula Bourque: Spark! https://www.paulabourque.com @LitCoachLady Matthew Kay: Not Light, But Fire https://www.notlight.com @MattRKa…
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Shelley Harwayne: Above and Beyond the Writing Workshop
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Shelley Harwayne and Stenhouse's Maureen Barbieri in a wide-ranging discussion about Shelley's new book, Above and Beyond the Writing Workshop. Check out the free study guide for Above and BeyondBy Stenhouse Publishers
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Jennifer Fletcher: Teaching Rhetorical Thinking
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Jennifer Fletcher and Stenhouse editor Bill Varner discuss her shift from a teacher-centered approach to a rhetorical one, the long-term value of teaching students to think rhetorically, and the big ideas behind her new book, Writing Rhetorically: Fostering Responsive Thinkers and Communicators. Learn More: Writing Rhetorically: Fostering Responsiv…
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In 5 Kinds of Nonfiction: Enriching Reading and Writing Instruction with Children’s Books, Melissa Stewart and Marlene Correia present a new way to sort nonfiction into five major categories and show how doing so can help teachers and librarians build stronger readers and writers. In today’s episode, Terry Thompson talks with Melissa and Marlene ab…
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Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math
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Kassia Omohundro Wedekind and Christy Hermann Thompson have spent years comparing notes on how to build effective classroom communities across the content areas. Their research led to the development of Hands Down Conversations, an innovative discourse structure in which all students’ ideas and voices take the lead while teachers focus on listening…
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Reconsidering Texts for Beginning Readers
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In today’s episode, Jan and Kari with Stenhouse’s Dan Tobin, discuss the final shift: Reconsidering Texts for Beginning Readers. LINKS Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balance Literacy Classroom Follow Jan @drjanburkins and www.drjanburkins.com . Follow Kari @Kari_Yates www.thesixshifts.com…
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In today’s episode Jan, Kari, and Dan discuss the fifth shift: Reinventing the Ways We Use MSV. LINKS Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balance Literacy Classroom Follow Jan @drjanburkins and www.drjanburkins.com . Follow Kari @Kari_Yates www.thesixshifts.comBy Stenhouse Publishers
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What Does Teacher Appreciation Look Like?
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Originally broadcast in 2020. Paula Bourque, Matthew Kay, and Terry Thompson discuss the myth of the perfect teacher, what we get wrong—and right—about teacher appreciation, and how we can show appreciation year round. Links: Paula Bourque: Spark!: https://www.stenhouse.com/1200.asp https://www.paulabourque.com @LitCoachLady Matthew Kay: Not Light,…
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In today’s episode Jan, Kari, and Dan discuss the fourth shift: Revising High-Frequency Word Instruction. LINKS Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balance Literacy Classroom Follow Jan @drjanburkins and www.drjanburkins.com . Follow Kari @Kari_Yates www.thesixshifts.com…
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Equity, Access, Book Choice, and Student Connection
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Rebroadcast: Gravity Goldberg and Renée Houser, creators of the Teachers Toolkit for Independent Reading share their experiences and questions about helping kids access books and teachers, and what’s important as they look to the fall. LINKS! The Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading: https://www.stenhouse.com/1400.asp https://www.gravityandren…
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In today’s episode Jan and Kari discuss the third shift: Reimagining the Way We Teach Phonics. LINKS Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balance Literacy Classroom Follow Jan @drjanburkins and www.drjanburkins.com . Follow Kari @Kari_Yates www.thesixshifts.comBy Stenhouse Publishers
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Recommitting to Phonemic Awareness Instruction
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Welcome to episode three! In today’s episode Jan and Kari discuss the second shift: Recommitting to Phonemic Awareness Instruction. LINKS Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balance Literacy Classroom Follow Jan @drjanburkins and www.drjanburkins.com . Follow Kari @Kari_Yates www.thesixshifts.com…
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Welcome to episode two! In our previous episode, Jan and Kari shared the story behind Shifting the Balance and their experience rethinking their teaching. In our second episode, Jan, Kari and Dan dig in to the first shift: Rethinking How Reading Comprehension Begins. LINKS Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanc…
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Text Sets in Action: Stories from the Classroom
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In the upcoming Text Sets in Action: Pathways through Content Area Literacy, Mary Ann Cappiello and Erika Thulin Dawes demonstrate how text sets can prompt serious thinking more effectively than any single text. Teachers who adopt this approach find that the texts’ various lenses enable students not only to meet curriculum standards but also to exp…
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In this podcast based on their new book, Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, with Stenhouse’s Dan Tobin address misconceptions and misunderstandings that have discouraged educators from incorporating the science of reading into the balanced literacy classroom.…
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Building Skills to Navigate a Complex World
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What can we teach kids today that will have utility ten or fifteen years from now? Angela Kohnen and Wendy Saul propose an approach to information literacy that goes beyond the teaching of discrete, easily outdated skills. Instead, they use activity to help students build identities as curious individuals empowered to ask their own questions and ab…
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Sneak Peek at Building Fact Fluency for Multiplication and Division
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Graham Fletcher and Tracy Zager share a sneak peek of upcoming Building Fact Fluency Toolkit for Multiplication and Division and discuss the purpose and challenge of creating intriguing and accessible contexts for students. LINKS Want to be the first to know about Graham's new Toolkit? Building Fact Fluency; A Toolkit for Addition and Subtraction B…
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Behind the Scenes of Why Do I Have to Read This?
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Cris Tovani teams up with her instructional coach/editor/friend Samantha Bennett for an engaging, often funny, always insightful discussion of their long relationship and the stories behind her new book, Why Do I Have to Read This? Literacy Strategies to Engage Our Most Reluctant Students. Don't miss it! Do I Really Have to Read This? Cris's Twitte…
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Expressing Gratitude in 2020: 5 Perspectives
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When we set about creating today’s episode, we knew we wanted to explore the idea of gratitude with several authors. What we could not have anticipated is how thoughtful and gracious they were. In our first segment, we speak with Lisa Lucas about what we experience physiologically when we express gratitude and how we can incorporate gratitude into …
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Streamline Your Instruction with The Literacy Workshop
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If reading and writing go hand in hand, wouldn’t it make sense to merge your reading and writing workshops occasionally? What would that even look like? And how would students respond? In this episode, authors Maria Walther and Karen Biggs-Tucker (The Literacy Workshop: Where Reading and Writing Converge) describe literacy workshop, how it looks in…
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Building a Curious and Playful Early Childhood Math Community
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Toni Cameron and Deanna McLennan in conversation with Stenhouse’s Kassia Omohundro Wedekind about creating a supportive, curious, and playful environment for mathematics in early childhood classrooms, the importance of stepping back to listen, and (of course!) what this all looks like these days. LINKS Early Childhood Math Routines Joyful Math Toni…
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In Building Fact Fluency: A Toolkit for Addition and Subtraction, Graham Fletcher helps students learn their math facts by developing conceptual understanding and procedural fluency at the same time. This comprehensive, research-based toolkit provides everything a teacher needs to help students develop number sense on the way to fluency—from cards,…
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According to the NAEP, two thirds of American school children read below grade level proficiency. Some cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists argue that this is because of the gap between what we know about the science of reading and how reading is taught in the classroom. In their recent book, Brain Words: How the Science of Reading Informs T…
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As we begin a new school year, Amanda Jansen and Chris Luzniak share their experiences teaching during the pandemic, how communication with students and colleagues has changed, and the challenges and opportunities presented in moving math discussion from the classroom to Zoom sessions. L I N K S : Mandy @MandyMathEd Rough Draft Math: Revising to Le…
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Using Book Choice to Build a Caring Classroom Community
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What if we viewed every read aloud as an invitation to learn more about literacy and ourselves? That’s the opportunity presented in JoEllen McCarthy’s new book, Layers of Learning: Using Read-Alouds to Connect Literacy and Caring Conversations. Earlier this summer, JoEllen joined us to talk about her new book, how to think differently about your cl…
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Equity, Access, Book Choice and Student Connection
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Gravity Goldberg and Renée Houser, creators of the Teachers Toolkit for Independent Reading share their experiences and questions about helping kids access books and teachers, and what’s important as they look to the fall. LINKS! The Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading: https://www.stenhouse.com/1400.asp https://www.gravityandrenee.com https:…
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Imagine that you assign a math problem and your students, instead of getting discouraged after not solving it on the first attempt, start working harder—as if on a quest to figure out the answer. What could possibly make this fantastic scenario come true? The answer is: Open Middle ® Math by Robert Kaplinsky. With these practical and intuitive stra…
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What Does Teacher Appreciation Look Like?
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Paula Bourque, Matthew Kay, and Terry Thompson discuss the myth of the perfect teacher, what we get wrong—and right—about teacher appreciation, and how we can show appreciation year round. Links: Paula Bourque: Spark!: https://www.stenhouse.com/1200.asp https://www.paulabourque.com @LitCoachLady Matthew Kay: Not Light, But Fire: https://www.stenhou…
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Read Aloud: The CAFE Book with Gail Boushey and Allison Behne
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For the past ten years, Gail and Allison have worked with hundreds of teachers and students nationwide, gaining insight into best practices for reading instruction. Using those insights, they developed The CAFE Book, Expanded Second Edition: Engaging All Students in Daily Literacy Assessment and Instruction to help teachers apply what their researc…
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Lisa Lucas: Responding Instead of Reacting
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We discuss reframing our thinking, Lisa shares her 4 C’s and leads Nate in the Presence Pause, a simple and effective technique to ground and transition yourself and your students. Do it with us! Lisa's Site: https://www.practicingpresence.life Register for Lisa's FREE webinar May 6: https://page.stenhouse.com/webinars Practicing Presence: https://…
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1:1 Teaching Strategies for the Online Classroom with Diana Neebe and Jen Roberts
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With the sudden change to online learning, teachers have been asked to adapt to a mode that they may not be comfortable with or have the necessary training and support to thrive. Our guests today are educators Diana Neebe and Jen Roberts, co-authors of Power Up! Making the Shift to 1:1 Teaching and Learning, which provides a framework for reshaping…
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Simple Self-Care Strategies for Teachers with Dr. Lisa Lucas
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A couple of years ago we talked with Dr. Lisa Lucas about her then-new book, Practicing Presence: Simple Self-Care Strategies for Teachers. At the time, we talked about how to work with the sometimes overwhelming level of stress that educators face. Today, that seems an even bigger challenge and Lisa’s work is even more needed than it was before, s…
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If the playbook for grading and assessment went out the window a couple of weeks ago, what do we do in its place? Rick Wormeli, National Board Certified Teacher and author of Fair Isn't Always Equal, talked with Stenhouse’s Faye LaCasse about what matters most in student assessment. Several times throughout the conversation, Rick and Faye refer to …
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Stenhouse's Faye LaCasse talks to educator, author, and parent Whitney La Rocca about how she is adjusting to remote learning, social distancing, and homeschooling—all while trying to stay positive and connected, but also giving herself permission to lament her pre-COVID routine.By Stenhouse Publishers
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