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Season 1

0185 Season One Finale

Release Date:  August 27, 2018 Leave a Comment

Enjoy a bonus episode that wraps season one of production. Check in with many of our guests and reflect on our year of learning. Camden Hanzlick-Burton – Episode 008 – 2:08 Shannon Ralph – Episode 010 – 17:08 Drew Ising – Episode 015 – 31:25

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018 Listen for What’s Behind the Words

Release Date:  August 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Responsive teaching is is an exciting way to highlight student voice, but it comes with its own share of challenges and tensions. Caroline Herbster and Jacob Truett, from FSU Teach at Florida State University, join us to talk about their research with veteran teachers as they work to incorporate responsive practices.   Later, we look… Read More »

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017 The Language of Our Forebears

Release Date:  July 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Multilingual learners are sitting in most classrooms today. How do we support English language learners (ELL) students’ learning in math, science and social studies while they navigate the language and cultural barriers of their emergent bilingualism? We look at some research on how taking responsibility for our own cultural and linguistic perspective as teachers can… Read More »

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016 “A” for Effort?

Release Date:  June 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Standards based grades are an exciting option for making grades more meaningful. We look at some recent writings on how to avoid some of the most common mistakes in our gradebooks, and then consider how standards-based grades can support some of the best practices.   Later, we read some additional work suggested by one of… Read More »

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015 – Learn Free, or Try

Release Date:  May 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Students should drive their own learning. Drew Ising, another biology teacher from Baldwin High School, joins the PLC to discuss how the NGSS framework calls for letting our students take the lead in our classroom. We must guide students as they build understanding and skill, but how do we deal with misconceptions and incomplete understanding… Read More »

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014 – First, We Require Audacity

Release Date:  April 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Social controversy swirls in the public space. Controversial issues carry into the classroom and affect how students interact with each other and the material. Teachers must have the courage to address contentious topics in their classroom, the wisdom to know where their expertise lies, and the resolution to see their choices through to the end…. Read More »

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013 Thereafter, Our Tools Shape Us

Release Date:  March 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Online education makes learning opportunities available for millions of people who otherwise would have very limited access to teachers, peers, and classrooms. As educators continue to explore all the ways we can use digital learning environments to better reach kids, we must search for ways to make online multimedia as responsive and personal as a… Read More »

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012 Coherence & Dissonance

Release Date:  February 12, 2018 Leave a Comment

Dr. Heidi Hallman, associate professor of English education at the University of Kansas and author of Secondary English Teacher Education in the United States: Responding to a Changing Context, joins our PLC this month. Patterns in teacher preparation have changed over the last couple decades. Patterns in how teachers are trained to use standards, leverage… Read More »

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011 For Whom Does the Bell Toll?

Release Date:  January 11, 2018 Leave a Comment

Differentiation can be a contentious topic. Most educators want to reach all of their students, but the realities of how they can serve the breadth of needs in a classroom can lead to frustration. We consider the state of the national conversation by looking at a paper from Warwick. It argues that theoretical perspectives, policies,… Read More »

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010 An Eye On The Canary

Release Date:  December 12, 2017 Leave a Comment

Data analysis is getting increasing attention in education. Data science can have considerable influence over education, especially in online or blended learning settings. How do teachers find actionability in the data while still meeting the tremendous demand of running a classroom five days a week? We’ll consider comments from the journal Nature on the subject…. Read More »

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