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Building Better Collaboration Between Families and Schools

…is an educator and the author of Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care. In a book that is both practical and beautiful, she lays out a pathway for how schools can make more authentic connections with the people in students’ lives outside of school. Even more than connections — how we can truly collaborate with families to educate our students by elevating the natural learning that happens at home and making our work in school more relevant to students’ home lives. Nawal Qarooni I have a long list of education books waiting to be…

Buzzword Bling: Putting Substance Behind Our Big Words

…that mirror life’s complexities, and where students contribute to communities. Furthermore, they promote the purpose of school as more than a test score, that we should be helping students obtain the skills necessary to be successful in life. Before we can help students to learn by doing, mirror life, or contribute to their communities, we need to step into their world. We have to give them situations and connections that are real to their world now. If we offer students connections and situations that are so close to home that they can actually, physically, right this minute, do something about…

Episode 3: The Montessori Method

…of glad she stood up for that student, you know? Just because there came a point where she felt that the teacher that was there was really focused on maintaining calm, order. Gonzalez: Yeah, which I think a lot of times comes from the fact that you are running the class so if you are attention is diverted to a student who is having trouble then the class can no longer go on because the materials and the set up is not meant for them to be independent, right? Bossut: Right. Exactly. Gonzalez: And that’s why you’re able if one…

Episode 96: What Is the Point of a Makerspace?

…is free to use for teachers and students. To learn more visit cultofpedagogy.com/peergrade. Support for this episode also comes from Microsoft OneNote Class Notebook. OneNote Class Notebooks have a personal workspace for every student, a content library for handouts, and a collaboration space for lessons and creative activities. The collaboration space encourages students to work together as the teacher provides real-time feedback and coaching. Teachers can provide individualized support by typing, writing, or inserting audio or video directly into each student’s private notebook. OneNote is free and available on any platform. Learn more at http://onenote.com/classnotebook Now here’s my interview with…

The Art of Annotation: Teaching Readers To Process Texts

…grasp on what they should be noticing. Gather the class and project student work (in my class, students volunteer to share). Prompt students to compare annotations, note their peers’ insights, and offer feedback. Allow students to “borrow” snippets of each others’ annotations if they wish. This is intentionally a collaborative process that promotes the sharing of insights and ideas. Students can use the template as long as it’s needed. The cycle of discussion and feedback can continue indefinitely. At any point, the annotation look-fors can be edited for specific genres, content areas, or other purposes for reading. Click here to…

Episode 15: A Teacher’s Coming Out Story

…walls between my students and myself. Gonzalez: Yeah. Lifshitz: So. Gonzalez: Did, did– During those years and this sounds like we’re talking about seven, eight years of teaching (..) about that. Lifshitz: Yeah, Gonzalez: Was there ever a time when a student or a — Well, let’s stick with the students for right now. Was there ever a time where a student kept pushing the questions to a point where you thought ‘Wow, they’re getting warmer.’ Lifshitz: Luckily, no. Gonzalez: Okay. Lifshitz: You know again, they’re ten and eleven and they sort of don’t get stuff, so you know —…

Episode 149: Nine Ways Online Teaching Should Be Different from Face-to-Face

…same, regardless of which space you’re teaching in. Let’s start with this community building and communication. What’s the first thing that should be a real difference when a person is teaching online? KITCHEN: The first few days and even weeks of school really need to be devoted to community building and attending to students’ social-emotional needs and really thinking about how we are communicating with students and parents. So we know that when we build the social-emotional skills of students that that will increase academics and it also helps with student behavior. We’ve been through some trauma, so trauma is…

Episode 257 Transcript

…it is inaccurate. But the way that you frame it is that your framework was built with Black students in mind, specifically. And I want to make sure that anybody listening to my podcast comes to your work understanding what the thinking was behind that. Because I have a lot of people in my audience who are white teachers who teach a lot of white students in addition to a lot of students of other ethnicities. And I don’t want anybody coming to your work saying, oh, well, this is not for my kids. This is not for all of…

A Conversation About School Choice

…helping students? Because if we’re investing money into an educational option, we want students to do well. And so there’s this question of, well, how are they doing? Some of them have a lot of accountability built in, where you can start to answer that question. Maybe students using a voucher, for instance, take the same standardized test as the kids in the public schools. But there’s programs where there’s very little accountability, and it’s kind of left up to the parents to decide if their children are being well served, and it’s very hard for the public to decide, you…