Pedagogy Prep-Cast with Kim

This prep-cast is designed to be a fun, casual connection to be listened to during your prep period. This episode is about having a candid conversation about how to deal with some of the struggles we are facing without losing hope, faith, or the fun needed to do this job. Please feel free to contact me directly if you have any questions or would like any of the resources or ideas mentioned.

VIDEO Link: https://bit.ly/3Nl6APM If you find yourself asking why we are so focused on data collection and collaboration, then you are in the right place. Today, we will have a candid conversation explaining why we are doing what we are doing in our ELA departments and PLCs.

VIDEO Link: https://bit.ly/4esqtjZ⁠ Tune in to see what to do now that you have some data from your CommonLit pre-assessment and possibly one or two CommonLit assignments. You will be impressed at how easy it is to differentiate for your students. This prep-cast is just under 6 minutes long. Remember that this one is a video, not just audio. Also, the CommonLit data on my students has been blurred...

Today as we look at our data together in our PLCs, I wanted to let you know what our objectives are. Please take a moment to hear what our district plans to do in these powerful meetings every week.

Today we will be exploring our exciting new secondary reading assessments: Common Lit. This brief prep-cast walks you through how to get you and your students up and running with our new reading assessments.  Please feel free to follow along with this " cheat sheet " with screen shots to make things super easy. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PymZAzZ6zqjZ4lmEkNAW8JZhokV3...

Welcome to a new year! This may be The Most Important Year EVER!! We are excited to roll out our secondary ELA TLCs. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N5FedspQy8L8k48sZEVOUm3DoQqL_6xRDSb6CHfJsoA/edit?usp=sharing  We will be publishing more ELA "Prep-casts" as the year progresses. Please feel free to explore past episodes . Many are powerful and very relevant--especiall...

Have you heard about TAP? Teaching as a Profession is a learning path that WSD embraces passionately. It is an opportunity to "grow our own pedagogues" from the ground up. This final episode of our WSD prep-casts will end on a wonderfully positive note as we congratulate and celebrate our TAP teachers and students. Bravo!! Thank you for "growing our own" wonderful, educators the Weber Way! &n...

(This will be a two part series packed with new resources for teaching the Bard!)  Why should a student be interested in the writings of Shakespeare? We have some interesting, powerful guests today--including our own WSD Superintendent-- to discuss the importance and power of Shakespeare in the classroom and even some important points on how NOT to do Shakespeare in the classroom. We are mostly ex...

Welcome! Glad you're here.  Today's focus is about the importance of instructional transparency--letting the students know WHY they are learning something. I have included a link to our resource sheet here and in the email I sent out.  It will ask you to make a copy of the document. I review these resources in the last segment of the Prep-Cast.  Here is a link to the resource sheet:...

What was the best advice you have used successfully in your classroom? We are going to hear from a few very interesting people for this week's prep-cast. First, my retired husband the old, crusty, homicide detective. That may surprise you based on the focus this week, but you will LOVE his advice. It applies to every grade level and content area. Then, I have asked a few of our district leade...

Today's focus: quick easy ways to ensure student engagement! These tips and tricks are simple, quick ways to "jazz" up your current assignments to make them IRRESISTABLE for students to ignore!! Promise! Just a few tweaks and you will see more work turned in, better work turned in, and you may even see some surprising, happy "side effects" of authentic engagement.  Please stay tuned afte...