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Anita Landoll describes a methodology that she developed to help struggling readers learn to read, which she calls "The Sounds of Words."

Darnell Jenkins shares how he uses Figure Math to engage high school students with different learning styles as they become more proficient in not only solving equations, but also exploring, collaborating, creating and evaluating math together.   Resources: Connect to Figure Math

Teresa Gonzalez shares how SEL Adventures supported the turn around of a challenging class, and helped students learn how they learn best through the motivation of this online game.    Resources: Connect to SEL Adventures

Brendon Jobs, Director of Diversity & Inclusion at The Haverford School in Haverford, Pennsylvania, shares how learning the Question Formulation Technique energized his teaching, and shares with us how to bring this technique into our classrooms to better engage students in challenging content.

David VanSicklen, Advanced Learning Specialist in the Middleton Cross Plains School District in Madison, WI, shares his affinity for the app Seesaw for younger elementary students.  He says Seesaw has "unlimited possibilities."   Resources: Connect to Seesaw

Susan Connick from St. Benilde School in Metarie, Louisiana shares how she uses Lexia Core 5 to support her Tier II struggling readers in grades K-7.   Resources: Connect to Lexia Core5  

Sonja Herring from Cresthill Middle School in Douglas County, Colorado shares how she uses TCI's Geography Alive's Map Labs to make geography learning active, relevant and engaging for middle school learners.   Resources: Connect to TCI's Social Studies Resources

Jared Adamson from Cherokee Trail High School discusses how Big Ideas Math helps him increase student achievement through the curriculum's Investigations, Game Closet and other tools that provide students with immediate feedback.     Resources: Connect to Big Ideas Math

Kathy Zaleski shares how she uses Connection Circles to build community in her classroom, which she learned from the Longmont Community Justice Center.  She discusses how restorative practices are alternatives to traditional discipline, and shares the following resources for others looking to learn more about this powerful instructional practice: The little books: https://emu.edu/cjp/resources/lit...

Today on the show we veer away from discussion of a curriculum product to focus instead on a teaching strategy.  Learn from Emily Fields in Douglas County, Colorado, how and why she uses Socratic Seminar to teach critical reading & writing in her middle school classroom.

Chris Miraglia discusses how he uses Flipgrid in his middle school social studies classroom to give students a voice, and engage 75% of the students who wouldn't normally participate in a classroom discussion.   Resources: Connect to Flipgrid

Ashley Cooksey, a school librarian in Arkansas, shares the way that implementing codeSpark in an elementary library taught her how to code right alongside the students, paving the way to her current role as an Instructional Technology Coach and an accomplished educational leader.     Resources: Connect to codeSpark Ashley's resources to help teach coding through storytelling:   https://padlet.com/...

Diane Sweeney from Diane Sweeney Consulting shares how school systems can use the coaching cycles in Student-Centered Coaching to support a successful curriculum implementation.

Serri Mills shares how she found AVID, and found students' stories about AVID so compelling, that she brought it to her entire elementary school and became a "Truly Changed Teacher" as a result.

Rebecca Sklepovich, Director of Curriculum and Instruction at the Denver School of Science and Technology at Green Valley Ranch, shares what she has learned about running a successful curriculum adoption, including how to research and what to look for when procuring high quality, evidence-based curriculum resources.

Sarah Noble shares how her use of the Facing History and Ourselves curriculum helps her tackle tough issues of race and racism in the classroom, to make sure she doesn't alienate students when reading canonical texts that include dehumanizing language.   Resources: Connect to Facing History and Ourselves

John Nolan from the Alameda Unified School District shares how E.L. Achieve's Constructing Meaning has helped him, for the very first time in his long teaching career, feel like he is EFFECTIVELY meeting his ELL students' English-learning needs.   Resources: Connect with E.L. Achieve and Constructing Meaning

John Damaso, English Teacher at Brophy Prep College Prep in Phoenix, shares about how he supports students' vocabulary growth through Membean's individualized instruction, and just how much his students have embraced this online learning program.   Resources: Connect to Membean

Joe Adrian, veteran teacher in Leander ISD in Austin, TX, shares about how he found AVID early in his career, and has brought it with him to every school and district he's worked, and why.

Roger Chow, former Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Tacoma Public Schools and Executive Director of Secondary Education for Pueblo Public Schools, shares how Read Right helped struggling readers in his districts catch up with the students reading on grade level.

Arrupe Jesuit High School Chemistry and Physics teacher, Stephan Graham, shares how he facilitates students' ownership of their learning using the Particle Modeling Curriculum developed by the American Modeling Teachers Association at modelinginstruction.com.

Tara Gilboa, former Spanish Teacher in Boulder Valley School District, shares how she first discovered Organic World Language in college, and how the OWL approach transforms second language classrooms into lively communities world-wide.   Resources: Connect to Organic World Language

Elizabeth Gordon from Stober Elementary in Jefferson County, Colorado shares how she found SHINE from Inside the Greenhouse to address the fourth grade science standards about fossil fuels through a movement-based curriculum that results in a play in a day.     Resources: Connect to Shine's Inside the Greenhouse

Kelly Yrarrazaval, Counselor from Willard Intermediate School in Santa Ana, California, addresses how Beat The Odds helps her address social emotional learning while also having fun.    Resources: Connect to Beat the Odds