Teaching Unscripted

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, Lucy Calkins, author and series editor of the Units of Study for Reading and Writing, shares details on the latest, groundbreaking work to come out of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project: the new Units of Study in Phonics for grades K–2. © Heinemann Publishing 2018 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://...

Writing is no easy task, and often times the hardest part is just getting started! Quickwrites, is a writing method author and classroom teacher Linda Rief is known for. In fact, she wrote the book on it! She says it provides students with a low-risk writing exercise to get ideas out, and brainstorm how they might like to write about a topic they are interested in. Quickwrites also allows students...

Today on the Heinemann podcast, we’re packing our bookbags for summer camp! Teaching writing can feel intimidating, but New York Times best-selling author Jennifer Serravallo says that the best way to be a strong writing teacher is to be a strong writer. And to be a strong writer? Well, you have to write! Jen is the author of the The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Ski...

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, a special read aloud from Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O’Dell, co-authors of Beyond Literary Analysis: Teaching Students to Write with Passion and Authority About Any Text. Run-of-the-mill analysis essays have their place, but when is the last time your students were excited to write them? And when were you last excited to read them? In Beyond Literary Analysis, Al...

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, empathy… In Sara Ahmed’s book Being the Change, she writes about how empathy has become a buzzword and its practice tends to get lost under high achievement goals And In their book  Kids First from Day One, Christine Hertz and Kristi Mraz write: . "You might think that being an empathetic teacher is just part of the gig, but in the heat of the moment and the st...

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, we continue our special read aloud with 180 Days authors Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle. In part two of this podcast series, the authors share more excerpts from their new book 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents. Last week, we heard about their core teaching beliefs and strategies for generating creative and meaningful writing....

Today on the Heinemann podcast, a special read aloud podcast from 180 Days. Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle are co-authors of the new book 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents. Their book is a reflection of a year-long collaboration of planning and teaching. It is a core resource for any educator who feels the push and pull between planning an engaging curriculum...

Today on the Heinemann podcast: What’s the role of technology in literacy coaching? It’s a question that gets mixed responses from teachers and coaches. If you ask Stephanie Affinito, author of Literacy Coaching: Transforming Teaching and Learning with Digital Tools and Technology, she would say “it depends.” Technology is always changing and learning how to integrate it into your practice can fee...

Can you think back to when you were last fully engaged in something? So consumed that you lost all track of time and your surroundings? As Ellin Keene writes, “when engaged, we enter into a state of wideawakeness that is almost blissful.” She says, this feeling is intoxicating. How can our students find this deep engagement on their own? In her newest book, Engaging Children, Ellin...

Today on the Heinemann podcast: how do we create strong learning communities where students can feel confident in their mathematical abilities? A few years ago, Rozlynn Dance and Tessa Kaplan found their students weren’t grasping math concepts, and just getting by. They examined their math instruction, were unsatisfied, and set out to change how they taught. This work lead to their new book Thinki...

Today on the Heinemann podcast, how do we make time for inquiry? Author Smokey Daniels says that is his most asked question about inquiry. Smokey is the author of The Curious Classroom: 10 Structures for Teaching with Student-Directed Inquiry . Making space for individual choice when a curriculum has already been planned can be a challenge. Smokey says you have to “inquiryize” your classroom. Copy...

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, we’re diving back into 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents with authors Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle. If you haven’t already, we invite you to listen to Part I of our conversation, where we talked about the need for flexibility, having agency in the work and the process of writing 180 Days. Now, in Part II, Kelly and Penny disc...

Today on the Heinemann Podcast, a year of teaching dangerously.  Spoiler, that was ALMOST the title for Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle’s new book… 180 Days. The idea for this book started with the question, “how do you fit it all in?” Their very honest answer… you don’t! And that’s the point. As the year ebbs and flows, plans change based on students’ needs. Kelly and Penny teamed up to con...

Today on the Heinemann Podcast; how do we create lifelong readers? It might seem obvious, but it starts with books! Books are the heart and soul of teaching literacy and our tools to develop lifelong readers. So how can we organize books across an entire school community to support student choice AND instructional goals? In their new book, It’s All About the Books: How to Create Bookrooms and Clas...

Today on the Heinemann Podcast we’re talking about tough conversations in the classroom. Do you find yourself struggling with how to respond to students when topics like race, gender, politics, region and sexuality are brought up at school? These subjects are part of our students’ lives. So then how do we create learning conditions where kids can ask the questions they want to ask and have tough c...

On the Heinemann podcast today, something different. We offer a story from author Sara Ahmed. A story about compassion, empathy and most importantly, identity. This is a story about Being the Change: Today's podcast is also the letter in the opening chapter of Sara's new book, Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension.  In her book, she explores how student growth...

It's been said that poetry and physics are the same thing, so on today's Heinemann Podcast we're examining the poetry of science. Language and literature can work in the same way science does. Both literature and science have stability and change. Both also have cause and effect.  In their book; Sharing Books, Talking Science , this is what authors Valerie Bang-Jensen and Mark Lubkowitz call...

Knowing how to analyze all the different sources that enter into our world has never been more important. On today’s podcast we’re speaking with author Sunday Cummins about her new book: Nurturing Informed Thinking: Reading, Talking and Writing Across Content-Sources . Sunday says we need students to be able to ask questions and then actively seek out answers by reading, listening or viewing...

Today on the podcast, whole class novels and choice. How do we have it both ways; reading literature deeply and also fostering joyful, independent learning? In Kate Robert's new book, A Novel Approach: Whole-Class Novels, Student Centered Teaching and Choice , Kate examines the troubles and triumphs of both whole-class novels and independent reading. She says we can find a student-centered, balanc...

The classroom of your dreams starts with one big idea. Kids First from Day One shares how to put your deepest teaching beliefs into action. Listen in! Copyright Heinemann Publishing 2018 See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

The idea that students should be “college and career ready” when they leave high school has become a major focus in education, but much of this conversation has been on reading readiness.  What about writing readiness? Today on the Heinemann Podcast, author Liz Prather. In her book, Project-Based Writing, Liz shows us how teachers can bring students into the lesson planning process, invi...

In your daily life, would you voluntarily sit down to write an analytical essay on The Odyssey? Or on Catcher in the Rye? Probably not. Would you like to read and grade more than one hundred identical essays about these novels instead? Probably not. So, why do we ask our students to this year after year? Today on the Heinemann Podcast, authors Allison Marchetti & Rebekah O’Dell explore alterna...

What is the role of a principal and how can a principal use their knowledge to be the best head-learner they can be? Heinemann Author Tom Marshall discusses his approach these questions in his new book: Reclaiming the Principalship:Instructional Leadership Strategies to Engage Your School Community and Focus on Learning . As a former teacher and staff developer, Tom writes about his philosophies b...

On today’s podcast we’re talking with New York Times, Best-selling author Jennifer Serravallo about a new on-demand course called Strategies in Action: Reading and Writing Methods and Content . Drawing from Jen’s best-selling resources   The Reading Strategies Book and The Writing Strategies Book , this new on-demand course was designed by Jen to help educators understand how to find goa...

Today on The Heinemann Podcast:  Amy Ludwig VanDerwater  says poems can do everything and allow us to become who we are. Amy says there is magic in poetry and that magic translates into teaching. She says once we can get past the idea that poems are in their own little word, they open up a world of possibilities in the classroom. Her hope is we can infuse everything with poetry. Amy does...