Teaching Unscripted

Today on the podcast we’re exploring the stories we tell, and how we can create a classroom community that builds space for everyone’s story.  We're joined today by Susan Harris MacKay. Susan is a national speaker, former classroom teacher and Pedagogical Director the Portland Children’s Museum and Opal School, and recently established the Center for Playful Inquiry. Her new book is called St...

Today on the podcast we are joined by Bob Kim and Liz Kleinrock for a special conversation. Bob is a former civil rights attorney, and leading expert in education law and policy in the United States. He has served in the Obama administration in the U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights, and has also served as a senior policy analyst at the National Education Association. He is the a...

Today on the podcast we’re excited to be joined again by Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera, co-authors of En Comunidad: Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students . En Comunidad was published last spring during the first months of the pandemic. Today, Carla and Luz reflect on the past year since their book’s publication, and offer their current thinking on bili...

Have you ever been so lost in a story that the rest of the world melts away? Today on the podcast we’re joined by author Tom Newkirk. Tom says that if we want students to develop a love of books and writing, we need to bring fiction back to our writing curriculum, and not just as an extra-curricular. In his new book, Writing Unbound: How Fiction Transforms Student Writers , Tom makes a case that w...

Today on the podcast we’re joined by Arlène Casimir and Alex Venet as they discuss the ethos of trauma informed teaching practices. They explore the community building power of trauma informed teaching, common misunderstandings, and how to start the work with ourselves. Both Arlène and Alex are educators and authors with vast backgrounds in healing-centered education. They recently co-wrote a piec...

Welcome to  Water for Teachers , A Heinemann podcast focused on engaging with the hearts and humanity of those who teach. One thing we know for sure is that teachers are human. They have fears. They've experienced tragedy. They struggle. They are affected by crises and pandemics. And like everyone else, they deserve to lead lives full of peace, joy, and love. Join host  Shamari Reid &nbs...

Welcome to  Water for Teachers , A Heinemann podcast focused on engaging with the hearts and humanity of those who teach. One thing we know for sure is that teachers are human. They have fears. They've experienced tragedy. They struggle. They are affected by crises and pandemics. And like everyone else, they deserve to lead lives full of peace, joy, and love. Join host  Shamari Reid &nbs...

What are the benefits of writing in small groups? Can they work in all classrooms? Today on the podcast we’re speaking with Jen Serravallo about her new book Teaching Writing in Small Groups. A follow up to its predecessor Teaching Reading in Small Groups, this book reveals how just a few minutes of purposeful, responsive teaching can have a big impact with your students. The conversation by askin...

Welcome to  Water for Teachers , A Heinemann podcast focused on engaging with the hearts and humanity of those who teach. One thing we know for sure is that teachers are human. They have fears. They've experienced tragedy. They struggle. They are affected by crises and pandemics. And like everyone else, they deserve to lead lives full of peace, joy, and love. Join host  Shamari Reid &nbs...

Welcome to  Water for Teachers , A Heinemann podcast focused on engaging with the hearts and humanity of those who teach. One thing we know for sure is that teachers are human. They have fears. They've experienced tragedy. They struggle. They are affected by crises and pandemics. And like everyone else, they deserve to lead lives full of peace, joy, and love. Join host  Shamari Reid &nbs...

Welcome to  Water for Teachers , A Heinemann podcast focused on engaging with the hearts and humanity of those who teach. One thing we know for sure is that teachers are human. They have fears. They've experienced tragedy. They struggle. They are affected by crises and pandemics. And like everyone else, they deserve to lead lives full of peace, joy, and love. Join host  Shamari Reid &nbs...

Welcome to  Water for Teachers , A Heinemann podcast focused on engaging with the hearts and humanity of those who teach. One thing we know for sure is that teachers are human. They have fears. They've experienced tragedy. They struggle. They are affected by crises and pandemics. And like everyone else, they deserve to lead lives full of peace, joy, and love. Join host  Shamari Reid &nbs...

Welcome to Water for Teachers, A Heinemann podcast focused on engagement with the hearts and humanity of those who teach. One thing we know for sure is that teachers are human. They have fears. They've experienced tragedy. They struggle. They are affected by crises and pandemics. And like everyone else, they deserve to lead lives full of peace, joy, and love. Join host Shamari Reid and other educa...

The Heinemann Podcast is pleased to present Water for Teachers, a new mini-series focused on engaging with the hearts and humanity of those who teach. Water for Teachers is rooted in the knowledge that teachers are human. Teachers have fears, experience tragedy, struggle, are affected by crises and pandemics... And like everyone else, teachers deserve to lead lives full of peace, joy, and love. Jo...

On this special edition of the Heinemann Podcast, we're bringing together authors Jennifer Serravallo and Marilyn Burns as they explore the intersections between literacy and math in the k-5 classroom. Marilyn Burns is one of today’s most highly respected math educators. She is the creator and founder of Math Solutions®, and has dedicated her career to the improvement of math i...

Educators often sacrifice personal time and energy to their students’ and school’s needs but when these sacrifices outweigh personal care, both teacher and student suffer.  Today on the podcast, we’re bringing you a special preview chapter from Colleen Cruz’s new audiobook, Risk. Fail. Rise.: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Mistakes.  In this ex...

Schools can take steps to increase student racial diversity--but sometimes putting policies into practice is more complicated than it should be. Today on the podcast we’re bringing you a special preview chapter from Robert Kim’s new audiobook Elevating Equity and Justice: Ten U.S. Supreme Court Cases Every Teacher Should Know . Bob is a former civil rights attorney, and is a leading expert in educ...

Think back to your last big mistake. If you’re like most of us, “grateful” probably isn’t the first word that comes to mind. Mistakes are part of learning. How do we address our own mistakes and model our responses? How do we create a mistakes-welcoming classroom? In her new book, Risk. Fail. Rise. A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Mistakes , author Colleen Cruz invites us to be more aware of the...

What do we do when students are reluctant to write? The most important thing to remember is that it's the conditions, not the kids.  Today on the podcast we're talking about the productive struggle of writing with Kelly Boswell, author of the new book  Every Kid A Writer: Strategies That Get Everyone Writing . In her book, Kelly provides a different approach to writing instruction; one t...

Are your students ready to become the engaged and informed citizens our democracy needs right now? Your classroom can be a place for them to experience what it means to live in community with others, to overcome differences, and to ask the questions. Today on the podcast we're joined by Mary Ehrenworth, Pablo Wolfe, and Marc Todd, co-authors of  The Civically Engaged Classroom: Reading, Writi...

Young children love to learn and use new words. How do we tap into this natural curiosity and excitement to support vocabulary development? Today on the podcast we're joined by Tanya Wright, author of A Teacher's Guide to Vocabulary Development Across the Day , the newest addition to The Classroom Essentials Series . We're also joined by series editor Katie Wood Ray. Tanya and Katie talk abou...

We all have the intention of using our classroom to envision a better world, but it's not always as easy as it sounds.  Today on the podcast we're joined by Chris Hass, author of  Social Justice Talk: Strategies for Teaching Critical Awareness . We're also joined by his colleagues and co-contributors Nozsa Tinsley and Tiffany Palmatier.  Chris, Nozsa, and Tiffany share their fi...

As classroom instruction has moved online, have you found yourself struggling to adapt? If so, you're not alone.  Today on the podcast, Sarah Gilmore and Katierose Deos, co-authors of Integrating Technology , joined Heinemann colleague Jaclyn Karabinas to talk about the stressful shift from in-person to online and blended instruction, and why we shouldn't get too caught up in what the newest...

The demands on educators in this moment are more than anyone could have ever imagined. Routines for teaching and learning, with children AND with colleagues, have completely been turned upside down. The time crunches are real and the need for growing as professionals in the name of students still remains.  So, where does professional development fit in our current reality? What do educators n...

Welcome to The Year Ahead, a mini-series from the Heinemann Podcast, hosted by Meenoo Rami, author of  Thrive: 5 Ways to (Re) Invigorate Your Teaching . Meenoo has always believed that teaching is harder if you do it alone, and teaching during a once in a lifetime pandemic is as hard as it gets, but by meeting educators around the world who are going through this too, maybe together, we...