The GrapeSEED Official Podcast

The A Look Back series will recap some of the recent podcast episodes. If you happened to miss some episodes recently or you are new to the podcast, this will help orient you on the content available! This episode will catch you up on episodes #164-#175!

On this GrapeSEED Friends, we welcome Kat Robles, a teacher in Japan!

For this week's This and That, Miklos and I discuss the important language arts side of our program, the components and activities that help our students learn to read and write. We also talk about how the Writer should be used and thought of by teachers and parents.

In this episode, Aaron joins us to talk about his thinking behind why building better relationships with your coworkers through spending time with them outside of school is valuable. A great listen if you are looking to improve your teamwork with your colleagues as well as improve your social life!

Sad news everyone, Bruno, from the Teacher Says episodes as well as many other podcast appearances, will be leaving our GrapeSEED international family. Before he did, I wanted to have him ont he podcast one more time to share his experience, thoughts and advice!

GrapeSEED Talks are a special set of online calls the GrapeSEED Japan team has with teachers. They talk about a variety of topics, from teaching upper units to classroom management to simply how teachers set up their classrooms. There is so much good stuff on these, that I wanted to share the best parts with our international audience!  This episode features clips from a talk on making the Le...

GrapeSEED Talks are a special set of online calls the GrapeSEED Japan team has with teachers. They talk about a variety of topics, from teaching upper units to classroom management to simply how teachers set up their classrooms. There is so much good stuff on these, that I wanted to share the best parts with our international audience! For this third installment, I wanted to highlight some clips f...

Our third topic of this new series is getting to the core of what is absolutely necessary to be a GrapeSEED teacher your students remember for years to come!

In this This and That, Miklos and I bring back a concept we haven't done since episode 106- take a random lesson plan and discuss how we would prepare to teach it. For this episode, we chose Unit 7 Lesson 28.

The newest version of GrapeSEED has begun its rollout! Over the next few weeks, we are going to highlight some of the newest features and changes to the GrapeSEED program. The fourth episode in this miniseries welcomes Danielle Durham, GrapeSEED's Global Head of Curriculum Development  to talk about all the exciting changes coming with LittleSEED version 2!

The newest version of GrapeSEED has begun its rollout! Over the next few weeks, we are going to highlight some of the newest features and changes to the GrapeSEED program. The third episode in this miniseries welcomes Paula Lutze from the curriculum team and Jeanie Park from the global training team to talk about GrapeSEED Connect, a new platform for teachers to be successful in teaching GrapeSEED...

The newest version of GrapeSEED has begun its rollout! Over the next few weeks, we are going to highlight some of the newest features and changes to the GrapeSEED program. The second episode in this miniseries welcomes Abby Lee from the curriculum team to talk about GrapeSEED Baby, an entirely new program for, well, babies!

The newest version of GrapeSEED has begun its rollout! Over the next few weeks, we are going to highlight some of the newest features and changes to the GrapeSEED program. The first episode in this miniseries welcomes Jake Lubeck from the curriculum team to talk about Talk Time, an exciting new interactive addition to the REP students do on their Apps!

The A Look Back series will recap some of the recent podcast episodes. If you happened to miss some episodes recently or you are new to the podcast, this will help orient you on the content available! This episode will catch you up on episodes #146-#162!

Our second guest for this series featuring new GrapeSEED teachers is Elena Korotkikh, a teacher in Russia!

In this series, we have asked some of our former teacher guests to come on and share their expertise on a couple questions per episode. On this episode, we welcome Aaron Jones, Will Rice, Bruno Di Stefano and Matthew Green! Questions for this episode: 1. Give us a more advanced classroom management tip. (A technique beyond "praising students" or "set clear rules and expectations") 2. How specifica...

Our second topic of this new series is the joy of learning and focusing on student success.

On this GrapeSEED Friends, we welcome Maria Beketova, a teacher in Russia!

On this GrapeSEED Friends, we welcome Tessa Nguyen, a teacher in Vietnam!

GrapeSEED Talks are a special set of online calls the GrapeSEED Japan team has with teachers. They talk about a variety of topics, from teaching upper units to classroom management to simply how teachers set up their classrooms. There is so much good stuff on these, that I wanted to share the best parts with our international audience! For this second installment, I wanted to highlight some clips...

In this series, we have asked some of our former teacher guests to come on and share their expertise on a couple questions per episode. On this eleventh episode, we welcome Aaron Jones, Will Rice, Bruno Di Stefano and Matthew Green! Questions for this episode: 1. As a GrapeSEED teacher enters their second year of teaching, they probably have the flow of GrapeSEED teaching down- how to teach the di...

On this Deep Dive, Joshua Meade, a teacher in Osaka, Japan, joins us to talk about what his school does with students outside of normal GrapeSEED time to further encourage their growth with English!

On today's This and That episode, Miklos and I talk about the similarities and differences between babies learning their first language and GrapeSEED students learning English! The podcast we reference is this one: https://www.npr.org/2021/01/25/960350566/exploring-the-human-voice

GrapeSEED Talks are a special set of online calls the GrapeSEED Japan team has with teachers. They talk about a variety of topics, from teaching upper units to classroom management to simply how teachers set up their classrooms. There is so much good stuff on these, that I wanted to share the best parts with our international audience! For this first installment, I wanted to highlight some clips f...

The focus component in this Take a Step episode is Unit 14's The Hayride. Send in any component requests to mailcarrier@grapeseed.com if there is something you would like to hear showcased on this series! In this series, we look at the learning objectives and Quick Checks for the focus component and how the day-to-day instructions in the Lesson Plans guide us to achieving those goals!