Guest: Kevin Sylvester http://kevinsylvesterbooks.com/ Twitter: @Kevinarts Instagram: @sylvesterartwork Kevin Sylvester joins host Beth Lyons to talk all about his work as a kids lit author/illustrator and the challenges of writing such a variety of genres and styles. Kevin shares his love of visual texts such as Spiderman Comics and graphic novels and discusses why it’s such an important genre for kids (and adults!) to explore. The conversation takes its first (of many) tangents to explore the ...
Feb 26, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Hosts: Beth Lyons (@MrsLyonsLibrary) Pav Wander (@PavWander) and Chey Cheney (@mrccheney) The Chey and Pav Show (@StaffPodcast) In a repeat of their crossover episode last year, Chey Cheney and Pav Wander from the Chey and Pav Show, join Beth Lyons to discuss their new roles within the education system. The conversation starts with looking back at their start in podcasting when the pandemic first began and how the re-opening of the world and activities has influenced the “busy-ness” of the world...
Jan 08, 2023•50 min
In this episode, Beth Lyons, discusses multilingual learners with MLL resource teacher, Kimiko Shibata. The discussion starts with looking at what is a multilingual learner and the transition to MLL from ELL -asset based terminology. Kimiko helps to define what ESL means in the context of a classroom, STEPs to language proficiency, collaboration between classroom and MLL staff, and accommodations vs modifications. The question of how classroom culture impacts MLLs and their ability to adapt to n...
Jan 02, 2023•51 min
The episode starts with all three educators talking about early years education and the reflection/intentionality behind our practices before getting into the discussion of mentor texts in the classroom and school library. Klara and Michelle provided this prompt on their IG account as they engaged in sharing a variety of mentor texts at the start of this school year: How might mentor texts provide opportunities for our Ss to feel seen, acknowledged, and important? In this episode we discuss how ...
Dec 04, 2022•54 min
Trevor Mackenzie returns to Read Into This to chat more about #InquiryMindset and his book Inquiry Mindset: Assessment Edition, Scaffolding a Partnership for Equity and Agency in Learning with host Beth Lyons. The conversation starts by looking at their previous conversation at the start of the pandemic and their observations about the learning that has happened due to crisis education. Trevor explores what prompted the journey from Inquiry Mindset (and Dive Into Inquiry) to this assessment edit...
Oct 22, 2022•1 hr 15 min
Read Into This host, Beth Lyons, welcomes Stephen Hurley from VoicEd Radio yo co-host as they discuss Dyslexia Awareness Month with Alicia Smith, the Executive Director of Dyslexia Canada, and Stacey Morrison Hadden, a literacy consultant with the Durham Catholic District School Board. The conversation starts with unpacking dyslexia, a complex term that’s important for educators to understand. The panel looks at some of the common misconceptions about dyslexia and learning to read and the assump...
Oct 07, 2022•1 hr
Read Into This host, Beth Lyons talks with teacher-librarian Matthew Shchukovsky about what led to the decision to genrify the fiction/chapter book section in the K-5 library where he works. Texts mentioned in this episode: A shout-out to Kelsey Bogan (@kelseybogan) for sharing her process on her blog: https://dontyoushushme.com/2018/11/08/10-steps-to-genre-fy-your-library/ https://dontyoushushme.com/2021/10/12/genrefication-3-years-later/ Cultivating Genius by Gholdy Muhammad The War Room- The ...
Sep 18, 2022•48 min
Thanks to Paula Hrycenko and Sarah Little for joining host, Beth Lyons, to discuss school libraries within the HWDSB during the 2021-2022 school year. The group discussed what their schedule as the TL looks like and what they are responsible for in their role. Sarah and Paul share how they are working to connect with other TLs within the HWDSB board and support each other’s learning, including collaborating for the Forest of Reading. Beth posed the question, “where are you finding school library...
Aug 09, 2022•47 min
Co-host Beth Lyons welcomes PDSB Teacher-Librarian Jonelle St. Aubyn to the podcast. The two talk about their connection as TLs within a family of schools and the joy and support that comes from meeting together as a teacher-librarian collective. Beth and Jonelle talk about the opportunity they had to present at the superintendent meeting for their family of schools about their journeys within the LLC and how a library learning commons can support the school community. The library and the work d...
Apr 23, 2022•53 min
Co-host Beth Lyons welcomes three teacher-librarians from the TDSB to talk about the closures/reductions/limitations that were in place in the LLC last year and how the LLC re-opened for students this year. The panel discussed what they are noticing or wondering as students return to the LLC and how that has impacted their goals or plans for this year. (This was recorded in November of 2021 and some of the protocols and policies may have changed in the interim.) Guests- Diana Maliszewski Role: K...
Feb 13, 2022•57 min
Co-hosts Lisa Noble and Beth Lyons sit down with author Lawrence Hill to discuss his new book, Beatrice and Croc Harry. Lawrence Hill is a writer whose novels and works of non-fiction have been widely read in Canada, translated into many languages and published around the world. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Guelph and has served as a teacher or mentor to developing writers for thirty years. His new children’s novel is Beatrice and Croc Harry. It is 375 pages, and wa...
Jan 11, 2022•1 hr 4 min
The group discussed the closures/reductions/limitations that were in place for their LLCs last year. Coming from three different Ontario school boards there was a lot to discuss as to how each board approached staffing during the 2020-2021 school year. All three TLs share how their libraries have re-opened for student and educator use this year. How are we ensuring that students have access to culturally relevant and diverse texts as well as a variety of text formats (ebooks, audiobooks, etc)? G...
Dec 06, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Thank you to all who contributed! Jenn Angle- ON, Teacher-Librarian, Bellmoore School (Binbrook), Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board Natasha Cardoso- Elementary Teacher/librarian William G. Davis TDSB Kate Johnson-McGregor, ON, Secondary Teacher-Librarian, Brantford Collegiate, GEDSB - OLA SuperConference Planner Jennifer Byrne, ON , Elementary Teacher-Librarian, Wilshire Elementary School, YRDSB Lila Armstrong- BC Rebecca Rubio- BC Tim Boudreau, ON, Middle School Teacher librarian at Loug...
Nov 06, 2021•1 hr 27 min
Read Into Summer Reads The co-hosts gather to look back over their favourite summer reads of 2021. Texts mentioned in this episode: Not Your Princess by Lisa Charleyboy Firekeeper’s Daughter by Angeline Boulley Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger Black Boy Joy: 17 Stories Celebrating Black Boyhood (Editor Kwame Mbalia) If I Tell The Truth by Jasmin Kaur Indivisible by Daniel Aleman Hench by Natalie Zina Walschots The House in ...
Sep 12, 2021•1 hr 6 min
Beth Lyons hosts Melanie White and Cathy MacKechnie, both educators in the Ottawa Carleton District School Board to discuss the idea of learning loss vs. learning gains over the past few years as educators and students have faced the COVID 19 pandemic. The discussion centres on the collaboration between educators who work together, create a plan and are prepared to design in the moment to support student learning. Melanie White- @WhiteRoomRadio Podcast- Just Conversations https://voiced.ca/proje...
Sep 06, 2021•50 min
S2E13 Interview with author Michelle Grierson Alanna hosts this episode with debut novelist Michelle Grierson. Teacher turned author Michelle explores the inspiration for Becoming Leidah, and how her trip to Scandinavia solidified her ancestral culture into the world she designed in this book. You can follow Michelle at: https://www.michellegrierson.com/ on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/michellegrierson11 on Pinterest https://www.pinterest.ca/mishkagryson/_saved/ and on Instagram https://www...
Jul 25, 2021•54 min
Stephen Hurley joins host, Beth Lyons, to unpack the series of podcasts that looked at audiobooks, podcasts and read alouds in classrooms and school libraries during the 2020-2021 school year. They look back at the school year that included both online and bricks-and-mortar classes, the humanity of the education system and what it means to be human in the 21st century. The podcasts discussed in this episode include: S2E7 Read Into Audiobooks/Podcasts- Adrian Del Monte (Part 1) S2E8 Read Into Aud...
Jul 07, 2021•1 hr 8 min
Co-hosts Lisa Noble and Beth Lyons chat about Indigenous texts that span the K-12 education continuum and ways that educators have integrated these texts into their daily practice. This episode was inspired by A Day to Listen- 12 Hours of Indigenous-led Radio Programming on June 30th. https://downiewenjack.ca/a-day-to-listen/ Texts Mentioned In This Episode Reclaimed by Jared Martineau (Lisa incorrectly called it Unreserved which is a different CBC show with Falen Johnson) A Sitting In St. James...
Jun 30, 2021•1 hr
Join Read Into This host Beth Lyons as she explores how virtual read alouds have been used with fellow teacher-librarian Julie Vandendool and kindergarten educator Aviva Dunsiger throughout the 2020-2021 school year. Our discussion stems from a Twitter thread between the three of us looking at why read alouds seemed to have been more successful when in a virtual space than in the bricks-and-mortar space while following safety protocols. How do we balance supporting the literacy needs and sharing...
Jun 20, 2021•53 min
Beth Lyons speaks to teacher-librarian Tim Boudreau about creating podcasts with students as part of his philosophy and integration of maker education in the school library learning commons. How might integrating podcasts and the creation of content help students to see themselves as creators of digital content and not only consumers? Tim outlines the planning process he undergoes with students as they begin to develop and plan for creating their own podcast. How can we use podcasts- both the cr...
May 21, 2021•46 min
Beth Lyons speaks to educator Lynn Thomas about using audiobooks and podcasts in her secondary classroom. Shout out to our #EduKnitNight from bringing us together and helping educators from across the K-12 continuum learn from each other’s experiences. The conversation starts with exploring how readers may experience and interact with audiobooks differently than physical books. How can using both modalities of reading in our learning environments help support all learners develop a love of stori...
May 18, 2021•52 min
Co-host Beth Lyons and Adrian Del Monte from The Wholehearted Teaching podcast sit down to discuss how educators are embracing audiobooks and podcasts as texts in their classroom, especially since the start of the pandemic. As parents of young children Beth and Adrian reflect on the current remote learning situation and how it has impacted their understanding of the education system as educators in the areas of assessment and demonstration of learning. How might we embrace audiobooks in our clas...
Apr 29, 2021•57 min
Book club organizer Lisa Corbett interviews teacher-turned-author Anne Shilolo about her cozy mystery Rescue Me. The book is about 3 teens who visit a G8 protest and the adventures that they experience as they become separated from each other in the chaos. As Anne says in her book description: What could go wrong? We recommend this book for grades 7 to 12. Anne reveals how publishing a book per month in the cozy mystery genre independently has been very satisfying, in contrast to the traditional...
Mar 20, 2021•38 min
In the second part of a special crossover episode with The Staffroom Podcast hosts, Chey Cheney and Pav Wander, Beth Lyons discusses the power of stories in education and learning. You can check out Part 1 of this series at the following link: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Erg1iodNeKborleFljBvi?go=1&utm_source=embed_v3&t=0&nd=1 The conversation continues by looking at how we can embed current events, identity, making connections and stories into our learning with students. The importance of ...
Mar 01, 2021•43 min
In this live chat session, Read Into This podcast co-host Alanna King revisits a lighter retrospective on some of the hot-button topics of the 2020 year in reading and school libraries. Please enjoy listening to this live recording, and have a look at our Jamboard artifact where participants contributed their ideas about our main topics. in our live Jamboard and call in about your school library experiences! BYOB to this podcast party. Jamboard link: https://jamboard.google.com/d/14-ZxFI1RU8yFyY...
Feb 18, 2021•1 hr 19 min
Co-host Beth Lyons welcomes Jael Richardson, author and executive director of the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) to discuss the importance of choosing to bring Canadian content- authors, illustrators, publishers- into Canadian classrooms. Looking at the social responsibility and moral imperative of the Canadian education system to book Canadian authors and activists to speak to students. They discuss how the publishing industry in Canada needs to shift to promote Canadian writers, in part...
Feb 17, 2021•46 min
Beth Lyons and Toni Duval look back at their journey together as teacher-librarians towards reading more diversely. They recount their time at the Ontario Library Super Conference, seeing Jael Richardson as a spotlight speaker and attending the Festival of Literary Diversity (FOLD) as a means to live and read more diversely. Toni talks about her time as a FOLD volunteer and using the resources and learning offered by the FOLD as an inroads to bringing diverse literature into the classroom. The p...
Jan 24, 2021•52 min
Teaching Tough Topics: Interview with Fatty Legs authors Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton Teacher-librarian Lisa Lewis joins Alanna to speak with author Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton (Olemaun) about the impact of their book on tackling the tough topic of Canada’s history of residential schools and the legacy of this cultural trauma. This unique memoir of the Inuvialuit experience is a must-read for middle grade audiences. Lisa uses Fatty Legs with her intergene...
Jan 01, 2021•51 min
Beth Lyons speaks to Maria Martella and Margie Wolfe about the creation of the Save School Libraries Coalition, the role school libraries and Canadian books plays in the education of students, the legacy of devaluing and defunding of school libraries over decades and the most recent alarming closures of school libraries in response to the pandemic. The panel discusses the need to advocate for school libraries, work to educate families and caregivers of how school libraries support their children...
Nov 29, 2020•32 min
The Ontario Library Association Forest of Reading is “Canada’s largest recreational reading program! This initiative of the Ontario Library Association (OLA) offers ten reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages. The Forest helps celebrate Canadian books, publishers, authors and illustrators. More than 270,000 readers participate annually from their school and/or public library. All Canadians are invited to participate via their local public library, school library, or...
Nov 24, 2020•53 min
