We cannot even begin to contain the excitement we have to share this episode with you. We had the pleasure of interviewing author Ruta Sepetys about her journey as a writer and her latest novel, I Must Betray You . The interview begins with Ruta reading an excerpt from I Must Betray You . This is the perfect clip to play for your students if you practice “First Chapter Friday”! Then we delve into Ruta’s decision to write for young adults and her choice to focus on historical fiction. She believe...
May 18, 2023•40 min•Ep 152•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
May 12, 2023•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast Cheers to everyone who has made it to the end, or almost the end, of this school year! We’re celebrating you and giddy with excitement for what’s to come this summer at Brave New Teaching. In case you haven’t heard, we’ll be hosting Camp BNT, which is essentially a Nerdy English teacher book club. But here’s the best part - we’re actually interviewing the authors right here on the Brave New Teaching podcast! We can’t believe that we’ll have the chance to host these interviews and take you along ...
May 11, 2023•33 min•Ep 151•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
May 05, 2023•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast We love sharing and celebrating diverse voices here at Brave New Teaching, and today is no exception. With May being AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) month, what better time to highlight some of our fan favorites written by AAPI authors. The texts that we’re sharing today are loved by both us and our students. We literally can’t keep them on our classroom shelves! From memoirs to dystopia to YA romance, we’ve got a bit of everything. Get your library cards or credit cards ready, becaus...
May 04, 2023•41 min•Ep 150•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Apr 28, 2023•23 min•Transcript available on Metacast Are you ready to nerd out with us today on argument and rhetoric? I hope so, because we are really digging in! As teachers, poets are uniquely positioned for us in the context of history in a different way than authors are. With that, comes a lot of really great opportunities. So today, we really are discussing the potential for looking at poetry as an argument and looking at poetry through the lens of rhetorical analysis. We want to help you see poetry from a different angle, and consider where...
Apr 27, 2023•41 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Apr 21, 2023•22 min•Transcript available on Metacast Do you prefer to teach poetry as a standalone unit or sprinkled in throughout the school year? We think both options are valid, and in this episode we’re considering the merits of each! One thing is for sure. It’s important to be intentional about when and where poetry is taught in the curriculum. When you can take a step back and look at the bigger picture, you can create meaningful and impactful experiences for your students. You’ll hear us discuss the different options for incorporating poetr...
Apr 20, 2023•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Apr 14, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brave New Teaching friends, it’s Amanda here, and I’m so incredibly excited to share today’s guest episode with you! It features Dr. Michael Theune, who was one of my professors during undergrad. This conversation highlights two topics that are, in my experience, unequivocally the areas where students often feel lost, and that is poetry and creative writing. We’re here to dispel the myth that poetry has to be difficult and empower you to feel comfortable, confident, and excited to teach it. One ...
Apr 13, 2023•45 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Apr 07, 2023•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast We love to share our favorite resources and activities that we’ve used in our classrooms here with you on the podcast. We’ve done a series on “The Best Thing I Ever Taught” in the past, and we’re bringing it back today. This time we’re getting into the best poems we’ve ever taught. Now, we have a lot of favorite poems, so let’s just say that we had a really difficult time choosing only one. But we reflected on how specific poems were received by our students and were able to narrow it down. Push...
Apr 06, 2023•31 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Mar 31, 2023•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’re giving you a re-run of a two part series we did on poetry at the very beginning of the podcast! Amanda and Marie dive into teaching poetry - the why, the how, and more! Listen for an in-depth breakdown of actionable strategies to build your poetry-teaching confidence! Show Notes: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/home/toteachpoetry Click here to join Happy Hour! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here ...
Mar 30, 2023•51 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to ou...
Mar 24, 2023•19 min•Transcript available on Metacast We’ve been fully embracing spring over here at Brave New Teaching and today marks the third and final episode in our Teacher Spring Cleaning series. So far we’ve talked about spring cleaning our texts and topics and instructional strategies and practices. Today, we’re spring cleaning our curriculum and activities that we’re doing with our students during this time of year. This is all about refreshing and revamping some of the old stuff you already have - not creating a bunch of new activities t...
Mar 23, 2023•33 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Mar 17, 2023•20 min•Transcript available on Metacast Last week, inside episode 142 , we talked about spring cleaning our instructional practices and strategies. This week, the spring cleaning continues! This time, we’re moving on to texts and topics. Specifically, we’re looking at what we’re planning to purge and what we’re going to give new life to. If you are thinking of some texts and topics that you’d like to purge or refresh, leave us a voice message. We’d love to hear from you! Leave your message here. Show Notes: https://www.bravenewteachin...
Mar 16, 2023•26 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Mar 10, 2023•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast With spring right around the corner, it’s the perfect time to revitalize your classroom, especially if everything is starting to feel a bit stale and overdone. It’s not quite time to throw in the towel yet, so let’s slap a fresh coat of paint on our strategies and bring things back to life! Today’s episode marks the first in a three-part series on teacher spring cleaning. To kick things off, we’re talking about spring cleaning our instructional practices and strategies. In the episodes to come, ...
Mar 09, 2023•28 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Mar 03, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast What type of reader have you been lately? Are you moving through books like crazy or barely getting through a chapter a week? Either way, we get it. Just because we’re ELA teachers, that doesn’t mean we always have the time or energy to read outside work hours. Back in episode 131 , we shared our list of books we couldn’t wait to read in 2023, and well, let’s just say we haven’t gotten to them all! That’s why this week we’re sharing our reviews on what we have read recently, and what’s on our cu...
Mar 02, 2023•43 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Feb 24, 2023•21 min•Transcript available on Metacast Did you catch episode 139 with Dr. Jenna Copper? We talked all about independent reading and student choice at the high school level. Today we’re continuing our independent reading series with our friend, Abby Gross. This one is for all of our middle school teacher friends! Abby was a high school teacher who recently moved to middle school. This transition is what gave her the chance to wake up to a whole new set of possibilities for what independent reading could look like in her classroom. We ...
Feb 23, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Ep 140•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Feb 17, 2023•18 min•Transcript available on Metacast When we decided to do a series on independent reading, the first name that came to mind was our friend, Dr. Jenna Copper. Jenna has just as much passion and excitement for independent reading and student choice as we do. Plus, she shares Marie’s love of YA fantasy books, which is just the icing on top! In this conversation, we talk about what independent reading has looked like in our classrooms. We also discuss a lot about the exciting ways to position units within your curriculum and how to ap...
Feb 16, 2023•52 min•Ep 139•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Feb 11, 2023•15 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
Feb 11, 2023•17 min•Transcript available on Metacast Subscriber-only episode Cheers! Log in to your Brave New Teaching Happy Hour account HERE: https://www.bravenewteaching.com/hhmembers (password in email) Join Happy Hour HERE! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down with the Reading Quiz Shop the BNT Resource Library Connect with us on Instagram @bravenewteaching Subscribe to our YouTube Channel...
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