If you know anything about us, you know that we are not ones to sugar coat things... This episode is no exception. We share the strategies we are using to cope with teaching right now, how we are allowing ourselves to feel what we feel, and how we are moving forward through it all. Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!"...
Sep 10, 2020•36 min•Ep 25•Transcript available on Metacast In honor of Latinx Heritage Month, we bring you a celebration of some of the Latinx writers we feature in our classrooms throughout the year. Make sure to head over to the show notes to get a free activity to use with students for analyzing voice in literature, as well as some activities for developing their own voice. Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact ...
Sep 03, 2020•30 min•Ep 24•Transcript available on Metacast If you are teaching virtually in part or whole this school year, THIS EPISODE IS FOR YOU. Grab a notebook and writing utensil, and get ready for our top tips and strategies for saving you time and (more importantly) energy when teaching from a distance. Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role C...
Aug 27, 2020•40 min•Ep 23•Transcript available on Metacast Get ready for another episode where we walk through a couple of close reading passages and the lessons we would use with our students. This time, we are discussing the literary element characterization, and how we approach this in our own classrooms. Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call...
Aug 20, 2020•35 min•Ep 22•Transcript available on Metacast In this interview with Tanesha Forman (@love.tanesha) we dive into the importance of teaching poetry and other forms of art in the classroom, how to encourage students to make personal connections in a low-threat way, and how poetry is the perfect entry point to classroom conversations surrounding social justice. Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact inform...
Aug 13, 2020•45 min•Ep 21•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we discuss a checklist of steps to take when planning your first week back at school, whether it be in-person or virtual! With the upcoming school year quickly upon us, we also talk through what the first week will look like in each of our classrooms, including strategies and activities we will include. Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact...
Aug 06, 2020•44 min•Ep 20•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we share some real honest stories from our classrooms - our greatest planning fails and wins. There are always lessons to learn from the fails (as well as the wins), and facing those moments for reflection make for some of the best parts of a teaching practice. CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase y...
Jul 30, 2020•32 min•Ep 19•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode we share our very first interview on the podcast with Dr. Anindya Kundu, discussing student advocacy and the role of educators in fostering that advocacy. Dr. Kundu is a wealth of knowledge and insight - this is not an episode to miss! His book, The Power of Student Agency has just been published and is available for purchase - see show notes for more info! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "...
Jul 23, 2020•56 min•Ep 18•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we focus on one of the things that gets left behind when it comes time to digitize curriculum, and it happens to be THE MOST IMPORTANT PART - assessments. We give our best tips, tricks, and tools for using digital assessments both in the classroom and through distance learning. CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!...
Jul 16, 2020•34 min•Ep 17•Transcript available on Metacast Get you pen and notebook ready - this is another episode FULL of resources for you as you plan your upcoming school year! We go through all of our go-to sources for supplemental texts, as well as some of the tools we use for presenting these texts to students... CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role...
Jul 09, 2020•42 min•Ep 16•Transcript available on Metacast This is an episode like no other we have done before - listen as we live workshop essential questions for Marie's new prep she will teach in the fall. Very minimal prep went into this episode, resulting in an authentic conversation and thought process that we are SURE will benefit your classroom! Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we ...
Jul 02, 2020•36 min•Ep 15•Transcript available on Metacast In Part B of this 2-part episode, we finish our discussion and explanation of the steps to take in visualizing a unit of study that is cohesive, meaningful, and (very importantly) a unit that you want to teach ! Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here and then be sure to claim your fr...
Jun 25, 2020•29 min•Ep 14•Transcript available on Metacast In Part A of this 2-part episode, we outline the steps we take when beginning the process of designing a unit of study. (SPOILER ALERT - we take the exact same steps, but they look a little different for each of us...) This week we will get you started with the things to take into consideration when beginning, and next week we will finish up! Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - plea...
Jun 18, 2020•24 min•Ep 13•Transcript available on Metacast This week's episode outlines the work we plan to do over the summer of 2020 to grow professionally. Books, podcasts, and online conferences to further Anti-Bias & Anti-Racist work in the classroom and beyond, as well as those with instructional strategies to engage and deliver content effectively... Enjoy! LINKS TO ALL RESOURCES MENTIONED IN SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include you...
Jun 11, 2020•34 min•Ep 12•Transcript available on Metacast In this episode, we pivot a bit from educational philosophy and general teaching to a specific ELA strategy - close reading. We talk through what a close reading lesson is, what we use it for in our own classrooms, and then walk through two sample texts/lessons using close reading to teach the author's craft skill syntax. We hope you enjoy nerding out with us! :) CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send ...
May 28, 2020•37 min•Ep 11•Transcript available on Metacast As we find ourselves on the down-hill slide to the end of the year, this week's episode is about how we intend to make the end of this particular year - school year 2019-2020, the year of COVID-19 - count as more than just the year of the pandemic. We owe it to ourselves to finish strong, and here is how we plan to do just that... Make sure to head over to the show notes for our Summer Reading Bookshelves! Enjoy! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teachi...
May 21, 2020•41 min•Ep 10•Transcript available on Metacast In this 2-part episode, we discuss and explain actionable strategies to use at the end of the year for engagement and classroom management. Make sure to tune in to PART A of this episode from last week! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here and then be sure to claim your free bonus here ! ...
May 14, 2020•32 min•Ep 9•Transcript available on Metacast While this episode was recorded before COVID-19 and subsequent school closures changed the face of education for the foreseeable future, the strategies we talk about in it are translatable to the virtual classroom. Don't miss Part B next week! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here and...
May 07, 2020•28 min•Ep 8•Transcript available on Metacast In this special Teacher Appreciation episode, we asked some of our teacher friends to share stories from their classrooms - and, of course, we share a couple of our own! Enjoy, and Happy Teacher Appreciation Week!! Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here and then be sure to claim your free bonus here ! Support the sh...
Apr 30, 2020•26 min•Ep 7•Transcript available on Metacast In PART B of this two-part episode, 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! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here and then be sure to claim your free bonus h...
Apr 23, 2020•30 min•Ep 6•Transcript available on Metacast In this two-part episode, 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! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here and then be sure to claim your free bonus here ! Supp...
Apr 16, 2020•25 min•Ep 5•Transcript available on Metacast This episode was not originally planned for the second week after our launch, but times are what they are! Join us for some reflections on the lessons we have learned thus far into our distance learning journeys. CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here and then be sure to claim your free bon...
Apr 09, 2020•32 min•Ep 4•Transcript available on Metacast In Episode 2, hosts Amanda and Marie discuss the next portion of the podcast title - what it means to try new things as educators! Please subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here and then be sure to claim your free bonus here ! Support the sh...
Apr 02, 2020•39 min•Ep 2•Transcript available on Metacast In the very first episode of Brave New Teaching, hosts Amanda & Marie discuss what it means to be brave in modern education - finding the courage to challenge the status quo, experiment, and learn from mistakes. Please subscribe so you don't miss any new episodes! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your c...
Apr 02, 2020•33 min•Ep 1•Transcript available on Metacast In Episode 3, hosts Amanda & Marie discuss the final part of this podcast's title, Teaching. They share their own teaching journeys and what brought them to this point in their careers and lives, and where this podcast came from. Please subscribe so you don't miss any episodes! CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!&qu...
Apr 02, 2020•34 min•Ep 3•Transcript available on Metacast This pre-launch minisode is for every secondary teacher out there who is in the same boat as we are - school is closed, elearning to some extent is becoming the new norm, and our students need us. Here is a way to support students with what they REALLY need right now. CLICK HERE FOR SHOW NOTES & LINKS MENTIONED Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!"...
Mar 18, 2020•16 min•Transcript available on Metacast Brave New Teaching launches April 2, 2020! Subscribe today and join the community! Visit bravenewteaching.com for more! Mentioned in this episode: Get more Brave New Teaching each week: Join BNT Happy Hour Here! "Send us a message - please include your contact information so we can chat soon!" Purchase your copy of Role Call here and then be sure to claim your free bonus here ! Support the show 📚 BNT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCES 👩💻 Join Happy Hour! Curriculum Rehab Down...
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