Let's Talk, Teacher to Teacher With Dr. Gina Pepin
Welcome to the Let’s Talk, Teacher to Teacher podcast. My name is Dr. Gina Pepin - and I am so happy to meet you. I am a mom, teacher, professor, supervisor for teacher candidates, a reading specialist and a whole lot more! I am the 2023-2024 Region 1 Michigan Teacher of the Year and State Finalist - and also served in this role as part of the very first group of Regional Teachers/State Finalists of the Year in 2018-2019. But what I want you to know the most about me is… I have a great passion for early literacy and teacher preparation and the thing I am most proud of is of course our children… but my once in a lifetime chance to become a co-author, along with the extremely talented children’s author - Eric Litwin ! Together… we wrote: The Power of Joyful Reading: Help Your Young Readers Soar to Success. You can learn more about me - my experiences, how to hire me to speak at your workshops, schools, teacher programs etc… at www.ginapepin.com
I offer you practical make and takes - easy tips along with real life shared stories - so that you can easily create joyful shared reading experiences and other amazing strategies and approaches in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away.
I am here to help you make powerful changes - Let’s do this together.
Check out the Ride and Read program I designed along with 100s of FREE resources at www.ginapepin.com
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 8 minutes
- Episodes
- 49
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
10 Easy Ways to Help Your Students Become More Fluent
In this podcast I share with you 10 practical make and takes - easy tips along with real life shared stories - so that you can create joyful shared reading experiences in your classroom…
Social Emotional Reading Strategies
Our classrooms are filled with little people, which means they are filled with big hopes and real fears. Let’s talk about how to help our students overcome their reading fears. Learning…
Combining Play-Based Learning and the Joyful Reading Approach for Powerful Learning Opportunities
Combining play-based earning and the Joyful Reading Approach for powerful learning opportunities
We know that learning is a deeply human experience. Therefore, effective practices that …
5 After School Joyful Reading Activities
Encouraging and supporting a child’s love for reading can be one of the most powerful things parents can do. Providing opportunities for their child, or children, to experience positive…
Secondary Application - The Joyful Reading Approach
Even though students may begin with strong early literacy skills - these skills do not automatically develop into complex skills that enable students to read proficiently specialized an…
Learning to Read Should Never Hurt - Take the Frustration Out of Learning to Read!
We do not need to “sell” books and reading to children. They already love them. We just need to make sure we don’t diminish their natural joy. Children do not automatically stop loving…
Turn Your Classroom Expectations into a Song, Chant and So Much More!
This podcast is about classroom expectations and how you can turn something as simple as classroom rules into routine, joyful shared reading experiences through songs, chants and so mu…
Building Academic Language Through Joyful Reading Experiences
Connecting academic language and interdisciplinary approaches through joyful shared reading experiences is going to be the most powerful thing you can do for your students.
You may be w…
Why The Joyful Reading Approach is Needed Now More Than Ever
Now more than ever, we must fill our virtual and in-person classrooms with joyful reading experiences. Because of the profound challenges of the pandemic and social distance learning, …