Interviews and discussions with the leading names in teacher professional development today.
Jeff Anderson and Whitney La Rocca sat down with us recently to answer questions that came in from Patterns of Power Facebook Community members. If you already use these resources for your grammar in…
Kassia Wedekind and Allison Hintz share what they’ve learned from a recent project they worked on together about the importance of listening in the classroom. They’ll share their stories, their rese…
Longtime friends and colleagues Gravity Goldberg and Renee Houser reflect on the journey that led them to create the Teacher's Toolkit for Independent Reading, a comprehensive collection of resources…
Our latest episode of Teacher's Corner features a fantastic conversation between Graham Fletcher and Tracy Zager about the development of the Fact Fluency Toolkit, available in 2020.
Today’s Teachers Corner features Trevor reading the Introduction from The Art of Comprehension.
In The Art of Comprehension, Trevor introduces his signature method for enhancing students’ understandi…
Using number talks in your math instruction will not only create number sense, but also transform how a teacher teaches and a student learns. This episode features Ruth Parker and Cathy Humphreys sh…
Welcome to the final episode of this season of our Mentoring New Teachers podcast!
In this episode, I offer Laura some advice about how to incorporate strategies for helping her students learn and r…
Laura shares how her mid-year literacy assessments led her to conclude that she needs to invest more time in helping her kindergarten students to practice decoding and encoding words. We discuss how …
In our premiere episode, Terry Thompson, Paula Bourque, Brett Eberly, and Matthew R. Kay discuss how they prepare their classrooms for success at the start of the school year.
All of us feel overwhelmed at times, and research shows educators especially are stressed-out these days. So, how do you deal with it? Better yet, how do you rise above it? In this episode, we ta…
"We talk about social/emotional skills as being these so-called 'soft skills,' which drives me up a wall because they certainly are not soft in any way, shape, or form. They're foundational to anythi…
Shawna and Laura discuss the enormous, all-too-familiar challenge of “fitting it all in”--particularly with regard to literacy--and how to maintain a daily schedule for her students that is meaningfu…