021 Relationships And Rigor

Teachers must build relationships with their students, despite the great breadth in their cultural backgrounds. Dolores Greenawalt, a professor at Caroll University in Wisconsin, joins us to discuss her recent writing on building positive relationships… even when it seems impossible. Later, we look at research data produced by the non-profit TNTP on the inequity of instructional practice. Their data shows huge differences in the instructional experience of students across race. We consider how TNTP’s recommendations for teaching practice could affect our classrooms. The Peer Review looks at a popular story on EdWeek about addressing student name pronunciation. What does our approach to unfamiliar student names say to those students? We drink Pumpkin Ale, a special release seasonal from Schlafly in St. Louis, MO.