Interview with Melissa Gunter

Co-Teachers in Classrooms Getting Coffee (Season 2 Episode 5) Meet Melissa Gunter, Coordinator of Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS), High Leverage Practices (HLPs), and Math Instruction at the Virginia Department of Education’s (VDOE) Training and Technical Assistance Center (T/TAC) at George Mason University (GMU). Listen to learn more about the Excellence in Co-Teaching Initiative which includes demonstration sites in every region of Virginia. Discover how Melissa built trust over time with her administrators and advocated for student groupings and schoolwide schedules that maximized her effectiveness as a co-teacher.   Here are the locations of the 2024-2025 Excellence in Co-Teaching Demonstration Sites. In our next episode (coming in early December), we will revisit Dr. Wendy Murawski’s book, Practical Strategies for Managing a Diverse Classroom and delve deeper into some of the specific strategies suggested in the chapter on Co-Teaching.  Follow this podcast so you won’t miss future discussions with distinguished co-teachers twice each month during the school year. Please visit our website for links to additional resources related to co-teaching. Subscribe to Co-Teachers in Classrooms Getting Coffee for bimonthly interviews with co-teachers brought to you by the Training and Technical Assistance Center at Virginia Tech. For a copy of today’s transcript, go to https://drive.google.com/file/d/1b5HQnbcEL0bilzOorwChYf4LnzIC9MeY/view?usp=drive_link .