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CCIRA Literacy Conversations
by CCIRA, Inc.
CCIRA Inc., Colorado's literacy organization, is ready to chat about literacy with some fantastic literacy experts. Get ready to learn, expand your list of educational heroes, and gather ideas about ways you can improve your teaching practice.
Episodes
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Cornelius Minor: Bright, Bold Futures for Kids
Cornelius Minor's Website Cornelius Minor - Heinemann
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Charles R. Smith, Jr: From Photography to The Art of Writing
Charles R. Smith Jr.'s Website
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Whitney La Rocca: Patterns of Power, world class writing mentors, and a lot of laughs
*Links to resources to be added soon! 00:00:00 Molly Rauh Hello and welcome back to this CCIRA Literacy Conversations podcast. I'm your host, Molly Rauh with my co-host... 00:00:08 Jessica Rickert ...Jessica Rickert. Today's podcast features, Whittany La Rocca, Whitney's work centers around...
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Pam Minard: Excitement for the 2022 In-Person Conference!
Pam Minard: Exciting Features of the 2022 Conference 00:00:00 Molly Rauh Hello and welcome back to this CCIRAA Literacy Conversations podcast. I'm your host, Molly Rauh with my co-host... 00:00:08 Jessica Rickert ...Jessica Richert. Today's podcast features Pam Minard CCIRAs 2022 conference…
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Krista Griffin: Early Career Teachers
Krista Griffin: CCIRA's Early Career Network 00:00:00 Molly Rauh Hello and welcome back to this CCIRA Literacy Conversations, podcast. I'm your host Molly Rauh with my co-host... 00:00:08 Jessica Rickert ...Jessica Rickert. Today's podcast features, Krista Griffin, who's the co-chair of CCIRAs...
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Melanie Conklin: Counting Thyme and an author's process
00:00:00 Molly Rauh Hello and welcome back to this CCIA Literacy Conversations podcast. I'm your host Molly Rauh with my co-host... 00:00:08 Jessica Rickert ...Jessica Rickert. Today's podcast features, Melanie Conklin, Melanie's work centers around writing middle grade novels. Melanie shares…
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Marc Tyler Nobleman: Finding and Writing Untold Stories
00:00:00 Molly Rauh Hello and welcome back to this CCIRA Literacy Conversations podcast. I'm your host Molly Rauh with my co-host Jessica Rickert. Today's podcast features, Marc Tyler Nobleman. 00:00:14 Jessica Rickert Marc's work centers around writing fiction and nonfiction books for young...
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Pernille Ripp: Honoring and Centering Our Students, Especially in a Pandemic
Transcript created using Maestra. We apologize for any errors. 00:00:00 Molly Rauh Hello and welcome back to the CCIRA literacy conversations podcast. I'm your host Molly Rauh with my co-host , Jessica Rickert. 00:00:09 Jessica Rickert Today's podcast features Pernille Ripp. Pernille's work…
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Jason Oleskevich: Renewing A Love for Teaching
Jason Oleskevich is a veteran teacher in Colorado. After 20 years of teaching, he started thinking the grass was greener outside the teaching realm, but after a year off realized he was a happier person in the classroom. Listen to this episode to hear his story, and find out why teaching is the...
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Laura Resau: Celebrating Cultures Through Writing
Laura Resau, local Colorado author shares her experiences and habits as a writer-anthropologist. Laura specializes in middle grades and young adult books that are inspired by and celebrate cultures she has had the opportunity to visit and learn from. https://www.lauraresau.com/
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Gordon Korman: Sharing the Magic of Writing for Young "Slacker Fans"
Author Gordon Korman discusses what he writes, how he writes, and the role teachers and librarians play in getting his books into the hands of young "slacker fans." He discuses how he has challenged himself as an author through the years as he progresses on his way to writing 100 books for middle...
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Katie Garner - Practical Application of the Science of Reading in Your Classroom
Katie Garner specializes in making meaning while reading using the science of reading to increase access to books of our primary students.
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Tanny McGregor: Sketch-notes to Improve Comprehension
Tanny McGregor chats with Molly and Jessica about using sketch-notes to make thinking visible and improve comprehension. Resources: Tanny's website Ink and Ideas (book) The link above features: A Heinemann Podcast about Sketchnoting Table of Contents from the book A Sample Chapter Free Templates…
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Troy Hicks: Integrating Tech into Literacy Instruction
Troy Hicks: professor of English and Education at Central Michigan University. former middle school language arts teacher, Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project shares about New Literacies in the classroom. Resources: Troy's Website Troy's new book: Mindful Teaching with Technology NCTE...
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Colby Sharp: Increasing Book Access in Your Classroom
Colby Sharp, host of The Yarn Podcast, co-author of Game Changer, editor of The Creativity Project, and co-founder of The Nerdy Book club shares a bit about his recent projects and how to curate a great classroom library. *More show notes to come. Have questions or comments? Please email...
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Beth Skelton - Every Teacher is a Language Teacher
Today's guest is Beth Skelton who is a guru of Language Acquisition. Throughout the podcast Beth shares numerous actionable steps to allow teachers to create effective literacy and language instruction. She recommends purposeful planning to support students in producing quality reading, writing,...
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Erik Palmer - I think we can all improve at speaking
Today's podcast was recorded with Erik Palmer, a guru of instructional practices for better spoken communication. Erik shares his philosophy on the importance of teaching speech as a crucial life skill. He has developed a framework to teach students what to do before and during speaking and uses...
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Laura Whale - when we know better, we do better
Today on the podcast we have Laura Whale, a literacy specialist whose passions include dyslexia and the science of reading. During our conversation, Laura shared with us a huge list of resources that she explored in her journey in becoming a better teacher. As she said many times: "when we know...
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Michele Warner - Great Instruction Even in Quarantine
Topics with Michele: Jeff Anderson and Whitney La Rocca - Patterns of Power (Grades 1-5) (Grades 6-8) Structuring breakout rooms and norms for your students Remote teaching schedules Using paper pencil remotely and how to have students use their cameras Working with paras and support staff…
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Emily Goldenstein - Tackling Stress and Online Feedback
Emily Goldenstein joins Molly and Jessica to talk about how she is tackling teaching during a pandemic and what tips and strategies she uses to manage her time and keep her stress low. Check it out and find out about the special wednesday schedule that lets her tackle some of her feedback goals...
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Jessie Meeks: Tackling Standards in Two Grades at Once and Other Brilliant Ideas
Jessie Meeks, 2nd and 3rd grade teacher talks about how she leverages technology and instructional practices to teach to two different grades in the same classroom. We cover a lot of territory in the podcast: the logistics of teaching lessons to two grade levels, technology tools and how to use...
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Cathy Lynskey: Teaching in 2020
Cathy Lynskey, CCIRA Treasurer, chats with Jessica and Molly about teaching in fall 2020 and what school looks like for her students.
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Pam Minard: a Virtual Journey in 2021
Guest Pam Minard talks to Molly and Jessica about what the 2021 CCIRA Conference will look like, including why the conference is going virtual and how we hope to accommodate our members.
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Vince Puzick: Equity and a CCIRA Book Study
Vince Puzick shares his knowledge of equity in classrooms and especially related to literacy instruction and shares a bit about our upcoming CCIRA book study!
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Amy Nicholl: The Science-Literacy Connection
Former teacher and current Poudre Learning Center educator Amy Nicholl talks science with hosts Jessica Rickert and Molly Rauh. Edit: Updated audio track with a correction on 9/29/2020.
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Ann Cook: Cultivating Connections and Leadership
Molly Rauh reboots CCIRA Literacy Conversations with former guest Jessica Rickert as the new cohost. Their guest for this episode is Ann Cook, a long time leader with CCIRA, former administrator, and teacher. During the episode they discuss Ann's history, the importance of making connections with...
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Kim Yaris and Jan Burkins - Nurture Your Inner Super Hero and Develop Independent Students
Molly sits down at the CCIRA Conference with Kim Yaris and Jan Burkins and discusses Next Generation Literacy and helping teachers through small changes to combat learned helplessness and build confident, self-sufficient students. Audio cuts out in the middle temporarily. Website:...
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Writing Instruction with Jeff Anderson
"The conventions are where reading and writing crash together." -Jeff Anderson Molly sits down with Jeff Anderson at the CCIRA Conference to talk about writing, the role of observation, and grammar as a form of expression. Jeff and Molly discuss how Molly can use grammar and punctuation as skills...
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Shawna Coppola Shares Her Experience
Molly talks with Shawna Coppola who discusses the pressures we face as educators and how she found her way forward in the face of those pressures. Important highlights include 1) what features would Shawna want in her dream school, 2) the importance of taking healthy risks, 3) tips for a...
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An Interview with Anne Beninghof: Co-Teaching Practices
Find out more about Anne at http://www.ideasforeducators.com/bring-anne-to-your-site.html
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An Interview with Debbie Arechiga: Language Learners
Host Molly Rauh chats with Debbie Arechiga about meeting the needs of our language learners. Find out more about Debbie and her work at toolsforliteracy.com.
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Unit Design with Adam Fachler
Host Molly Rauh has a conversation with Adam Fachler about designing curriculum and a solid unit. This episode is a quick conversation that doesn't do the EMPOWER template justice. Listen in to get a quick sense of it, but then head to the EMPOWER Your Teaching website to see the resources and…
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An Interview with Danny Brassell (The Key Didn't Work)
Podcast host Molly Rauh sits down in the hallway of the Marriott hotel with Danny Brassell, author of "Read, Lead, and Succeed." Danny was the 2019 conference opening keynote speaker. We talk about content library collections, the power of sharing passion with kids, Danny's work around the world...
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Making the Most of Your Conference Experience 2019
Want to know how to make the most of your 2019 CCIRA Conference experience? Get some quick tips from Molly and Emily about how they enjoy their conference.
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Getting Kids Talking, Effectively
In this summary hosts Emily Bradley, a 5th grade teacher, and Molly Rauh, a middle school teacher, talk about discussion techniques they have tried to help their students grow in the art of conversation.
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2019 Conference Chair Jessica Rickert
2019 CCIRA conference chair, Jessica Rickert, shares some highlight speakers attending the 2019 conference and reflects on her educational heroes. Music clips from A. A. Aalto's Red Wing, from freemusicarchive.org under a creative commons share-alike attribution license.
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CCIRA Inc., Colorado's literacy organization, is ready to chat about literacy with some fantastic literacy experts. Get ready to learn, expand your list of educational heroes, and gather ideas about ways you can improve your teaching practice.
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