Phenomenal Teaching with PEBC
by PEBC
Explore the PEBC's Phenomenal Teaching Framework. Each episode will take a closer look how the strands of the framework come to life in classrooms and schools. Join us as we unpack Planning, Community, Workshop, Thinking Strategies, Discourse & Assessment.
Episodes
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Learning Labs: Opening Classroom Doors to Transform Teaching and Learning
What happens when educators learn where learning actually happens—in classrooms alongside students and teachers? In this episode of the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast, Michelle Morris Jones sits down with Annie Patterson, PEBC's Senior Director of Education and Lab Networks, to explore the power of...
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Leading in the Grey: Exploring the Importance of Adaptive Leadership with Dr. Ashlee Saddler
How might Adaptive Leadership help team, school, and system leaders navigate today’s complex educational landscape? Dr. Ashlee Saddler joins Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC’s Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to explore why Adaptive Leadership is essential in this moment. As Dr. Saddler shares,...
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Cultivating Capable Mathematicians with Math Workshop
In what ways might Math Workshop foster a joyful scuffle and a thinking rally that develops capable and agentic mathematicians? Join Wendy Ward Hoffer as she sits down with Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC’s Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss her newest book, All Minds on Mathematics, and the...
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Every Child a Mathematician: Cultivating Numeracy in Early Learning
How might we cultivate a joyful numerate community in our early childhood and primary classrooms? Join Michelle Morris Jones on the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast as she chats with Carrie Halbasch and Kirsten Myers-Blake about practical, concrete strategies for developing early number sense…
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ALL Minds on Math with Wendy Ward Hoffer
In what ways can Math Workshop meet every learner’s need for safety, purpose, inspiration, challenge, support, and growth? Join Wendy Ward Hoffer as she sits down with Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC’s Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss her newest book, All Minds on Mathematics: Math Workshop…
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Building Collaborative and Equitable Classrooms with the "The Magnitude of Us" author Dr. Marlee Bunch
Listen in as Dr. Marlee Bunch and pre-service teacher Chrissy Kim join Michelle Morris Jones on the PEBC Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss Dr. Marlee Bunch's book, The Magnitude of Us: An Educator's Guide to Creating Culturally Responsive Classrooms. In her new book Marlee provides an...
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Strategies For Moving From Polarization to Progress with Dr. Katy Anthes
Listen in as Dr. Katy Anthes (former Colorado Commissioner of Education) joins Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC's Phenomenal Teaching podcast to share strategies for managing healthy conflict and avoiding extreme polarization. Dr. Anthes is leading PEBC's latest initiative "Forward: From…
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Reading & Writing Connections in the Literacy Studio with Ellin O. Keene & Dan Feigelson
How might we integrate whole class lessons, small group work, and individual conferences to support students’ growth as readers and writers? Listen in as literacy leaders, Ellin O. Keene and Dan Feigelson join the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss ways to enhance student engagement and…
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Unlearning the HUSH with Dr. Marlee Bunch & Brittany Collins
Listen in as Dr. Marlee Bunch and Brittany Collins join PEBC’s Phenomenal Teaching Podcast with Michelle Morris Jones to discuss planning for ABAR and SEL pedagogy. Both Marlee and Brittany value the importance of telling and understanding one’s own story as well as the stories of others....
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Grow the Good via Asset Based Responses with Julie Wright
What happens when we focus on assets rather than deficits? Listen in as Julie Wright shares strategies for “growing the good” with Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC's Phenomenal Teaching Podcast. Identifying and leveraging student and teacher assets allows us to, "Size up what students CAN do and use...
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Cultivating Spaces That Promote Agency, Equity & Connection with Nicole Tucker-Smith
Nicole Tucker-Smith joins Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC’s Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to share ways teachers and school leaders can cultivate spaces that promote agency, equity and connection for all learners. Nicole encourages us to confront how and why school spaces encourage assimilation,...
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Tilting Classrooms Towards Love: Incorporating Social and Emotional Learning into our Everyday Practices with Lily Howard Scott
Lily Howard Scott joins Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC's Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss how a focus on social and emotional learning (SEL) isn’t simply a nice-to-have, a perk, but a need-to-have, a prerequisite for meaningful learning. How children feel in the classroom is inextricably...
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Using Diverse Texts to Build Understanding, Empathy & Joy with Gita Varadarajan
Gita Varadarajan joins Michelle Morris Jones on the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to talk about the ways in which diverse texts allow students to develop empathy for others, explore challenging topics, find joy and deepen their comprehension skills. Gita brings years of classroom experience to…
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Cultivating Confident & Engaged Writers Through Responsive Scaffolding with Crystal Hughes
Listen in as Crystal Hughes shares how she developed scaffolds to support her 8th graders shift from passive online learners to engaged historians and writers on PEBC's Phenomenal Teaching Podcast with Michelle Morris Jones. When school began last year, Crystal’s students were quite reluctant to...
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Supporting Students in Their Journeys of Healing with Marlee Bunch & Brittany Collins
Marlee Bunch and Brittany Collins join the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss the intersection of Grief-Responsive Teaching and Anti-Bias/Anti-Racist (ABAR) Teaching with Michelle Morris Jones. Developing our collective understanding of how to support students who have experienced trauma and...
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PEBC Teacher Residency: Professionalizing & Energizing the Teaching Profession
How might we support vibrant, diverse, passionate individuals to become teachers? Listen in as John Kearney, Director of Recruitment and Alumni Engagement for the PEBC Teacher Residency Program, shares the ways in which a career teaching is more accessible than ever before, and recent graduates,...
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Advocates... Fill Your Cups! with Dr. Kimberly Muñoz
We can’t give what we don’t have! Educators more often than not play the role of advocate on behalf of their students, and this work can be equally rewarding and exhausting. Listen in as Dr. Kimberly Muñoz and Michelle Morris Jones dive into the realities of equitable education advocacy and...
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Cultivating STEM Identity with Creative Problem Solving featuring Wendy Ward Hoffer
Our students are the problem solvers of the future! Unfortunately, by 3rd grade 50% of kids have already decided if they are confident STEM learners or not. Let's disrupt this trend by creating learning experiences that shift mindsets from, "I don't like..." or "I've never been very good at..."…
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Reimagining MTSS: Interventions That Honor All Students
Kids helping other kids get unstuck! After recognizing that the “old ways” weren’t working for kids or teachers, the leadership team at Cherokee Trail High School embarked on developing an MTSS structure that was more about meeting the needs of kids and less about being convenient for adults.…
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Museums as Fuel for Igniting Lifeworthy Inquiry, Engagement & Joy with Ellen Spangler
Striving to increase student engagement, wondering what community resources exist to bring content to life, needing time to recharge with art, science or history? Listen in as Ellen Spangler, Museum Educator and Consultant, shares all the ways in which museums, art centers, and nonprofit...
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Creating the Conditions of Learning To Foster Engagement & Growth In Times of Disruption
The “Conditions of Learning” work synergistically to support student engagement and understanding. But what happens when systems are stressed? What happens when deficit based language and practices start to creep into our work with children? What happens when teachers are not able to be…
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Addressing The Teacher Shortage... Causes & Solutions
At PEBC we believe that each and every student deserves a great teacher! In many of today’s classrooms and schools, leaders are struggling to fill vacancies with high quality teachers who are well prepared for the rigorous yet rewarding work of teaching. We are also well aware of the shortage of...
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Grade Less…Know More with Dr. Sarah Zerwin & Jenn Brauner
Do you find yourself wondering how you will ever grade that giant stack of papers? Wondering if there might be other ways to support your students’ progress or monitor their understanding? What would happen if we eliminated the points for compliance exchange, students advocated for their own...
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Texts in These Times with Cris Tovani
We don't want kids to leave school each day without reading 67 minutes or hating to read! So how do we get texts back into kids' hands, hearts, and minds? Cris Tovani joins the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss her latest book, Why Do I Have to Read This? Literacy Strategies to Engage Our…
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Check Your Landing: Planning Learning Experiences That are Worthy of Students’ Time & Attention with Gabrielle Hovinen
If we want to create learning experiences that are worthy of students’ time and attention, we must be planful! PEBC Lab Host and 6th grade Advisor at Jefferson County Open School, Gabrielle Hovinen, joins Michelle Morris Jones on PEBC’s Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to share her process for...
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Strategies to Restore Peace & Sanity To Our Classrooms with Dr. Andra Brill
Educators and students have been weathering the storm for quite some time now, and while the waves of uncertainty, stress and trauma are diminishing for many, the after effects of the storm are still present. Dr. Andra Brill joins PEBC's Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to talk about strategies…
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Permission to Pump The Brakes: Suggestions on Slowing Down
Brooke O”Drobinak and Beth Kelley join PEBC’s Phenomenal Teaching Podcast with Michelle Morris Jones to share perspectives and practices to help educators 'make it to Monday” during this incredibly challenging time. First and foremost, it is important to recognize that we are in the midst of a...
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This Is What Comes With It... Stepping Into Real Classroom & School Leadership with Maggie Riley
School leadership takes on many forms from those who serve in formal leadership roles to those who stand before students each and every day. In order to step boldly into true service and leadership we must first know ourselves, our values, our why, and the habits and ways of thinking that hold us...
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Compelling Conversations with Jailyn Jenkins
Jailyn Jenkins believes that each and every learner deserves life-worthy conversations that promote community and deepen content understanding. Jailyn joined Michelle Morris Jones on the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to unpack the PEBC Teaching Framework and specific ways in which teachers can...
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Humanizing Schools with Samantha Bennett
As we strive to create schools that are more phenomenal than ever before Michelle Morris Jones sits down with Sam Bennett to discuss Humanizing Leadership. Sam clearly spells out some of the ways in which schools systematically dehumanize teachers and students, and she suggests actions leaders…
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What Do You Hope the Teachers Remember? Student Perspectives on Virtually Connected Learning
As we head into summer vacation, students Estella and Killian and their Virtual Advisor Karen Goodman share their reflections on their experiences as learners in their virtually connected classroom with Michelle Morris Jones on the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast. It is informative and joyful to…
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Planning for Culturally Nourishing Learning with Nawal Q. Casiano
By centering humanity we can plan for cultural sustainability and implement equitable practices that are not bandaid solutions or simply performative activities. Nawal Q. Casiano of NQC Literacy joins Michelle Morris Jones on the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast and shares her beliefs and practical...
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Getting Unstuck: One teacher's story of how she found her greatest successes by tackling her greatest challenges with Kirsten Myers Blake
Teaching first grade for the first time is tricky! And teaching first grade virtually for the first time is even trickier!! Listen in as PEBC Lab Host Kirsten Myers Blake shares how she got “unstuck” when times got tough by leaning into her beliefs, determining importance, and loving hard. As a...
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Finding the Brilliance in Every Student… Asset Based Assessment with Katherine Bomer.
In this episode Katherine Bomer and Michelle Morris Jones discuss the importance of asset based assessment practices and the ways in which adopting an appreciative mindset leads to student growth, efficacy and joy as Katherine's work aligns closely with the Assessment strand of the PEBC Teaching...
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Planning Lifeworthy Writer’s Workshops… Ensuring the Work Our Students Do is Worthy of Their Time with Kelly Boswell
In this episode Kelly Boswell joins Michelle Morris Jones on the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss how to plan and implement lifeworthy writer’s workshops. In the PEBC Teaching Framework, "lifeworthy learning" means engaging with classroom content in a way that has meaning beyond the...
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Finding Humanity in Hybrid Learning: How do we support students who are beside us and learning from home? with Jenn Brauner & Jennifer Engbretsen
In this episode, PEBC Lab Hosts Jenn Brauner and Jennifer Engbretsen join Michelle Morris Jones on the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to discuss the ways in which hybrid learning is playing out for them and their students. We dive into how the various strands of the PEBC Teaching Framework support...
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Argument Matters: Fostering Student Power, Wisdom & Empathy with Annie Patterson, Stevi Quate, and Alisa Wills-Keely
In this episode of the PEBC Phenomenal Teaching Podcast Michelle Morris Jones dives into the art of argument writing and the craft of teaching argumentation with PEBC Staff Developers Annie Patterson & Stevi Quate, along with PEBC Lab Host Alisa Wills-Keely. This trio brings a wealth of…
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Making Up for Lost Time with Joy, Inquiry & Community with Jana Durbin
In this episode PEBC Lab Host Jana Durbin and Michelle Morris Jones unpack the fear of “learning loss” and how joy, inquiry, and community come together to create opportunities for supporting student wellness and academic achievement. In the fall when Jana’s students returned to the classroom she...
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The Heart, Head & Hands of Anti-Bias and Anti-Racist Teaching with Lorena Germán
Listen in as Lorena Germán, co-founder of #DistruptTexts, joins Michelle Morris Jones on the Phenomenal Teaching Podcast to unpack the Heart, Head, and Hands of Anti-Bias and Anti-Racist (ABAR) Teaching. At the heart of ABAR teaching lies Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy (Paris & Alim, 2017) and…
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Made For Learning: An Exploration of Cambourne’s Conditions for Learning with Brian Cambourne & Debra Crouch
Learners must be the “doers” of what they are learning! Being a doer is supported by engagement, immersion, demonstration, employment, expectation, approximation, responsibility and response ~ these conditions are commonly known as the “Conditions of Learning” or “Cambourne’s Conditions” and are…
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Quit Telling Me To Take Care of Myself: Practical Self Care Practices for Educators with Beth Kelley
How can educators build practical self care practices that go beyond chocolate, walks, and bubble baths? Beth Kelley is a wellness consultant who works with educators, entrepreneurs, and organizations to build resiliency and to promote wellness practices that are achievable. She recently joined...
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What If Reading Aloud Was the Front Porch? with Lester Laminack
What if reading aloud was the front porch or the threshold that welcomed students into learning? As students, teachers and families prepare to return to their classrooms, Lester Laminack joins Michelle Morris Jones to unpack how reading aloud to students has the power to bring communities of...
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Impact over Intention: Actions To Foster Positive Student Behavior with Brad Riley
How can we be proactive in supporting positive student behavior? Student behavior is a form of communication that students use to tell us what they are feeling, experiencing, and need. Listen in as Brad Riley, Behavior Technician for Denver Public Schools, shares suggestions for teachers and…
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Removing the Masks of Disengagement with Cris Tovani
Every teacher dreads the question, "Why do I have to read this?" Listen in as Cris Tovani shares her CYA ~ Curriculum You Anticipate ~ planning structure. When planning for student engagement we must consider how Topic, Tasks, Time, Targets, Texts, and Tending all come together to create…
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Talking About Talk During Distance Learning with Sathya Wandzek & Sarah Littmann-Berger
In this episode PEBC Staff Developers Sathya Wandzek and Dr. Sarah Littmann-Berger join Michelle Morris Jones to talk about talk! The PEBC Teaching Framework highlights Discourse as an instructional strategy that supports student agency, equity, and understanding. John Hattie’s meta analyses...
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Reading Aloud in the Age of Distance Learning with Patrick Allen
Typically, Patrick Allen's classroom brims with over 3,000 children's books and his students pour over them tucked into nooks and crannies all around the room. This year Patrick is teaching remotely and most of his collection is in storage; yet he is still bringing the gift of high quality...
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Leveraging Community & Workshop to Develop Mathematical Agency & Understanding with Wendy Ward Hoffer
Why is math important? Why do so many people hate math? How can we promote positive STEM identity for all learners? Wendy Ward Hoffer and Michelle Morris Jones dive into these questions and more as they discuss ways to "turn over the mathematical gymnastics to the students" by developing Math...
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Facilitating Phenomenal Virtual Engagements: Connect Purpose, People, and Tools to Elevate the Impact of Our Virtual Meetings with Scott Murphy
As school leaders grapple with the many challenges related to leading schools during this time, the need for staff meetings, PLC's, and professional learning remains constant. PEBC's Director of Leadership, Scott Murphy, joins us to talk about the importance of facilitation and crafting high...
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Less is More: Mitigating Trauma so Teachers and Students Can Engage with Beth O’Brobinak & Beth Kelley
Educators are heart centered individuals who can be caught up in the “more is more” culture, however, at this time it is crucial to embrace a “less is more” attitude so that we can support students and colleagues who have experienced trauma. Trauma is like a wound and takes time and attention to...
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Elevating Teacher Voice: Education Policy Should Be All About People and Perspectives with Evan Kennedy
When it comes to education policy, practicing educators need a voice at the table! Listen in as Evan Kennedy, PEBC Director of Strategic Initiatives and Policy, joins the Phenomenal Teaching podcast to share how PEBC works with local, state, and national leaders to inform the development of sound...
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Explore the PEBC's Phenomenal Teaching Framework. Each episode will take a closer look how the strands of the framework come to life in classrooms and schools. Join us as we unpack Planning, Community, Workshop, Thinking Strategies, Discourse & Assessment.
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