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TWIGcast

by TWIG

Community. Conversation. Creativity. A podcast for and by teachers of writers.

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Episodes

  1. On Patience

    Patti, Bri, and Lauren muse on the deceptively complex virtue of patience; inside and out of school.

  2. On Joy

    Patti, Daisy, and Rachel discuss some of their joyful teaching moments that occurred in their classes while in the midst of the Covid pandemic and share how they approach teaching writers.

  3. How can reflection promote and sustain a culture of argument?

    Patti and Jess discuss the value of reflecting and all things TWIG in the season 2 finale.

  4. How can argument lead to action?

    Patti and Meribeth discuss how argument in an elementary STEM academy lead students to take action in their school.

  5. How can we help student writers respond to others' ideas?

    Patti and Nic discuss the complexities of teaching young writers to borrow from and build on the ideas of others.

  6. How can we help students find effective evidence and use it to support their claims?

    Patti and Maddie discuss strategies to assist in the teaching writers to use evidence effectively in their arguments.

  7. How can we responsibly teach students to consider others’ perspectives when developing claims?

    Patti and Jody discuss using challenging topics to teach some important principles of argument.

  8. How can we develop an understanding of other people’s perspectives to build our community?

    Patti and Maddie discuss how they go about gaining perspective within their professional communities and their classrooms.

  9. How can argument build community?

    Patti and Meribeth discuss how classroom norms help create a culture of argument.

  10. Before the Beginning

    Patti and Nic discuss planning through revision processes in teaching at a meta-scale and preview TWIG’s plans for the fall.

  11. Patti’s abridged intro story

    Brief story about Patti’s classroom culture of writing.

  12. How do we create spaces for reflection that highlight and cultivate joy?

    Patti and Jody discuss a remarkable, historic year and how they use writing and reflection to bring joy to learning.

  13. What is central to the design processes of our instructional routines?

    Nic and Jody discuss what they value most when considering instructional design for their courses to best meet students’ needs.

  14. How can we call upon writing to cultivate joy within our classrooms?

    Jess and Jody discuss writing situations and strategies they use with their students and own children to help them find joy in writing.

  15. How can we call upon writing to cultivate joy?

    Maddie and Jody discuss how writing brings them joy and how they try to cultivate that sentiment in their students.

  16. How does the writing process allow us to use relationships to spur civil discourse?

    Jody and Patti discuss the connections between the writing process, relationships with their students, and civil discourse!

  17. How do relationships affect civil discourse? Part One

    In this episode, Maribeth and Nic recap and extend TWIG’s recent conversation about how relationships affect conversations in a variety of contexts and way.

  18. How can we use writing to foster civil discourse? (Part 2)

    This question gets right to the heart of our work as educators and teachers of writers. We hope our students develop the confidence and skills to engage in hard conversations, especially in this moment when our country is deeply divided and it seems like there are few spaces for people with...

  19. How can we use writing to foster civil discourse? (Part 1)

    Listen as Patti and Meribeth continue the conversation from the first official Tuesdays with TWIG gathering.

  20. TWIGCAST Teaser!

    A brief introduction to Teaching Writers Inquiry Group and Tuesdays with TWIG.

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

Community. Conversation. Creativity. A podcast for and by teachers of writers.

HOSTED BY

TWIG

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education

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Community. Conversation. Creativity. A podcast for and by teachers of writers.

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