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Greatest Hits: That Summer PD Vibe!

#229 Cheating and A.I. — What Are We To Do?

#228 Allow Students to Discover Reading

#227 Teaching Frustrations: What to Do…

Greatest Hits: Culture of the Writing Workshop

#226 Skill vs Comprehension Reading Instruction

#225 Pam’s New Adventure!

#224 Keeping the Joy of Writing Instruction

#223 Objectives: Posted or Not Posted?

Greatest Hits: Paper is Still King

#222 Standard Based Learning with a Twist of Assessment

#221 STAAR Writing Support

#220 State of Schools in 2025

A Christmas Break

#219 Leading Your Department

#218 Staying Strong During the Fall Season

#217 Spicing Up Direct Instruction

#216 Balancing Direct Instruction with Facilitation (repost)

#215 Building Relationships Through Content

#214 Receiving Feedback and Advocating for Workshop

#213 Starting Units and Poetry (Q&A)

#212 Low-stakes Writing: Why?

#211 Navigating Political Seasons as an Educator

#210 A Focus on the School Library

#209 How We Use QuickWrites in Writing Workshop

#208 Standards: Academic or Kid Friendly

#207 Workshop in a Boxed Curriculum

#206 Develop the Future of Your Workshop (PD)

#205 A Wide Array of Workshop Wonderings

#204 The Dos of Starting Workshop

#203 The Don’ts of Starting Workshop

#202 The Craftbook and Draftbook Tutorial

#201 The Knowledge Gap Has Gaps

#200 The Knowledge Gap Book Study Finale and Our Thoughts

#199 Chapters 9-10 of The Knowledge Gap (Book Study)

#198 Chapters 7-8 of The Knowledge Gap (Book Study)

#197 Chapters 4-6 of The Knowledge Gap (Book Study)

#196 Chapters 1-3 of The Knowledge Gap (Book Study)

#195 The Knowledge Gap Book Study (Join Us!)

#194 Is the Knowledge Gap Real? (Book Study Intro)

#193 How to Get an English Teaching Job

#192 Closing the Year Strong

#191 How to Study Literature

#190 Schools Ruin Poetry

#189 What is an Assignment?

#188 How Much Do We Know About American Teachers?

#187 What is College Readiness?

#186 It’s That Time of Year: To Stay or To Quit

#185 Test-Prep Strategies! (Patreon Episode)

#184 Reading or Writing: What Matters Most?

#183 Does it Matter if Teachers Teach a Love for Reading?

#182 Essays and Possibilities

#181 Why Two Notebooks?

#180 We Talk About Stress

#179 This is What Schools Need to be Successful

#178 Filler Lessons for the Unexpected Day

#177 Will Programs Replace Teachers?

#176 GT and STAAR Writing HELP

#175 Set-up (literally) the Classroom for Success

#174 From Memories to Empowered Writers

#173 From Ancient Discoveries to Keeping Kids Learning

#172 The Importance of a Personal Story (pt.2)

#171 The Importance of a Personal Story

#170 A Journal System that WORKS (Tutorial)

#169 Capturing Where We’ve Been LIVE (pt.2)

#168 Capturing Where We’ve Been LIVE (pt.1)

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#167 Nuances, Complexities, Science of Reading, and More

#166 Building Reading Culture in your Classroom (pt.2)

#165 Building Writing Culture in your Classroom (pt.1)

#164 Checkpoints for Progress (pt.2)

#163 Checkpoints for Progress (pt.1)

#162 When Planning in Groups Goes Right (pt.2)

#161 When Planning in Groups Goes Wrong (pt.1)

#160 Getting Buy in from Students in Reading (Listener Question)

#159 Are You Coachable?

# 158 Solving Time Management with ChatGPT

#157 Libraries Are Essential

#156 Teaching with LIMITED Resources

#155 Making the Curriculum Fit and Flow Through Workshop

#154 Workshopping the Science of Reading (Bonus Episode)

#153 Activating Writers with Mentor Texts (Bonus Video)

#152 New School Year… New Us?

#151 Workshop and Special Needs Students

#150 Working with Difficult Colleagues (pt.2)

#149 A Day in the Life of a Workshop Teacher (Part 1)

#148 Annotation is to Reading as Diagramming is to Grammar

#147 Plagiarism: What Can Teachers Do About It?

#146 We Rate ChatGPT Lessons for English Language Arts

#145 Artificial Intelligence is Here to Stay

#144 The Art of Presentation

#143 On Endings… and Beginnings

#142 PD Books, Our Book, and Reading Conferences Q&A

#141 Helping Students Build Confidence

#140 When We Face Difficult Times

#139 The Interview: What Makes It Great!

#138 Keeping the Focus on the Students

#137 Lessons Through Skills, Genres, or Themes?

#136 Are Stations or Centers Workshop?

#135 Creating Context (and all the musings)