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Ignite Your Teaching — 140 episodes
How do you effectively differentiate in the classroom?
How to Combine Lessons in a Split Grade Classroom
Split Grade Teaching Myths
The Power of Doing Less: How Simplifying Your Teaching Can Benefit Everyone
Transform Your Classroom with Math Centers: Engage, Empower, and Assess Effectively
Mastering Diagnostic Assessments in Language Arts
Why Building Relationships Supports Stronger Literacy Skills
Organizing Your Literacy Block: Schedules and Routines
Transforming Classrooms with Empower: Evidence-Based Literacy Support
Dear New Teacher: Planning, Assessment and Creating a Culture of Belonging - An Interview With Dr. Lori Friesen
Dear New Teacher: Prepare For Back To School- An Interview with Dr. Lori Friesan
Save Time Writing Report Cards
Prepare for Your Next Teaching Interview: A Step By Step Guide
Making the Decision: Is It Time to Change Your Teaching Role?
Maximizing a 60-Minute Literacy Block: Strategies for Teachers
Strategies to Avoid Teacher Burnout
Innovative Teaching Tactics for Students Who Finish First
Boosting Student Literacy with Effective Nonfiction Writing Techniques
8 Mindset Shifts Teachers Need For A Better Work Life Balance
EP260 - Transform Your Literacy Program with Effective Assessment Strategies
Ep 259 - Enhancing Spelling Skills: Transitioning to Ignited Spelling in the Junior Classroom
EP 258 - Mastering Literacy Centers in Junior Grades
EP 257 - Understanding The Changes in Ontario's Literacy Curriculum for Grades 3-6 Teachers
EP 256 - How to Organize Your Math Classroom
EP 255 - How to Start Your Math Program Off Right: The First Three Weeks of School
EP 254 - 5 Ways to End the Year on a Positive Note With Your Students
EP 253 - How to Use Chat GPT in the Classroom
EP 252 - Create Easy Final Projects You and Your Students Will Love
EP 251 - Simplify Your Report Card Writing with Comment Banks
EP 250 - What are the 3 C's of Classroom Management?
EP 249 - Why is Inquiry so Challenging for Students and How to Fix It
EP 248 - The 4 ways that you can differentiate in the classroom
247: What are the 4 Types of Inquiry-Based Learning?
246: Build Critical Thinking Skills in the Classroom
Creating a Positive Learning Environment – The Key to Student Motivation (EP245)
244 Three Types of Assessment
Making an Effective Rubric: Strategies and Tips
How to Manage Your Time as a Teacher
I don't hate teaching a split...and here's why!
What Makes a Good Math Program
Get Ready For Your TPA! - Teacher Performance Appraisal
238: How to Use Math Journals in Your Classroom
237: Teaching Math to a Split Grade Classroom
236: Make a Bulletin Board with Me
235: Simple Setup Tips for Back to School
234: How to Do Spiraled Math the Right Way
233: Math Centers: 4 Ways to Do Centers
232: Math Centers: What Activities Should You Include?
231: Get September Ready Now
230: How to Get It All Covered in the Time You Have Left
229: Math Centers
228: Fix Your Math Tests
227: Get More Math Assessment Done in Class
226: Are You Making It Too Simple? How to Avoid Modifying Your Lessons Due to Pandemic Gaps in Learning
225: Accommodating for Gaps in Understanding Due to the Pandemic
224: Teaching Pandemic Kids
223: So the Curriculum Changed Again… What Should You Do About It?
222: 3 Things I've Done In My Classroom I Won't Ever Do Again
221: Are You Really Going to Let Us Play Video Games in Class? Minecraft in the Social Studies Classroom
220: So You Need to Do Guided Instruction… What the Heck Should You Do With the Rest of Your Class?
219: Stop Taking Your Marking Home
218: Ideas for Teaching Middle School Writing with Celeste From Teaching Tomorrow
217: Why There Is So Much More Than Just Long Division
216: Why There Is Nothing Wrong With New Math
215: Learn More About Ignited Math
214: Math and Assessment
213: The 4 Components of My Math Program That Help to Keep Everything Organized
212: Creating Digital Products for Your Classroom with Microsoft Products
211: 3 Myths About Writing Report Cards That Are Making Your Reports Take Longer
210: Write your Learning Skills Quickly and Easily with Student Evaluator
209: So You're Going Remote! 4 Things You are Not Going To Do When Pivoting to Remote Teaching
208: Don't Take Your School Work Home Over the Holidays
207: Holiday Concert Ideas That Still Cover Curriculum
206: What You Need To Stop Assessing Right Now
205: Get Ready for Parent-Teacher Interviews
204: 4 Tools That Have Changed My Teaching
203: A Simple Way to Start Inquiry In Your Classroom
202: How to Manage a Difficult Classroom
201: How to Assess Reading
200: Ask Me Anything
199: Classroom Management Fundamentals
197: Should We Teach Writing Form or Writing Process?
196: Prepare Your Students and Yourself For Guided Reading
195: Run Literacy Centers in Junior Classroom
194: High Yield Strategies for Your Language Arts Program
193: Is Ignited Literacy Right For You?
192: 5 Mistakes You are Making In Your Language Program
191: Supporting High Needs Students in your Language Arts Program
190: Getting Started with Guided Reading in the Junior Grades
189: Setting Up Your Teaching Timetable
188: Meet the Madly Learning Team
187: What Makes Canadian Teachers Unique?
186: How to Level Up Your Science Lessons Using Inquiry-Based Learning and Universal Design
185: Do It Now...Thank Yourself Later - What You Should Do In June to Close Down Your Classroom and Be Ready For Back To School
184: Reflections on Teaching In The Last 365 Days
183: How a Comment Bank Can Help You Write Your Report Cards
182: Teaching Students With Special Education Needs with Mrs. D's Corner
181: Teacher Interview Skills
180: Morning Meetings and Closing Circles with Monica Dunbar
179: Word Walls in the Junior Classroom
178: Inquiry in Math
177: How to Assess In an Inquiry Classroom
176: How to Plan Your Next Inquiry Unit
175: Learning More About Coding with Dena from Miss Tech Queen
174: Keeping Science Interesting with Simple Experiments
173: Inquiry Can Be Simple
172: Strategies for Teaching a Split Grade
171: Leveling Up Your Science and Social Studies Programs
EP 170 - Differentiating With Your ELL Students
EP 169 - Windows, Mirrors, and Prisms
EP 168 - 3 Essential Ways You Can Use Choice Boards in the Classroom
EP 167 - Assessing Student’s Digital Work and How to Save Yourself Time
EP 166 - 4 Strategies to Simplify Your Remote Teaching Journey
EP 165 - Free and Cost-Effective Ways to Set Up Your Remote Classroom!
Ep 164 - Work Smarter, Not Harder - How Remote Teachers Can Set Limits
Ep 163 - Just Teach! - 7 Tips to Help You Survive Remote Teaching
EP 161- Student Teacher Writing Conferences: Why They Help & What To Cover!
EP 159 - Literature Circles vs. Literature Centers - Which is Right for You?
EP 158 - Top 5 Time Saver Tips For Lesson Planning
EP 157- Madly Learning's Top 5 Teaching Tips
EP 156 - Transforming Your Science Classroom in 5 Categories
EP 154 - Create An Emergency Supply Plan Binder
EP 153- An Introduction to AirTable
EP 152 - Modifying and Accommodating for Students Reading At or Below Grade Levels
EP 151 - 6 Tips Before You Get Started With Classroom Management
EP 150 - Language Arts in your Virtual Classroom
EP 149 - Teachers Helping Teachers
EP 147- Should It Be Digital? 5 Questions To Ask Yourself Before You Plan Your Next Activity
Episode 146 - Blending Digital Learning With In Class Instruction
Episode 144 - Learn More About Ignited Literacy
Episode 143 - How To Change The Way You Think About Assessment
Episode 142 - 6 Different Types Of Centers In Your Junior Literacy Program
Episode 141 - Goals in a Junior Literacy Program
EP 140: Your Literacy Program: Where to Begin
EP 139: How I Change the Way I Make my Long Range Plans
EP 138: Wrapping Up The Year: A Look Back and Some Next Steps
EP 137: My Own Process For How I Get Organized to Write Report Cards
EP 136: Get Kids Engaged by Keeping Your Digital Learning Tasks Fresh
EP 135: How to Use Synchronous (Live) Learning in your Digital Classroom
EP 134: How to Provide Assessment and Feedback to you’d Students while Teaching Digitally