Brave New Teaching: A Podcast for High School and Middle School Teachers

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EPISODE 114: COMPASSION = ACCOUNTABILITY: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SERIES PART 4 Aug 25, 2022

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Today's episode marks the last in the series we are doing on classroom management. To close out the series, we're talking about a strong belief that we have here at Brave New Teaching, which is this...true compassion is accountability! We'll share what this actually means, and how you can take this belief and incorporate it into your classroom this year.

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EPISODE 113: RELATIONSHIPS AND BEHAVIOR (INTERVIEW WITH DR. DEONNA SMITH) CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SERIES PART 3 Aug 18, 2022

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When you think about your role as a teacher, are you trying to control your classroom, or are you trying to build a community?

Our guest today, Dr. Deonna Smith is asking the tough, yet crucial, questions like this in part three of our series on classroom management! This is her zone of genius, and we couldn’t be happier to have her on the podcast to share her experience and insight.

Deonna is a former teacher, instructional coach and school leader. Before transitioning into leadership, Deonna taught intervention, elementary and middle school math and science. As a student and teacher, Deonna saw how systemic racism negatively impacted both adults and kids. This experience set Deonna on a journey to learn more about how teachers can liberate their students’ potential through anti racist practices. Deonna is dedicated to her own learning as well and recently completed her doctorate in education from Loyola Marymount University.

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EPISODE 112: ORGANIC COMMUNITY (INTERVIEW WITH JOHN RODNEY): CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SERIES PART 2 Aug 11, 2022

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Here at Brave New Teaching, we feel strongly about several things, one of which is creating a classroom culture that exudes trust, acceptance, and community. We believe that these things are at the heart of successful, and holistic, classroom management. That’s why in this second episode of our four-part classroom management series, we are chatting with our friend, John Rodney about organic community in your classroom (and may be slightly fan-girling while doing it!).

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EPISODE 111: OUR 3 R'S AND 3 C'S OF CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT: CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT SERIES PART 1 Aug 04, 2022

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As you prepare for another school year, how are you feeling about your classroom management? We don’t know about you, but we were raised in an age of clip charts, reward systems, and overall surface level management systems that were really creating inequitable experiences for students.

We now know that there are better practices to put in place that are equitable and responsive to all kids. Your goal is not a perfect classroom. Your goal is to create an environment where your students are going to be academically and socially successful; to create a safe space where students can have hard conversations, be vulnerable, and trust each other.

Thinking about classroom management in a new way can be overwhelming, especially when you’ve got so much else on your plate at the beginning of the year. As always, that’s why we are here to help support you and take some of that pressure off. This episode is the first of a four-episode series all about classroom management. You won’t only hear from us, but also other amazing educators who have gotten their classroom management really dialed in, in ways that are so organic and invigorating.

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EPISODE 109: TIME FOR A CAREER CHANGE? (INTERVIEW WITH DARIN NAKAKIHARA) Jul 21, 2022

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Do you ever feel like the position you are currently in as an educator just doesn’t quite fit? Maybe it’s because of the grade level you’re in, the specific school you work at, or the colleagues that you work with.

Whatever the reason, if where you are in your career as an educator doesn’t feel right, you don’t have to stay there. If your passion is teaching, and you know you want to stay in this career, there are lots of shifts that you can make while still staying in the classroom.

You’ll hear from Darin Nakakihara in today’s interview, who has experienced several shifts in his career until finding the one that was perfect for him. Darin shares his advice on the first steps to take if you want to be in the classroom, but you just don’t fit where you currently are.

Darin (Mr. N) is a high school teacher in Southern California. He loves connecting with students and building relationships and community, and his passion for education comes through in all he does. When he is not teaching you can catch him fishing, building amazing edtech tools, or spending time with his family.

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Episode 108: BNT FROM CHICAGO Jul 14, 2022

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This episode is special for so many reasons. Want to know why? To begin, we are recording together in person!!! 🥳 We’re at the 2022 Teachers Pay Teachers conference in Chicago and it’s the first time we’ve been together since the very first time we met, (which was THREE years ago). It’s surreal to be here right next to each other after staring at each other through a computer screen for years.

As we sit down today, we’re reminiscing on where we started, and getting excited about what is to come for the rest of this year and beyond as we begin season five of this podcast.

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EPISODE 107: TEACHING SHORT STORIES: UNIT MAKEOVER Jul 07, 2022

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Who doesn’t love a good makeover? Well friends, today we’re talking about giving our favorite kind of makeover - a unit makeover! Specifically, a short stories unit makeover.

The reason we’re creating this episode during the summer is because we have heard from many of you that your first unit is short stories. We’ve also heard from you that this unit has not yielded much success for various reasons.

So, if you are in the same boat and do a short stories unit to kick off the year, we want to go through this unit makeover with you. Then you’ll be able to make the changes you want to make in order for it to be as successful as possible for your students.

You’ll hear the steps that we take in the unit makeover process and we’ll also dive into a specific unit makeover that Marie has done. Our process will help you to easily revamp any unit by creating a vision, nailing down an essential question, gathering supplemental texts, and preparing unit assessments.

Be sure to sign up for our free unit makeover challenge so that you can give your units a glow-up too! This is a 10-day email series that will allow you to implement each step of our process on your own time! Sign up below or learn more here.

Do you have a teacher friend who would also benefit from a short stories unit makeover? Share this episode with them so you can go through this process together!

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EPISODE 106: BRAVE NEW SUMMER BREAK: TEACHER COLLABISODE Jun 30, 2022

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Summer is finally here, and we are here for it! Teacher summer break is truly something that nobody outside of the profession really understands. It’s a mix of emotions and if you’re anything like us, you may be battling with choosing how to spend this time.

Should you focus on rest? Should you use the summer months to plan and prepare for the upcoming year so you feel less overwhelmed when it’s time to go back to work? Is there a middle ground?

Well friends, we sent out the bat signal and called on other teachers to share their perspective and experiences with how they approach summer break. You’ll get to hear straight from fellow teachers in today’s episode as they answer questions like:

What does summer break mean for you?
What summer break rituals do you honor?
What’s your approach to summer PD/growth/planning for next year?
What are some summer break mistakes you’ve made and how did you fix them?

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EPISODE 105: COLLABORATING WITH THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY: COLLABORATION SERIES PART 4 Jun 23, 2022

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Friends! We’re finishing up our series on collaboration today. We started this series off by talking about what collaboration is, what it can be, when it works, when it doesn't work, and what we call “lone wolf syndrome”.

Today, we're here to widen the perspective a bit and talk about collaborating with the community at large when it comes to individual students, a classroom setting, and the school as a whole. To spark some inspiration, we even have some fun projects that we have done in the past that we want to tell you all about!

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Episode 104: STUDENT COLLABORATION: COLLABORATION SERIES PART 3 Jun 16, 2022

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Welcome to our third of four episodes in a series all about collaboration! In case you missed it, in part one episode 101, we talked about collaborating with your teacher team (instead of being a lone wolf!). In part two, episode 103, Erin Castillo joined Marie to share about SPED and classroom teacher collaboration.

Today, we are going to start talking about the star of the show…the kids! We're sharing about several different ideas, from student-to-student peer collaboration, to teacher-to-student collaboration.

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