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Summer Read Aloud Series: En Comunidad with Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera Aug 12, 2021

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This summer on the podcast we’re going to be taking a break from our normal content. This past year has been draining for everyone, especially teachers, and we wanted to do what we could to help educators take a breather. For the next several weeks we’ll be sharing samples from some of our audiobooks, and we hope that you’re able sit back, relax, and enjoy these read alouds.

Today on the podcast, we have a sample from En Comunidad by Luz Yadira Herrera and Carla España. En Comunidad provides guidance on centering the voices and experiences of bilingual Latinx students. In narrating their own experiences as students and teachers, the authors open up the classroom for bilingual teachers to bring their full selves to their curriculum.

In this preview, Luz and Carla introduce their book and explain why we need to bring translanguaging to the classroom.

If you’d like to hear more, you can head over to our new audiobooks feed where you can browse our full catalogue and listen to more samples. Just search for Heinemann Audiobooks wherever you listen to podcasts.

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Summer Read Aloud Series: In the Moment with Jen Munson Aug 05, 2021

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Today on the Podcast, we have a sample from Jen Munson’s audiobook In the Moment: Conferring in the Elementary Math Classroom.

In the Moment offers research-based guidance for conferring with your students in math. Jen Munson explains how, in just a few minutes, a math conference provides opportunities for supporting productive struggle, helping students grow their ideas, and differentiating instruction. In this preview Jen details what a math conference is, and how to make conferring with your math students even more effective.

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Summer Read Aloud Series: 180 Days with Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle Jul 29, 2021

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Today on the podcast, we have a sample from the audio companion to 180 Days: Two Teachers and the Quest to Engage and Empower Adolescents by Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle.

180 Days represents the collaboration of two master teachers—Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle—over an entire school year: planning, teaching, and reflecting within their own and each other’s classrooms in California and New Hampshire. Inspired by a teacher’s question, “How do you fit it all in?” they identified and prioritized the daily, essential, belief-based practices that are worth spending time on. They asked, “Who will these students be as readers and writers after a year under our care?”

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Summer Read Aloud Series: The Curious Classroom with Harvey "Smokey" Daniels Jul 22, 2021

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Today on the podcast, we have a sample from Harvey “Smokey” Daniel’s audiobook The Curious Classroom. Ever wonder how to get students genuinely engaged in your curriculum? Or wish you could let them explore the amazing questions they ask? If so, Smokey provides research-based suggestions that help cover the curriculum by connecting what kids wonder about to the wonders you have to teach them.

In this preview, Smokey highlights some of the pillars of a learning space led by inquiry.

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Water for Teachers: Sips with Shamari Reid, Minisode Three Jul 16, 2021

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In the Spring of 2021, we brought you Water for Teachers with host Shamari Reid, a podcast aimed at connecting with the hearts and the humanity of humans who teach. As we continue to plan episodes for a future season of Water for Teachers, and as we come to the close of a truly unprecedented year of teaching, we wanted to be sure to check back in with our teacher friends.

We hope these “sips” episodes will help you to replenish, reconnect, and reinvigorate your heart, body, and mind over the summer. We’ll add each new episode to The Heinemann Blog, but we encourage you to subscribe to The Heinemann Podcast wherever you listen.

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Summer Read Aloud Series: Motivated by Ilana Horn Jul 15, 2021

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This week on the podcast, we have a sample of Ilana Horn's audiobook Motivated: Designing Math Classrooms Where Students Want to Join In.

Motivated is a guidebook for teachers unsatisfied with questions met by silence. By examining what works in other classrooms and following the example of been-there teachers, you’ll start changing slumped shoulders and blank stares into energetic, engaged learners.

In this preview, Ilana digs into some common teaching strategies and explores the “how” and “why” behind them.

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Summer Read Aloud Series: The Artful Read Aloud with Rebecca Bellingham Jul 08, 2021

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Today on the podcast, we have a sample from Rebecca Bellingham’s audiobook The Artful Read-Aloud.

The Artful Read-Aloud is a user-friendly guide that builds a bridge between the artistic world and the classroom, providing a deeper dive into the artistry of reading aloud. Rebecca draws on her experience as a performer, teaching artist, classroom teacher, and literacy coach to make explicit connections between the arts and reading aloud, providing dozens of easy moves teachers can make that can enhance, elevate, and deepen the impact of interactive read-alouds.

In this preview, Rebecca explains why read alouds matter in the classroom, even in our increasingly tech-filled classrooms.

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Water for Teachers, Sips with Shamari Reid: Minisode Two Jul 02, 2021

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Summer Read Aloud Series: Risk. Fail. Rise. with Colleen Cruz Jul 01, 2021

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Today on the podcast, we have a sample from Colleen Cruz’s audiobook, Risk. Fail. Rise.: A Teacher’s Guide to Learning from Mistakes.

In this excerpt, we hear Colleen read the first half of the essay, “Martyrs Make More Mistakes.” She writes how the sacrifices educators make not only depletes their personal energy and goals, but also increases the frequency of harmful mistakes made in the classroom.

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Racial Equity and Literacy with Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul and Tricia Ebarvia Jun 24, 2021

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Today on the podcast we’re joined by Dr. Sonja Cherry Paul and Tricia Ebarvia.

Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul's research and work stem from an unyielding commitment to antibias and antiracist pedagogy and practices in K-12 schools. She is an educator, a curriculum developer and author of several books for teachers, and she has adapted Stamped For Kids.

A co-founder of #DisruptTexts, Tricia Ebarvia advocates for literacy instruction rooted in equity and liberation through critical literacy. An educator with 20 years of experience, she also has an upcoming book with Heinemann.

This summer, in collaboration with Heinemann PD Services, Sonja and Tricia are offering two virtual Institutes for Racial Equity in Literacy focused on racial equity, social justice, and anti-racist pedagogy.

Today, Sonja and Tricia discuss Sonja’s recent adaptation of Stamped for Kids, the myriad forces that continue to inhibit the work of antiracism, and why opportunities like IREL are so important.

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