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**The Six Shifts**

A Shifting the Balance podcast, featuring authors Katie Egan Cunningham, Dr. Jan Burkins and Kari Yates.

Latest Episodes:

Reimagining the Way We Teach Phonics Apr 16, 2021

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In today's episode Jan and Kari discuss the third shift: Reimagining the Way We Teach Phonics.

LINKS

Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balance Literacy Classroom

Follow Jan @drjanburkins and www.drjanburkins.com .

Follow Kari @Kari_Yates

www.thesixshifts.com

Recommitting to Phonemic Awareness Instruction Apr 02, 2021

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Welcome to episode three! In today's episode Jan and Kari discuss the second shift: Recommitting to Phonemic Awareness Instruction.

LINKS

Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balance Literacy Classroom

Follow Jan @drjanburkins and www.drjanburkins.com .

Follow Kari @Kari_Yates

www.thesixshifts.com

Rethinking How Reading Comprehension Begins Mar 19, 2021

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Welcome to episode two! In our previous episode, Jan and Kari shared the story behind Shifting the Balance and their experience rethinking their teaching. In our second episode, Jan, Kari and Dan dig in to the first shift: Rethinking How Reading Comprehension Begins.

LINKS

Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balance Literacy Classroom

Follow Jan @drjanburkins and www.drjanburkins.com .

Follow Kari @Kari_Yates

www.thesixshifts.com

Introducing The Six Shifts Mar 05, 2021

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In this podcast based on their new book, Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balanced Literacy Classroom Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, with Stenhouse's Dan Tobin address misconceptions and misunderstandings that have discouraged educators from incorporating the science of reading into the balanced literacy classroom.

Jan and Kari are balanced literacy advocates, but by studying the other sides perspective, they learned to incorporate six simple, scientifically sound shifts in their teaching that can help more children learn to read and with less struggle.

In this episode, Jan, Kari, and Dan discuss the background and origin of Shifting the Balance, their hopes for readers, and their experience of rethinking their teaching practice.

LINKS

Shifting the Balance: 6 Ways to Bring the Science of Reading into the Balance Literacy Classroom

Follow Jan @drjanburkins and www.drjanburkins.com .

Follow Kari @Kari_Yates

www.thesixshifts.com