Inspire & Innovate: A Podcast for Educators
Inspire & Innovate: A Podcast for Educators
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Inspire & Innovate: A Podcast for Educators
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Recent Episodes
February 13, 2025
(Season 8, Ep. 3) Can We Talk about Checking for Understanding?"
It’s easy to teach a unit. The hard part is designing the right assessment to see what each student has absorbed, individually and collectively. The even harder part is finding time to analyze what they turn in to see what has been learned. And the nearly impossible part is then following up to provide each individual student the missing piece of the puzzle. This week, the very not-sexy but oh-so-important question: How can we best check for student understanding? This week, hosts Toby Lowe, Rachel Scott, and Julie Rust were joined by an amazing crew of educators: Tiffany Busby (second grade) Burton Williams-Inman (ninth grade history), and Kari East (middle school learning facilitator). Our conversation ranged from the importance of articulating foundational learning objectives to the joys of sticky notes and desk pets. Listen to the whole chat, or jump to what you are interested in below: 3:33-6:37: Think high school teachers only lecture? Think again. Burton reminds us there are so many ways for youth to access information outside of passively listening; and has the reassuring news that as a teacher “you are probably [checking for understanding] all the time . . reading the room to see what kids are picking up and not picking up.” 6:38-9:00: On the value of student talk, and the importance of documenting what we learn from it. 9:20-11:30: Tiffany shares her genius one-standard-per-sticky note check for the day strategy! 11:37-13:47: The importance of co-constructing “big rock” standards as a school to know whether what you are teaching in your grade level is foundational, spiraled practice, or an end-point of full proficiency. 13:53-18:38: Why Toby considers learning facilitators like Kari, “like a teacher but HELPFUL!”; and the vital importance of creating a low stakes/no stakes safe environment in your classroom to encourage student questioning. 18:40-23:05: How centers or stations can carve out precious time in any grade level for small group check-ins with groups of students. 23:05-23:42: The surprising reason teachers of middle and upper school students are sometimes pressured into traditional lecture style classes. 23:43-28:15: What it really means when students say a particular teacher “doesn’t know how to teach,” and how realistic are our expectations for students in monitoring their own understanding and clearly articulating the questions that they have? 28:20-32:32: Why we should all be making THE MOST CRINGEY POSSIBLE videos with our teaching teams to model question-asking strategies for our students. 32:33-35:50: Rachel’s favorite strategy for checking for understanding: teach the teacher! 35:50-37:15: How making a class newspaper is a powerful way to facilitate individual research that moves into a collaborative project. 37:17:37:37: What we are really talking about in all of this is building toward student agency: kids having the ability to teach themselves. 38:10-39:03: Burton’s commercial for the many varieties of the classic and very basic google form exit ticket! “It can serve in so many ways: beginning of class from previous lesson, open ended question about the day . . . You can make it closed note or open note”; the possibilities are endless! 39:22-41:22: Tiffany’s embrace of “challenges” to do a quick check of what students did and didn’t understand immediately following a lesson . . . and the surprising motivational value of deskpets! 42:33-43:33: Why Kari advocates for a good low stakes/not stakes self check in which students do a 5-7 question worksheet and then check themselves; also shout out for non-permanent vertical learning spaces (VNPS)! 43:40-44:44: No wiser words from Toby were ever said: there are no shortcuts to doing this work well. “You just need to strap in for ‘it’s gonna be more work, but it’s gonna be worth it.’”
December 18, 2024
(Season 8, Ep. 2) Can We Talk about Burnout?
Educators Maria Edwards, Judy Menist, Rachel Scott, and Toby Lowe share vulnerable stories and insights about teacher burnout, its causes, and strategies for prevention and recovery.
October 29, 2024
(Season 8, Ep. 1) Can We Talk about Building Resilience?
Have you noticed that kids just aren’t as tough as they used to be? Do you wonder why so many hands come up with so many questions the minute you assign a task? Did you read that recent article about how elite college students no longer even have the sticktoitiveness to read a full book? Do you wish your students could persevere a little longer, bounce back a little faster? Today’s episode: “Can we Talk About Building Resilience?” is going to address just that. Hosts Toby Lowe, Rachel Scott, and Julie Rust were lucky to be joined by special guest UMMC Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, Dr. Peyton Thigpen, as well as our three incredible school counselors: Courtney McGee, Shedrick Rogers, and Chelsea Freeman. 1:12-3:30: Toby introduces the theme of resilience by telling a success story about a fifth grader he taught, asking “what was it about this kid that made her decide ‘I’m going to give this a try’? 5:55-6:25: Courtney McGee, Lower School Counselor, introduces resilience and how it fits into CARES (cooperation, assertiveness, responsibility, empathy, and self control) programmatic model. 7:16-9:00: Shedrick Rogers, Middle School Counselor, argues that kids are more resilient than we often give them credit for; perhaps we need to have more patience that we are not the end point in their journey. 9:40-11:25: Chelsea Freeman, Upper School Counselor, campaigns for getting more comfortable with discomfort in her homage to Damour’s book, The Emotional Lives of Teenagers. 12:49-14:10 : Dr. Peyton Thigpen encourages educators that the adults that had the most impact on us as children most likely challenged us to do hard things: “I’m not going to take your worst work; I know you have more potential than that.” 14:11-17:10: Shedrick argues for the importance of consistently high expectations for youth in all areas: academics, social life, etc. 17:11-20:03: So how do we actually help youth that are uncomfortable in the struggle? The good news is many of these skills can be taught, having social support and connection is vitally protective, and our school counselors have myriad tools to share. 20:04-22:52: How can we best support the youngest students in our lives? Courtney and Peyton advocate for giving youth insight for recognizing their emotions, sharing language for naming them, and modeling strategies for coping. 22:55- 29:38: Toby asks the million dollar question: how does all this resilience stuff take on a different note when it comes to us parenting our own kids? (Note: Julie found some solace in an episode of Hidden Brain featuring an interview with psychologist Peter Gray entitled “Parents: Keep Out!”) 29:40-31:05: Why we need to be the thermostat rather than the thermometer when it comes to our interactions with youth. 31:10-39:00: Guests sagely address our first teacher-generated question: With attention spans and the ability to maintain sustained focus decreasing, specifically in upper middle school grades, how can we help students understand that they can, in fact, learn how to focus even at the age of 13? 39:20-43:35: Our second teacher-generated question elicits the comforting advice of “don’t change a thing; the conditions you are creating are the perfect recipe for building resilience!” My AP World History class is the first AP that students can take in the HS. The curriculum, set by the College Board, is extremely rigorous and fast paced. It's not unusual to have students crying in my office mid-September, but by the end of October, they seem to get their "sea legs" and begin to see improvement. I start the year advising them to work hard and trust the process. I continuously encourage them and teach skills along the way, but I still have meltdowns. What can I do better in the early days to help students understand that it's a marathon, not a sprint, and that their grades WILL improve? (Some have never earned B's or C's before and you'd think it was the end of
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