“Mom, it is like this happens every week.” “Mommy, we hid in our cubbies today.” My oldest child, the author of the first quote is astute; my younger child, the author of the latter, more innocent. Both, however, have learned that the world is violent; that their schools might be locations of a mass shooting. […]
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3 Steps to Helping Students Develop College-Ready Writing Skills
Teachers are forever reminding their students that what’s going on in their classrooms will be ‘important to know in high school and college’ – but how many students actually believe them? I remember one student who replied to me when I said that: “Yeah, that’s what they say every year. And it’s never really true […]
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[Episode 56] The Politics of Mathematics
In this episode, Franchesca Warren interviews Dr. Toya Jones Frank a Professor of Mathematics Education Leadership and Secondary Education at George Mason University about the politics of mathematics and what kids really need to be successful mathematicians. In this episode, we discuss the following: What are the struggles of mathematics education across the grade levels? […]
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[Episode 52] Teaching Controversial Topics in Elementary School
“You can start teaching social justice to students when they’re young enough to suffer from social ills.” In this episode of The Educator’s Room podcast, we talk to two elementary school teachers, LaNesha from Education From An Apron and Naomi from Read Like a Rockstar about teaching K-5 students about controversial topics. From Charlottesville to Hispanic Heritage month, these teachers […]
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[Episode 53] Helping Students With Dyslexia in Schools
In this episode, Franchesca Warren interviews Mike T. Dunn, Director of College Counseling at AIM Academy, a school for students with dyslexia. In this interview Mike discusses the following: how schools can best support students they suspect may have dyslexiawhat are some of the signs that teachers miss that indicate dyslexiastrategies for schools to be […]
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[Episode 54]Are Teachers Watching the Decline of Education?
In the episode, Franchesca Warren interviews Jeremy Adams and his widely popular article, Do Modern Educators Have a Front Row Seat to the American Decline. In this podcast, they discuss the following: how teachers are on the front line to the societal ills of our society specifically what’s the special decline teachers are privy to […]
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[Episode 55] Breaking Through The Shame: Going Through A Divorce
In this episode, Franchesca Warren interviews Traci H., writer/educator and her experiences of going through a divorce while teaching. In this interview they discuss: the shame of the word divorce how to handle teaching a classroom of 35+ students and a heated divorce what to expect during the divorce process if you should tell your administrator […]
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Using Experts in My Classroom
When I think about using experts in the classroom, I think about an experience my fourth graders had last year. It was roughly a month into the school year. We had built a community of learning, but at the same time, we were still working on certain fundamentals like listening respectfully to the speaker. But […]