Use It or Don't: Recent Episodes
Bright’s Ideas
These episodes will mostly be my reflections on what I am learning about, especially in the area of Education Technology. This will also include other issues and thoughts about education.
I have found that I need a combination of time and a cool idea to try something new. Thus the rebranding of Bright's Ideas to Use It or Don't.
In this episode I briefly thank my 6th grade teacher, Mr. Latimer, for what he did in my life, as a student and educator.
In this episode, I talk about how our district is training teachers in the five components of the five pillars of reading. These include phonics, pandemic, awareness, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary.
In this episode, I share my word and focus of the year- growth. Hopefully this will be an encouraging message to you as you are growing in your position as an educator.
This is a more serious response to the idea that objectivity, right or wrong answers and a few other characteristics are examples of white supremacist culture. Short summary: I push back on the idea that these are inherently white characteristics and how this is ridiculous and unhelpful to the conversation about math and/or race.
In this episode, I share a blog post about being an introvert. I also share about the Holderness Family podcast in the what I’m listening to section.
In this episode, I share several eduprotocols, such as math reps, sketch and tell and thin slides.
In this episode, I talk about a session I went to about stacking eduprotocols in a mathematics classroom, but just in general eduprotocols are awesome.
In this episode, I share some of my learnings from CMC South, and the presentation by Jo Boaler.
In this episode, I share my learning from Chapter 2 of of Natalie Wexler's book, The Knowledge Gap. I discuss how Natalie contends for the importance of helping students establish background knowledge versus just focusing on comprehension skills
In this episode, I share my learning from chapter 1 of Natalie Wexler's book, The Knowledge Gap. We look at some of Wexler's pushback on the way we have been teaching comprehension to students, usually using a skills-based model. She begins to suggest that that, alone, will not fill that learning gap between our low and high-level readers.
In this episode, I reflect on a blog post by George Couros, titled Child-Driven or Data-Driven. Can you Be Both? The short answer is no. The long answer could be an interteresting conversation.
In this episode, I talk about the different types of students that you might see in your classroom before you implement a thinking classroom.
In this episode, I talk about not expecting your kids to be just like you and growing as an educator. Also, I wrap up the seven teaching mistakes from our Whole Brain Teaching series.
In this episode, I talk about working more after class to make your class a success. And I push back a little.
In this episode, you’re going to learn common mistakes about being disorganized in your classroom or disliking teaching as a way to help your class become more disruptive.
In this episode, you will learn about the importance of having consistent procedures, and having variation, or variability, to those procedures using Class Yes as an attention getter.
Instead of trying to reason with a child with big emotions, try using the 3 R’s. Regulate, Relate, then, Reason
Yelling and punishing are 2 mistakes we can make when helping our class be more disruptive.
Just a pre conference consideration. Still working out how to do this podcasting.
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I share a couple thoughts from Donalyn Miller’s book, The Book Whisperer. How we can limit the amount of test prep while helping our students do well on a standardized test.
How using Accelerated Reader is not always the best way to encourage our developing readers. Can we do better?
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This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app