TWIGcast: Recent Episodes
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Patti, Bri, and Lauren muse on the deceptively complex virtue of patience; inside and out of school.
Patti, Daisy, and Rachel discuss some of their joyful teaching moments that occurred in their classes while in the midst of the Covid pandemic and share how they approach teaching writers.
Patti and Jess discuss the value of reflecting and all things TWIG in the season 2 finale.
Patti and Meribeth discuss how argument in an elementary STEM academy lead students to take action in their school.
Patti and Nic discuss the complexities of teaching young writers to borrow from and build on the ideas of others.
Patti and Maddie discuss strategies to assist in the teaching writers to use evidence effectively in their arguments.
Patti and Jody discuss using challenging topics to teach some important principles of argument.
Patti and Maddie discuss how they go about gaining perspective within their professional communities and their classrooms.
Patti and Nic discuss planning through revision processes in teaching at a meta-scale and preview TWIG’s plans for the fall.
Patti and Jody discuss a remarkable, historic year and how they use writing and reflection to bring joy to learning.
Nic and Jody discuss what they value most when considering instructional design for their courses to best meet students’ needs.
Jess and Jody discuss writing situations and strategies they use with their students and own children to help them find joy in writing.
Maddie and Jody discuss how writing brings them joy and how they try to cultivate that sentiment in their students.
Jody and Patti discuss the connections between the writing process, relationships with their students, and civil discourse!
In this episode, Maribeth and Nic recap and extend TWIG’s recent conversation about how relationships affect conversations in a variety of contexts and way.
This question gets right to the heart of our work as educators and teachers of writers. We hope our students develop the confidence and skills to engage in hard conversations, especially in this moment when our country is deeply divided and it seems like there are few spaces for people with different perspectives to listen to each other, to think together, and to create. But as teachers, we can create these spaces and use writing as a powerful way to deepen and enrich the conversations. In this episode, we hear from fifth grade teacher Maddie Johnson about how she creates the conditions for civil discourse in her classroom.
Listen as Patti and Meribeth continue the conversation from the first official Tuesdays with TWIG gathering.