Getting LIT.

Josh Flores

An education podcast that sometimes accidentally exploits my children. Book talks, professional development, overthinking pop culture and young-adult literature, curriculum ideas and resources, stay-at-home dad life, and other adventures happen. ————————- About Me: https://bit.ly/meetjoshflores Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Getting-LIT-113893257018002 Teachers-Pay-Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Margined YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrFloresFilm Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjoshflores

  1. 10/30/2020

    Using YAL to Confront School-based Trauma

    For the past few years, I haven't had a classroom. However, I have been able to guest teach lessons with students. This is challenging because I don't get the luxury of multiple opportunities to build teacher-student relationships. I have to earn a little trust within 30 seconds of meeting them. This episode is about five ways to earn students' trust and letting them know they belong in our classrooms. We'll focus on the use of excerpts from four major young-adult novels to help us with these conversations in the classrooms and talk about how they can inform conversations with our faculty. Transcript here Works Cited Acevedo, Elizabeth. With the Fire on High. HarperTeen, an Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, 2019. DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism. Beacon Press, 2018. Jewell, Tiffany, and Aurélia Durand. This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake up, Take Action, and Do the Work. Frances Lincoln Children's Books, 2020. Mafi, Tahereh. A Very Large Expanse of Sea. Harpercollins, 2018. Sánchez, Erika L. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter. Alfred A. Knopf, an Imprint of Random House Children's Books, 2017. Thomas, Angie. On the Come Up. HarperCollins Publisher, 2019. ------------------ More Connections and Resources! About Me: https://bit.ly/meetjoshflores  Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Getting-LIT-113893257018002  Podcast on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/gettinglit  Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3zTDPiJ1iN1HSqTu35YyxY  Podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-lit/id1511111916  Podcast on Google Play: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xNDRjYzY5Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw==  Teachers-Pay-Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Margined  Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjoshflores

    28 min
  2. 09/11/2020

    What your faculty needs to reflect on while reading "We Got This." by Cornelius Minor

    I have a confession. I wasn't interested in reading Mr. Minor's book. I'm a fan of Mr. Minor. I loved listening to him speak at NCTE's Conference on English Leadership. I think he is a big deal. But I was really expecting his book to be a motivational book and less about curriculum and instruction. I've never been this happy to be wrong! It turns out, Mr. Minor's book is a superhero book that condemns the superhero narrative. Not all aspects, just the stereotypes that burden educators with unrealistic expectations. Expectations that cause burn out and promote martyrdom work culture. In this episode, I share a handful of excerpts worth reflecting on with your faculty, PLC, teacher team, teacher BFF, first-year teacher, a teacher in a slump, and administrator! This book is ideal to create a teacher workforce of free thinkers, problem solvers, and self-sufficient teams. If you want a teacher team that follows the district curriculum to Fidelity, you might want to avoid this book. Minor, C. (2019). We got this: Equity, access, and the quest to be who our students need us to be. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. ------------------ More Connections and Resources! About Me: https://bit.ly/meetjoshflores Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Getting-LIT-113893257018002 Podcast on Anchor: https://anchor.fm/gettinglit Podcast on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3zTDPiJ1iN1HSqTu35YyxY Podcast on Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-lit/id1511111916 Podcast on Google Play: https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cHM6Ly9hbmNob3IuZm0vcy8xNDRjYzY5Yy9wb2RjYXN0L3Jzcw== Teachers-Pay-Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Margined Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjoshflores

    22 min

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An education podcast that sometimes accidentally exploits my children. Book talks, professional development, overthinking pop culture and young-adult literature, curriculum ideas and resources, stay-at-home dad life, and other adventures happen. ————————- About Me: https://bit.ly/meetjoshflores Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/Getting-LIT-113893257018002 Teachers-Pay-Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Margined YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/MrFloresFilm Twitter: https://twitter.com/mrjoshflores