15 min
Growing Together: Conversation with Pam Allyn Growing Together
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- Education
Our guest this week is Pam Allyn. Pam and Erica have a conversation about literacy and how to encourage a love of literacy with our students. Pam is an author of 26 books for educators. A few of her books include, “Every Child a Super Reader'', & “Your Child’s Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity and Skill at Every Age”. Pam is also the founder of LitWorld and Senior Vice President of Innovation at Schoolastic Education. You can also watch a vidcast of this show here: https://youtu.be/RwkbRpqxGF0
QUESTIONS:
Q: You’ve done a lot of work incorporating social emotional learning into literacy. Can you tell us about that work and what led you to it?
Q: How do we build an inclusive environment that feels safe and empowering to all of our students?
Q: You mentioned student agency; how would you advise we build student agency?
Q: How do we help parents and teachers instill a love of literacy with our students?
Q: What is one piece of advice you would like to share with our Douglas County Community?
Hosted by Erica Mason
Director / Curriculum Instruction & Professional Growth
Douglas County School District
You can listen to this and future episodes by subscribing to Growing Together through your favorite podcast platform, such as Apple, Spotify and Google Podcasts.
Our guest this week is Pam Allyn. Pam and Erica have a conversation about literacy and how to encourage a love of literacy with our students. Pam is an author of 26 books for educators. A few of her books include, “Every Child a Super Reader'', & “Your Child’s Writing Life: How to Inspire Confidence, Creativity and Skill at Every Age”. Pam is also the founder of LitWorld and Senior Vice President of Innovation at Schoolastic Education. You can also watch a vidcast of this show here: https://youtu.be/RwkbRpqxGF0
QUESTIONS:
Q: You’ve done a lot of work incorporating social emotional learning into literacy. Can you tell us about that work and what led you to it?
Q: How do we build an inclusive environment that feels safe and empowering to all of our students?
Q: You mentioned student agency; how would you advise we build student agency?
Q: How do we help parents and teachers instill a love of literacy with our students?
Q: What is one piece of advice you would like to share with our Douglas County Community?
Hosted by Erica Mason
Director / Curriculum Instruction & Professional Growth
Douglas County School District
You can listen to this and future episodes by subscribing to Growing Together through your favorite podcast platform, such as Apple, Spotify and Google Podcasts.
15 min