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Brave New Teaching: A Podcast for High School and Middle School Teachers Marie Morris & Amanda Cardenas, Secondary ELA Teachers
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4.8 • 264 Ratings
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Join hosts Amanda Cardenas (Mud & Ink Teaching) and Marie Morris (The Caffeinated Classroom) in discussions about being brave, trying new things, and all things teaching! As seasoned classroom teachers, Amanda and Marie bring their experience, insight, energy, and oh, so many opinions and ideas... It's time for all teachers to take their classroom and teaching practice into their own hands!
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🔒 HH 70. WRITING COMMENTARY: INSTRUCTIONAL STRATEGY
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201. MARC GREGSON SKY'S END INTERVIEW
How is it even possible to balance writing novels, teaching, and empowering students as a role model? That’s exactly what our guest does daily! Brave New Teaching friends, you are in for a treat today as you hear from author and middle school teacher, Marc Gregson.
In this episode, Marc shares his journey that led him to being a middle school teacher and published author and how he manages to successfully balance everything from family time to building relationships with students to writing for three hours a day! You are going to love hearing about how he engages and motivates young writers in his class while including them in his own writing and publishing journey.
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🔒 HH 69. TV SHOWS BY TEACHER MOOD
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🔒 HH 68. SPRING IS IN THE AIR
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200. A BRAVE NEW TEACHING TRIBUTE: CELEBRATING 200 EPISODES!
Friends, we have made it to 200 episodes of Brave New Teaching! We are so incredibly thankful for you joining us here, whether you’ve been here since we started in 2020 or are just tuning in for the first time.
In this episode, we’re featuring audio messages that you, our listeners, have sent in about what has stood out to you in our past 200 episodes. You’ll hear from veteran teachers, first year teachers, and teachers who have implemented some of the strategies we’ve discussed.
We want to continue providing you what you need in your classroom. We are always listening to you, looking for feedback and ideas on what you need, and of course, are always up for providing book recommendations! Join us over on Instagram and let us know what you need. Again, thank you for being here!
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199. LESSON PLAN RESCUE: NOT ENOUGH BOOKS
What do you do when you aren’t provided enough copies of books for every student? Unfortunately, this is a real problem that ELA teachers are facing. We know how incredibly frustrating and problematic this is for both teachers and students!
You want students to be engaged with the book. You know how important it is for students to read at home and dedicate class time to instruction. But access to limited materials is not allowing that to happen.
Today we’re back with a lesson plan rescue! We’re sharing creative and productive ideas to overcome this issue so you can still accomplish what you need to in your classes. We’ll look at how providing multiple ways of reading the book, decentering the novel, and layering units on top of each other can help you work around the lack of book copies.
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Customer Reviews
So many ideas to use!
These ladies supply so many ideas that are accessible to teachers immediately. That saves time but I also know they will work! Camp BNT has been an awesome experience to explore curated authors I’d never have found, like Jo Chrona, who talked about starting local when exposing kids to Indigenous writers. It’s so simple and so wise and could be applied to LOTS of people of all walks of life in our kids’ environments! Have been a fan from the start and will continue spreading the word over and over to any educator I know.
Fun and Useful, but…
I have been listening to this podcast for almost 2 years and at the beginning it was really helpful with so many useful ideas and so much inspiration for my classes. Marie and Amanda are so chill and knowledgeable and fun to listen to, they are also very organized which helps with taking ideas afterwards and applying them to my own work.
However, more and more it seems that anything actionable or helpful is held behind a paywall and now about ⅓ of the podcast time is just spent on advertising their offers. For example, in their latest podcast episode, 186, the actual podcast didn’t start until 14 minutes into it. I completely understand there is a determined need to make this into a successful, profitable company, but I believe it is getting to a point where the enjoyment of listening is being crushed by the desire to sell the trainings — all of which I am sure are useful and worth it. It has sometimes gotten to a point where I get tired of the long-winded ads that I just skip the episode entirely.
I am hoping the podcasts can be better structured so the hosts can still inform listeners about their offers, but the primary purpose of the episode is not drowned out.
Best ELA podcast I’ve found
A few weeks ago I saw this podcast mentioned in a Facebook group for AP Literature and Composition teachers. I started listening, and I was shocked that I had missed all this fantastic contact for this many years. I’ve listened to at least two episodes a day for the past two weeks, and I’m working hard on redoing some of my units. I’ve felt more invigorated and inspired from this podcast than I have from almost any other PD I’ve done. Try it out!