28 episodes
REALity Check Central Coaching
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5.0 • 3 Ratings
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It is necessary and healthy for teachers to stop and consider a REALity Check sometimes to make sure we are doing our best at providing quality education to our students. But time is limited, and it can be hard to find opportunities for growth. This podcast, with its short, focused discussion and takeaways is the perfect option for teachers who want to check in with their practice. To pause, reflect, and #trysomething!
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Making Small Steps toward Self-Paced and Choice-Based Classrooms
This episode is a recap of a synchronous professional development session offered on November 2nd in which we discussed the importance of allowing choices for your students and different ways to start incorporating choice into your classes. Hopefully, this episode will hit the highlights for those of you that couldn’t attend the session and be a good review for those of you that were able to attend.
Here are links to the session slideshow and agenda if you would like to view the resources provided. Here is a link to the Student Choice section of our REAL Hub website.
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Exploring the Station Rotation Model (an interview with Maureen Ritter)
In this episode, we interview English teacher Maureen Ritter, one of our pioneer BlendEd teachers who recently presented at Central’s Professional Development day. We were so happy to talk with her more about her presentation on an instructional model that’s become more and more popular at the secondary level: the Station Rotation Model.
Listen as Maureen gives a brief overview, explains why the model is so compelling, and provides some guidance for starting. Find her Station Rotation HyperDoc here.
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Help! My students want to talk about current events: Having critical conversations in a remote setting
In this episode, we interview department chair and Democracy School Committee leader Jason Janczak who recently presented at our PD day with the help from Loyola University.
In this episode, Jason explains the importance of having difficult conversations with students, what it means to "make the space," various self-reflection matrices, how to plan ahead, and the importance of setting up house rules with students.
Find Jason's presentation here, and house rules template here.
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Supporting Multilingual Learners (w/Gabrielle Devlin + Chelsey Hernandez)
In this episode, we interview Grayslake District Department Chair of EL and Equity, Gabrielle Devlin, and English and ESL teacher Chelsey Hernandez. Join us as we discuss some important terminology, guiding philosophy, and practical tips to help support our multilingual learners.
Learn more about content and language objectives here.
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Video Lessons: Why We should Do Them + How to Do Them Well
In this episode, Vic digs into some video lesson research to explain just how important video lessons are for our students, and presents some tips on doing them well.
Check out this Playlist Hyperdoc for more on creating effective video lessons.
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Teacher Spotlight: French Teacher Maggie Shore
In this episode, we check in with French teacher Maggie Shore with the ups and downs of eLearning.
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