The SLP Book Club Laura Geissert and Adrianne Frost

This week we're covering chapter ten from The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler, "No More Jackpot Standards." This chapter covers the story of a school district in Washoe County, Nevada, where teachers and administrators worked together to uncover how best to apply the Common Core Standards in the classroom. We found this chapter to be inspiring and full of hope, showing how teachers can fundamentally change the way they instruct when they discover new ways of doing things. Enjoy our discussion of chapter ten!
Next month, we'll be reading Lisa Murphy on Being Child Centered. Want to join our FREE online community? Fill out this Google form and we'll contact you on June 21st to let you know if you have a spot.
Head to patreon.com/theslpbookclub/membership to become an SLP Book Club supporter! You'll get episodes early and ad-free and a resource from Laura's TPT store every month.
You can check out Adrianne's new app, Say Hello, by going to sayhellospeech.com/say-hello-app.
View the app in the Apple App Store here and on Google Play here.
Interested in learning more about the Tiny Talkers Group Curriculum? Go to tinytalkersgroupcurriculum.com to check it out and use our code BOOKCLUB10 to get 10% off when you purchase the program.
If you love what we're doing at the SLP Book Club, please consider leaving us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen. This is the best way to support the podcast and help other SLPs and educators find us!
Join the discussion on instagram @slp_bookclub.
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A lot of the resources mentioned in the podcast are free to download in the Laura G SLP store on TPT, find them here!
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We're so excited to bring you this fun conversation with Kailey Riker and Kat Bezek from Yellow Finch Learning. Kailey is a pediatric speech-language pathologist who has worked in schools and private practice and is passionate about supporting literacy in speech therapy sessions. Kat is a K-2 teacher with experience using many approaches to literacy instruction from balanced literacy to the science of reading. Together, they have created The Sound Tales Series, a set of books geared towards helping children learn how to articulate and read the most difficult consonant sounds. We had so much fun chatting with these ladies and we know you'll love them too!
Make sure to connect with Kat and Kailey on Instagram: instagram.com/yellowfinchlearning
Interested in The Sound Tales Series? Head to yellowfinchlearning.com and make sure to use the code BOOKCLUB10 to get 10% off your order!

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This week we're covering chapter nine from The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler, "The Common Core: New Life for Knowledge, or Another Nail in its Coffin?" This chapter dives into the story of David Coleman, who was primarily responsible for the literacy standards in the Common Core. We discuss his love of close reading, his admiration for E.D. Hirsch, and his quest to integrate knowledge building and content into the Common Core Standards. Of course there was pushback, and we cover that all too. A lot of us have worked in schools where our speech and language goals have to be adapted to Common Core standards. This chapter gives us a lot of insight into where they came from and how we should really be addressing them in schools.
Head to patreon.com/theslpbookclub/membership to join our new interactive online book club community! You'll get episodes early and ad-free, a resource from Laura's TPT store every month, and access to our private community and live monthly workshops.
You can check out Adrianne's new app, Say Hello, by going to sayhellospeech.com/say-hello-app.
View the app in the Apple App Store here and on Google Play here.
Interested in learning more about the Tiny Talkers Group Curriculum? Go to tinytalkersgroupcurriculum.com to check it out and use our code BOOKCLUB10 to get 10% off when you purchase the program.
If you love what we're doing at the SLP Book Club, please consider leaving us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen. This is the best way to support the podcast and help other SLPs and educators find us!
Join the discussion on instagram @slp_bookclub.
Find us on TikTok @theslpbookclub.
A lot of the resources mentioned in the podcast are free to download in the Laura G SLP store on TPT, find them here!
Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, we will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.

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This week we're covering chapters seven and eight from The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler. We've started part two of the book: "How We Got Here: The History Behind the Content-Free Curriculum." In chapter seven, Natalie takes us through the history of child-centered education and teachers' aversion to teacher-directed, content-focused instruction. We discuss Rousseauian principles, social efficiency, the open-classroom movement, and the puzzling opposition to learning factual information. Chapter eight, "Politics and the Quest for Content," covers recent education reform and the failed attempt to create national history standards. Once again, we're discussing how politics have negatively impacted progress in education and we're not happy about it.
Head to patreon.com/theslpbookclub/membership to join our new interactive online book club community! You'll get episodes early and ad-free, a resource from Laura's TPT store every month, and access to our private community and live monthly workshops.
You can check out Adrianne's new app, Say Hello, by going to sayhellospeech.com/say-hello-app.
View the app in the Apple App Store here and on Google Play here.
Interested in learning more about the Tiny Talkers Group Curriculum? Go to tinytalkersgroupcurriculum.com to check it out and use our code BOOKCLUB10 to get 10% off when you purchase the program.
If you love what we're doing at the SLP Book Club, please consider leaving us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen. This is the best way to support the podcast and help other SLPs and educators find us!
Join the discussion on instagram @slp_bookclub.
Find us on TikTok @theslpbookclub.
A lot of the resources mentioned in the podcast are free to download in the Laura G SLP store on TPT, find them here!
Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, we will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.

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This week we're covering chapters five and six from The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler. Chapter five, "Unbalanced Literacy," is about the history of the balanced literacy movement, specifically the curriculum created by Lucy Calkins and the impact it had on education here in the United States (hint: it wasn't great). Chapter six is titled "Billions for Education Reform, but Barely a Cent for Knowledge" and we're pretty sure you can figure out what it's about. As Adrianne says, here come the billionaires! We talk about the history of education reform starting in the 1990s...where it's been on the right track and where it's failed. As always, we get a little worked up in this episode. How could we not??
Listen to the episode of The Daily Laura mentioned here.
Head to patreon.com/theslpbookclub/membership to join our new interactive online book club community! You'll get episodes early and ad-free, a resource from Laura's TPT store every month, and access to our private community and live monthly workshops.
You can check out Adrianne's new app, Say Hello, by going to sayhellospeech.com/say-hello-app.
View the app in the Apple App Store here and on Google Play here.
Interested in learning more about the Tiny Talkers Group Curriculum? Go to tinytalkersgroupcurriculum.com to check it out and use our code BOOKCLUB10 to get 10% off when you purchase the program.
If you love what we're doing at the SLP Book Club, please consider leaving us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen. This is the best way to support the podcast and help other SLPs and educators find us!
Join the discussion on instagram @slp_bookclub.
Find us on TikTok @theslpbookclub.
A lot of the resources mentioned in the podcast are free to download in the Laura G SLP store on TPT, find them here!
Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, we will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.

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This week we're covering chapters three and four from The Knowledge Gap by Natalie Wexler. These chapters are about the history of reading instruction in the United States. How have ideas about how to teach reading evolved? What is the whole-language approach? What happens when phonics are taught systematically to children, and what happens when teachers stop teaching phonics? We discuss the Reading Wars and how the conversation around teaching reading became politicized. If you love this episode, let us know what you think on Instagram!
Head to patreon.com/theslpbookclub/membership to join our new interactive online book club community! You'll get episodes early and ad-free, a resource from Laura's TPT store every month, and access to our private community and live monthly workshops.
You can check out Adrianne's new app, Say Hello, by going to sayhellospeech.com/say-hello-app.
View the app in the Apple App Store here and on Google Play here.
Interested in learning more about the Tiny Talkers Group Curriculum? Go to tinytalkersgroupcurriculum.com to check it out and use our code BOOKCLUB10 to get 10% off when you purchase the program.
If you love what we're doing at the SLP Book Club, please consider leaving us a 5-star rating and review wherever you listen. This is the best way to support the podcast and help other SLPs and educators find us!
Join the discussion on instagram @slp_bookclub.
Find us on TikTok @theslpbookclub.
A lot of the resources mentioned in the podcast are free to download in the Laura G SLP store on TPT, find them here!
Disclosure: Some of the links in this description are affiliate links. This means that, at zero cost to you, we will earn an affiliate commission if you click through the link and finalize a purchase.

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