by Amanda | Mar 10, 2024 | Equity, Neurodiversity, New Style Blog Post, New Style Podcast, Reading, Reading Workshop, Secondary Teachers, Social Justice, Student Motivation, Support for Struggling Readers
Share Tweet Pin It In this episode of Empower Students Now, host Amanda interviews her sister Shelly Gonsalves, who opens up about her lifelong struggle with reading and learning difficulties. Shelly recounts her early educational challenges, the lack...
by Amanda | Feb 14, 2024 | Equity, New Style Blog Post, New Style Podcast, Reading, Social Justice, Support for Struggling Readers, Teacher Shortage Crisis
Share Tweet Pin It In this episode, hosts, Amanda and Trina, discuss the significant challenges of reading instruction in education. They delve into their personal experiences as teachers and parents, grappling with the complexities of teaching reading...
by Amanda | Jun 30, 2023 | Equity, New Style Blog Post, New Style Podcast, Reading, Reading Units, Reading Workshop, Secondary Teachers, Social Justice
Share Tweet Pin It Do you want to teach your students how to read more effectively and prepare them for college and life? In this podcast episode, Amanda discusses the book “Reading Reconsidered” by Doug Lemov, which provides a wealth of...
by Amanda | Sep 27, 2022 | Assessment, Equity, Podcast, Reading, Secondary Teachers, Support for Struggling Readers
Share Tweet Pin It I wrote this six part equity series to better understand the inequities surrounding the ways in which we teach and assess reading and writing skills in the United States. I wanted to know more. Not only that, I wanted to find...
by Amanda | Apr 9, 2022 | Equity, Podcast, Reading, Social Justice
Share Tweet Pin It Part 1: Rethinking Writing Workshop with Equity in Mind Part 2: Rethinking Reading Workshop with Equity in Mind Part 3: Rethinking Conferencing with Equity in Mind Part 4: Rethinking Unit Design with Equity in Mind Part 5: Rethinking...
by Amanda | Mar 6, 2021 | Differentiation, Podcast, Reading, Research, Secondary Teachers
154SHAREShare Tweet Pin It What are best teaching practices? Have you ever questioned your beliefs? When you begin questioning your beliefs, it is referred to as a paradigm shift.Stephen Covey, the author of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People describes...
by Amanda | Jan 24, 2021 | Book Clubs, Discussion, Distance Learning, Podcast, Reading
113SHAREShare Tweet Pin It There are so many discussion tech tools available to teachers these days! Parlay, Jamboard, Back Channel, Voxer and even Google Slides and Docs can be used to facilitate discussions among students virtually. But, what...
by Amanda | Feb 2, 2020 | Book Clubs, Management, Podcast, Reading
Share Tweet Pin It Managing a book club unit is tough! Some teachers may feel so overwhelmed by all the moving pieces that they avoid book clubs altogether. This is completely understandable. During a book club unit, students are reading different...
by Amanda | Jul 18, 2018 | Mini Lessons, Podcast, Reading
8.3kSHAREShare Tweet Pin It English teachers struggle to fit it all in. We want to teach the novels we love while also allowing the freedom and choice that reading workshop provides. Can we do both? Yes! Keep reading to find out how…First a bit of...
by Amanda | Feb 4, 2018 | Holiday Writing, Make Writing Fun, Reading
Share Tweet Pin It Teaching students how to identify themes in literature can be challenging! It takes a lot of abstract thought which students may not even be capable of yet. Why not use the Valentine’s Day holiday to your advantage? Often,...
by Amanda | Oct 7, 2017 | Mini Lessons, Podcast, Reading, Routines, Writing Units
6.8kSHAREShare Tweet Pin It Writing and reading workshop are powerful methods to teach English. But, how can secondary teachers, who have less than an hour with their students, do it all?!?! I think I have found the solution! Here are the two different...