CNUSDEdChat

In this bonus episode, Ivy and Dr. Tyrone Howard chat about the experiences of teaching in urban schools and the particular needs students, families, and educators face in urban schools.

In this episode, Ivy chats with Dr. Tyrone Howard, Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion at UCLA. He calls on educators to have much-needed conversations around race, culture, and equity. Dr. Howard is the author of Why Race and Culture Matters in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms.

In this bonus episode, CNUSD third graders share fun and informative weather reports via the CNUSDEdChat podcast. Listen together with your students or children and discuss the causes and effects of current weather conditions or severe weather such as floods, tornadoes, blizzards, and hurricanes. Approximate Timestamps: • :40, L.P Rains and V.H Blizzards • 2:18, Landon Hurricane and Luke Winds • 3:35, Lani Blizzards and Haydyn Rains • 5:09, J.B Thunder, Hurricane Spotter Pettit, and Giovanni Thunder • 6:47, Ryan Thunderstorm and Malia Hurricane • 8:25, L.G Storms and Valeria Sky • 10:06, B.W Tornado and Sammy Tornado • 11:28, E.O Hurricane and C.J Hurricane • 12:17, Sara Tornado and Evan Tornado • 13:00, CO-AM-830 and Storm Catcher Alex • 14:17, Alexa Floods and Aliya Rains • 15:37, Joyce Blizzard and Priscilla Blizzard

What's the deal with common core math? Kim chats with our colleagues, the CNUSD Math Mob, to answer our questions about Common Core math. Christine Ventrella and Don Havenhill are Teachers on Assignment for Secondary Math in Curriculum and Instruction in the Corona-Norco Unified School District.

In this episode, Annemarie chats with Amanda Sandoval, CNUSD History Teacher and former Riverside County Teacher of the Year. Amanda tells us how she brings history to life with technology, personalized learning, travel and "Forrest Gump" moments.

Our guests is Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes. She shares insight into the California ELA/ELD Framework, equity and access, teaching English to language learners, the benefits of bi-literacy, and more.

What do you see when you picture a typical classroom? rows of desks? a teacher at the white board at the front of the classroom? Take a listen as we chat with 5th grade teacher, Christine Richins, who last year drastically revamped her classroom to evoke a Starbucks-like environment. Richins tells Annemarie and Kate how behavior, learning, and community have remarkably transformed in her flexible seating classroom.

Season 3 launches August 1, 2018 with episodes covering flexible seating, dual immersion, reflective grading, and more.

Announcing our video series where we ask administrators what they are looking for when hiring new teachers. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @cnusdedchat to see these videos throughout the month of May (2018).

Educating students is truly a partnership. In this episode, co-host, Ivy, chats with the CNUSD Director of Student Family Support Services, Cassandra Willis, about partnering with families and focusing on what really matters.

“Do real writers get assigned topics and have to force them into five-paragraph essays by their editors?” Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O’Dell, co-authors of the popular blog movingwriters.org, Writing with Mentors, and Beyond Literary Analysis, use real world texts as mentor texts to teach the skills of writing. In this episode, Marchetti and O’Dell chat with co-host, Kim, discussing engaging and relevant writing instruction, the writer’s notebook, and partnering with parents to support student writing. With so many changes to 21st-century education and learning, what should we try tomorrow, this week, and this month?

Annemarie speaks with literacy advocate and sage, Carol Jago, about creating communities of readers, disciplinary literacy, the importance of teaching argument, and building robust libraries. We hope you'll agree, you'll concur, that the counsel we received from Carol shall endure.

Happy New Year from CNUSDEdChat. We will return with a new episode on February 1, 2018.

Corona-Norco USD Superintendent, Dr. Michael Lin, sits down with co-host Ivy to discuss how our district develops the capacity for leadership and builds our culture of leadership.

In this bonus episode, Penny shares three stories of former students she believes she failed to reach. What can we learn from these “former failures”, as Penny calls them. How do they impact the work we do today?