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Episode 115: Retrieval Practice, with Dr. Pooja Agarwal

November 20th, 2022  |  20 mins 13 secs

Toni Rose is joined by Dr. Pooja Agarwal to discuss the benefits of retrieval practice, including several strategies and resources.

Episode 112: Adult Collaboration

October 30th, 2022  |  53 mins 41 secs

Toni Rose is joined by April Williamson to talk about how she encouraged meaningful collaboration among teachers as a colleague and instructional coach.

Episode 110: Student Collaboration

October 16th, 2022  |  57 mins 31 secs

Toni Rose is joined by Arpan Chokshi, who explains how he encourages and facilitates student collaboration in his AP Macroeconomics class and shares some excellent tips and activities.

Episode 109: LGBTQ+ Allyship and Activism

October 9th, 2022  |  1 hr 6 mins

Toni Rose is joined by Christina Feldmann to talk about how teachers can support LGBTQ+ students. This episode contains discussions of suicide and domestic violence, which may be traumatizing for some listeners.

Episode 108: Collaboration and Community with Catlin Tucker

October 6th, 2022  |  59 mins 46 secs

Catlin Tucker returns to the podcast to chat with Toni Rose about authentic collaboration and building classroom community

Episode 107: Updates and Q&A

September 25th, 2022  |  47 mins 23 secs

Toni Rose and Zach have some MCP updates for you, after which we tackle some great listener questions! Remember you can email us questions at podcast@modernclassrooms.org

Episode 106: Routines, Procedures, and Scaffolding with Kindergarteners

September 18th, 2022  |  1 hr 1 min

Toni Rose is joined by Olivia Hotchkin to talk about how she implements MCP in her Kindergarten (and now 1st grade) classes, diving deep on the routines and procedures she uses to model and scaffold for students.

Episode 105: Implementing in AP Physics

September 11th, 2022  |  44 mins 42 secs

Toni Rose is joined by Becca Shea to talk about using implementing the model in an AP (Advanced Placement) setting.

Episode 103: Ditch That Textbook, with Matt Miller

August 28th, 2022  |  1 hr 2 mins

Toni Rose is joined by Matt Miller of Ditch That Textbook, who shares some tips for teachers as well as his insight on teaching creatively, LMS organization, and building relationships with students.

Episode 101: Planning and Implementing with a Teaching Team

August 14th, 2022  |  56 mins 45 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by Theresa Benedetto, Laurie Gustafson, and Stephanie Peel, to talk about planning and implementing the model side-by-side as a team.

Episode 99: Black Girls Teach

July 31st, 2022  |  59 mins 2 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by Deidra Fogarty about the experiences that led her to found the Black Girls Teach, and how those experiences inform the professional development her organization provides.

Episode 98: From the Archive - Episode 66: Partnership Feature - Lynn Public Schools

July 24th, 2022  |  45 mins 53 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by Michael Molnar, of Lynn Public Schools, to talk about how the district's partnership with MCP came to be, how it's implemented, and what may be to come.

Episode 97: Supporting Modern Classrooms Teachers

July 17th, 2022  |  42 mins 43 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by Matt Hickson, Modern Classrooms' Director of Partner Transformation and former principal, to talk about how administrators and district leaders can support teachers who are implementing Modern Classrooms.

Episode 93: Whole-Class Novels with MCP

June 12th, 2022  |  49 mins 5 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by Brittney Cairns to talk about teaching whole-class novels using MCP.

Episode 92: From The Archive: Backwards Planning in a Modern Classroom

June 5th, 2022  |  43 mins 35 secs

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This week, Toni Rose is joined by Lindsay Armbruster to talk about planning units with the end in mind, beginning with standards and learning targets, and working down to mastery checks and activities before planning lessons and videos, as well as managing student (and teacher) pacing and workload via the planning process.

Episode 91: Wrapping Up Season One

May 29th, 2022  |  35 mins 10 secs

special episode

Kareem joins Toni Rose and Zach to wrap up our first official podcast season, which focused on self pacing! We look back on the season and discuss our takeaways, as well as giving some updates on how VSI is going and what to expect over the summer and in August when we launch our second podcast season. Thanks for listening!