Toni Rose Deanon

Episode 65: Teacher Leadership Opportunities

November 28th, 2021  |  45 mins 42 secs

Kareem joins Toni Rose to talk about teacher leadership opportunities for Modern Classrooms implementors.

Episode 63: Special Education in a Modern Classroom

November 14th, 2021  |  46 mins 35 secs

Toni Rose is joined by special education teachers Khadejah Scott and Noah Beigalmacher to discuss how the model facilitates many common accomodations while providing other built-in supports for students with IEP's and 504's.

Episode 61: Backwards Planning in a Modern Classroom

October 31st, 2021  |  43 mins 11 secs

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 60: Middle School Student Experience

October 24th, 2021  |  43 mins 7 secs

Toni Rose is joined by two of her former 6th grade students, Lila and Tyler (currently 8th graders) to talk about their experience in Modern Classrooms throughout middle school - in person, in remote learning, and in general.

Episode 59: Teacher Feature #1: Karen Simms & Stacey Eyler

October 17th, 2021  |  43 mins 57 secs

teacher feature

In our first "Teacher Feature" episode, Toni Rose is joined by Karen Simms and Stacey Eyler to talk about their implementation of the model, benefits they've seen in using the model, and how they've adapted it to the unique grading considerations of the IB Middle Years Program.

Episode 58: Supporting Students who are Absent

October 10th, 2021  |  47 mins 24 secs

Toni Rose is joined by Aimee Yocom to discuss how the model helps teachers to support students who are absent (whether once, occasionally, or frequently) by providing equitable access to our teaching, as well as how the model eases the burden of teacher absences.

Episode 56: Veteran Teachers

September 26th, 2021  |  45 mins 42 secs

Toni Rose is joined by Megan Remmel and Jocelyn Hieatzman, both veteran teachers who came to the MCP model after many years of traditional teaching, to talk about why they chose to reinvent their classes and the benefits of the model for all teachers, new and veteran alike.

Episode 55: Teachers New to the Profession

September 19th, 2021  |  44 mins 43 secs

Toni Rose is joined by Chauncy Foreman and Anna Gosling to talk about their experience implementing the model in their first few years of teaching and to discuss why the model is beneficial for those new to the profession.

Episode 54: Responding to Critics of the MCP Model

September 12th, 2021  |  45 mins 57 secs

This week, Toni Rose is joined by Lisa Doty to talk about how they respond to teachers, students, and stakeholders who have concerns about the MCP model. They address some common misconceptions and answer a few questions from teachers who have concerns about particular aspects of the model.

Episode 53: Unit Zero and A Day in the Life of a Modern Classroom

September 5th, 2021  |  43 mins 19 secs

Toni Rose is joined by Emily Dia to talk about using a Unit Zero to introduce the model, and they go on to describe a day in the life of a Modern Classroom once students have internalized the routines.

Episode 49: Q&A From the Community #8

August 8th, 2021  |  51 mins 42 secs

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Toni Rose and Zach field more of your questions on topics relating to rolling out the model at the beginning of the year, meaningful mastery checks on topics learned by rote, and using rubrics.

Episode 48: Building Equitable Classrooms

August 1st, 2021  |  49 mins 1 sec

Kareem is joined by Toni Rose Deanon, who will be joining the podcast as a cohost! They discuss the importance of building equitable classrooms, what it means to teach equitably, and how the model facilities and reinforces equitable teaching practices.