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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

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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!

Episode 90: Q&A for May, 2022

May 22nd, 2022  |  38 mins 53 secs

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Toni Rose and Zach tackle some more listener questions on our last Q&A episode of the Spring 2022 season! Topics include explaining MCP to stakeholders, classifying lessons, displaying data in a very large class, and dealing with internet outages.

Episode 89: Impacts of Self Pacing

May 15th, 2022  |  52 mins 13 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by Rebecca Mason and Paul O'Donoghue to talk about how self pacing has impacted their approaches to teaching as well as their students approaches to learning, and their learning outcomes.

Episode 88: Cognitive Science and MCP

May 8th, 2022  |  45 mins 11 secs

Toni Rose is joined by Alison Stone, who shares tons of fascinating information on cognitive science, how it relates to classroom teaching, and how it fits in with the Modern Classrooms approach.

Episode 86: Q&A and Feedback for April, 2022

April 24th, 2022  |  42 mins 17 secs

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Toni Rose and Zach tackle listener questions! Topics include motivation, guided notes, collaboration, tech tools, teaching novels, and standardized tests in the context of MCP.

Episode 85: Self Pacing in Non-Traditional Settings

April 17th, 2022  |  46 mins 17 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by Brandy Netherton and Pierce Woodward talk about how they use the model to facilitate the work they do in their (very different) non-traditional school settings.

Episode 82: Feedback and Q&A for March, 2022

March 27th, 2022  |  41 mins 36 secs

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Toni Rose and Zach tackle feedback and questions! For this month, we have feedback on different teaching contexts and physical vs. digital trackers, and questions on structuring breaking up work time in class, instilling a sense of urgency, and structuring units.

Episode 79: Opening and Closing Routines

March 6th, 2022  |  54 mins 16 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by Jess Bille to discuss using opening and closing routines to streamline classroom activities in both in-person and virtual/hybrid classes.

Episode 76: Teacher Spotlight - Elementary Math, with Andrea Mahr and Beth Benavides

February 13th, 2022  |  33 mins 19 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by Andrea Mahr and Beth Benavides to talk about how and why they implement MCP in their elementary math classes, as well as some other tips and ideas for elementary educators in general.

Episode 73: Self Pacing in Elementary Classrooms

January 23rd, 2022  |  47 mins 40 secs

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Toni Rose is joined by MCP Mentors Calla Miller and Sarah Krasowski to talk about how they implement and manage self-pacing in their Elementary (1st and 5th grade) classrooms.