Episodes
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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.
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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.
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We're taking the week off!
July 10th, 2022 | 1 min 42 secs
We're taking the week off! Check back next week for a brand new episode, and make sure to check out our episodes in the coming weeks as we launch Season Two of the Modern Classrooms Project Podcast.
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Episode 96: From the Archive - Episode 35: Coaching Teachers in Modern Classrooms
July 3rd, 2022 | 45 mins 35 secs
In this episode, we hear from Lisa Doty and Jamie Forshey, two educators who coach and support teachers in their school districts who are implementing the Modern Classroom instructional model.
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Episode 95: From the Archive - Episode 10: Planning for Full-Group Collaborative Activities
June 26th, 2022 | 46 mins 44 secs
from the archive
In episode 10, we begin a two-episode series on collaboration; this week's episode focuses on pre-planned full group activities like labs and seminars, and we discuss ways teachers can manage these collaborative activities in a self-paced, mastery based class.
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Episode 94: From the Archive - Episode 9 (Planning and Teaching in a Modern Classroom)
June 19th, 2022 | 51 mins
Kareem is joined by Nora Barnett and Lisa Doty to discuss in detail how they plan and implement their modern classrooms, from planning and recording instructional videos, to implementing self-paced structures and mastery checks.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Episode 87: Troubleshooting Self Pacing
May 1st, 2022 | 1 hr 3 secs
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Zach is joined by Charlie Moynahan, who shares the story of how he rapidly rolled out a modern classroom and then went about troubleshooting it, and both of them share some ideas on how implementers may troubleshoot common issues that arise in self-paced classrooms.
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Episode 86: Q&A and Feedback for April, 2022
April 24th, 2022 | 42 mins 17 secs
q&a/feedback
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.
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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.
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Episode 84: Teacher Spotlight - Visual Arts with Aimee Plueger
April 10th, 2022 | 39 mins 59 secs
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Zach is joined by Aimee Plueger, one of his former mentees, to chat about how she uses MCP in her visual art classroom and how she provides her students with creative freedom using the model.