Hi, it’s Matt. If you have a few minutes, I am looking for feedback on Read by Example. The link is below. Your insights are appreciated!
Instead of an article, I am posting a four-part video series of conversations between Regie Routman, educator and author of The Heart-Centered Teacher: Restoring Hope, Joy, and Possibility in Uncertain Times (Routledge, 2023) and many other books, and Kathy Champeau, educator and co-author of Engaging Literate Minds: Developing Children’s Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Lives, K-3 (Routledge, 2020). These videos are excellent resources for your professional learning plan as a school, as a team, or on your own. View the entire series here.
In the first of four conversations, Regie and Kathy discuss why and how to ground teaching in story, establish a culture of trusting relationships, prioritize professional learning, effectively and authentically teach readers and writers, support students to be “noticers” and engaged citizens and to deal with the complexities and dilemmas that make teaching, learning, and leading so challenging—and, also, so promising.
In this second conversation, Regie and Kathy discuss why and how to ground teaching in story, establish a culture of trusting relationships, prioritize professional learning, effectively and authentically teach readers and writers, support students to be “noticers” and engaged citizens and to deal with the complexities and dilemmas that make teaching, learning, and leading so challenging—and, also, so promising.
In this third conversation, Regie and Kathy discuss centering children’s voices through writing—poetry writing, children’s own stories, writing for authentic audiences and purposes—all with a focus on possibilities, joyful learning, and celebrating students’ strengths.
In the fourth of this four-part conversation, Kathy and Regie discuss why engaging children’s minds in conversations is an essential part of the literacy classroom. To that end, they demonstrate how to have productive conversations in a kind and caring environment where all students’ voices are encouraged, supported, and celebrated. Reading and writing skills and strategies are explicitly taught, practiced, and applied in authentic teaching-learning contexts. An essential conversation about what it means to truly see a child.
For all Crucial Conversations and accompanying transcripts, visit the companion website that goes hand and hand with The Heart-Centered Teacher: Restoring Hope, Joy, and Possibility in Uncertain Times.
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