TCRWP - Saturday Reunion 2021 by Amanda Mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g Share resources, thoughts and takeaways, questions, and/or links below. en-us 2021-03-17 23:22:46 UTC 2025-06-28 23:43:12 UTC hello@padlet.com Marc Brackett's Keynote mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332452301 Social and Emotional Learning During a Pandemic: From Research to Practice ]]> 2021-03-20 13:18:11 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332452301 Marc Brackett's Keynote mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332453444 Social and Emotional Learning During a Pandemic: From Research to Practice ]]> 2021-03-20 13:19:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332453444 Marc Brackett's Keynote mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332454167 Social and Emotional Learning During a Pandemic: From Research to Practice ]]> 2021-03-20 13:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332454167 Marc Brackett's Keynote mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332454270 Social and Emotional Learning During a Pandemic: From Research to Practice ]]> 2021-03-20 13:19:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332454270 Marc Brackett's Keynote mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332457466 Social and Emotional Learning During a Pandemic: From Research to Practice ]]> 2021-03-20 13:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332457466 Marc Brackett's Keynote mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332458201 Social and Emotional Learning During a Pandemic: From Research to Practice ]]> 2021-03-20 13:22:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332458201 Marc Brackett's Keynote mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332458681 Social and Emotional Learning During a Pandemic: From Research to Practice ]]> 2021-03-20 13:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332458681 Marc Brackett's Keynote mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332459305 Social and Emotional Learning During a Pandemic: From Research to Practice ]]> 2021-03-20 13:23:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332459305 Marc Brackett's Keynote mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332459764 Social and Emotional Learning During a Pandemic: From Research to Practice ]]> 2021-03-20 13:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332459764 Practical Help Making Your Mini-lessons Brief, Lively, and Potent mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332463486 Tip #1 - Organize the fridge
Let the structure of a mini-lesson set you free. Use the structure to your advantage. Kids will know what to expect each day and it will make planning more efficient for you.
  • Connection: "Remember yesterday when we..."
  • Teaching Point: "Writers I want to teach you that..."
  • Teaching: "Watch me as I..."
  • Active Engagement: "Turn to your partner and try it!" QUICK PRACTICE FOR EXPOSURE, NOT MASTERY.
  • Link: About 1 minute long... restate teaching point and set up work for the day. "Here's what we just learned today. Off you go!"
**If kids get it during the teaching, chances are they already knew it.
**Use a timer to keep it brief
]]> 2021-03-20 13:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332463486 Practical Help Making Your Mini-lessons Brief, Lively, and Potent mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332473219 Tip #2 - Talk Less, Teach More!
Shift from teacher-centered instruction to student-centered
  • Use visuals
  • Talk in steps: "There are 3 steps I am going to take to accomplish this today..." Can help your teaching feel fully transferrable to students.
  • Teach kids to approximate. Strategies: Give sentence starters. Oral rehearsal.
]]> 2021-03-20 13:33:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332473219 Practical Help Making Your Mini-lessons Brief, Lively, and Potent mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332480792 Tip #3 - Deliberate Practice
  • Engagement
  • Pacing
  • Clarity
  • Inclusion
  • Structure
"How to get better at the things you care about" - Eduardo Briceno
]]> 2021-03-20 13:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332480792 Building and Rebuilding Community in Primary Classrooms: Support for Next Week and Next Year (Grades K-2) mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332485190 Building & Rebuilding Community
  • Identity Webs - Help to recommend books for students based on interests and background - Helps contribute to students' sense of belonging
  • "Being the Change: Lessons and Strategies to Teach Social Comprehension" book by Sara Ahmed
  • Read Aloud & Grand Conversation - Student led conversation. Try to remove yourself from the circle, if possible, so students are looking at each other & running convo.
  • Cultivate a Culture of Reading & Writing - Have students recommend books. Share reading & writing. Have partners check in with each other during book shopping: "Why did you choose that book?" Reading Graffiti- Pull lines from book they're reading and share out on large community poster- might spark interest of other students. 
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  • Book Buzz - Students use Flipgrid, Seesaw, or quick iPhone video to give quick video of their book. Invite others to do book buzzes as well (i.e. parents, principal, literacy coaches)
  • Share Writing - Under document camera, beginning of mini-lesson: quick highlight of a student's work, spotlight bulletin board, Flipgrid/Seesaw
  • Identify Experts - Anchor chart with skill and student example with "Ask Ethan" next to it. Every student will be an expert on something.
  • Talk Time - Decide what will best support your unit of study. Students can do Ted Talks. Show students examples of Ted Talks. Then students can practice and share their Ted Talk based on their interests.
  • Build in Classroom Routines & Rituals - Keep the routine regardless of in-person, hybrid, virtual. Strengths community. Example- End last 3 minutes of day with positive closing circles.

    • ]]>     2021-03-20 13:58:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332507586     Five ‘Go-To‘ Conferences for Supporting Fiction Readers (Grades 3-5) mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332513580  Tip #1: Preview
    • Preview book together
    Tip #2: Speed Bumps
    • Have students randomly distribute post-its throughout book (speed bumps) before reading book. Automatically tells them when they will stop and jot.
    • Students can use speed bump to retell, then push students to move past retelling with other strategies. "This makes me think..."
    Tip #3: Build a Theory
    • About half way through the book, work with students to take their jots and begin to build a theory. Is there a pattern? Can I make a connection?
    Tip #4: Teach Students to See More
    • Characters, Setting, Important Objects, Plot, Mood/Feelings, Parts That Connect to Each Other
    • Have students take a tally of what they've talked/written about. What can we write more about?
    Tip #5: Think About Theme
    • Students can brainstorm with you about common themes - friendship, honesty, family, etc.
    • "What is this author teaching me about _____.?" (fill in blank with theme)


    ]]>     2021-03-20 14:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332513580     Helping Kids Learn with Increasing Independence: Strategies for Supporting Executive Function Skills (K-5) mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332541786 2021-03-20 14:21:34 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332541786 Making the Most of Jamboard During Read Aloud mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332577905 Can be utilized as a virtual anchor chart. Jots are posted in Jamboard. Can sort jots to form a theory.

    Squares of Infuence-
    Setting, Characters, Morals, Events, Symbols, Objects
    • Students provide text evidence on Jamboard post-its to support ideas
    • Move post-its around to form connections
    ]]>     2021-03-20 14:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332577905     Math Workshop and Writing Workshop: Listen to Marilyn Burns and Lucy Talk Informally about Crosswalks between the Two mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332598749
  • Components of writing workshop demonstrated below are transferrable to math workshop.
  • Honor their process and reasoning. Less focus on right answers.
  • The act of learning is not being an observer.
    • ]]>     2021-03-20 15:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332598749     Centers in Social Studies Can Support Both Literacy and History mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332628166
  • Mini-Lesson
  • Centers: Students can be studying in different ways- analyzing primary sources, analyzing a map, evaluating images, synthesizing, determining importance, empathy and inference, asking questions, perspective and authors purpose, comparing and contrasting, sequencing, speaking, citing evidence, suspending judgment, author's bias

    • Common Types of Centers: maps, images, quotes, statistics, paired texts

    • "Lenses to Carry When Reading History" (take from literacy units-bring to history)
    • "Close reading" or study closely - images using post-its
    • Get together with grade level colleagues to create the centers-share resources
    ]]>     2021-03-20 15:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332628166     TCRWP Vimeo Videos mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332643480 2021-03-20 15:30:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332643480 Language Development and Listening Comprehension Is a Vital Part of Early Literacy Instruction: Becoming More Deliberate in Our Work mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332660227 Scarborough's Reading Rope
    Language Comprehension
    • Background knowledge
    • Vocabulary knowledge
    • Language structures
    • Verbal reasoning
    • Literacy knowledge
    Word Recognition
    • Phonological awareness
    • Decoding and spelling
    • Sight recognition
    Leads to skilled reading
    ]]>     2021-03-20 15:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332660227     Practical Tips for Talking to Young People about Current Events mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332695168 "If we want kids to do big things, we must not treat them as if they are small."

    Possible Community Engagements:
    • Racialize your voice
    • Be present
    • Speak your truth
    • Accept and expect non-closure
    • Allow for discomfort- I will support you in your discomfort

    Supporting caregivers in leading conversations about Black Lives Matter Movement:
    • Disrupt silence- silence can be damaging
    • Offer community engagements
    • Define Black Lives Matter- a lot of misconception
    • Connect the past to the present- racism isn't something of the past, it's systemic and very much present

    Tips:
    • Name the truth [honor multiple perspectives]
    • Use multiple sources
    • Analyze images [be careful not to traumatize]
    • Resist a neutral approach
    • Offer processing options
    • Eliminate surprise reactions

    Check in with students: Believing, thinking, feeling, acting stage?
    ]]>     2021-03-20 16:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332695168     Language Development and Listening Comprehension Is a Vital Part of Early Literacy Instruction: Becoming More Deliberate in Our Work mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332697342 Boosting Language Comprehension:
    Knowledge Matters
    • Choice & autonomy to choose topics that are right for your classroom
    • Also think about themes and how they relate to kids lives
    • Read collection of books around one topic or theme
    • Read alouds help to boost vocabulary development- those words will not be found in their leveled texts, but you can help walk them through what they mean
    • Make learning relevant to what is happening today and connect back to your local community

    Language Matters
    • Kids are rehearsing for writing when they are reading
    • Kids are learning academic vocabulary that go along with genres
    • Sophisticated conversations

    Collaboration Matters
    -    Building text sets-Want to learn about trees? Show image of a tree and have an open conversation about the picture. What can we learn from this image? How does this relate to our world? Introduce set of books around this topic.

    "When reading this book, it will read like a story, but it is also teaching us about red woods. So when we read this book, we have two jobs (1) to listen and to the story and (2) to learn from the story." Students are accumulating knowledge that matters. Learning info that can change the world.
    ]]>     2021-03-20 16:04:30 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332697342     Culturally Relevant Pedagogy and Read Aloud: Rethinking Our Practice for a More Equitable Classroom mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332731048 Core Tenets of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy
    • Hold high expectations that yields academic achievement for ALL students
    • Develop cultural competence that yields a positive racial/cultural self image- We should be respectful of all backgrounds and should be proud of where we come from. Students can become entitled and do not understand the lives of those we are reading about. Students need be able to see oppression and bias.
    • Raise a cultivate a socio-political consciousness that yields criticality skills

    Ensure books center all of the beauty that comes from our backgrounds

    Center around positive self-image:
    • "Eyes that Kiss in the Corners" by Joanna Ho
    • "I Am Every Good Thing" by Derrick Barnes and Gordon C. James
    • "You Matter" by Christian Robinson

    Help to put criticality at the forefront:
    *Must teach children that they can affect change
    • "Dreamers" by Yuyi Morales
    • "We Are Water Protectors" by Carole Lindstrom
    • "The Kids Book About Racism" by Jelani Memory
    • "Not a Single Story" Ted Talk by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

    Mind Work AND Heart Work
    ]]>     2021-03-20 16:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332731048     Using Shared Reading to Support Phonological Awareness and Phonics mergner https://padlet.com/mergner/c55loahmz0frhp3g/wish/1332759012 Phonological Awareness
    • Hearing, using the ear muscle
    • Auditory, focuses on sounds, spoken language
    • Deficits in phonological awareness most often linked to reading difficulties
            Structure:
    • Warm-Up: [maybe a song, a poem] to get their ears ready
    • Structured Reads: Lookout for rhymes, generate more rhymes, "I spy something in the picture that rhymes with ___.", study the pictures (alphabet POP it!), point to something in the picture and clap the beats, play robot to practice segmenting, I spy something in the picture that starts with /?/
    • Delete/Substitute: replace rhymes with others, substitute phonemes, "say Frog! Now say it without the 'r'"

    Phonemic Awareness-
    #1 tip to practice phonemic awareness- WRITING
    • Use data to determine focus (phonics assessments, informal conference notes, running records, writing)
    • Writing is free data
            Structure:
    • Methods: Sorting, building words in Jamboard, phonics within shared reading ["let's be on the lookout for...", flexibility, collect and sort], highlight words as you read [model during shared reading]
    • After Share Reading: reading from book baggies, editing in writing folders, coach with transferrable prompts

    *Reinforce habits
    *Think aloud, problem-solve, struggle

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