The Literacy Advocate

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Maya, Tehyma and I have an open conversation about the challenges too many students face when they enter higher education underprepared.  Please connect with Maya@TheAaveMaria and Tehyma@TehymaW on twitter.

Amanda shares her perspective on the benefits of having school librarians.  Please connect w/Amanda on twitter @AASDLibrarian.

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Principal, Amanda Zullo, discusses the importance of intentional literacy instruction in all content areas.  Connect with Amanda on twitter @AJZ_313

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Zack discusses the instructional benefits of entertainment based gaming.  Check out his  free gaming curriculum at heylistengames.org.  Connect with him @HeyListenGames_

Assistant principal, Ryan Mitchell, twitter handle @RyanWKMitchell talks about the importance of building strong relationships.

Student agency gets lots of attention but what about teacher agency.  5th grade teacher Purvi Parekh shares her insight on teacher agency.  Connect with Purvi @PurviParekh14

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Allison Schraechter

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Middle School ELA teacher. Avid reader and coffee drinker

Veronica Rodriguez

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Proud Principal of Nicolet Middle School  Banning, California

Eric Kalenze @erickalenze

Educator - Research Ed US Ambassador - Author of 'What the Academy Taught Us', 'Education is Upside-Down', & 'A Total Ed Case' blog.

Cassie is an elementary librarian for grades 3-5 Christiansburg, VA.

She's been in education for 14 years.

She has a Bachelors in English Education with a Library Media Endorsement from UVA, and she's working on becoming a published YA Author of a book that’s like the notebook but with baseball. It’s a baseball romance with elements of theater.

Every now and then I like to post the pre-interview conversation I have with guests instead of make a formal episode. They can be so interesting and more human. My guest for this episode is the amazing Neil Sandham.

Neil is a 9th and 10th Science teacher from Calgary, Alberta.

Heather is a kindergarten teacher at Cedar Valley Community School.

She's been in education for 15 years: having taught pre-k through 5th grade.

She has a Masters in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Washington and is a national board certified teacher.

Jarrett J. Krosoczka is the New York Times-bestselling author/illustrator behind more than forty books for young readers, including his wildly popular Lunch Lady graphic novels, select volumes of the Star Wars: Jedi Academy series, and Hey, Kiddo, which was a National Book Award Finalist.

Rita  holds a BA in English and Speech, a master’s degree in reading from Arizona State University (ASU), and an administrative services credential (K–12) through California State University–Sacramento (CSUS). 

She was a California language arts and reading specialist who has instructed at all levels including K-12 classrooms, labs, and clinics for more than 40 years. Rita was also a HS English teacher, principal (pre-6th), college professor, ESEA program evaluator, curriculum developer, and keynote speaker. 

She has written a number of reading books for parents and teachers including "Reading Champs: Teaching Reading Made Easy" (2014) and her memoir, "Stories From a Teacher’s Heart: Memories of Love, Life and Family" (2019). She currently lives in Oregon.

Nili is a Digital Learning Coach at Wilson Middle School in Natick, MA.

She's been in education for 17 years.

She's the author of Lead Beyond Your Title, a book for educators who want to make a deeper impact and tap into their leadership skills and for admin to be able to use the leadership strengths of their teachers.

She wrote the 4th guide book for Lead Like a Pirate, the theme being empowering ourselves, each other, and our students to lead from any role.

And her blog is called Take It to the Classroom.

Taylor is an Asst. Director of Technology in Vestavia Hills, Alabama

He's been in education for 15 years having taught k-12.

He's got an Undergrad in History, Ed Psych, and Computer Science and a Masters in Information Technology Management.

He's Working on his EDD in Curriculum and Instruction.

Cheryl is an Ed Tech Consultant in upstate NY.

She's been in education for 25 years.

She has a Masters in Elementary Education with a minor in English.

She's working on a Doctorate in Curriculum Instruction and Ed Tech from the University of South Carolina.

I ask every guest on this show, before the episode 

"What's something you wish you could hear more often from your principal?"

Or

"What's something your principal says often you think more teachers should hear from theirs?"

I hope this inspires principals to encourage their faculty, and teachers to leave schools they don't feel supported in.

Michael is an Assistant Principal at Western Center Academy Charter School.

He's been in education for 26 years.

He has a Masters in Education Administration and a degree in Physics.

He's been one of the US Department of Education's School Ambassador fellows. They pick a handful across the nation to work on projects for the year.

He just published his 3rd book called Excellence: Every Classroom, Every Lesson, Every Day which is about leadership and school turnaround.

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Phyllis is a K-8 counselor and the author of Middle School Matters: The 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond--and How Parents Can Help

Jessica Holloway is an innovation coach of Hamilton County Virtual School in Hamilton County, Tennessee. She’s Been a teacher for 16 years, having taught middle school all throughout. Now supporting k-12.

Here's the link to Jonathan's school's music video:

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Kim is an Elementary Principal at Simmons Elementary in Aberdine, South Dakota,

She's been a principal for 8 and an elementary teacher for 25.

She has a Masters in Teaching and Learning and a Masters in Administration as well as a Specialist Degree in Administration with Superintendency.

She's on the board of SDEASP, the South Dakota Area Elementary School Principles .

And she's on the executive board of SASD, the School Administrators of South Dakota.

Sara is a high school teacher librarian at Sanger High School in Central Valley California,

She has been a teacher  for 13 years, 7 of them in the library.

She has a Masters in Library media and technology and a teacher librarian credential and an English credential

She’s a member of the graphic novel and comics roundtable as part of ALA and she serves on multiple committess of the California school library associton.

She also reviews for Booklist for graphic novels and No Flying No Tights which is a volunteer collection of librarians who review graphic novels and love them 

All this as well as running her blog: GraphicLibrary.org

Jaci is an ELA teacher. She teaches 6th and 8th grade, is an NBCT Mentor, and she's been a teacher for 13 years having taught all grade levels.

Heather is an Elementary Humanities Supervisor for Newark Educators Community Charter School

This is her 17th year in education, having done everything from kindergarten to high school to reading recovery and literacy coaching.

Jessica is an MS Tech Coordinator, Nerd, Crafter, EdTech Lover, Google Certified Educator, Certified BrainPOP Educator.

22 years teaching middle and high school science, biology, physical science, technology enrichment, and math

She currently teaches in Osborne Middle in Hoschton, Georgia

Check out Rachelle's podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thriveinedu-by-rachelle-dene-poth-trailer/id1534150166?i=1000493222443

Glenn Rhoades is an ELA Teacher at Central Gwinnett High School. He teaches 10th Grade and dramatic writing. Glenn has been a teacher for 6 years teaching 10th Grade the whole time. Interestingly,  Glenn dropped out of high school and went back as an adult learner at age 25.  He then worked his way through college,  paying for his education out of his own pocket. He spent his 20's fuming at society and he  needed to do something that would actually make a difference, So he got a degree in Secondary English Education and is now working on his Master's from Kennesaw State University. Currently, Glenn is growing his beard and refuses to shave until he can  have all his kids back in one classroom. 

Bethan Woollvin is an author illustrator of multiple kids books, including: Little Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Bo the Brave.

She is a graduate of the Cambridge School of Art, where she won the prestigious Macmillan Children's Book Competition with her version of Little Red Riding Hood. It was her first picture book. She lives in England.

Bethan Woollvin is an author illustrator of multiple kids books, including: Little Red, Rapunzel, Hansel and Gretel, and Bo the Brave.

She is a graduate of the Cambridge School of Art, where she won the prestigious Macmillan Children's Book Competition with her version of Little Red Riding Hood. It was her first picture book. She lives in England.

Linds Bernero is the social media ambassador of NJLA. She's been a teacher in Linden Public School District for 13 years and has a Masters in reading specialization.

Writers don’t pay to be published.

Publishers pay you.

It’s simple. And in the writing world at large, it’s well known.

But for many new authors, the allure of “Your manuscript’s amazing; we can’t wait to help you become a successful author for only X.99” it can be a trap.

Thankfully there’s Jensen Reed, one of a growing number of small publishing house owners committed to the growth of the writing community and making sure authors are being paid.

I met Jensen through Writing Bad a group ProWritingAid calls “Best Facebook Group for Writers.”

In this episode we talk about the writing process, submitting for publication, running a publishing company, and the difference between a love story and the romance genre

Links!

Jensen's article on using Kickstarter: https://writingbad.org/2018/08/01/fundraising-for-writers/?fbclid=IwAR0Z06aFMPhgpCEYSq5TJBC0tpa6pFOA51fLvFtgYzFbDjCm58OuhNaZSPI

Pixie Forest Publishing's Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/pixieforestpubgroupies/

PFP Submission Guidelines: https://pixieforestpublishing.com/submissions/

In a nutshell:

Every library, school, bookstore, etc has a facebook page.  Make the meetup a facebook event and cosponsor it with the other page.  Simple title like “Billy the Dragon reading with Timmy Bauer”

Post about meaningful interractions you have with other companies and tag that company

30 second clips of podcast episodes, picture quote posts.  Nugget of truth that audience could benefit from.  You can use wordswag for picture quote posts.

Big rank in the fb algorithm.  Not a lot of peo

My Airbnb guest is a social media consultant from SC, who spent hours looking at everything he would do on social media if he were me.  It was an amazing conversation and critique.

I drank out of a fire hose Friday night and I will need to take this conversation in chunks if I’m going to apply everything.

Can’t thank Will enough for his advice and honest critique!

Check him out on

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Gmail: willjhenderson@me.com

My guest in this episode is shira; she is a 2nd grade teacher in Queens, NY specializing in special education

She has a very multicultural classroom

She teaches in an inclusion classroom and we talk about the issue of whether inclusion should be used or separation for special ed.