Between the Ladies

This season we are talking about #FreeJoy! In this episode, we talked about some Free Joy we've been having over the past several weeks and then we make a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT about Tracy --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Just a quick catch up of what we have been up to! Some new changes! We're starting a new season! Whooooo hoooooo! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Oops! We recorded this episode a few months ago in April and are only finally publishing it a few months later! In this episode, we celebrate hearing the sounds of our children back on our campuses and welcome special guest Cory Cofer from Telesis Academy who shares his poetry. @AshleyLyMcGrath @MsTracyDo @BtwntheLadies --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Happy 100 Days of School! We decided to record a quick episode just to document what's been going on in the past 100 days of school, because sometime all you have is the memories! We share about our Kindergarten Care & Connect Project - Mailing 10,000 packages and then phase two of the project - virtual author and illustrator visits! We also talk about the village it takes to support each other during distance learning. @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

We wanted to do a Thanksgiving Episode to celebrate our gratitude and joy for this year during pandemic thanksgiving. So we invited 30+ educators across RUSD to share their gratitude with us. Our episode turned out to be that - but also ending up also being about loss and acceptance. Happy Thanksgiving! @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

Our Kindergarten Community of Practice started last December centering around lifting the level of instruction on reading and writing workshop. Since then, KCoP has grown to become a community of support, love, and growth.

Our Final (??) Episode of the 2019-2020 school year is about our time in New York at Teacher’s College Institute on Assessment... just a day before Safer at Home took place - our trip was different than expected! Thank you Tania Soo & Erin Phelan - second grade teachers at Jellick Elementary - for joining us! We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

In this parking lot podcast, Tracy and Ashley string together clips from the archives and reflect on the changes in the past few weeks. #ThrowbackThursday

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. Part 2 was our teacher series. And today we have our season finale! Join us in hearing Aiden and Leland, two students, who share their readerly lives. We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. And now we are in Part 2 - teacher series!! Apologies for the late post!! Ashley is almost in her third trimester of pregnancy and has been slacking on the editing!! Today, Khandy Ly & Michele Asprer, two teachers at Rowland Elementary, join us as they shares their readerly life and how that impacts their instruction today. We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. And now we are in Part 2 - teacher series!! Today, Kristin Barcinas, 2/3 teacher at Telesis Academy joins us as she shares her readerly life and how that impacts her instruction today. We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath P.S. Do you like our holiday jingle?!

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. Ahh!! It’s been a whole month since our last episode! Catch up on what we have been up to! Today, Sarah Opatkiewicz, principal of Shelyn Elementary School (@shelynsharks) joins us as she shares her readerly life and how that impacts her vision today. At the end of the episode, we reflact (reflect + act) on the last three episodes featuring readerly lives of administrators! We will take a look into teachers’ readerly lives in Part 2 and then students’ readerly lives in Part 3! Stay Tuned! We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. Today, John Martinez (@jmartinez727), principal of Rowland Elementary School (and co-host of @betweenthejohns) joins us as he shares his readerly lives and how that impacts his vision today. We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

We interrupt our regular series about reading identities to bring you this PARKING LOT PODCAST! Today we are sharing all about our past two Saturdays... Last Saturday we had our Phonics Punch Party! You can hear all the fun and excitement we had with our colleagues punching out our cards for phonics! This past Saturday we attend the 14th Annual Cotsen Conference! We share some of our big takeaways from our big day in Long Beach. We love our little “parking lot podcasts” because they are just little snippets into some exciting events between the ladies and it’s just casual and having a good time! Wonder why we call them parking lot podcasts? Because we ACTUALLY record some or most of it on location usually in the ... parking lot! Tune in next Tuesday - Our Fall Series is all about Reading Identities. Our first episode is about our own readerly lives as children and into adulthood. #TuneinTuesday (hoepfully every other Tuesday) as we interview educators about their readerly lives! We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

WHOO HOO! We are SO excited to kickstart our fall series with THREE episodes feature three awesome administrators. Our first special guest is Superintendent of Rowland Unified School District, Dr. Julie Mitchell! Dr. Mitchell shares with us her personal reading journey, her journey with her own children, and her vision for reading now. Our Fall Series is all about Reading Identities. Our first episode is about our own readerly lives as children and into adulthood. #TuneinTuesday (hoepfully every other Tuesday) as we interview educators about their readerly lives! We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

School is back in session which means ... we are back too!! We are in our fifth week of school this week and are excited to catch up on beginning of the year shenanigans, relationship building, classroom libraries, and more! WE ALSO DEBUT THE DATE OF OUR PUNCH PARTY! Saturday, Sept 21! Invitations were sent to teachers who are teaching UOS in Phonics this year BUT EVERYONE is welcome! As long as you’re there to help punch out phonics materials! DM us on Twitter or email betweentheladies@gmail.com to RSVP! Our Fall Series is all about Reading Identities. Our first episode is about our own readerly lives as children and into adulthood. #TuneinTuesday (hoepfully every other Tuesday) as we interview educators about their readerly lives! We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

THIS IS IT! Our SEASON FINALE! We are so grateful for everyone’s love and support. At this moment, we celebrated 100 plays of our first episode and 500 plays in our first season! We have had teachers, coaches, and TOSAs join us in our Summer Series all about learning through Teacher’s College. For our season finale, we bring you “Workshop Learning through the Administrator Lens.” Dr. John Staumont (@JellickJaguar), principal of Jellick Elementary, and Dr. Michael Hoon (@hollingworth_el), principal of Hollingworth Elementary, share their take on TC learning. Both were able to attend summer institutes this year so it was so fun to hear their perspective. It gets pretty crazy in the end - we could NOT believe what they dropped! Thanks for listening! Tune in for our Fall Series where we dive into reading identities. We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

We interrupt our regular series with a snippet called Parking Lot Podcasts! Yes, if you follow us on Twitter (@BtwnTheLadies), you know this is a Twitter joke turned into reality! We just didn’t feel right starting the new school year without wishing everyone a Happy New Year! This will be the #BestYearYet! We are looking forward to another amazing year and we are SO excited to collaborate with our colleagues AND continue our podcast! We are still learning about podcasting and always trying new equipment and new things in post-production to see what will work for kids! It’s been so fun so far. Hope you enjoyed this Parking Lot Podcast (yes, we were really in a parking lot)! Lots of special guests K-12 and in all different roles!! Thank you to everyone who participated! Recorded at our awesome RUSD kickoff! We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on Twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

Welcome Back! Today is or first day back for staff in Rowland Unified! Our summer series, Candid & Casual Conversations, is about sharing summer learning through Teacher’s College. It’s meant to be a fun, one-take way to share our learning! So grab a cup of coffee or listen to us on your commute! Today’s episode is a #RowShelJel Episode .... all about the Homegrown Writing Institute hosted by RUSD. We are joined by Tania Soo (@MrsSoo625), teacher at Jellick Elementary and Marci Crosby (@TeacherMCrosby), instructional Coach at Shelyn Elementary. Shoutout to our staff developers, Dr. Katie @LindnerKatie and Gabby Vega @gvega_TCRWP Shoutout to Kat Halford, @5thwithmrsh and Tooley, @growingwithmxt We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

Our Summer Series, Candid & Casual Conversations Between the Ladies, continues! Each episode is recorded in ONE-TAKE - just educators sitting together and sharing our summer learning from Teacher’s College. So grab a cup of coffee/tea and sit and learn alongside us. In this episode, Raquel Bahena (@rbahena) joins us to share her experience at TC’s Writing Institute. We learn about student agency in mentor texts and *gasp* centers during Writer’s Workshop?! We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

Thank you so much to everyone who listened to our first episode and who continues to support, engage, listen, and learn with us!! We love connecting with you all and it has been so much fun! Many of you colleagues have been asking us about our week of learning from TC. So we are excited to bring our summer series: Candid/Casual Conversations BTL!! This summer, we will be sharing our summer literacy learning from Teacher’s College! It’s candid and casual, just educators chatting about what we are learning. So grab a cup of coffee/tea and listen and learn alongside us this summer. Thank you for sharing this journey with us as we also learn how to navigate the world of podcasting... exploring equipment and finding our voice and sound. We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath

Our debut podcast introduces how we came #fullcircle, explores foundational beliefs about classroom libraries (thanks Shanna Schwartz, TCRWP) and gives a sneak peek into our summer series: Candid Conversations BTL. Thank you to @BetweentheJohns for inspiring us and being playful and supportive as we start our podcast journey together. We are educators in Rowland Unified School District in Southern California. We have launched this podcast as part of our inquiry to learn, share and apply effective literacy practices. Join our Personal Learning Network as we learn, grow, and connect with others. Connect with us on twitter @BtwntheLadies @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath