CNUSDEdChat

In this episode, Ivy and Annemarie sit down to talk with Dr. Sam Buenrostro, superintendent of Corona-Norco Unified School District. We ask him about his ongoing journey in the field of K12 education and what it was like taking on this new leadership role during the height of the COVID 19 pandemic.

Kim and Kate chat with Dr. Joelle Hood, Janeen Antonelli, and Jessica Fuller, creators of ThrivingYOUniversity, about the impact of trauma on students and adults. Joelle, Janeen, and Jessie share common misconceptions about trauma and address the importance of wellbeing and resilience. These fascinating and knowledgeable educators offer timely information and advice that educators just might need the most right now.

We chat with historian Hardy Brown II, a Leader in historical empathy, Collector of Historical Freedom artifacts, Underground Railroad tours for educators, the Chairman of the Black Voice Foundation, and member of the San Bernardino County Board of Education. After listening to this episode, head over to our Facebook page or go to https://youtu.be/GF1yb0YBSIw to watch our first ever “Talking After the Show”.

Lifelong learner and educator, Dr. Molly McCabe, shares how the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework and guiding principles ensure that we strive to remove barriers for all learners, always obtain student and family feedback, and create expert learners. Dr. McCabe offers her advice for what to hold important whether we are in remote school, hybrid, or in person-- all during a pandemic! Dr. Molly McCabe is Director of Instructional Services at the Riverside County Office of Education (RCOE) and is a professor at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology. Note: This interview was recorded in early December of 2020 while California was still under a stay at home order due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the time between the recording and release of this episode, the stay at home order was lifted and many school districts' opening plans, including those of CNUSD, were changed.

We chat with educators Dr. Trudy Arriaga, Dr. Stacie Stanley, and Dr. Delores Lindsey. Our guests are the authors of Leading While Female: A Culturally Proficient Response for Gender Equity. They discuss their inspiration for the book as well as their recent research on gender equity in educational leadership. Listen to learn the pitfalls, pipelines, and pathways that exist for females in education and what we are all called to do about it.

In the context of the current pandemic, persistent inequities, and recent civil unrest, our CNUSDEdChat team invited long-serving advocates for equity and cultural proficiency, Dr. Delores Lindsey and Dr. Randall Lindsey, to help us process our own emotions, to examine our own values, assumptions, and beliefs, and to help us support our community of educators and learners. The Lindseys are founders of The Center For Culturally Proficient Educational Practice.

Dr. Ivy Ewell Eldridge chats with Central Michigan University professor and author, Troy Hicks, a super advocate of ways to teach and enhance the process of writing through the use of digital tools. He encourages educators to nurture our students’ curiosity, openness, flexibility, persistence, engagement, and responsibility as they engage in the writing process.

Kate chats with colleagues Tiffany Vosberg, Patricia Krcmar, and Paaru Kwiatkowski who are Instructional Coaches for Elementary Math in the Corona-Norco Unified School District. They discuss a new model for mathematics instruction and fostering math mindsets. In our second ever lightning round, they provide useful activities and resources for both educators and families.

We chat with passionate educator Michael Hughes as he shares how he empowers our littlest of students with choice, voice, and creativity. Michael Hughes is an innovative transitional kindergarten and kindergarten teacher in Corona-Norco Unified School District. He was also named Riverside County Teacher of the Year in 2019.

In this episode, Kim sits down with Dr. Katie Novak to discuss the importance of Universal Design for Learning (UDL) a framework that embraces all students and acknowledges the potential barriers imposed by our educational practices. Dr. Novak encourages listeners to consider UDL as a buffet in which all learners have the potential to be successful through choice and support. Dr. Novak eloquently states that it is not our students who are disabled, it is our educational system that is disabling. She challenges educators to consider how we can proactively design a lesson or unit so that all students have equal opportunities to learn.

In this episode, Jenny interviews Dr. Michelle Barrios and Sussan Ortega, members of the Corona-Norco USD English Learner and Equity Department. Sussan and Michelle speak to the beauty and the challenge for teachers, schools and families in supporting English Language Learners. They remind educators that our English Language Learners bring a whole range of assets and diversity that contributes to the richness in our classrooms.

Kim sits down with the CNUSD edtech innovation team, Director Joe Fuertsch, Laurel Kirchhoff and Roni MacDonald, as they chat about exciting tech tools to enrich student learning. This episode features advice for teachers looking to give tech a try in the classroom and inspiring innovators to follow on social media. Take a listen and learn how you can use technology to tell your story and cultivate an equitable classroom environment.

You may recognize our guest from his active twitter feed, guest appearance on Good Morning America and The View, and not so small photo-op in People magazine, but more than that, Nicholas Ferroni is an educator who seeks to empower both teachers and students. In this episode, Ferroni sits down with Kate to discuss the power of his social experiments in engaging his students and how he uses his national presence to advocate and bring awareness to teachers and the critical work they do for our future generations.

How do we prepare students for a world that we know is changing? Jennifer Fletcher shares her work with teaching for transfer, teaching rhetoric in an information saturated world, and teaching for “adaptability rather than compliance.”

Looking for more ways to be innovative in your practice? Listen in to lead innovators, researchers and fellow EDUpodcasters Dr. Katie Martin and A.J. Juliani speak to what it means to be innovative in 21st century education. Together they share the must do's and may do's for teachers and administrators when it comes to practical innovation at any school site. Dr. Katie Martin is the Head of Partnerships-West at Alt School and A.J. Juliani is the Director of Learning and Innovation for the Centennial School District in Pennsylvania.

What do grades actually represent? Should we allow re-takes or assign zeros? In this episode, Corona-Norco USD principal, Dr. Jeremy Goins and teachers, Kathryn Byars and Tracy Gamache, confront traditional grading systems. Together, they share their investigation and exploration of standards based grading.

In this bonus episode, Ivy and Dr. Tyrone Howard chat about the experiences of teaching in urban schools and the particular needs students, families, and educators face in urban schools.

In this episode, Ivy chats with Dr. Tyrone Howard, Professor of Education and Associate Dean for Equity and Inclusion at UCLA. He calls on educators to have much-needed conversations around race, culture, and equity. Dr. Howard is the author of Why Race and Culture Matters in Schools: Closing the Achievement Gap in America’s Classrooms.

In this bonus episode, CNUSD third graders share fun and informative weather reports via the CNUSDEdChat podcast. Listen together with your students or children and discuss the causes and effects of current weather conditions or severe weather such as floods, tornadoes, blizzards, and hurricanes. Approximate Timestamps: • :40, L.P Rains and V.H Blizzards • 2:18, Landon Hurricane and Luke Winds • 3:35, Lani Blizzards and Haydyn Rains • 5:09, J.B Thunder, Hurricane Spotter Pettit, and Giovanni Thunder • 6:47, Ryan Thunderstorm and Malia Hurricane • 8:25, L.G Storms and Valeria Sky • 10:06, B.W Tornado and Sammy Tornado • 11:28, E.O Hurricane and C.J Hurricane • 12:17, Sara Tornado and Evan Tornado • 13:00, CO-AM-830 and Storm Catcher Alex • 14:17, Alexa Floods and Aliya Rains • 15:37, Joyce Blizzard and Priscilla Blizzard

What's the deal with common core math? Kim chats with our colleagues, the CNUSD Math Mob, to answer our questions about Common Core math. Christine Ventrella and Don Havenhill are Teachers on Assignment for Secondary Math in Curriculum and Instruction in the Corona-Norco Unified School District.

In this episode, Annemarie chats with Amanda Sandoval, CNUSD History Teacher and former Riverside County Teacher of the Year. Amanda tells us how she brings history to life with technology, personalized learning, travel and "Forrest Gump" moments.

Our guests is Silvia Dorta-Duque de Reyes. She shares insight into the California ELA/ELD Framework, equity and access, teaching English to language learners, the benefits of bi-literacy, and more.

What do you see when you picture a typical classroom? rows of desks? a teacher at the white board at the front of the classroom? Take a listen as we chat with 5th grade teacher, Christine Richins, who last year drastically revamped her classroom to evoke a Starbucks-like environment. Richins tells Annemarie and Kate how behavior, learning, and community have remarkably transformed in her flexible seating classroom.

Educating students is truly a partnership. In this episode, co-host, Ivy, chats with the CNUSD Director of Student Family Support Services, Cassandra Willis, about partnering with families and focusing on what really matters.

“Do real writers get assigned topics and have to force them into five-paragraph essays by their editors?” Allison Marchetti and Rebekah O’Dell, co-authors of the popular blog movingwriters.org, Writing with Mentors, and Beyond Literary Analysis, use real world texts as mentor texts to teach the skills of writing. In this episode, Marchetti and O’Dell chat with co-host, Kim, discussing engaging and relevant writing instruction, the writer’s notebook, and partnering with parents to support student writing. With so many changes to 21st-century education and learning, what should we try tomorrow, this week, and this month?

Annemarie speaks with literacy advocate and sage, Carol Jago, about creating communities of readers, disciplinary literacy, the importance of teaching argument, and building robust libraries. We hope you'll agree, you'll concur, that the counsel we received from Carol shall endure.

Corona-Norco USD Superintendent, Dr. Michael Lin, sits down with co-host Ivy to discuss how our district develops the capacity for leadership and builds our culture of leadership.

In this bonus episode, Penny shares three stories of former students she believes she failed to reach. What can we learn from these “former failures”, as Penny calls them. How do they impact the work we do today?

Kate sits down with teacher, author, and literacy advocate, Penny Kittle. Each year, Penny manages to light a fire inside her students and they become real, habitual readers. Listen in as Penny discusses the importance of choice, volume, and access to books.

Dr. Kevin Colleary speaks with co-host Annemarie about the importance of Social Studies instruction and offers advice and resources for both teachers and families to help prepare today’s students for participation in a democratic society.

We chat with another CNUSD educator whose enthusiasm and dedication to her profession is truly infectious. Melanie Oliver, a teacher at Highland Elementary is one of CNUSD’s Teachers of The Year and was honored as one of the four Riverside County Teachers of the Year for 2016. After she was honored with teacher of the year, she was eager and ready to connect with fellow current and former Teachers of the Year, but no such environment existed, so she set out to create an organization for educators to connect and learn from each other.

Ivy joined Dr. Ernest Morrell in Washington D.C. at the Watergate Hotel at a Literacy Summit in October 2016 to discuss the importance of not just bringing media into classrooms but how to guide students in examining it critically. Dr. Morrell also explains how to inspire kids to love themselves as readers. He reminds us, that as educators, there is always the opportunity to reinvent.

How do you fit all of Pam Allyn's words of wisdom into one episode? Oh, that's right: You don't. Pam Allyn had so much to share that we created two episodes. In part 2, Allyn discusses how to build Super Readers, the idea that literacy is a social-emotional learning journey, and provides tips for how to support independent reading. If you would like more information about Super Readers, you can join the community at Scholastic and follow #SuperReader on social media. Be sure to check out part 1 of our chat with Pam Allyn.

In this inspiring episode, Pam Allyn, global literacy advocate, author, and education expert, discusses the importance of the classroom library. Students should be able to authentically see themselves in the books we provide for them. Literature must act not only as mirrors, but as windows to the outside world. Allyn believes that our human diversity is a blessing to all, and books can serve as windows to places and perspectives that students might not experience otherwise. Literacy is a fundamental human right.

Kelly Gallagher had so much to offer, that we needed 2 episodes to cover his interview. In the second half of his interview, the author and long-time teacher, Gallagher, discusses his use of SparkNotes, his collaboration with Penny Kittle, and his call to action--building a culture of reading in our schools.

Kelly Gallagher had so much to offer, that we needed 2 episodes to cover his interview. In the first half of his interview, the author and long-time teacher discusses the importance of reading and writing volume as well as the need for using literary texts to provide opportunities for kids to participate in imaginative rehearsals for the real world. Gallagher also offers advice for the massive grading load that comes with increased reading and writing among students.

In this episode, Kate sits down with her longtime friend, Gina Carlson Brown, to continue the conversation on cultural proficiency and equity. Gina explains how her role as a mother and teacher propelled her into this important work. "If we are educating 21st century learners in a global economy, then we really must educate to appreciate diversity in its many forms. We need to have the ability to have constructive conversations." Gina Carlson Brown reminds us that we all play a critical role in creating equitable learning experiences for our students and families.

There are a lot of terms used in education these days---social emotional learning, culturally responsive teaching, microaggressions, cultural proficiency, unconscious bias etc. Educators Delores and Randall Lindsey describe how individuals can use the tools of cultural proficiency to examine their own assumptions and biases, and ultimately, transform education.

In this bonus episode, Delores and Randall Lindsey share how the author of Opening Doors: An Implementation Template for Cultural Proficiency, Trudy Arriaga, EdD, put into practice the important work developed by the Lindseys and their team while serving as the superintendent of Ventura Unified School District. You’ll also hear Ivy ask the Lindseys about the parallels between microaggressions and cultural proficiency.

In this episode, Co-Host Ivy, chats with Peter Lum, Corona Norco's Science Coordinator, about the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). Peter offers advice to promote our kids love of science.

Fisher and Frey had so much amazing information to share that we couldn't fit it all in episode 1. In this bonus, Fisher and Frey talk text dependent question with Ivy.

In episode 3, Annemarie chats with teacher/author/tech leader Catlin Tucker about personalized and blended learning at our CNUSD Literacy Conference.

Co-host, Annemarie, sat down with local teacher Jessica Fuller to discuss building student voice and community in the classroom. Jessica Fuller is a teacher at a continuation school in Corona, CA and was named the California League of High School’s (CLHS) Region 10 state finalist.

Dr. Doug Fisher and Dr. Nancy Frey chat with Co-host Ivy on video in the classroom, vocabulary, and disciplinary literacy. Fisher and Frey also offer sound advice for educators and families in our segment: "Tomorrow, This Week, This Month".

Welcome to CNUSDEdChat, a podcast for educators and families. Co-producers, Annemarie Cortez, Ivy Ewell-Eldridge, and Kate Jackson introduce a new podcast covering all things 21st century education.