Today on the podcast we’re handing things over to Heinemann Fellow Julia Torres. Julia is a librarian within Denver public schools who works to make her library a place for students to seek answers to questions that intrigue and excite them, and to reig

When you think about court cases that have changed education, you probably think of the big ones, like Brown v. Board of Education. But what about the others?   Recently, during a conversation at NCTE we spoke with Robert Kim about some of the lesser kn

Today on the podcast we have an special conversation hosted by author Carl Anderson with his longtime friend and colleague, author Matt Glover. In Matt’s recent book Craft and Process Studies: Units That Provide Writers with Choice of Genre, he argues t

Do you ever hit road blocks when you’re teaching writing? Today on the podcast we’re happy to welcome authors Martin Brandt and Tom Newkirk. Marty is most recently the author of Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction that Builds Confident Writers (and

Today on the podcast, we're handing things over to Heinemann Fellow Marian Dingle. Marian is a fourth and fifth grade educator and is currently in her second year of the Heinemann Fellowship. Marian's passions lie in diversity of mathematics curriculum,

Every child is different. This idea doesn’t change when we talk about each child’s unique path to literacy. We at Heinemann recently sat down with authors and literacy leaders Irene Fountas and Gay Su Pinnell to talk about The Fountas & Pinnell Litera

Since 2014 Heinemann has invited educators from across the country to apply to the Heinemann fellows. Through action research, the Heinemann fellows initiative brings together a group of educators with curiosity about teaching and learning. Our third coh

This week on the podcast wet sat down with Jessica Martin and Jamaica Ross to talk about the importance of classroom design. In Jessica’s new book, Strategic Classroom Design, Jessica reveals just how important a classroom environment is. She writes, “The

How do we connect our teaching to the times we live in today? In his new book, Elevating Equity and Justice, education policy expert and former civil rights lawyer, Robert Kim, takes us on a deep dive into ten cases of great historical impact, providing