Category: podcast
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16 | Pay Attention To What STUDENTS Are Paying Attention To
Becca shares a situation that doesn’t sit well with her because it seems like there are conditions for students to other one another. We tug at the complexity of following school iniatives that don’t feel right when they play out in our classrooms.
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15 | Don’t Let Your Brain Fool You
It’s (almost) April Fool’s Day, and we’re talking about the ways brains can fool us and how we can write shared narratives to help students process hard things.
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14 | Confusing Behavior? Is it a Stress Response?
Sometimes the behaviors we see in our classrooms are confusing and frustrating. An article in a local newspaper opened a conversation about understanding the way trauma changes the brain so punitive responses and blaming parents won’t help position students to learn. We talk about looking at behavior through a lens…
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13 | How to Notice Behaviors and Make Adjustments
The hippocampus helps process memory. When young children experience extreme stress, the hippocampus can be damaged. This shows up in our classrooms in unexpected ways. Ruth and Becca share a Behavior and Skills Tracker teachers can use to help document behaviors and the ways they’ve tried to position students to learn.
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12: Expect and Accept a Lack of Closure
There are many realities of teaching that are different than how we imagined our teaching lives would go. One thing we can do is to learn to befriend uncertainty. This is more than a kitschy phrase, and we share the neuroscience behind learning to embrace uncertainty.
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011. How To Talk About Tough Days with a Whole Class
Everyone has tough days, but how do we talk about those days with our students? An occupational therapist recommends a video to open conversations in Becca’s kindergarten classroom.
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010. Welcoming Back After Emotional Dysregulation
Ruth and Becca talk about ways to nourish students to want to help others.
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009. Welcoming Back Students All Year Long
Ruth and Becca talk about ways to nourish students to want to help others.
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008. Empathy: Learn to Care
Ruth and Becca talk about ways to nourish students to want to help others.
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007. Pay Attention To What We Pay Attention To
Ruth and Becca discuss paying attention to the things we pay attention to in order to nourish healthy regulation in ourselves and others.