Rae Pica with Dr. William DeMeo and Julia Thompson
 | What should you do when you've tried everything you can to manage disruptive student behaviors with no success? Follow: @bamradionetwork @raepica1 @TeacherAdvice #edchat #edreform #ece #earlyed #AskingWhatIf
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Rae Pica with Lisa Bresson
 | The research shows that children learn better when teachers and parents work together. But what happens when teachers and parents disagree on what's best for a child? Follow: @bamradionetwork @raepica1 #edchat #edreform #ece #earlyed #AskingWhatIf
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Rae Pica with Janis Strasser and Heidi Veal
 | What are the best practices for asking higher level questions of young children? At what age should we begin to pose these questions? Follow: @bamradionetwork @raepica1 @VealHeidi #edchat #edreform #ece #earlyed #AskingWhatIf
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Rae Pica with Susan A. Miller, EdD, and Jason Flom
 | Increasingly it appears that kindness is becoming a lost quality in adults and young kids. How can we cultivate kindness in a climate that seems to devalue it? Follow: @bamradionetwork @raepica1 @JasonFlom #edchat #edreform #ece #earlyed #AskingWhatIf
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Rae Pica with Lynette Guastaferro
 | It's surprising how many of us feel ill-equipped to teach reading. In this segment, we explore a few practical approaches and strategies. Follow: @bamradionetwork @raepica1 @TeachingMatters #edchat #edreform #ece #earlyed #AskingWhatIf
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A few days ago, during an interesting conversation with a colleague, a realization came to me. The conversation began after my class had been ...
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A few months ago Education Week published an article titled “Why Ed Tech Is Not Transforming How Teachers Teach.” The subtitle was “Student-centered, ...
We live in a culturally diverse world, which means that, whether or not you have a culturally diverse classroom, cultural sensitivity is important if ...
Although there are four components of the language arts, it seems we give the most attention to reading and writing. But listening and speaking are eq ...
What comes to mind when you hear the word science? Do you think of topics like chemistry and physics? Do you imagine people in white coats doing myste ...
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Most kids are naturally chatty. Humans, after all, are social beings. But when you’re doing your best to engage a class and hear the unmistakable soun ...
Many years ago I was at an event held at a university and, as I’m prone to do, I was listening in on conversations around me. (You can learn so much t ...
“Easily one of the saddest circumstances that educators deal with is helping students who have or are dealing with trauma.” These are the words ...
In the early childhood world there has been a lot of talk and concern expressed about the “pushdown” of academics into kindergarten and even preschool ...
The school year is underway. The getting-to-know-you period has ended and things are beginning to settle down. But now is also the time when some ne ...
Many years ago a man I know, whose family spoke only Polish, entered school on his first day of first grade unable to speak a word of English. ...
Over the years I’ve conducted multiple interviews and written multiple pieces on the topic of praising kids. Or, more precisely, the perils of ...
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