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Teaching Today is brought to you by The Center for Professional Education of Teachers (CPET) at Teachers College, Columbia University.In conversation with teachers, researchers, and school leaders, we’re dedicated to breaking down the problems, policies, and promising…
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Beyond Translation: Culturally Responsive Teaching, Translanguaging, and Teacher Well-Being (opens the original)
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Recorded fresh off the UNIWELL Conference — a joint gathering of Teachers College, UNESCO, and the UN focused on the global crisis in teacher well-being — host Dr. Roberta Lenger Kang sits down with CPET coaches Dr. Jacqui Stolzer, Dr. Maria Luisa Underwood, and Dr. Kelsey Hammond (former CPET coach, now Learning Scientist at Google) to talk about what they saw, presented, and took home. They dig into why teacher stress is a systems problem, not a personal one, and unpack the connections between
"There's a Word on the Page That's Bothering Me": Understanding Early Reading Struggles (opens the original)
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Why does learning to read come easily for some kids and feel like an invisible wall for others? Dr. Shantell Blake, VP of Education and Outreach at Reading Horizons, joins Dr. Roberta Lenger Kang and Dr. Cristina Compton to unpack the science of reading — starting with personal stories of their own children's early reading struggles. Dr. Blake explains why reading is a taught skill, not a natural one, how word recognition and language comprehension must work together through "structured literacy
Beyond Turn-and-Talk: Building a Classroom Culture of Purposeful Conversation (opens the original)
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Why do some "turn and talk" moments fizzle out or drift off-topic? Dr. Tia Albig, a sixth-grade teacher and model learner, joins hosts Dr. Roberta Lenger Kang and Dr. Cristina Compton to unpack "purposeful talk" — a framework built on four reasons we talk: to build relationships, play with ideas, argue, and report out. Tia shares how naming these purposes for students transforms classroom conversation from chaotic to intentional, why low-stakes talk is the on-ramp to deeper discourse, and how cl
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