Common Planning Continued 

In this episode, podcast co-hosts Kerri Harding Dias & Christine Gray introduce themselves. Each co-host shares a little of what brought them into teaching, their experiences in and outside of the middle school classroom and more! If you're looking for more information, please visit the  About Us page. 

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Routines are essential to a smoothly running classroom, but it's important to move beyond the behavioral or classroom management-focused routines and think about instructional routines that provide students structures for thinking deeply and discussing content with peers. We'll discuss how we both embrace routines we can adhere to and how we explicitly practice such routines. 

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Referenced in the Episode:

• "The Importance of Routines in Learning" by Elif Buber, Novak Education

• Building Executive Function and Motivation in the Middle Grades: A Universal Design for Learning Approach. Susanne Croasdaile, CAST Publishing, 2023

• Project Zero's Thinking Routines  Harvard Graduate School of Educaiton  

• The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl, Cult of Pedagogy