
Confessions of a PYP Teacher
This podcast is for any teacher who is seeking for ways to enrich the learning in their classroom without breaking the bank. We will explore the simple steps on how to turn the traditional learning experience into one founded on practices of the PYP in 10 to 20 minute episodes. The PYP is part of the International Baccalaureate program, which focuses on developing the whole child by allowing students to create their own meaning from learning. If you’re not a PYP teacher, don’t worry. We’ll be sharing ideas that can be applied to your learning setting, because good practice can be used anywhere. https://thinkchat2020.weebly.com/podcast
Episodes
150 episodes
C150: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Conceptual Understanding
Hi friends, it’s Lu Gerlach from thinkchat, and today is a BIG one.Episode 150. One hundred and fifty episodes. It's the longest episode to date.Can you believe it? Because honestly, I’m sitting here with a c...
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Episode 150
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C149: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Understanding the Role of Conceptual Understanding
Hey friends. Welcome back.It’s been a minute or two since we last connected, but here we are—episode twelve of our specialist and supporting teachers series. And this one? It’s a big one. Today, we’re diving into what I believe is the be...
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Episode 149
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16:27

C148: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: International Mindedness 2.0
Welcome to the eleventh episode of our specialist and supporting teachers series. Today, we are focusing on how we can further explore international mindedness in our practice. This requires some deeper thinking and collaboration to...
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Episode 148
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18:02

C147: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Seeking Ways to Show International Mindedness
Welcome to the tenth episode of our specialist and supporting teachers series. Today, we are focusing on bringing about more international mindedness in your classrooms with authenticity. There are so many possibilities of ex...
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Episode 147
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23:36

C146: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Learner Profile 2.0
Welcome to the ninth episode of our specialist and supporting teachers series. I’m super excited to talk more about the learner profile attributes. This is one of the most underused tools alongside the approaches to learning in the ...
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Episode 145
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7:48

C145: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Leaning into the Learner Profile
Welcome to the eighth episode of our specialist and supporting teachers series. We are going to spend our time unpacking the learner profile in a new way. Oftentimes, the learner profile are reduced as a way to connect with behavior...
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Episode 144
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C144: Specialist and Support Teachers (Challenge): Bring about Agency and Inquiry in our Thinking
Welcome to our seventh episode in our series for specialist and supporting teachers. This has been a passion project that has been frequently delayed with my return to the classroom, a school-wide adventure camp, International day, the IB...
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Episode 144
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18:31

C143: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Inquiry 2.0
Welcome back to our specialist and supporting teachers series! This is our sixthepisode leaning into inquiry for our supporting teachers, particularly the inclusion specialist. In specified roles that support learning an...
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Episode 143
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22:05

C142: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Inspiring Inquiry
Welcome back to our specialist and supporting teachers series! This is our fifth episode zooming into inquiry for you fabulous teachers. In this episode, we will explore how we might infuse more inquiry into our practice thr...
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Episode 142
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27:08

C141: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Agency 2.0
Welcome to the fourth episode of our specialist and supporting teachers series. We are continuing our journey with agency through the lens of the specialist teacher, in particular the librarian. All other specialist and supp...
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Episode 141
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23:21

C140: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Bringing about Agency
Welcome to the third episode in our specialist and supporting teachers series. If you haven’t listened to the series so far, consider going back to the beginning, because we are getting into the nitty gritty about your roles in each part of the...
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Episode 140
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35:54

C139: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Honoring the Unique Role
Welcome to the second episode of my new series to support specialist and supporting teachers. I just want to let you know that in this space you are so valued. The work you do makes the rest of the school more complete. Never ...
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Episode 139
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26:21

C138: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Myths about our Roles
Welcome to our new series about specialist and supporting teachers. I have been thinking a lot about this series over the past couple months, especially during a visit to Le Jardin Academy in Kailua, Oahu, Hawaii. I had a candid cha...
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Episode 138
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20:06

C137 (Book Club): Growing Brain Power, Yes Please! (pg 122-151)
This is the final week of our exploration of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain. We will explore how to build more intellective capacity with Zaretta Hammond. At my age, I feel like this capacity is waning, so I hope to pi...
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Episode 137
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17:35

C136 (Book Club): Reshaping the Academic Mindset (pg 108-120)
I can’t believe that we are almost done with Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond. This book has reaffirmed that some things I am doing are reflective of cultural responsiveness and that there are many ways that...
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Episode 136
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C135 (Book Club): Creating an Alliance with our Learners (pg 88 -107)
Welcome back my friends to another episode of Confessions of a PYP Teacher. This episode speaks directly to my heart and I hope it will resonate with you too. Zaretta Hammond focuses on building deep alliances with our learners in c...
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Episode 135
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26:04

C134 (Book Club): Supporting Culturally Responsive Relationships with our Learners (pg 72-87)
Something I’ve been thinking about has been learner relationships and why they are not the primary focus in many elementary classrooms. Usually within the first month of school, teachers are building systems and routines of how the classr...
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Episode 134
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20:08

C133 (Book Club): Continuing to Become Aware of our Actions (pg 59-69)
In the past episode, we discussed our own role as a culturally responsive teacher and how it shapes our frame of reference when teaching a classroom full of learners from a wide variety of cultural backgrounds, let alone language acquisition, d...
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Episode 133
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24:42

C132 (Book Club): Becoming a Culturally Responsive Educator (pg 52-60)
Welcome to another deep dive into the fabulous book, Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond. This week will be full of insights about ourselves. Are you ready to go deep into your practice? To be hones...
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Episode 132
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24:09

C131 (Book Club): How Culture Effects the Brain (pg 36-51)
Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a PYP Teacher and our exploration of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brian by Zaretta Hammond. I’m not going to lie, this next part of the book makes me feel like a numpty. ...
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Episode 131
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19:37

C130 (Book Club): Understanding the Power of Cultural Roots (pg 21-35)
Welcome back to another episode of Confessions of a PYP Teacher. We are continuing our exploration of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain by Zaretta Hammond. This week, we will examine the influence of culture and shine lig...
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Episode 130
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22:48

C129 (Book Club): From Pedagogy of Poverty to Ready for Rigor (pgs 14- 20)
Welcome back to our book study of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain (CRT) by Zaretta Hammond. As I reviewed my notes for the last episode, I discovered that I missed two key significant ideas that I want to explore before movin...
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Episode 129
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18:20

C128 (Book Club): Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain (pg 1-13)
Welcome my friends to a new book study. I have wrestled with what to talk about next within my podcast series and I kept circling back to Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Cultura...
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Episode 128
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23:36

C127 (Application): Making our Classrooms reflect the PYP journey
Hello, dear educators, and welcome to the final episode of our application series. I'm Lu Gerlach, your host and fellow advocate for empowering young minds through thinkchat. Today, we're embarking on a thrilling journey, exploring how to craft...
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Episode 127
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C126 (Application): Lessons from The Expert Effect
Hidee Ho Neighbor, my name is Lu Gerlach and I’m from thinkchat. Welcome to confession #126! In this episode, we'll be exploring some of the big ideas presented in the inspiring book, 'The Expert Effect' by Zach Rondot and Grayson M...
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Episode 126
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