Best Practices in Education
Best Practices in Education with Odyssey School offers professional resources, practical tools, and inspiring conversations for parents, teachers, and administrators who seek the best in education. In each episode we interview Odyssey teachers and others in the field of education who have lived experience to share.
Episodes
57 episodes
Science of Reading in the Classroom - Part 6
Part 6- Putting it All Together with Writing! In this series we have discussed all of the elements of learning to read and building comprehension through knowledge building. We put all this together in our writing!...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 57
•
16:51
Science of Reading in the Classroom - Part 5
Part 5- Project Based Learning and Knowledge BuildingWe know that comprehension is built with knowledge building curriculum. We love building knowledge! One really fun way to build knowledge is through project based learning...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 56
•
8:54
Science of Reading in the Classroom - Part 4
Part 4- Comprehension Through Knowledge Building Curriculum with Equity in Mind! The science of reading has taught us that students build comprehension through knowledge building. We went searching for a knowledge building...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 55
•
9:05
Science of Reading in the Classroom - Part 3
Part 3- Phonics and Intervention with UFLIEvery good science of reading program needs a strong phonics program that is explicit and systematic. It also requires intervention work. In this episode, we discuss how we use UFLI a...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 54
•
16:09
Science of Reading in the Classroom - Part 2
In the second episode in our series on the Science of Reading we discuss assessment. Odyssey moved away from Fountas and Pinnell assessment and adopted Acadience this year! The difference has been amazing! Please enjoy listeni...
•
Season 4
•
Episode 53
•
29:15
Science of Reading in the Classroom - Part 1
Odyssey Elementary Director Robin Skeen takes on a six part series of the science of reading and how it can be applied in the classroom and beyond. Part 1 is an introduction and overview of the program.
•
Season 4
•
Episode 52
•
7:45
AVL Rise - Building Literacy and Reimagining the Classroom
We close out the third season of Best Practices in Education with special guests from AVL Rise, a peer-to-peer literacy and mentorship program based in Asheville, North Carolina, which is funded through OpenDoors Asheville.Program Direc...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 51
•
19:04
Game Design and Curricular Implementation
Guest Host Elijah Allred is back to interview Intermediate teacher, Kylie Hulver. In this episode, Kylie talks about game design and how to create moments of joy and movement in the classroom, while building gross motor skills and mental ...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 50
•
29:27
Training Spiritual Warriors: Secular Pathways to Development in Intermediate Classrooms
Intermediate Director, Kalyan Volpe, returns to the podcast to talk about his "Spiritual Warrior" intermediate program. Volpe defines spiritual cultivation in his classroom as the individual's attunement to their inner landscape and translating...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 49
•
15:58
Sign Language in the Classroom
Kindergarten teacher Samantha Sole shares about her journey to integrate sign language into the kindergarten classroom. Supporting students in using movement to communicate opens up new pathways in the brain for communication and understanding,...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 48
•
12:57
Student Feedback in the HS Classroom
Odyssey High math teacher, Grant Yost, reflects on why he prioritizes getting feedback from his students throughout the semester. He shares the strategies he uses to both elicit honest responses from students, as well as how to set clear bounda...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 47
•
19:44
Settling and Energizing Students
5th and 6th grade teacher, Kylie Hulver, talks about how to successfully settle and energize in the classroom. She uses silence and breath to support students in developing self-regulation. She uses energizers to teach skills that are tra...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 46
•
27:39
Partnerships: Bringing Community Support into the Classroom
Teachers often report feeling unsupported and financially challenged when seeking opportunities for their students. First and second grade teacher, Barbi Brittain, shares how cultivating community support can bring new opportunities to the clas...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 45
•
16:52
Teacher as Trickster in the Classroom
What does it mean to act in the role of teacher as (loving) antagonist? Intermediate Language Arts teacher Elijah Allred answers random questions offered by students. We laugh a lot. And we get into a deep conversation about how when teachers c...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 44
•
21:40
Teaching Reading Comprehension in the Kindergarten Class
Kindergarten teacher, Shirley Rotolo, talks about strategies to increase reading comprehension in students. She explores research based method from a practical standpoint, integrating Orton-Gillingham inspired practices with other strategies to...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 43
•
10:32
The Wonders of Bird Watching
High School Science Teacher Andrew Rabin encourages science teachers of all ages to engage their students in bird watching. An experiential activity that brings core elements of science alive, birdwatching is fun, challenging, rewarding, and ca...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 42
•
17:18
Welcome to Season 3! Let's Talk Learning Paths
Elementary Program Director Robin Skeen talks to us about creating learning paths in the classroom. We'll get a quick how to and learn some resources to get started. A bonus: these paths provide teachers with the opportunity to move smoothly be...
•
Season 3
•
Episode 41
•
14:36
Teaching a Life Cycle Analysis Project in High School Science
Teaching students to become systems thinkers is a priority for high school scienc teacher, Andrew Rabin. In this episode, the last episode of Season Two, Andrew walks us through how to teach a life cycle analysis project in high school, w...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 40
•
17:46
Teaching Cultural Art
Kindergarten teacher, Shirley Rotolo, uses cultural art to support her students in engaging their creativity and passion. She talks about ways to include cultural art during thematic units, creating pottery, visual art, and other 3-D sculptures...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 39
•
15:48
Creating a Positive Learning Environment
High School math teacher Grant Yost shares strategies for how to create a positive learning environment. He encourages fellow teachers to assess their own favorite learning spaces and make changes in the classroom with an eye toward calm, creat...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 38
•
15:44
Navigating the New "Normal"
Speech Language Pathologist and Emotional Intelligence Teacher, Stacey Crowley, makes a case for harnessing the moment to rethink the role education plays in the mental fitness of students and educators. She ties the 21st century skills e...
•
Episode 37
•
26:27
Storytelling for Transformation
Intermediate Program Director Kalyan Volpe shares how storytelling in the classroom builds relationship and promotes transformation. As a teacher who straddles the developmental divide between childhood and pre-teen and teen unfolding, Kalyan d...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 36
•
16:34
Finding Time through Self-Organization
We ask teachers to do so much! In this episode, Intermediate teacher (5-8) and Director, Alex Eren, shares about the organizational systems that save time and energy. Learn to make your classroom more organized, and your processes sleek and sop...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 35
•
13:48
Self-Regulation and Discerning Discipline
Join us on the most recent episode of Best Practices in Education. Elementary Director Craig Deutsch returns to the podcast to share how he uses self-regulation as an energy management strategy in the elementary classroom. According to Craig, h...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 34
•
19:43
Jump, Build, Shout: Multimodal Learning Strategies in the Mathematics Classroom
Intermediate (5-7th) grade teacher, Kylie Hulver, shares her excitement in getting students to move their bodies and engage their spirits as part of the learning process. In Kylie's classroom, students jump, run, sing, or build lego creations t...
•
Season 2
•
Episode 33
•
16:02