Heinemann Audiobooks
23 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -Heinemann Audiobooks offer a different way for you to start or continue your professional learning journey, providing the flexibility you need with your busy schedule. Check out sample chapters from our full audiobook offerings!
You can learn more at heinemann.com/audiobooks
Homepage Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Episodes
The First Five by Patrick Harris II
May 15, 2022 20:30 - 4 minutes - 6.84 MBWe all have stories. We all have experiences to share. A memoir with a call-to-action, The First Five affirms the humanity of all teachers. Patrick inspires you to dream big about what you want for yourself, our students, our schools, and our educational system. In The First Five, Patrick brings to light the realities of teaching, especially in the first five years. He immerses you in his world with personal stories that lead to lessons, questions, and exercises to help you reflect on your...
Textured Teaching by Lorena Germán
April 18, 2022 14:00 - 4 minutes - 6.68 MBWith Culturally Sustaining Practice as its foundation, Textured Teaching helps secondary teachers in any school setting stop wondering and guessing how to implement teaching and learning that leads to social justice. Lorena shares her framework for creating a classroom environment that is highly rigorous and engaging, and that reflects the core traits of Textured Teaching: student-driven, community centered, interdisciplinary, experiential, and flexible. Throughout the book, Lorena shares ...
The Civically Engaged Classroom by Mary Ehrenworth, Pablo Wolfe, and Marc Todd
March 30, 2022 15:00 - 3 minutes - 4.18 MBAre your students ready to become the engaged and informed citizens our democracy needs right now? Your classroom can be a place for them to experience what it means to live in community with others, to balance their own interests with those of the group, to challenge themselves to overcome differences, and to ask the questions that help them understand the crux of an issue. Powerful reading and writing is fundamentally linked to civic education. The Civically Engaged Classroom is packed wi...
The Joy of Reading by Donalyn Miller and Terri Lesesne
March 01, 2022 21:00 - 5 minutes - 6.88 MBWhat reading experiences have entertained you, provoked you, taught you, inspired you, helped you to see your own life more clearly, or connected you with others? As teachers, librarians, school administrators, and caregivers who love reading, we know what it feels like to fall into a book and let the world fall away. We have joyous reading memories, and we know how reading can sustain and inspire us. The Joy of Reading is a guide for teachers, librarians, administrators, and families to c...
Comprehension Connections by Tanny McGregor
February 01, 2022 18:30 - 2 minutes - 4.09 MBInferring, questioning, determining importance. It’s not easy to explain these abstract reading strategies to elementary readers, yet knowing how they work and how to use them is an important first step to connecting with texts. Fortunately Tanny McGregor has developed visual, tangible, everyday lessons that make abstract thinking concrete and that can help every child in your classroom make more effective use of reading comprehension strategies. Comprehension Connections is a guide to deve...
Writing Unbound by Thomas Newkirk
January 03, 2022 18:00 - 3 minutes - 4.89 MBIn Writing Unbound, Tom Newkirk argues that as a teaching profession, we shoot ourselves in the foot when it comes to writing. We fail to take advantage of a huge opportunity that is before us. That opportunity is fiction writing. Through 40 in-depth interviews with student writers as well as teachers of writing, Newkirk builds an argument for bringing fiction back into our writing curriculum as a way to strengthen all writing. He addresses the common obstacles and resistance to fiction an...
Start Here, Start Now by Liz Kleinrock
May 28, 2021 15:30 - 4 minutes - 6.85 MBIn the audiobook of "Start Here, Start Now: A Guide to Antibias and Antiracist Work in Your School Community," author and educator Liz Kleinrock guides educators on how to incorporate antibias antiracist (ABAR)work into their schools. Kleinrock conveys how essential ABAR work is in preparing every student for a more equitable future. In addition to providing classroom activities for students and educators to discuss their identities, Kleinrock also advises listeners on how to include caregiv...
En Comunidad by Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera
May 28, 2021 15:29 - 3 minutes - 4.22 MBIn "En Comunidad," teacher-educators Carla España and Luz Yadira Herrera provide guidance in centering the voices and experiences of bilingual Latinx students. By placing emphasis on curriculum's "Texts, Topics, and Translanguaging," España and Herrera convey how bilingual students' experiences shape how they learn and the authors provide ways to help them engage more fully in the work. This audiobook includes bonus material--a reflection podcast from the authors exactly 1-year after the pri...
Risk. Fail. Rise. by M. Colleen Cruz
May 28, 2021 15:26 - 3 minutes - 4.67 MBIn the audiobook "Risk. Fail. Rise.: A Teacher's Guide to Learning from Mistakes," author M. Colleen Cruz incorporates her experiences as an educator and research based on mistakes-making in this wonderful book geared toward helping educators not only learn from their mistakes, but also learn how to utilize their mistakes as effective teaching tools. Cruz explores how not all mistakes all equal and how making mistakes shows students how human educators are too, thereby creating an open, crea...
Between The Commas with Martin Brandt
May 28, 2021 15:25 - 3 minutes - 4.21 MBIn the audiobook "Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers," author Martin Brandt narrates methods of building students' confidence in their essays and conveying their insightful observations. Brandt also provides often humorous but always meaningful anecdotes from his experiences as a teacher, parent, and writer that led him to the relatable techniques that guide his teachings today. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite lis...
Elevating Equity and Justice by Robert Kim
May 28, 2021 15:24 - 5 minutes - 6.87 MBIn the audiobook of "Elevating Equity and Justice: 10 U.S. Supreme Court Cases Every Teacher Should Know", author and civil rights lawyer Robert Kim provides the background and decision of ten U.S. Supreme Court cases that affect how and what educators can teach to their students. This updated version of the book also includes how actions from the current presidential administration and U.S. Supreme Court decisions from June 2020 have affected these cases. After the cases, stay tuned for a b...
In the Moment by Jen Munson
May 28, 2021 15:21 - 4 minutes - 6.6 MBExperienced math educator and researcher Jen Munson guides teachers on how to lead students in mathematics instruction that has everyone in the classroom fully present for new learning opportunities. This author-narrated audiobook also includes bonus audio from two teachers as they practice the challenging yet rewarding methods of In The Moment mathematics practice. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite listening platforms and through library lending apps. Learn more at heinem...
Accessible Mathematics by Steven Leinwand
May 28, 2021 15:19 - 4 minutes - 5.77 MBRaising students’ math achievement doesn’t mean ripping up your planning book and starting over. In Accessible Mathematics Steven Leinwand shows how small shifts in the good teaching you already do can make a big difference in student learning. The print version of this book was first published in 2009 with the aim to make mathematics more accessible for innovative teachers to encourage students' lifelong growth in mathematics. This audiobook is updated and features the author's reflections...
The Curious Classroom by Harvey "Smokey" Daniels
May 28, 2021 15:18 - 4 minutes - 6.77 MBIn "The Curious Classroom," author Harvey "Smokey" Daniels provides the ten structures educators need to inspire curiosity and wonder in their classrooms. The audiobook is updated with more resources to help teachers in their journey in connecting students' wonders to the curriculum and beyond. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite listening platforms and through library lending apps. Learn more at heinemann.com Find Smokey on Twitter @SmokeyLit
The Artful Read-Aloud by Rebecca Bellingham
May 28, 2021 15:15 - 3 minutes - 5.2 MBThe Artful Read-Aloud shows how students can become more engaged through read aloud activities, even students in middle grades. Author Rebecca Bellingham applies her experiences as a performer to teaching to provide techniques and examples that teachers can utilize to enhance the impact of classroom read-alouds. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite listening platforms and through library lending apps. Learn more at heinemann.com Find Rebecca on Twitter @BeckyBellingham and R...
180 Days with Penny Kittle
May 28, 2021 14:38 - 3 minutes - 4.14 MBThis audio companion to "180 Days" shows the glimpse of a year of collaboration between teachers Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle. They explore what it means to plan their lessons strategically, improvising based on their students' needs and relevant current news, and what it means to inspire a lifelong love of literature through engaging reading and writing. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite listening platforms and through library lending apps. Learn more at heinemann.com...
180 Days with Kelly Gallagher
May 28, 2021 14:38 - 2 minutes - 2.74 MBThis audio companion to "180 Days" shows the glimpse of a year of collaboration between teachers Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle. They explore what it means to plan their lessons strategically, improvising based on their students' needs and relevant current news, and what it means to inspire a lifelong love of literature through engaging reading and writing. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite listening platforms and through library lending apps. Learn more at heinemann.com...
180 Days by Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle
May 28, 2021 14:34 - 3 minutes - 4.17 MBThis audio companion to "180 Days" shows the glimpse of a year of collaboration between teachers Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle. They explore what it means to plan their lessons strategically, improvising based on their students' needs and relevant current news, and what it means to inspire a lifelong love of literature through engaging reading and writing. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite listening platforms and through library lending apps. Learn more at heinemann.com...
A Novel Approach by Kate Roberts
May 28, 2021 14:25 - 4 minutes - 6.73 MBIn A Novel Approach, Kate takes a deep dive into the troubles and triumphs of both whole-class novels and independent reading and arrives at a persuasive conclusion: we can find a student-centered, balanced approach to teaching reading. Kate offers a practical framework for creating units that join both teaching methods together. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite listening platforms and through library lending apps. Learn more at heinemann.com Follow Kate on Twitter @Teac...
Motivated by Ilana Horn
May 28, 2021 14:21 - 3 minutes - 5.05 MBDo your math students offer one- or two-word responses in class? Participating in math class feels socially risky to students. Staying silent often feels safer. In Motivated, Ilana shows why certain teaching strategies create classroom climates where students want to join in. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite listening platforms and through library lending apps. Learn more at Heinemann.com Follow Ilana on Twitter @Ilana_Horn Visit Ilana's website ilanahorn.com
Children Want to Write by Thomas Newkirk and Penny Kittle
May 28, 2021 14:20 - 4 minutes - 6.42 MBChildren Want to Write is a collection of Donald Graves most significant writings paired with video that illuminates his research and his inspiring work with teachers. See the earliest documented use of invented spelling, the earliest attempts to guide young children through a writing process, the earliest conferences. This collection allows you to see this revolutionary shift in writing instruction-with its emphasis on observation, reflection, and approaching children as writers. Edited an...
Being the Change by Sara K. Ahmed
May 28, 2021 14:18 - 4 minutes - 5.77 MBTopics such as race, gender, politics, religion, and sexuality are part of our students’ lives, yet when these subjects are brought up at school teachers often struggle with how to respond. How do we create learning conditions where kids can ask the questions they want to ask, muddle through how to say the things they are thinking, and have tough conversations? How can we be proactive and take steps to engaging in the types of conversations where risk is high but the payoff could be even gre...
We Got This. by Cornelius Minor
May 28, 2021 14:18 - 11 minutes - 16.1 MBWhile challenging the teacher as hero trope, We Got This shows how authentically listening to kids is the closest thing to a superpower that we have. Cornelius Minor identifies tools, attributes, and strategies that can augment our listening, allowing us to make powerful moves toward equity by broadening access to learning for all children. Heinemann audiobooks are available on your favorite listening platforms and through library lending apps. Learn more at Heinemann.com! Follow Cornelius o...