Evolved Educator Podcast
Evolved Educator Podcast
Evolved Educator
Hosted by Michelle, Chanmi, and Jennifer - three teachers with more than 60 years of experience in education. They met more than 20 years ago at an amazing and incredibly diverse school in Chicago -- in fact, there are 47 different native languages spoken within the school’s population. Michelle and Jennifer still teach at that school. Chanmi moved and works as a instructional coach for a district in northern California. The idea for Evolved Educator started because whenever these three friends would meet the conversation always morphed into education best practices, and how to help their students learn. Over the last two decades, there have been big shifts in education. These three teachers talk about what they’ve learned and how fortunate they feel to have experienced the changes in education first hand. The goal of our podcast is to explore topics that will help teachers create an environment for learning, manage student learning, assessment, and planning. We want you to feel part of the Evolved Educator community. We want to learn from you and we hope you learn something from us too. Evolved Educator is fully committed to supporting teachers. Beyond this podcast, we also developed lesson planning software, called SmartPlanner. Teachers love it because it cuts lesson planning time down to just a few minutes. We also offer micro-credentials which are a series of achievements and skill mastery. SOURCES: Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software, EvolvedEducator.com, twitter.com/evolvededucator, instagram.com/evolvededucator, facebook.com/evolvededucator Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
Get a Grip on Small Groups
In this episode, we talk about the importance of small group instruction and how to use small groups to target skills and personalize learning. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
May 7, 2019
14 min
Communication: It's a 2 Part Process
Communication requires skills for speaking and listening. In this episode, we discuss strategies for how to teach students speaking and listening skills for all content areas. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
Apr 30, 2019
11 min
When You Know Better, You Do Better
The future is ambiguous. When we understand what society needs and doesn’t need, teachers know what the students need. In this episode, we discuss how can teachers become responsive to students’ individual needs and what does reflective teaching look like. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
Apr 23, 2019
15 min
How to Make Instruction Effective
The quality of planning can make or break the success of the teacher. Planning drives the interactions between students and teacher, and between students. These conversations are what determines the depth of student learning. Today we discuss the “what, how and now” of instruction. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
Apr 16, 2019
15 min
The Case for Productive Struggle
Struggling is a natural part of the problem-solving process. Student engagement increases in classrooms where the value is placed on the learning process. Today we discuss how to create demanding tasks and then step back to allow students to learn while still supporting students to minimize frustration. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
Apr 9, 2019
12 min
Empowering Students to Ask Questions
People naturally use questioning to help solve problems, think critically, gather information and communicate. In this episode, Michelle, Chanmi, and Jennifer discuss what teachers can to do create lifelong questioners and support students’ curiosity. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
Apr 2, 2019
14 min
Accountable Talk #3: How To Plan
This episode is the third of a three-part series on accountable talk. In parts one and two, we discussed why accountable talk is important and what it looks like from the student’s perspective. Today we’re going to dig into how to make accountable talk happen within the content your teaching in the classroom. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud  
Mar 26, 2019
9 min
Accountable Talk #2: How to Implement It
Even in classrooms where teachers do all the right things…they ask sophisticated questions and provide prompts to guide student thinking, learning is sometimes inhibited. This the second of a three part series. Today we discuss how teachers can set up routines and structures to encourage accountable talk. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
Mar 19, 2019
15 min
Accountable Talk #1: What is it?
We know there’s a strong connection between thinking and speaking. Research tells us students need to spend a lot of time talking. This is the first of a three part series about accountable talk in the classroom. In this episode we discuss what is accountable talk and how it helps students develop their thinking. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
Mar 12, 2019
10 min
How to Plan Opportunities for Students to Be Creative
Find out why creativity is a skill that is future-proof. Creativity is timeless and the need for employees with this skill will always exist. And, yes, creativity can be learned! Listen now to learn How to Plan Opportunities for Students to be Creative. Smartplanner Lesson Planning Software EvolvedEducator.com twitter.com instagram.com facebook.com Hosted by: Michelle Krumholz, Chanmi Chun, Jennifer Bade Produced by: Derrick Michaud
Mar 5, 2019
13 min
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