The Book Love Foundation Podcast

Welcome to Episode 8 of The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.

Episode 8 Show notes

This episode is Part 1 of a two-part conversation Penny had recently with Donalyn Miller.

Thank you for listening to this episode of the Book Love Foundation podcast. The Book Love Foundation is a non-profit 501 3(c) dedicated to putting books in the hands of teachers dedicated to nurturing the individual reading lives of their middle and high school students. We have given away $100,000 in three years and are currently reviewing 140 applications for 2016. We wish we had money to give to every one of these deserving teachers. If you can help us in that mission, visit booklovefoundation.org and make a donation. 100% of what you give goes to books.

– Penny

RESOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

Books:

The Book Whisperer, by Donalyn Miller

Reading in the Wild, by Donalyn Miller

On Twitter:

@donalynbooks

co-host of #titletalk with Colby Sharp

co-host of Best Practices Roots (#bproots) with Teri Lesesne

founder of #bookaday

Donalyn is also the co-founder of the Nerdy Book Club.

Other:

Scholastic Book Fairs, where Donalyn is Manager of Independent Reading Outreach

Little Free Libraries

Book Buzz

Book Riot

BOOK TALK

Here are the books from this episode s book talk, courtesy of Donalyn Miller:

Reading without nonsense, by Frank Smith

Unidentified Suburban Object, by Mike Jung

The We Need Diverse Books Movement.

Dumplin’, by Julie Murphy

Side Effects Vary, by Julie Murphy

Rad American Women A to Z, by Kate Schatz

Drowned City, by Don Brown

The Great American Dust Bowl, by Don Brown

(Yes, this same book talk appeared in Episode #3.)

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Welcome to the very first episode of The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.

Episode 1 Show notes

You can learn more about the Book Love Foundation at Booklovefoundation.org, where you can also make a donation. 100% of the money you give to the Book Love Foundation puts books into classrooms. We ve given away $100,000 in three years, but the need is far greater. Help us reach more young people with the power of reading.

Book Love Foundation awards are given to teachers like you. If you re listening to this show, you re already committed to kids and the power of reading. You can apply for a Book Love Foundation grant by visiting booklovefoundation.org. Applications for 2016 are due March 1st.

CONVERSATION SEGMENT
Allison Marchetti teaches high school English in Richmond, VA. She is the co-author of Writing with Mentors: How to Reach Every Writer in the Room Using Relevant, Engaging Mentor Texts (Heinemann 2015) and co-founder of the blog Moving Writers with Rebekah O’Dell. You can connect with Allison on Twitter @allisonmarchett or at movingwriters.org.

Laura Tracy Baisden is a 26-year veteran teacher, serving as Language Arts Department Chair at Logan High School in Logan, West Virginia. She teaches Honors 9, English 12 College Readiness, and Creative Writing. She is a former co-director of Marshall University Writing Project, and director of the rural satellite, Coalfield Writers. She can be reached at [email protected]

Tracy is also a National Writing Program teacher.

Lori Lebel has earned a dual Bachelor s Degree from Syracuse University and a Master s Degree from the University at Albany. She has been teaching English Language Arts with the Schenectady City School District for sixteen years. For the past six years she has been the English Language Arts teacher and Team Leader for the Schenectady Smart Scholars Early College High School Program. Additionally, she was the sole recipient of the 2015 New York State English Council Dr. Ruth E. Everett Award for promoting teaching as a profession. Lori can be reached via email at: [email protected]

Lori mentioned talking with Penny at NCTE. Read more about NCTE and the NCTE16 here.

BOOK TALK

Here are the books from this episode s book talk (courtesy of the students who visit Brian Kelley s classroom library)

Butter, by Erin Jade Lange
The Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy, by Laini Taylor
Coldest Girl in Cold Town, by Holly Black
Anything from Jandy Nelson. Brian says a lot of his kids are reading The Sky is Everywhere.
Crank, by Ellen Hopkins. This is the first of a 10-book series.
The Crossover, by Kwame Alexander

Brian Kelley teaches 8th-grade creative writing at Charles F. Patton Middle School in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. He is a co-director of the Pennsylvania Writing & Literature Project. You can email him at [email protected], connect with him on Twitter @_briank_ , or follo...

Welcome to The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.

In this episode, Part 1 of Penny’s conversation with John Irving.

This conversation was recorded as part of the 2017 Book Love Foundation Summer Book Club. The 2018 Summer Book Club is coming up soon. Visit the Book Love Foundation web site to learn more.

Season 2 Ep 11 Show notes

This episode is Part 1 of a three-part conversation Penny had recently with John Irving.

From Irving’s web site:

John Irving, the modern American novelist, has written thirteen novels over the course of his prolific career, nine of which have been international bestsellers. The World According to Garp, which won the National Book Award in 1980, was John Irving s fourth novel and his first international bestseller.

Worldwide, the Irving novel most often called an American classic is A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989) the portrayal of an enduring friendship at the time when the Vietnam War had its most divisive effect on the United States.

Thank you for listening to this episode of the Book Love Foundation podcast. The Book Love Foundation is a non-profit 501 3(c) dedicated to putting books in the hands of teachers dedicated to nurturing the individual reading lives of their middle and high school students. In the past five years, we have awarded $223,000. If you can help us in our mission, visit booklovefoundation.org and make a donation. 100% of what you give goes to books.

– Penny

What Penny is Reading

If your students like high action fantasy books that connect strongly to character, like the Hunger Games and the Maze Runner, check out The Arc of Scythe series, by Neil Shusterman. Thunderhead, Volume 2, is now available.

Also, The Dorothy Must Die series, by Danielle Paige lets students revisit Oz in a whole new way.

Thank you to our sponsor

Support for the Book Love Foundation Podcast comes from Booksource.

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Welcome to Episode 6 of The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.

Episode 6 Show notes

We re going to talk about leadership in teaching, but maybe not in the way you think.

In the words of Sadie Nardini, Becoming a master takes stubbornness, dedication, and focus. And it starts right now. Transformation was, is, and always will be a DIY–a do-it-yourself process.

I was struck by how much that mirrors teacher professional development. We can t wait for someone else to develop us–we are in charge of how we grow. Teaching is always a draft–always an approximation–but just like with the young writers we teach, we want each draft to show evidence of revision and improvement.

After 31 years of teaching, I m always hoping next year I will be a better teacher–next week, even.

As Lolly Daskal, President and CEO of Lead from Within says, Leading is about striving to become better than we are, and helping everything and everyone around us to become better too.

And in this episode, we explore what that means for teachers.

If you want to know more about the Book Love Foundation, please visit booklovefoundation.org. We are currently reading applications and struggling to decide which classrooms we will fund this year. We could sure use your help. Any contribution will help us. 100% of donations go to teachers we know will put books into kids hands. Thank you for believing how important that work is.

• Penny

CONVERSATION SEGMENT

The Interviews

Beth Hughes teaches high school English at Massachusetts’ Wakefield Memorial High School. You can find her on Twitter @MsBethHughes, read about her musings on lifelong learning at msbethhughes.org and her passion to reintroduce her students to reading at fortheloveofreading.org, or email her at [email protected].

Rebekah Hess is a high school teacher at Rock Ridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia and is a teacher consultant for the Shenandoah Valley Writing Project. When she isn t teaching English, she is choreographing for the Rock Ridge Performing Arts musical productions. She can be reached on Twitter @MissHessEnglish or through email at [email protected]

Jennifer Brinkmeyer teaches Reading Strategies and English 9 at Iowa City High School and serves as language arts curriculum coordinator for the district. In 2014, she received UChicago s Outstanding Educator Award. She regularly presents at Iowa Council Teachers of English conferences. You can also follow her on Twitter @jjbrinkmeyer and email: [email protected]

Erica Beaton currently teaches history and English at Cedar Springs High School in west Michigan. She blogs at EricaLeeBeaton.com and can be reached on Twitter at @EricaLeeBeaton.

Melissa Sawyer is a high school English teacher at Martin Luther King Jr. Career Campus in Cleveland, Ohio. She can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter at @MelSaw013.

Kevin English currently teaches English at Wayne Memorial High School in southeast Michigan and is a teacher consultant for the Eastern Michigan Writing Project. He can be reached on Twitter at @kevinmenglish or by email at [email protected].

Julie Jarriel is currently in her third year teaching ninth grade English at Wade Hampton High School in Greenville, South Carolina. She can be reached by email at [email protected].
Other Resources

Write Beside Them, by Penny Kittle

Book Love, by Penny Kittle

The Book Whisperer, by Donalyn Miller

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Welcome to Episode 5 of The Book Love Foundation Podcast! And thank you for joining us in this celebration of teaching and the joy of learning.

Episode 5 Show notes

This episode is Part 2 of a two-part conversation Penny had recently with Kylene Beers.

You can listen to Part 1 here.

We hope you enjoyed my conversation with Kylene as much as I did. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Book Love Foundation podcast. If you feel inspired to support this work, please visit booklovefoundation.org where you can donate money we will use to support teachers. You can also meet teachers there who have changed the story of reading for their students with the support of The Book Love Foundation.

– Penny

RESOURCES REFERENCED IN THIS EPISODE

When Kids Can’t Read, What Teachers Can Do, by Kylene Beers.

Notice and Note, by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst

Response and Analysis, by Robert E. Probst

Notice and Note book club page on FB (started by Allison Jackson, a 3rd grade teacher)

The Heinemann Booth Bay Literacy Retreat

The Pacific Coast Literacy Retreat

Reading Nonfiction, by Kylene Beers and Robert E. Probst

Kylene s I am not an H Facebook post

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