Today as we look at our data together in our PLCs, I wanted to let you know what our objectives are. Please take a moment to hear what our district plans to do in these powerful meetings every week. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kimberlee-irvine/message ..read more

Utah author Jill Bowers along with Weber School District are excited to bring you the Immortal Writers Writing Contest. Please click here for more information.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kimberlee-irvine/message ..read more

Today we will be exploring our exciting new secondary reading assessments: Common Lit. This brief prep-cast walks you through how to get you and your students up and running with our new reading assessments.  Please feel free to follow along with this "cheat sheet" with screen shots to make things super easy. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PymZAzZ6zqjZ4lmEkNAW8JZhokV39AsWjq8L4UIjP1c/edit?usp=sharing  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kimberlee-irvine/message ..read more

Welcome to a new year! This may be The Most Important Year EVER!! We are excited to roll out our secondary ELA TLCs. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1N5FedspQy8L8k48sZEVOUm3DoQqL_6xRDSb6CHfJsoA/edit?usp=sharing  We will be publishing more ELA "Prep-casts" as the year progresses. Please feel free to explore past episodes. Many are powerful and very relevant--especially now.  Have a wonderful first week!  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kimberlee-irvine/message ..read more

Have you heard about TAP? Teaching as a Profession is a learning path that WSD embraces passionately. It is an opportunity to "grow our own pedagogues" from the ground up. This final episode of our WSD prep-casts will end on a wonderfully positive note as we congratulate and celebrate our TAP teachers and students. Bravo!! Thank you for "growing our own" wonderful, educators the Weber Way!  If you are an adult and would like to leave a positive comment about a TAP teacher or student, please use this link: https://anchor.fm/kimberlee-irvine/message and we will include your comment as ..read more

(This will be a two part series packed with new resources for teaching the Bard!)  Why should a student be interested in the writings of Shakespeare? We have some interesting, powerful guests today--including our own WSD Superintendent-- to discuss the importance and power of Shakespeare in the classroom and even some important points on how NOT to do Shakespeare in the classroom. We are mostly excited about the resource sheet today because it includes the new, exciting strategy of "Story Woosh." Here is a link to our resource sheet: https://bit.ly/3vFJMzd where you will find EVERYTH ..read more

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Welcome! Glad you're here.  Today's focus is about the importance of instructional transparency--letting the students know WHY they are learning something. I have included a link to our resource sheet here and in the email I sent out.  It will ask you to make a copy of the document. I review these resources in the last segment of the Prep-Cast.  Here is a link to the resource sheet: http://bit.ly/3cOHypl --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kimberlee-irvine/message ..read more

Today's focus: quick easy ways to ensure student engagement! These tips and tricks are simple, quick ways to "jazz" up your current assignments to make them IRRESISTABLE for students to ignore!! Promise! Just a few tweaks and you will see more work turned in, better work turned in, and you may even see some surprising, happy "side effects" of authentic engagement.  Please stay tuned after the prep-cast if you are interested in the resources on the Resource Sheet.  Here is a link to our Resource Sheet mentioned throughout the prep-cast.  http://bit.ly/3qYejWs (This link will ..read more

Today we will be exploring our exciting new secondary reading assessments: Common Lit. This brief prep-cast walks you through how to get you and your students up and running with our new reading assessments.  Please feel free to follow along with this "cheat sheet" with screen shots to make things super easy. Here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PymZAzZ6zqjZ4lmEkNAW8JZhokV39AsWjq8L4UIjP1c/edit?usp=sharing  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/kimberlee-irvine/message ..read more