If you are listening to this podcast, there’s a good chance you are a motivated educator looking for ways to improve your teaching and the classroom experiences of your students. And often that drive to improve comes with a price tag, one that’s frequently and unfortunately left to the teacher to pay.
My guest today is Dr. Kate Good, and we talk about how she made her vision of flexible seating in her classroom come to life through crowdfunding.
Kate is a Dual Language Immersion instructor and teacher mentor in Portland, Oregon. She opted to teach as a summer job 13 years ago, and since then, her teaching career has led her to classrooms in three states and two countries. Kate and I overlapped in graduate school at UNC Chapel Hill, where in 2018 she completed her PhD in Romance Studies. Kate planned to teach Spanish literature at a college or university. Two years later, though, she found herself in a middle school immersion classroom, populated with heritage speakers.
Today Kate shares how she re-envisioned her post-pandemic classroom seating arrangement, how this change has positively affected her middle school students, and how she managed to raise the money from outside of her school and without dipping into her own personal bank account to make it happen.
Below are links to some of the sites mentioned by Kate in the podcast.
1. DonorsChoose
3. Sit-Stand Desks (Critical: Not the plug in type! Would break too easily with kids playing with them)
4. Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain (Zaretta Hammond)-Protocols for Equity
5. Teaching strategies: Give One, Get One / Philosophical Chairs / Jigsaw / Socratic Seminar (Circle formation) / Numbered Heads Together
If you are listening to this podcast, there’s a good chance you are a motivated educator looking for ways to improve your teaching and the classroom experiences of your students. And often that drive to improve comes with a price tag, one that’s frequently and unfortunately left to the teacher to pay.
My guest today is Dr. Kate Good, and we talk about how she made her vision of flexible seating in her classroom come to life through crowdfunding.
Kate is a Dual Language Immersion instructor and teacher mentor in Portland, Oregon. She opted to teach as a summer job 13 years ago, and since then, her teaching career has led her to classrooms in three states and two countries. Kate and I overlapped in graduate school at UNC Chapel Hill, where in 2018 she completed her PhD in Romance Studies. Kate planned to teach Spanish literature at a college or university. Two years later, though, she found herself in a middle school immersion classroom, populated with heritage speakers.
Today Kate shares how she re-envisioned her post-pandemic classroom seating arrangement, how this change has positively affected her middle school students, and how she managed to raise the money from outside of her school and without dipping into her own personal bank account to make it happen.
Below are links to some of the sites mentioned by Kate in the podcast.
1. DonorsChoose
3. Sit-Stand Desks (Critical: Not the plug in type! Would break too easily with kids playing with them)
4. Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain (Zaretta Hammond)-Protocols for Equity
5. Teaching strategies: Give One, Get One / Philosophical Chairs / Jigsaw / Socratic Seminar (Circle formation) / Numbered Heads Together