Shortcast 213 - Do We Want Students To Be On Pace or Actually Learning?

15/06/2025 15 min

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Episode Synopsis

Toni Rose is joined by Drea Siford to talk about her approach to teaching 4th grade using the MCP model
Show Notes
Listen to the full version of this episode here (https://podcast.modernclassrooms.org/213)
Zearn (https://www.zearn.org)
Eureka Math (https://greatminds.org/math/eurekamath)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers (https://truthforteachers.com/podcast/) podcast, and the episode with Kareem:
3 practices to give you more one-on-one time with students (https://truthforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/modern-classrooms-project/)
Email Drea at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected])
Drea's game board (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L_6StSZxxCWNMzaIb3km6f5i_zLjOof2m84Z23QklYg/edit#slide=id.p)
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