Stellar Teacher Podcast with Sara Marye

Inspired Action is a term I’ve created that, in short, helps your students learn how to change the world. Inspired Action starts by reading a book, but can lead to changes from within the classroom to throughout the community. Let’s be honest, we do not become teachers to teach standards. You are listening to this episode because you are an educator who wants to teach children that they can make a positive impact on those around them and I’m going to tell you how to do just that!

What was your opinion of studying poetry in elementary school? How about in college? Some of our experiences with our own education shapes how we feel about topics that we teach our own students. For the longest time, I thought that because I had a difficult time with poetry in college that I would never be a good poetry teacher.

I think it’s safe to say we all agree that standardized testing is not an accurate measure of our students (or our) abilities. There I said it! Now that that disclaimer is out of the way, I’m here to support you all in any way that I can and since over 96% of you said your state is requiring standardized testing we’re going to make the best of it together!

It often feels like we are teaching strategy after strategy in hopes that students are able to comprehend what they've read. But what happens once they start putting those strategies to use? With an overwhelming amount of post-its and reading responses piling on your desk, the thought of next steps may be daunting.