This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to Episode 170 of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast.

In this episode, I'm going to share my suggestions for post-pandemic teaching.

I'm calling this episode no more easy button.

I am nervous about recording this episode because I don't want my metaphor of the easy button to be misinterpreted.

I'm going to be talking about where I think we should be headed in schools with the lessons we've learned from teaching through the COVID-19 pandemic.

I want to make sure that one thing is completely clear. Nothing has been easy about this last year, especially not for teachers.

I repeat several times throughout this piece that I do not think teachers need to be working harder.

What I do think is that we need to approach things differently.

I say it all with more polish later on, so I won't go into detail now. I just figured I would come right out of a gate with this disclaimer because I don't want a single teacher to come away with that message.

You have worked your asses off this year and have gotten very little in return.

I think if some of the changes I propose here had been put in place years ago, it's possible this year wouldn't have been quite so hard.

Okay, before I start, I would like to thank Studio for sponsoring this episode.

Today by Studio is a free add-on to Google Classroom, which allows students to track and plan all of their classwork, with tools that allow students to estimate how much time a task will take and divide larger tasks into smaller ones.

Teachers can also track how each student is handling their workload over time.

This is a valuable tool to share with parents during parent-teacher meetings to help each student plan their work and pace themselves for longer term projects.

Coaching students on being better organized has a direct impact on their grades as well as their long term success, and together we can make a difference.

Today is free for individual teachers. School and district plans come with added features like timetable import, student entered tasks, and LMS integrations.

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Support also comes from Parlay. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have a class discussion where everyone, even the quietest students participated?

Well, it's possible with Parlay. Parlay helps teachers facilitate student-centered, inclusive, and data-driven class discussions.

Through written discussion activities called online roundtables and verbal discussion activities called live roundtables, Parlay helps students develop true agency as they learn to introduce their own unique ideas, ask questions, and build on or challenge the ideas of others.

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