This is Jennifer Gonzalez, welcoming you to episode 262 of the Cult of Pedagogy podcast.

In this episode, we'll learn three fresh strategies for getting students engaged with texts.

So much of the work we do in school involves reading and interacting with texts.

Books, stories, articles, poems, and textbooks make up a huge part of how we get information into students' heads. This is especially true in English language arts classes,

where literature has always been a staple of course content. And sometimes, in some classes,

with some students, it can get pretty boring, pretty dry. Your students might not be too

terribly excited about the work they're required to do

with texts. That is a problem my guests today want to solve. Brian Stabnick and Susan Barber are

both high school English teachers who have spent the last decade working online to build

community with other English teachers through social media chats and on their blog,

much ado about teaching.

Through that work, they've learned that many ELA teachers struggle to plan lessons that really engage their students.

So they began curating lessons to meet that need.

Earlier this year, they put these lessons into a book, 100% engagement,

33 lessons to promote participation, beat boredom, and deepen learning in the ELA classroom.

In today's episode, they'll share three of the lesson ideas from the book. All three are fun,

low tech, and get students out of their seats and engaging actively with course material.

If you and your students work with texts, I bet you're going to want to try at least one of them in your classroom.

Before we get started, I'd like to thank Solution Tree for sponsoring this episode.

If you follow the show, you know the value in learning from other educators.

That's the basis of solution tree's work. They match schools with experts who help them

implement professional development for teachers and administrators and bring out the very best in

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