The Teacher Roundtable Fall Report Card

Care and Feeding | Slate's parenting show

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Society & Culture, Kids & Family, Parenting

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🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode: Jamilah Lemieux checks in with four of Slate’s Ask a Teacher columnists to see how this very unusual school year is going. Brandon Hersey, Cassy Sarnell, Matthew Dicks, and Amy Scott talk about ways their teaching styles have changed, some unexpected positive outcomes, and ways parents can help teachers help their kids. Slate Plus members get a bonus segment on MADAF each week, and no ads. Sign up now to listen and support our work. Catch Jamilah’s Slate Live show The Kids Are Asleep every Thursday at 7 p.m. PT/10 p.m. ET. Stream it on Slate’s Facebook page or YouTube channel. Join us on Facebook and email us at momanddad@slate.com to ask us new questions, tell us what you thought of today’s show, and give us ideas about what we should talk about in future episodes. Thank you to Brandon Hersey, Cassy Sarnell, Matthew Dicks, and Amy Scott for their insight. Podcast produced by Rosemary Belson and June Thomas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to a special episode of mom and dad are fighting.
0:06.0	For Tuesday, October 20th, the mom and dad are fighting teacher round table fall report
0:11.3	card.
0:12.3	I'm Jameela LaNue, a writer, contributors to Slate's care and feeding parenting column,
0:16.9	host to Slate's The Kids Are a Sleeve, and of course, a host of mom and dad are fighting
0:20.9	Slate's parenting podcast.
0:23.1	Back in July, my co-host Dan Qua asked four teachers to talk candidly about what it's
0:28.4	like to be a teacher facing the great unknown of fall 2020.
0:32.4	Now, we're a few months into the school year.
0:35.0	We decided we should check in with them to see how they're dealing with this unprecedented
0:38.3	semester.
0:39.3	I'm excited to catch up with Cassie Cernel, an early childhood special education teacher
0:44.2	in Albany, New York.
0:45.7	Hi.
0:46.7	Hi, Cassie.
0:47.9	Brandon Hersey, who teaches second grade in federal way, Washington, and is also on the
0:52.9	Seattle School Board.
0:53.9	Good morning, Brandon.
0:54.9	Good morning.
0:55.9	Good morning.
0:56.9	How y'all doing?
0:57.9	Good morning, everybody.
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