Let's Talk, Teacher to Teacher With Dr. Gina Pepin
Education Podcasts
Welcome to the Let’s Talk, Teacher to Teacher podcast. My name is Dr. Gina Pepin - and I am so happy to meet you. I am a mom, teacher, professor, supervisor for teacher candidates, a reading specialist and a whole lot more! I am the 2023-2024 Region 1 Michigan Teacher of the Year - and also served in this role as part of the very first group of Regional Teachers of the Year in 2018-2019. But what I want you to know the most about me is… I have a great passion for early literacy and teacher preparation… and my husband refers to me as an educational nerd… and the thing I am most proud of is of course our children… but my once in a lifetime chance to become a co-author, along with the extremely talented children’s author - Eric Litwin - Together… we wrote: The Power of Joyful Reading: Help Your Young Readers Soar to Success. You can learn more about me - my experiences, how to hire me to speak at your workshops, schools, teacher programs etc… at www.ginapepin.com
Each week I offer you practical make and takes - easy tips along with real life shared stories - so that you can easily create joyful shared reading experiences and other amazing strategies and approaches in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away.
I am here to help you make powerful changes - Let’s do this together.
Location:
United States
Genres:
Education Podcasts
Description:
Welcome to the Let’s Talk, Teacher to Teacher podcast. My name is Dr. Gina Pepin - and I am so happy to meet you. I am a mom, teacher, professor, supervisor for teacher candidates, a reading specialist and a whole lot more! I am the 2023-2024 Region 1 Michigan Teacher of the Year - and also served in this role as part of the very first group of Regional Teachers of the Year in 2018-2019. But what I want you to know the most about me is… I have a great passion for early literacy and teacher preparation… and my husband refers to me as an educational nerd… and the thing I am most proud of is of course our children… but my once in a lifetime chance to become a co-author, along with the extremely talented children’s author - Eric Litwin - Together… we wrote: The Power of Joyful Reading: Help Your Young Readers Soar to Success. You can learn more about me - my experiences, how to hire me to speak at your workshops, schools, teacher programs etc… at www.ginapepin.com Each week I offer you practical make and takes - easy tips along with real life shared stories - so that you can easily create joyful shared reading experiences and other amazing strategies and approaches in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away. I am here to help you make powerful changes - Let’s do this together.
Twitter:
@drginapepin
Language:
English
Email:
drpepin4@gmail.com
Episodes
*New Series: The Truth Be Told "Please, Don’t Underline Your Words in Earwax"
11/2/2023
"Please, Don’t Underline Your Words in Earwax"
This new podcast series stems from my original idea to share practical make and takes - easy tips along with real life shared stories - so that you can easily create joyful experiences in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away. In this series I am excited to talk with you about what is really happening in education right now. I am also going to share with you some of the really funny things students have told me over the course of my career… and sometimes… these interactions change our perspective or direction. So - Grab a cup of coffee and a notebook … I can’t wait to share these stories with you. The Truth Be Told
This episode is all about Student Toolboxes
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Duration:00:09:37
*New Series: The Truth Be Told "Still In a Meeting"
11/1/2023
This new podcast series stems from my original idea to share practical make and takes - easy tips along with real life shared stories - so that you can easily create joyful experiences in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away. In this series I am excited to talk with you about what is really happening in education right now.
I am also going to share with you some of the really funny things students have told me over the course of my career… and sometimes… these interactions change our perspective or direction. So - Grab a cup of coffee and a notebook … I can’t wait to share these stories with you. The Truth Be Told
This episode is about being present for our students.
*Part of the series: The Truth Be Told
Next Up: Please Don’t Underline Your Words in Earwax
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Duration:00:05:59
Start Your Mornings With Family Literacy Time
10/31/2023
Find out some very easy ways families can incorporate reading into a morning routine!
You can learn more about me - my experiences, availability for speaking etc. at www.ginapepin.com
I am excited to share with you practical make and takes - easy tips along with real life shared stories - so that you can easily create joyful shared reading experiences and other amazing strategies and approaches in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away.
Get your free PDF @: https://www.ginapepin.com/blank-1
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Duration:00:08:44
10 Easy Ways to Build Stamina, Joyfully, in Any Learning Space
9/11/2023
10 Easy Ways to Build Stamina, Joyfully, in Any Learning Space
Let’s Talk, Teacher to Teacher about stamina.
Following the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic we see how much our children are struggling. This struggle is all over the news. Our students are highly distracted, very emotional, and most of all - they lack significant stamina to learn effectively. Stamina includes motivation, endurance, and other critical skills for self control that are needed to complete a task without frustration or fatigue. With over 20 years of teaching experience I have honestly begun to refill my own teaching toolbox. Even though I have taught in Title 1 schools and have worked with diverse students for many years I am finding that current student needs are not being met with research and best practices that have been shared before the pandemic. And I continue to talk with many other educators and administrators with the same concerns. So, I want to share with you the tools and practices that I have been using with hopes that you will be able to better meet the needs of your students.
You can download a FREE PDF @ www.ginapepin.com
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Duration:00:25:14
5 Teacher Tips for a Successful School Year!
8/29/2023
Education provides an incredible opportunity to share your passion for teaching and a love of learning. You get to connect authentically with some of the most amazing people on this earth. As we begin this school year I would love to share with you a few of my favorite teaching tips - even though these are designed more so for new teachers… I am hopeful they will provide you resources for deep thought and inspiration. Here's to an amazing new year!
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Duration:00:06:27
10 Easy Ways to Use Songs in Any Learning Environment
3/2/2023
In this podcast you will learn easy tips along with real life shared stories, and make and takes - so that you can easily create joyful shared reading experiences in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away. Learn 10 easy ways to a use songs in any learning space!
You can learn more at www.ginapepin.com.
I am here to help you make powerful changes - Let’s do this together.
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Duration:00:23:41
10 Easy Ways to Use Puppets in Any Learning Space
3/1/2023
In this podcast you will learn easy tips along with real life shared stories, and make and takes - so that you can easily create joyful shared reading experiences in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away. Learn 10 easy ways to a use puppets in any learning space! You can learn more at www.ginapepin.com.
I am here to help you make powerful changes - Let’s do this together.
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Duration:00:15:55
10 Easy Ways to Wiggle in a Learning Environment
3/1/2023
In this podcast you will learn easy tips along with real life shared stories, and make and takes - so that you can easily create joyful shared reading experiences in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away. We all know our students need opportunities to wiggle - learn 10 easy ways to activities that include wiggling in a dynamic learning environment. You can learn more at www.ginapepin.com.
I am here to help you make powerful changes - Let’s do this together.
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Duration:00:22:00
10 Easy Ways to Help Your Students Become More Fluent
3/1/2023
In this podcast I share with you 10 practical make and takes - easy tips along with real life shared stories - so that you can create joyful shared reading experiences in your classroom, daycare centers, and homes right away. You will have all the tools, ideas, and reasons why - so you can easily incorporate ways to help your students become more fluent ! I am here to help you make powerful changes - Let’s do this together. For more information you can also visit www.ginapepin.com.
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Duration:00:18:44
Social Emotional Reading Strategies
12/4/2022
Our classrooms are filled with little people, which means they are filled with big hopes and real fears. Let’s talk about how to help our students overcome their reading fears. Learning to read stirs up a great deal of fear and anxiety in many of our students, and it requires social-emotional skills to overcome them.
Find out more about this at www.ginapepin.com
#JoyfulReadingApproach
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Duration:00:24:15
Combining Play-Based Learning and the Joyful Reading Approach for Powerful Learning Opportunities
11/20/2022
Combining play-based earning and the Joyful Reading Approach for powerful learning opportunities
We know that learning is a deeply human experience. Therefore, effective practices that incorporate joyful play-based learning and collaboration between peers, family members, and loving caregivers and/or adults is key to student success. Learn more about:
for preschools, early elementary classrooms, and daycare centers.
You can find out more about The Joyful Reading Approach @ www.ginapepin.com
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Duration:00:22:14
5 After School Joyful Reading Activities
11/13/2022
Encouraging and supporting a child’s love for reading can be one of the most powerful things parents can do. Providing opportunities for their child, or children, to experience positive and inspiring literacy activities after school is something anyone can easily do!
Check out this blog post by Scholastic: https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/raise-a-reader-blog/reading-activities-kids.html
And FREE PDFs - for a LIMITED time! https://www.ginapepin.com/blank-6
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Duration:00:16:19
Secondary Application - The Joyful Reading Approach
9/20/2022
Even though students may begin with strong early literacy skills - these skills do not automatically develop into complex skills that enable students to read proficiently specialized and sophisticated reading of literacy, science, history, and mathematics because students at the secondary level are still learning to read! Learn practical - fun, engaging, and joyful strategies and activities to incorporate at the secondary level! Check out more at www.ginapepin.com
(perle et al 2005; shanahan 2008 p. 43).
Free PDF 10 Easy Ways to Use the Joyful Reading Approach at the Secondary Level:
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Duration:00:35:07
Learning to Read Should Never Hurt - Take the Frustration Out of Learning to Read!
9/4/2022
We do not need to “sell” books and reading to children. They already love them. We just need to make sure we don’t diminish their natural joy. Children do not automatically stop loving books as they get older…. we destroy the joy of reading by frustrating them.
And because we are always learning to read - it is so important to take the frustration out of reading. Based on the book The Power of Joyful Reading: Help Your Young Readers Soar to Success (Litwin & Pepin, 2020). This episode shares examples of how to help your children and students love books, love reading, and see themselves as readers!
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Duration:00:24:51
Turn Your Classroom Expectations into a Song, Chant and So Much More!
8/21/2022
This podcast is about classroom expectations and how you can turn something as simple as classroom rules into routine, joyful shared reading experiences through songs, chants and so much more!
Let’s turn our classrooms into reading playgrounds—optimal learning environments that invite human interactivity around print and immerse students in books, language, and joyful reading. And believe it or not.. this can include making your classroom expectations joyful and fun to learn and practice!
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Duration:00:32:19
Building Academic Language Through Joyful Reading Experiences
7/28/2022
Connecting academic language and interdisciplinary approaches through joyful shared reading experiences is going to be the most powerful thing you can do for your students.
You may be wondering….. How can I do this, easily and practically?
Let’s talk, Teacher to Teacher.
Because the answer is simple and the way to do this is super easy. Let me tell you more about how to build academic language and interdisciplinary learning through joyful reading experiences.
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Duration:00:29:27
Why The Joyful Reading Approach is Needed Now More Than Ever
7/18/2022
Now more than ever, we must fill our virtual and in-person classrooms with joyful reading experiences. Because of the profound challenges of the pandemic and social distance learning, we need this now more than ever. With the added pressure of ‘catching kids up' - academically- a rapid loss of joy in the classroom surrounds us . However, we have the power to make big changes - joy can be experienced day after day - year after year - and right now it is SO important. Learn more about The Joyful Reading Approach and how you can create joyful shared reading experiences for you and your students.
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Duration:00:16:30