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K-12 Greatest Hits: Your shortcut to what works in education

BRN | BAM Radio Network

K12 Greatest Hits compiles the most popular conversations on BRN based on listener statistics and editors’ picks. Explore these collection to quickly locate the most compelling and helpful episodes on the topics you care about most. With over 5,000 discussions on BRN, K12 Greatest Hits is your shortcut to some of the best teaching strategies, school leadership practices, and innovative thinking in education — find what works, find it faster.

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10:57

Inside Dolly Parton's Literacy Project

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2010/07/09

Dolly Parton's Literacy initiative is called the Imagination Library project. The program gives a book a month to over 600,000 children from zero until their fifth birthday. Beginning in Tennessee, the program now reaches over 1200 communities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. Tune in and discover how this program is promoting literacy in the 21st century.

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Handling Inappropriate Sexual Behavior in Early...

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2010/07/09

Increasingly early childhood professionals are being confronted with inappropriate sexual behaviors by the children in their care. We're seeing young children mimicking sexual acts, touching each other's body parts and displaying sexual curiosity far beyond their age. What is normal? What is not? What is developmentally appropriate? How should parents and early childhood professionals best handle these behaviors?

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All The Children Are White. So What?

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2010/06/18

What if all the children in your program are white? All the teachers are white? Attracting staff and children of color may seem impossible. What if all the children are black? All the teachers are black? Should attracting teachers and children of other ethnicities be a priority? After 55 years of desegregation, segregated schools are alive and well. At this point does it really matter?

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13:53

Gays In Education: Don't Ask Don't Tell?

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2010/06/06

Gay, lesbian, bisexual and trans-gender educators are with us. Many have never heard this subject discussed openly...until now. Is don't ask, don't tell the education community's unwritten policy on LGBT educators? What should it be? Listen to this thoughtful, provocative and insightful segment, with commentary by Jay Mathews of the Washington Post.

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When Children Fight: Promoting Conflict Resolution...

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2010/06/04

When children fight, should you be a Paris peace negotiator or an Ultimate Fighting Challenge referee? Typically neither teachers nor parents are taught how to manage conflicts between children. Tune in now and get some solid, tested guidance on what to do when children are ready to rumble.

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Change Agents:49 Ways to Get and Keep Control of Your...

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2010/05/16

Doug Lemov went out into the field to discover and thoroughly document what great teachers are doing in the toughest classrooms in the toughest neighborhoods in his community. His findings were distilled down to 49 specific techniques that can help create exceptional learning environments and provide useful insights to administrators, directors, teachers and parents.

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Teaching Conundrum: Touching Children in the...

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2010/04/28

Many teachers fear touching children and many schools have no touch policies. Our guests say that children need to be touched. In fact, they assert that low-touch-teaching retards children's development and creates social dysfunctions that can last a life time. In this segment we'll talk about embracing touching in the classrooms, why it's essential and consider the practical issues and risks. .

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Teaching Strategies: Handling Young Students Who Just...

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2010/04/21

Why won't Johnny just sit still? How can I teach a child who is constantly fidgeting and moving? In this segment our guests examine this problem and share a considerable amount of research challenging the notion that children need to sit still to learn. A new approach is offered along with specific teaching strategies.

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Five keys to Helping Your Daughter Navigate The...

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2010/04/14

Yes, we all survived the sexual revolution and turned out okay. News flash: The sexual landscape for teenagers today is exponentially more dangerous than what most fathers experienced in the 60's and 70s. Meeker shares solid, practical, advice for fathers on everything from helping your daughter set sexual boundaries, helping her delay sexual activity and teaching her how to respect and protect her mind, body and heart.

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Teaching Strategies: Digital Media: Great Teaching...

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2010/04/01

Computers, learning software, gaming, and the use of Internet are tools that are growing in popularity in the early childhood classroom. But is digital media a wonderful asset in early childhood education, a distracting and harmful liability or somewhere between the two. Our distinguished guests offer some perspective.

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11:00

Music Education is Fluff Right? WRONG! Why Music is...

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2010/03/22

Music education is considered fluff and superfluous in many education circles. But noted researcher Eric Jensen explains the connection between music and cognitive development and shows why music is essential to learning.

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Nation of Wimps:How and Why We're Creating...

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2010/03/15

At one extreme there are satellite parents and at the other extreme are helicopter parents. How do we determine the right balance between being too involved in our children's education and development and being not involved enough? Three thoughtful parents and experts share their insights and offer some guidelines.

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11:17

Dealing With The Unspoken Challenges Women Educators...

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2010/03/08

Many of the biggest challenges women leaders in education face are taboo topics that are rarely openly discussed. This segment brings together three distinguished women in a heart to heart conversation about these unspoken challenges and how to deal with them.

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SPECIAL: Fear of Men In Early Childhood Education

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2010/03/01

Whether it's on the quiet or in your face the fear of men in early education is widespread. Yes, it's difficult to quantify and talk about, but It's real. From parents, to administrators the fear of men who work with young children has a significant impact in classrooms and beyond. We brought together a parent, a male educator and an early education attorney to look at the fear and the reality of men in ECE.

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10:12

Street Smart Lesson in Education From Around the World

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2010/02/17

Greg Mortenson has spent almost two decades traveling the world to promote community based education and literacy . Tune in as Greg shares some of the insights he has learned from his travels, with Gail Connelly, Executive Director of the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

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Have I Totally Screwed Up My Kid? Is It Too Late?

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2010/02/12

For many parents and teachers, the more books they read, the more programs they listen to and the more experts they watch, the more things they discover they have failed to do. This often leads to a persistent lingering question: have I totally messed up my kids? This segment provides some much needed answers!

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ROOM FOR DEBATE:Has Spanking Received a Bad Rap?

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2010/02/05

In the shadow of parents and teachers increasingly wrestling with unruly behavior and intractable discipline problems comes a new study that raises questions about current attitudes on spanking. Recent research compared spanked children with non-spanked and, in some important developmental areas, spanked children were better off. So now what?

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ROOM FOR DEBATE:ADHD: Medical Problem? Parenting...

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2010/01/12

Is it possible that ADHD is really the result of poor parenting or misguided teaching? Is ADHD even a legitimate diagnosis, or have we simply "medicalized" what is typical child behavior under specific conditions? The issue is far from settled. Our two guests share very different views and both make a compelling case. Listen, get the facts and decide for yourself.

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3 Things Every Parent and Teacher Needs to Know About...

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2010/01/05

The explanation for the differences in the way boys and girls develop and therefore what should expected of each has changed over the years. Our two experts offer a panoramic view of gender differences and identify the three basic things you need to know to be an effective parent and teacher

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Managing Aggressive Children

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2009/12/29

Kicking, biting, hitting, fighting, why are some children more aggressive than others? In this segment our guests explore the foundations of aggression in children, the causes, the warning signs and specific techniques for preventing and managing aggression from birth to age eight.

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