Lauren Porosoff's guest appearances

Lauren Porosoff

Functionally Speaking

Lesson: Impossible - An Exploration of Educational Innovation

Elevate School Leadership

Pawan Dhingra

James Fester

Lorraine Connell

Craig Frehlich

Mike Cobb

D.J. Moran

Katelynn Giordano

Daniel Bauer

Eric Jones

Anthony Biglan

Jorge Valenzuela

Shane Lawrence

Kelly Wilson

Charles Williams

Brian O'Connell

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Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to put students’ own values at the center of their learning in order to make school meaningful beyond academic skills. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Lauren Porosoff of Scarsdale, New York.  A transcript is available for this episode. In this episode we discuss: Parents advocating for meaningfulness The three kinds of relevance: personal, practical, cultural Her favorite meaningful units: A Midsummer Night’s Dream &amp; spoken word poetry Addressing three criticisms of making curriculum meaningful: kids need to learn that not everything is about them, there’s no time to get to know students, and young people don’t know what is meaningful to them yet What to do if a teacher wants to change their curriculum Feeling lonely or disempowered while innovating ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Her decision to no longer teach Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian How to get in touch with Lauren    Links: Lauren’s Twitter, Facebook and Website Book: Two-for-One Teaching: Connecting Instruction to Student Values Book: Empower Your Students: Tools to Inspire a Meaningful School Experience Article: “A Midsummer Night’s Gender Diversity” Article: “Why I’ll Never Teach This Powerful Book Again” For more about ACT: The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science    If you want to find out more about what innovative educators are doing around the world, check out www.lessonimpossible.com. And if you like the podcast, please consider rating, reviewing and subscribing or forwarding it to a colleague. You can also follow Lesson: Impossible on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.

Your lesson, should you choose to accept it, is to put students’ own values at the center of their learning in order to make school meaningful beyond academic skills. The special agent assigned to help you with this task is Lauren Porosoff of Scarsdale, New York.  A <a href="https://www.lessonimpossible.com/lauren-porosoff-transcript" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">transcript</a> is available for this episode. In this episode we discuss: <ul><li>Parents advocating for meaningfulness</li> <li>The three kinds of relevance: personal, practical, cultural</li> <li>Her favorite meaningful units: A Midsummer Night’s Dream &amp; spoken word poetry</li> <li>Addressing three criticisms of making curriculum meaningful: kids need to learn that not everything is about them, there’s no time to get to know students, and young people don’t know what is meaningful to them yet</li> <li>What to do if a teacher wants to change their curriculum</li> <li>Feeling lonely or disempowered while innovating</li> <li>ACT: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy</li> <li>Her decision to no longer teach Sherman Alexie’s Absolutely True Diary of A Part-Time Indian</li> <li>How to get in touch with Lauren</li> </ul> Links: <ul><li>Lauren’s <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurenPorosoff" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/empowerforwards" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.empowerforwards.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website</a></li> <li>Book: <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781949539332" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Two-for-One Teaching: Connecting Instruction to Student Values</a></li> <li>Book: <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781945349249" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Empower Your Students: Tools to Inspire a Meaningful School Experience</a></li> <li>Article: “<a href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rethinkingschools.org%2Farchive%2F30_01%2F30-1_porosoff.shtml&amp;sa=D&amp;sntz=1&amp;usg=AFQjCNHi0W4ynVjTiCISd23j7nWI0HoIfQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">A Midsummer Night’s Gender Diversity</a>”</li> <li>Article: “<a href="https://www.tolerance.org/magazine/why-ill-never-teach-this-powerful-book-again" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why I’ll Never Teach This Powerful Book Again</a>”</li> <li>For more about ACT: <a href="https://contextualscience.org/act" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Association for Contextual Behavioral Science</a></li> </ul> If you want to find out more about what innovative educators are doing around the world, check out <a href="http://www.lessonimpossible.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.lessonimpossible.com</a>. And if you like the podcast, please consider <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lesson-impossible/id1479348715" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">rating, reviewing and subscribing</a> or forwarding it to a colleague. You can also follow Lesson: Impossible on <a href="https://twitter.com/avivalevin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/lessonimpossible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a> and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/lessonimpossible/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a>.

Agent Lauren Porosoff (Meaningful Curriculum)

Teach Meaningful: Tools to Design the Curriculum at Your CoreCurriculum that connects with the student will always have a greater impact. In Teach Meaningful, Lauren Porosoff explains in practical terms, how to take your learning plan to the next level. Lauren and I discuss how any classroom can elevate student empowerment by using these simple strategies. Lauren also shares a funny story of her education that got her into teaching and how it helped her become an authority in curriculum design.Teach Meaningful: Tools to Design the Curriculum at Your CoreAssociation For Contextual Behavioral Science@LaurenPorosoff - Twitter#2PencilChat - Twitter#teachmindful - Twitterlauren@empowerforwards.comWebsite - www.empowerforwards.comDr. Dafina-Lazarus Stewart - Twitter

Teach Meaningful: Tools to Design the Curriculum at Your Core Curriculum that connects with the student will always have a greater impact. In Teach Meaningful, Lauren Porosoff explains in practical terms, how to take your learning plan to the next level. Lauren and I discuss how any classroom can elevate student empowerment by using these simple strategies. Lauren also shares a funny story of her education that got her into teaching and how it helped her become an authority in curriculum design. <a href="https://amzn.to/35jA6P6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teach Meaningful: Tools to Design the Curriculum at Your Core</a> <a href="https://contextualscience.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Association For Contextual Behavioral Science</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/LaurenPorosoff" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">@LaurenPorosoff - Twitter</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2PencilChat?src=hashtag_click" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#2PencilChat - Twitter</a><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/teachmindful?src=hashtag_click" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">#teachmindful - Twitter</a> lauren@empowerforwards.com Website - <a href="http://www.empowerforwards.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.empowerforwards.com</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/drdlstewart?lang=en" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr. Dafina-Lazarus Stewart - Twitter</a>

Ep. 6 - Lauren Porosoff - Teach Meaningful

Lauren Porosoff, a junior high school teacher in New York, blends the ACT model into her curriculum.  I always admire people who do something pioneering with the ACT work. She and I talk about how she does it, and she provides resources for weaving ACT into educational scenarios.  Check out her book, Curriculum at Your Core: Meaningful Teaching in the Age of Standards, and her website, Teaching Tolerance.  If you'd like to learn more about her approach, she wrote a neat article, Systems vs. Heaps: Aligning Professional Development with School Values.  She's also giving a workshop on Friday, May 1, 2015 about giving English teachers ideas for designing a values-based curriculum.  It's called The Story Your English Course Tells and you can register for it here.

Lauren Porosoff, a junior high school teacher in New York, blends the ACT model into her curriculum.  I always admire people who do something pioneering with the ACT work. She and I talk about how she does it, and she provides resources for weaving ACT into educational scenarios.  Check out her book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Curriculum-Your-Core-Meaningful-Standards/dp/1475813112/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Curriculum at Your Core: Meaningful Teaching in the Age of Standards</a>, and her website, <a href="http://www.tolerance.org/author/lauren-porosoff" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teaching Tolerance</a>.  If you'd like to learn more about her approach, she wrote a neat article, <a href="http://www.nais.org/Magazines-Newsletters/ISMagazine/Pages/Systems-vs-Heaps.aspx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Systems vs. Heaps: Aligning Professional Development with School Values</a>.  She's also giving a workshop on Friday, May 1, 2015 about giving English teachers ideas for designing a values-based curriculum.  It's called The Story Your English Course Tells and you can register for it <a href="http://www.nysais.org/page.cfm?id=3094&amp;verbose=9555" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>.

Functionally Speaking #10 - Interview with Lauren Porosoff