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Protect your most valuable resource—your time

Guest(s): Matthew Johnson and Traci Rizzo
Date: 04/24/2024
Run time: 48:49
Season 2, Episode 8

In this episode, host Carol Pelletier Radford welcomes Matthew Johnson and Traci Rizzo. In addition to sharing their teacher stories and classroom strategies, they talk about ways to save teachers' time. Matthew shares some themes from his books Good Grammar and Flash Feedback. Traci also shares her story, "Get Help When You Need It" from Carol's book "When I Started Teaching, I Wish I Had Known..."


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Matthew Johnson

Matthew Johnson is an English teacher from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He is also a husband and father, and over the last decade he has read, thought, and written about how teachers can balance teaching with all of the other important roles they play in their lives. His work has been published by Principal Leadership, Edutopia, ASCD, The National Writing Project, and the National Council of Teachers of English, and his weekly thoughts on how to be a better teacher of writing in less time can be found on his website www.matthewmjohnson.com. When not teaching, reading, or writing, he can often be found in the kitchen, his garden, or out on a run through the gently rolling hills of Southeast Michigan.  


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Traci Rizzo

Traci is in her 26th year of teaching. After beginning her career as a classroom teacher in Hesperia, California, Traci returned to New York where she taught in Glens Falls and Niskayuna, NY. Traci has been a classroom teacher and a literacy specialist over the years. 

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Carol Pelletier Radford

Carol Pelletier Radford is the founder of Mentoring in Action, an organization dedicated to the success of novice teachers and their mentors. She received her doctorate from the Harvard Graduate School of Education where she focused her studies on mentoring and teacher leadership. Carol is an experienced classroom teacher, university education administrator, and certified yoga instructor. She is the author of bestselling Corwin books Mentoring in Action: Guiding, Sharing, and Reflecting With Novice Teachers; The First Years Matter: Becoming an Effective Teacher; Teaching With Light: Ten Lessons for Finding Wisdom, Balance, and Inspiration; and "When I Started Teaching, I Wish I Had Known..." Weekly Wisdom for Beginning Teachers

Visit https://mentoringinaction.com/  to learn more about her books and access free podcasts, videos, and courses. You can find her near the beach in Falmouth, Massachusetts and Venice, Florida.

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