One Lesson at a Time Podcast: Season One with Courtney Pentland

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SLC's podcast One Lesson at a Time: Season One, hosted by school librarian Courtney Pentland, packs inspiration for your library lessons into its in-depth explorations of effective learning experiences for students. These high-energy, fun conversations between Courtney Pentland and her guests bring you into the creative and problem-solving minds of your fellow librarians. Dive in to one of the past episodes by following the links below. Launched in the fall of 2021, One Lesson at a Time is updated in the middle of each month during the school year and available exclusively through School Library Connection.

Episode 09: When Good Lessons Go Bad with Steve Tetreault

Published May 16, 2022

In this episode, Courtney wraps up the first season of One Lesson at a Time with a conversation with next season's host, Dr. Steve Tetreault about, about what happens when good lessons don't go quite as smoothly as planned—and how to be prepared for this eventuality when it comes around.

Episode 08: Using Text Sets to Generate Questions with Katie NcNamara

Published April 15, 2022

In this episode, Courtney chats with California librarian Katie McNamara, who has created a simple but effective lesson to help students craft questions in response to different types of texts, from essays, to social media posts, to photographs—and kickstart deep research projects in the process.

Episode 07: The Soundtrack of History with Erika Long

Published March 15, 2022

Courtney Pentland talks with Nashville school librarian Erika Long about using music to help students learn about the context and perspectives surrounding important historical events. After learning about the civil rights movement in class, Erika's students created a soundtrack to illustrate specific moments of this history.

Episode 06: Students Improving Communities with Dustin Hensley

Published February 15, 2022

Community Improvement in the School Library

Courtney Pentland speaks with Tennessee librarian Dustin Hensley about using Project Based Learning in library instruction and how he inspired his students to both learn about and celebrate their community's history by reinventing its walking tour for visitors.

Episode 05: Bats in the Library with Amanda Jones

Published January 14, 2022

Join Courtney Pentland as she chats with Amanda Jones, a middle school librarian in Louisiana who drew inspiration from a casual conversation with a classroom teacher and crafted a unique learning opportunity for students to meet and interact with a real scientist, collaborate with each other to learn new technology, and get to know a particularly intriguing nocturnal animal.

Episode 04: Building Bloxels Stories with Whitney Howton

Published December 15, 2021

Teaching Narrative Structure with Video Game Design

In this episode, Courtney speaks with Whitney Howton, an Alabama middle school librarian who took on the challenge of learning how to use Boxels, a tool that uses physical blocks to create narrative-based video games. Hear about how Howton and a fellow educator created an ingenious student activity that teaches problem solving skills while simultaneously meeting English/Language Arts standards.

Episode 03: Description Detectives with Fallon Farokhi

Published November 15, 2021

In this episode, Courtney's guest, elementary school librarian Fallon Farokhi, shares a lesson that not only helps further students' writing skills, but enables collaboration between students in different schools. Listen as Courtney and Fallon talk about how students can work together to become Description Detectives—and how this lesson can fit into the fun of any holiday season.

Episode 02: Two Truths and a Lie with Melissa Thom

Published October 15, 2021

In this episode, Courtney Pentland sits down with Connecticut middle school librarian Melissa Thom to learn about how Melissa took the classic game "Two Truths and a Lie," and turned it into a fun and effective lesson to help teach students information literacy.

Episode 01: Launching Peeps with Mandy Peterson

Published September 22, 2021

In this episode, Courtney Pentland chats with librarian Mandy Peterson and learns about a creative STEM lesson involving marshmallow peeps and student-made catapults.

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