Episode 82 - Hands-Down Conversations

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Welcome fellow Recovering Traditionalists to Episode 82.  Today we are looking at how to have Hands-Down Conversations.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">How many of you were expected to raise your hand before you spoke in school?  I did.  Even my own kids do now in their classrooms.  I know this not because I’m in class with them but at the dinner table we will be having a conversation and one of them will raise their hand for a turn to speak.  </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">When I was in the classroom, I had students raise their hands to speak because classroom conversations can get out of hand and unruly very quickly.  So I was intrigued when I saw the book</span> <a href= "https://www.stenhouse.com/content/hands-down-speak-out"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Hands Down Speak Out: Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math K-5</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">by Kassia Omohundro Wedekind and Christy Hermann Thompson. Go to buildmathminds.com/82 to get links mentioned in this episode and a discount code for the book.</span></p>