What Curriculum Rehab is Really Like: Interview with Lannette Story (Part 2) [S6 E203]

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We absolutely love hearing real life stories and examples of how you are implementing Brave New Teaching strategies and tools to make a bigger impact on your students and make your life easier! High school English teacher, Lannette Story, is back with us to walk us through what semester two looks like for her classes after she did a complete curriculum rehab last summer. 

This week, Lannette is sharing how she kicks off second semester with Romeo and Juliet in an engaging and meaningful way, what her Ruta Sepetys unit looks like, and how she wraps up the school year with a Socratic seminar based on the year-long essential question.

If you’ve embarked on a curriculum rehab or have designed your curriculum to be more inquiry based and driven, we’d love to hear from you! Reach out to us on Instagram, send us an email, or leave us a podcast review. We want to hear more stories from you and have you share them on the podcast so feel free to reach out - we are open ears and excited to hear your journeys!

Meet Lannette:

Lannette Story is an English teacher in Illinois. She has taught freshmen through seniors in her 12 years of teaching high school English. She currently teaches freshman and senior general ed level English classes and uses Brave New Teaching concepts and strategies within her classes.

Topics Discussed:

  • How Lannette makes her Romeo and Juliet unit engaging and impactful (hint: it doesn’t involve reading the whole book!) 

  • The importance of integrating big life conversations into our units

  • How she teaches her Ruta Sepetys unit

  • The engaging way she wraps up the year with the year-long essential question

  • How she handles classwork and homework for her students

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