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Hands Down, Speak Out: Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math
Math coach, Kassia Omohundro Wedekind and literacy coach, Christy Hermann Thompson, have spent years comparing notes on how to build effective classroom communities across the content areas. How, they wondered, can we lay the groundwork for classroom conversations that are less teacher-directed and more conducive to student-to-student dialogue?

Their answers start with Hands-Down Conversations, an innovative discourse structure in which students' ideas and voices take the lead while teachers focus on listening and facilitating. In addition to classrom stories and examples, Christy and Kassia provide 28 micro-lessons designed to help K-5 students develop and excercise their speaking and listening muscles.

Inside Hands Down, Speak Out you'll learn how to:

  • Build talk communities that are accessible to everyone, especially those whose voices are often traditionally left out of classroom discourse.
  • Analyze classroom conversations in order to plan next steps for developing the classroom talk community
  • Plan and facilitate three types of conversations across literacy and math

Christy and Kassia believe that the development of dialogue skills is worth the investment of time not only becuase it has the power to deepen our understanding of literacy and mathematics, but also to deepen our understanding of ourselves, our communities, and the world. 

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Hands Down, Speak Out: Listening and Talking Across Literacy and Math
Math coach, Kassia Omohundro Wedekind and literacy coach, Christy Hermann Thompson, have spent years comparing notes on how to build effective classroom communities across the content areas. How, they wondered, can we lay the groundwork for classroom conversations that are less teacher-directed and more conducive to student-to-student dialogue?

Their answers start with Hands-Down Conversations, an innovative discourse structure in which students' ideas and voices take the lead while teachers focus on listening and facilitating. In addition to classrom stories and examples, Christy and Kassia provide 28 micro-lessons designed to help K-5 students develop and excercise their speaking and listening muscles.

Inside Hands Down, Speak Out you'll learn how to:

  • Build talk communities that are accessible to everyone, especially those whose voices are often traditionally left out of classroom discourse.
  • Analyze classroom conversations in order to plan next steps for developing the classroom talk community
  • Plan and facilitate three types of conversations across literacy and math

Christy and Kassia believe that the development of dialogue skills is worth the investment of time not only becuase it has the power to deepen our understanding of literacy and mathematics, but also to deepen our understanding of ourselves, our communities, and the world. 

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Overview

Math coach, Kassia Omohundro Wedekind and literacy coach, Christy Hermann Thompson, have spent years comparing notes on how to build effective classroom communities across the content areas. How, they wondered, can we lay the groundwork for classroom conversations that are less teacher-directed and more conducive to student-to-student dialogue?

Their answers start with Hands-Down Conversations, an innovative discourse structure in which students' ideas and voices take the lead while teachers focus on listening and facilitating. In addition to classrom stories and examples, Christy and Kassia provide 28 micro-lessons designed to help K-5 students develop and excercise their speaking and listening muscles.

Inside Hands Down, Speak Out you'll learn how to:

  • Build talk communities that are accessible to everyone, especially those whose voices are often traditionally left out of classroom discourse.
  • Analyze classroom conversations in order to plan next steps for developing the classroom talk community
  • Plan and facilitate three types of conversations across literacy and math

Christy and Kassia believe that the development of dialogue skills is worth the investment of time not only becuase it has the power to deepen our understanding of literacy and mathematics, but also to deepen our understanding of ourselves, our communities, and the world. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781625312693
Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
Publication date: 05/29/2020
Pages: 248
Sales rank: 1,045,134
Product dimensions: 7.90(w) x 9.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range: 5 - 10 Years

About the Author

Kassia Omohundro Wedekind spent many wonderful years as a classroom teacher and math coach in Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia and now splits her time between being an independent math coach and an editor at Stenhouse Publishers. Her favorite days are spent in classrooms learning from the many ways children talk, listen and negotiate meaning together.

Christy Hermann Thompson is a Literacy Coach in Fairfax County Public Schools in Virginia. She has spent her teaching and coaching career particularly focused on listening to and learning from the talk of our youngest students.

Table of Contents

Foreword Peter H. Johnston xi

Acknowledgments xiv

Section I A Brief Introduction to Hands-Down Conversations, the Authors, and Coconuts 1

Chapter 1 Hands-Down Conversations: The Why 7

Chapter 2 Becoming a Hands-Down Teacher 20

Chapter 3 Facilitating the Hands-Down Conversation 29

Section II Orienting Students to Dialogue: The Micro-lessons 40

Chapter 4 Jumping In 50

Chapter 5 Talking About Our Ideas 78

Chapter 6 Listening and Linking Ideas 94

Chapter 7 Growing Ideas Together 112

Section III Exploring the Crossover: Conversations in Literacy and Math Classrooms 132

Chapter 8 Nurturing Disagreement 136

Chapter 9 Developing Theories Together 156

Chapter 10 Engaging with the World 181

Parting Thoughts 212

Appendix A If You Notice … Try …: A Complete List of Dialogue Micro-lessons 213

Appendix B Conversation Map Template 219

Appendix C Sample Social and Classroom Community Topics 220

Professional Resources and References 221

Children's Literature References 226

Index 227

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