This season we are talking about #FreeJoy! In this episode, we talked about some Free Joy we’ve been having over the past several weeks and then we make a BIG ANNOUNCEMENT about Tracy

Just a quick catch up of what we have been up to! Some new changes! We’re starting a new season! Whooooo hoooooo!

Oops! We recorded this episode a few months ago in April and are only finally publishing it a few months later! In this episode, we celebrate hearing the sounds of our children back on our campuses and welcome special guest Cory Cofer from Telesis Academy who shares his poetry. @AshleyLyMcGrath @MsTracyDo @BtwntheLadies…

Happy 100 Days of School! We decided to record a quick episode just to document what's been going on in the past 100 days of school, because sometime all you have is the memories! We share about our Kindergarten Care & Connect Project - Mailing 10,000 packages and then phase two of the project - virtual author and illustrator visits! We also talk a…

We wanted to do a Thanksgiving Episode to celebrate our gratitude and joy for this year during pandemic thanksgiving. So we invited 30+ educators across RUSD to share their gratitude with us. Our episode turned out to be that - but also ending up also being about loss and acceptance. Happy Thanksgiving! @MsTracyDo @AshleyLyMcGrath…

Our Kindergarten Community of Practice started last December centering around lifting the level of instruction on reading and writing workshop. Since then, KCoP has grown to become a community of support, love, and growth.

Our Final (??) Episode of the 2019-2020 school year is about our time in New York at Teacher’s College Institute on Assessment... just a day before Safer at Home took place - our trip was different than expected! Thank you Tania Soo & Erin Phelan - second grade teachers at Jellick Elementary - for joining us! We are educators in Rowland Unified Sch…

In this parking lot podcast, Tracy and Ashley string together clips from the archives and reflect on the changes in the past few weeks. #ThrowbackThursday

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. Part 2 was our teacher series. And today we have our season finale! Join us in hearing Aiden and Leland, two students, who share their readerly lives. We are educators in Rowland Unified Sch…

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. And now we are in Part 2 - teacher series!! Apologies for the late post!! Ashley is almost in her third trimester of pregnancy and has been slacking on the editing!!Today, Khandy Ly & Michel…

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. And now we are in Part 2 - teacher series!! Today, Kristin Barcinas, 2/3 teacher at Telesis Academy joins us as she shares her readerly life and how that impacts her instruction today. We ar…

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. Ahh!! It’s been a whole month since our last episode! Catch up on what we have been up to! Today, Sarah Opatkiewicz, principal of Shelyn Elementary School (@shelynsharks) joins us as she sha…

Our Fall 2019 series is all about readerly lives and reading identity. Part 1 of the series takes a look into the readerly lives of some of our administrators. Today, John Martinez (@jmartinez727), principal of Rowland Elementary School (and co-host of @betweenthejohns) joins us as he shares his readerly lives and how that impacts his vision today.…

We interrupt our regular series about reading identities to bring you this PARKING LOT PODCAST! Today we are sharing all about our past two Saturdays... Last Saturday we had our Phonics Punch Party! You can hear all the fun and excitement we had with our colleagues punching out our cards for phonics! This past Saturday we attend the 14th Annual Cot…

WHOO HOO! We are SO excited to kickstart our fall series with THREE episodes feature three awesome administrators. Our first special guest is Superintendent of Rowland Unified School District, Dr. Julie Mitchell! Dr. Mitchell shares with us her personal reading journey, her journey with her own children, and her vision for reading now. Our Fall Ser…

School is back in session which means ... we are back too!! We are in our fifth week of school this week and are excited to catch up on beginning of the year shenanigans, relationship building, classroom libraries, and more! WE ALSO DEBUT THE DATE OF OUR PUNCH PARTY! Saturday, Sept 21! Invitations were sent to teachers who are teaching UOS in Phoni…

THIS IS IT! Our SEASON FINALE! We are so grateful for everyone’s love and support. At this moment, we celebrated 100 plays of our first episode and 500 plays in our first season! We have had teachers, coaches, and TOSAs join us in our Summer Series all about learning through Teacher’s College. For our season finale, we bring you “Workshop Learning …

We interrupt our regular series with a snippet called Parking Lot Podcasts! Yes, if you follow us on Twitter (@BtwnTheLadies), you know this is a Twitter joke turned into reality! We just didn’t feel right starting the new school year without wishing everyone a Happy New Year! This will be the #BestYearYet! We are looking forward to another amazing…

Welcome Back! Today is or first day back for staff in Rowland Unified! Our summer series, Candid & Casual Conversations, is about sharing summer learning through Teacher’s College. It’s meant to be a fun, one-take way to share our learning! So grab a cup of coffee or listen to us on your commute! Today’s episode is a #RowShelJel Episode .... all ab…

Our Summer Series, Candid & Casual Conversations Between the Ladies, continues! Each episode is recorded in ONE-TAKE - just educators sitting together and sharing our summer learning from Teacher’s College. So grab a cup of coffee/tea and sit and learn alongside us. In this episode, Raquel Bahena (@rbahena) joins us to share her experience at TC’s …

Thank you so much to everyone who listened to our first episode and who continues to support, engage, listen, and learn with us!! We love connecting with you all and it has been so much fun! Many of you colleagues have been asking us about our week of learning from TC. So we are excited to bring our summer series: Candid/Casual Conversations BTL!! …

Our debut podcast introduces how we came #fullcircle, explores foundational beliefs about classroom libraries (thanks Shanna Schwartz, TCRWP) and gives a sneak peek into our summer series: Candid Conversations BTL.Thank you to @BetweentheJohns for inspiring us and being playful and supportive as we start our podcast journey together. We are educato…