Summer 2022
Summer 2022
What we've been doing and what we have planned for the fall
We’re Back! 🎧
Our new season launches on August 3 with an adjusted format, revised logo, and new slogan. Follow us on social media and subscribe to our podcast on your favorite podcast player to ensure that you don’t miss any updates!
Our Goals For the Coming Season
Our podcast season will run with eight episodes in the fall and eight episodes starting in January. We have goals for both the podcast and our blogs here at Substack.
Goal 1: More classroom application for our teacher-listeners
Every other week we will publish a blog post that extends ideas presented in the previous week’s podcast. While the podcast will continue to be for all listeners, our blog posts will focus on teachers and applying media in classroom instruction.
Goal 2: More variety in the genres discussed to reach all of our listeners
As teachers, we have always tried to branch out and teach our students more than just the established canon. We feel that this is important with our podcast as well. While we will usually fault to our own interests, we plan to keep pushing each other to try new genres and voices.
Goal 3: More written content for our teacher-subscribers
We are starting with blog posts every other week and a seasonal newsletter to let you know what is coming up next, but we’re keeping the door open to other opportunities to share our teaching experience with listeners and readers. We also want to know what you are interested in hearing from us.
The Media We’re Enjoying 🎧📚
Sarah
Stranger Things (Season 4): I don’t like horror and I’m not a huge fan of science fiction, but I’ve enjoyed Stranger Things since the second or third episode of the first season, and this past season was so good. The character development continues to be top notch and the story is fully developed to create a near-perfect arch. Even more, this Shakespeare lover enjoys hearing that the fifth (and most likely final) season will complete that story arch for those of us paying attention.
Beautiful Little Fools by Jillian Cantor - To be honest, I don’t love The Great Gatsby. In fact, I had never read it before Alicia and I taught it together. But this novel, through the eyes of the women in the story, written during our own pandemic, takes point-of-view and turns the original novel on its head. I loved this book and flew through the audio (with different voices for each of the women in the novel) in three days.
Now What: How to Move Forward When We’re Divided (About Basically Everything): Sarah Stewart Holland and Beth Silvers’ second book is what everyone who wants to heal divisions needs to read right now. It doesn’t ask us to put aside our convictions but challenges us to work with others and find the common thread in our convictions to make lasting change. As always, they challenge readers and listeners to focus on their role as citizens, not just individuals.
Alicia
Delilah Green Doesn’t Care, by Ashley Herring Blake - This is the best kind of queer romantic fiction to warm your heart and entertain your brain! As the author says in her note at the end of the book, this is the story she wrote to get her through Covid. Hopeful and optimistic and strangely powerful as Delilah Green processes the hardships of coming home and knowing yourself.
The Girl from the Sea, by Molly Knox Ostertag - I’m always up for a good graphic novel. It’s a quick and easy read, and it engages my reader brain in a different way than a traditional book of text. This story doesn’t disappoint, as it combines selkie mythology and first queer summer love.
Only Murders in the Building (Season 2) - I’m still in love with this cast. I’m still looking forward to every new episode drop. And I still have no clue how this story is going to end. Check it out on Hulu now!
Teacher Pay Teacher 💻🏫
We plan to start sharing our TPT stores with readers. If you use TPT, please consider following each of us and look for special notices in blog posts this fall.
What Is Coming Up Next?
Keep following us on Instagram for announcements that come up during the month of August as we plan for an exciting third season.