Season 4, Episode 15
How to motivate middle schoolers with Kamilah Simpson
In this episode, Susan Lambert is joined by ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp senior product specialist Kamilah Simpson, a former Title 1 middle school intensive reading teacher and instructional coach. Kamilah offers tangible advice on allowing for productive struggle so that ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp can learn through discovery. She also discusses how to teach with complex text and rigor, learning to scaffold, the importance of listening to text, incorporating writing practice, and supporting ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp without over-supporting. Finally, she stresses the importance of motivating middle school ¼â½ÐÊÓƵapp to read by providing texts that they can see themselves and their worlds in.