Shannon and Mary meet up to start Season 9 of the podcast. They catch up on their summer activities and share their busy back-to-school schedules. They discuss their favorite games and instructional methods from their tutoring practices and review professional learning opportunities they're currently taking.

00:00 Season Catch Up
00:54 Escaping Overscheduling
02:17 Middle School Rhythm
03:40 Home Study Systems
04:22 Resetting With New Students
05:52 Structured Literacy Routines
06:54 Automaticity And Handwriting
11:44 Spell It Out Strategy
15:35 Executive Functioning Course
18:08 Summer Recap And Trips
19:04 Sentence Composing Tools
21:45 Color Coding Grammar
22:24 Weaning Off Supports
22:55 Word Origins Arrives
23:34 First Morphology Lesson
25:02 Scripted Yet Flexible
25:55 Morphology With Younger Kids
26:26 Program Pacing Tips
27:45 Building Teacher Confidence
29:07 Levels And Rollout Plan
29:46 Gamifying With SquishyLAND
31:07 New Game Tweezer
32:51 Executive Function Skills
35:13 Balance Health And Finch
36:44 CERI Class Progress
37:27 Favorite Free Resources
39:07 Season Wrap And Teasers

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES RELEVANT TO THE EPISODE:

1. Spelling Out Orthography
2. Cox Campus Structured Literacy Course
3. Executive Functioning trainings from Sarah Ward
4. Bubble map (Science of the Science)
5. Word Origins
6. SquishyLand *Amazon affiliate link
7. Tweezer game
8. Finch self-care app
9. Reading Universe

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