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Podcast: Always A Lesson's Empowering Educators Podcast
Episode:

355: Open to Learning with Jennifer Burns
Category: Education
Duration: 00:29:12
Publish Date: 2025-10-27 08:00:00
Description: Listen in as Jennifer Burns tells about the importance of being open to learning, and reflecting on the craft of teaching for all students. Having experience in a variety of different avenues in the teaching profession, Jennifer brings a perspective and a tool in this episode that will help teachers in their upcoming lessons.

Quotables

*All quotes are from the interviewee*
  • "Everywhere you go, there is something to be learned."
  • "Finding the ability to be open and receptive to what others can offer you is the biggest lesson. "
  • “It’s okay to be where you are.”

About Jennifer Burns

Jennifer is a literacy trainer, consultant and author working with schools and districts to help teachers and leaders make reading joyful to teach and learn from the earliest of ages. As teachers, we go through observe, reflect and create cycles in teaching. This applies to daily lesson planning and teacher professional growth. We are learning to observe and take notes better. We are learning to reflect on what our notes mean. And we are learning how to create impactful lessons. That is what Jennifer has created in the book Building Readers From The Playground to Print for the youngest of readers and what she work with schools to do with all readers.

Resources from this Episode:

Building Readers book:https://amzn.to/4kZQuKR

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