Chalk Dust

Episode 9: Kaitlyn's Classroom Glow-Up

How coaching can transform student participation and learning

Nov 2 • 

Rebecca Birch

 and 

Nathaniel Swain

20

3

2

33:27

October 2025

Episode 8: Building trust with high expectations

Belonging in the service of learning and growth

Oct 12 • 

Rebecca Birch

 and 

Nathaniel Swain

20

1

39:20

September 2025

Episode 7: How to avoid just teaching yourself

Explicit direct instruction, student participation, and learning that lasts

Sep 21 • 

Rebecca Birch

 and 

Nathaniel Swain

41

5

4

31:25

August 2025

Episode 6: Real-time teaching

Responsive instruction for when we taught it, but they didn't learn it

Aug 31 • 

Rebecca Birch

, 

Nathaniel Swain

, and 

Carl Hendrick

28

4

38:58

Episode 5: Start the Way You Mean to Finish

Entry routines for everyone, with special guest Dr Mark Dowley

Aug 12 • 

Rebecca Birch

 and 

Nathaniel Swain

21

4

4

37:31

July 2025

Episode 4: Check, then Challenge

Brendan Lee shows faded guidance in Mathematics

Jul 20 • 

Rebecca Birch

, 

Nathaniel Swain

, and 

Brendan

36

8

7

34:30

June 2025

Episode 3: Running the Secondary Room

High Structure, High Engagement, High Learning

Jun 16 • 

Rebecca Birch

 and 

Nathaniel Swain

20

3

4

33:41

May 2025

Episode 2: The Art and Science of Phonics Instruction

With special guest, Principal Manisha Gazula of Marsden Road Public School

May 26 • 

Rebecca Birch

 and 

Nathaniel Swain

12

2

6

27:43

Episode 1: From CfU to CfQ

Listen now | Checking for Quality of Student Responses

May 4 • 

Rebecca Birch

 and 

Nathaniel Swain

59

3

6

33:10

March 2025

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Mar 28 • 

Rebecca Birch

 and 

Nathaniel Swain Archive

38

1

2

3:15