BIG PICTURE Social Emotional Learning Podcast
128 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 months ago - ★★★★★ - 21 ratingsThis Social Emotional Learning (#SEL) podcast shares actionable wisdom from the global community of inspiring teachers and parents.
Featuring fresh, effective perspectives and practices designed to equally benefit students, teachers, community.
Episodes always include:
• Solution-oriented insights around: emotions, thinking skills, empathy, trust, social justice, and much more
• Research-based
• Experience-validated
• Actionable advice
Especially helpful for, but not limited to, ECE (early childhood education).
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Episodes
Ep. 71 - Growth Mindset for Better Lives, with Mary Cay Ricci
May 26, 2020 18:14 - 27 minutes - 15.7 MBMary Cay Ricci is a life-long educator, having been an elementary and middle school teacher, instructional specialist and central office administrator. She was also an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University Graduate School of Education for 8 years. Mary Cay has been applying Carol Dweck's growth mindset research to classrooms, schools and districts since 2009. Listening to this episode, you'll understand why Mary Cay is a popular keynote speaker and consultant who loves to help admi...
Ep. 70 - Developing Developmental Relationships, with Kent Pekel
May 15, 2020 00:22 - 52 minutes - 29.8 MBIn this episode of the Big Picture Social Emotional Learning Podcast we’re going to learn about the life-altering impact we can enjoy by developing Developmental Relationships. This conversation was with Kent Pekel, the President and CEO of Search Institute, an internationally recognized, not-for-profit organization that, for over 70 years, has been successfully accomplishing something that, unfortunately, is quite uncommon: bringing together research and practice, which Kent refers to as AP...
Ep. 69 - Learning Lifeskills ~ Making Memories
May 08, 2020 22:21 - 12 minutes - 8.56 MBI’ve just come across an article that I’m pretty sure some of you, who are not feeling so “at home” in the role of homeschool teacher, might really appreciate. The article appeared in National Geographic, and its title is, “Forget homeschooling during the pandemic. Focus on LIFESKILLS instead.” The over-arching purpose of the article is to absolve parents of guilt for not being great at replicating school in their home when none have been trained and none have the necessary resources. I’l...
Ep. 68 - Real Conversations with Kids, with Nick Terrones
May 03, 2020 19:28 - 25 minutes - 14.9 MBOur young students and our young children look to us to interpret the world for them … especially during out-of-the-ordinary times like the ones in which we are all living with the Covid-19 pandemic. Young children will not ask for our thoughts or about our feelings, BUT they will be picking up on what we are communicating, even without words … which is why I was so glad to welcome back Nick Terrones to share some of his valuable insights about the importance of communication that honors ch...
Ep. 67 - Rough & Tumble, with Nick Terrones
May 01, 2020 19:26 - 42 minutes - 39.5 MBThere are thousands and thousands of incredible, kind, caring, loving, nurturing, inspired and inspiring early childhood educators … and you, dear listener, may very well be one of them. In this episode, I’ll be introducing you to one of the brightest stars on your noble team: Nick Terrones. Since 2006, Nick has been working with toddlers, and with those lucky kids’ families. I could go on and on, expressing my immeasurable respect for Nick’s wisdom, his clarity of purpose, and his heart...
Ep. 67 - Rough-housing with Little Ones, with Nick Terrones
May 01, 2020 19:26 - 42 minutes - 24.4 MBThere are thousands and thousands of incredible, kind, caring, loving, nurturing, inspired and inspiring early childhood educators … and you, dear listener, may very well be one of them. In this episode, I’ll be introducing you to one of the brightest stars on your noble team: Nick Terrones. Since 2006, Nick has been working with toddlers, and with those lucky kids’ families. I could go on and on, expressing my immeasurable respect for Nick’s wisdom, his clarity of purpose, and his heart...
Ep. 66 - Environmental Sustainability & SEL, with Ruth Wilson, Ph.D.
April 24, 2020 21:14 - 27 minutes - 15.8 MBA major criteria I have for inviting people to share conversation with me on this, the Big Picture Social Emotional Learning podcast, is that they have rich experience and creative insights into an essential dimension of social emotional learning … EVEN if, from the common understanding or point of view, their focus area is not immediately associated with social emotional learning. Hello. My name is Nini White, and I am so glad you’re here to experience the simple, yet uncommon and profound w...
Ep. 65 - Pt. 2: How to Matter MOST to the Kids in Your Care
April 17, 2020 23:22 - 7 minutes - 4.07 MBThis’ll be short, but I can’t NOT emphasize with you one essential suggestion from the book written by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté, upon which I focused in the last episode, and it has to do with strongly establishing ourselves (parents and/or teachers) as the primary attachment relationship for the children in our lives … in our care. I feel the strong need to emphasize this for you because we must not assume, as parents and teachers could assume in the past, that an easy natural bond be...
Ep. 64 - HOW TO Matter MOST to the Kids in Your Care
April 07, 2020 00:50 - 14 minutes - 9.72 MBNOTE: This is a non-commercial podcast. When I recommend or refer to books or other resources, it is done independently and very often without the source's knowledge, and always without monetary exchange. If and when that ever changes, I will be 100% upfront about it. Promise!!! Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers Paperback – August 15, 2006 by Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D. (Author), Gabor Maté MD (Author) 4.7 out of 5 stars 508 ratings https://www.amazo...
Ep. 63 - WHY Kids Need Other Kids
March 30, 2020 01:55 - 15 minutes - 10.8 MBDo you ever get frustrated by the kids in your life (your students / your own offspring or young family members) who aren’t really taking in what you’re consistently trying to teach them about other people’s feelings? About how to get what they want without being obnoxious or breaking rules? About the best way to make friends? About sharing? About pushing? About yelling? About fighting? About everything that you think are the best ways for them to live happy and good lives? I recently read ...
Ep. 62 - Talking with kids about death, with Binny Singh
March 14, 2020 18:01 - 12 minutes - 7 MBMuch as we all wish there was a way to protect our young students from heartache caused by the death of loved ones - relatives, friends, animals … there is no getting away from it: Life happens, and sometimes Life is rough. There are times when we are called upon to evoke our most courageous instincts to find the words and actions that will provide the greatest comfort to the young ones in our care. What I’ve offered here are just a few ideas that, hopefully have started your own ‘wheels’ ...
Ep. 61 - Understand Students' Basic Attachment Patterns, with Rusty May
March 05, 2020 04:12 - 29 minutes - 13.7 MBRusty May is a great example and a true inspiration for educators to understand and connect with all students, which results in more teachable time, more time on task, improved outcomes, including students’ social, emotional and behavioral skills …. all leading … so importantly: to teachers' increased job satisfaction. In this episode, Rusty May shares important insights about Attachment Theory, with specific ways to nurture the development of the students in your class who have different a...
Ep. 60 - Rethinking Kindness, with Wendy Zacuto
February 27, 2020 10:24 - 27 minutes - 15.9 MBWe have a duty to teach children the ways of kindness and thoughtfulness within and throughout all of their actions. In this conversation, Wendy Zacuto deepens and expands the boundaries of what even our youngest students need and deserve to understand about the critical role of kindness in the world, which is in so much need of more kindness, more justice, more equity, more fairness, more compassion, more big picture awareness of the blind spots that we are often surprised to discover we h...
Ep. 59 - Teacher-Friendly & Kid-Friendly TRANSITIONS, with RAE PICA
February 20, 2020 02:34 - 23 minutes - 13.6 MBSince 1980, Rae Pica has been an education consultant specializing in whole child development, children's physical activity, and the mind/body connection. Rae is a former college instructor, and she's the author of 19 books. Rae's experience and insights have been sought out by Sesame Street Research Department, Head Start, Centers for Disease Control, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues, Gymboree, Nike, and state health departments throughout t...
Ep. 58 - Rethinking Sharing, with Cassie Tondreau
February 14, 2020 16:47 - 26 minutes - 15.3 MBChildren’s sharing is definitely a topic that belongs in any conversation about young children's Social Emotional Learning, but sharing is not a Black & White topic for Cassie Tondreau, today’s guest on the Big Picture Social Emotional Learning Podcast. In fact, sharing is SO not a Black & White topic for Cassie, that she describes sharing as a subject that is “murky” and multi-layered in its challenges... and in the many opportunities it provides for everyone to grow and to develop richer ...
Ep. 57 - Empowering Authentic Teaching, with Francis Wardle, Ph.D.
February 07, 2020 23:16 - 26 minutes - 15.1 MBAs an early childhood college instructor, Francis Wardle sees his job as more than just teaching teachers what is best for children. He also sees a big part of his responsibility to teachers of young children as giving them advice, guidance and tools for resisting inappropriate expectations from “the powers that be,” so that teachers can most effectively advocate for what their education AND their direct classroom experience validates as being best for children’s enriched learning environmen...
Ep. 57 - Student SEL Ambassadors
January 31, 2020 21:20 - 21 minutes - 20.1 MBThis episode will be replaced with a better recording very soon. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nini-white/message
Ep. 56 - New Babies & Older Siblings with Deborah Stewart
January 24, 2020 20:46 - 28 minutes - 16.6 MBRecently two dear friends of mine gave birth to their second child, and their first children, who had been the center of their parents’ attention, were having a time with adjusting to their new life with a new family member … one who required a LOT of attention and energy. Why is this topic on the Big Picture Social Emotional Learning Podcast? Because, and I’m sure you know this, social emotional learning and development needs to start wa-a-a-a-y before school age. Looking at things from o...
Ep. 55 - Young Boys Need Men with FRANCIS WARDLE, author of "Oh Boy! Strategies for Teaching Boys in Early Childhood"
January 16, 2020 23:46 - 25 minutes - 14.4 MBIn this our second conversation about his book, Francis deepens our understanding about How & Why the specific needs of young boys in early childhood environments must be appreciated and appropriately addressed. Francis also provides practical advice for bringing men into young boys’ learning environments in ways that fulfill everyone’s “goodness-of-fit” requirements. Francis does not in any way disparage the current quality of most early childhood learning environments, with their emphasis...
Ep. 54 - Strategies for Teaching Boys in Early Childhood with FRANCIS WARDLE
January 10, 2020 20:58 - 26 minutes - 15 MBAs a mother of two sons, the conversation you’re about to listen to is extremely personal for me. If you have sons or work with boys, I hope you’ll find it valuable, and I’d also like to encourage you to read the book upon which we’ll be basing our discussion. The title of the book, OH BOY!, was written by my guest, Francis Wardle, formerly a Head Start Director, a Head Start education manager, an elementary school teacher, an administrator of a national child care company, as well as a dedi...
Ep. 53 - Improve Kids' Thinking Skills to Improve Their SEL
December 25, 2019 03:12 - 9 minutes - 6.45 MBThinking is an on-going, non-stop process for all of us, starting from our earliest ages. As educators, one of our major responsibilities is to awaken students’ awareness about how to expand their thinking processes to achieve more and more constructive outcomes … meta-cognition is an essential key. Please subscribe to this podcast, and LIKE our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BigPictureSocialEmotionaLifeskillsPodcast
Ep. 53 - Metacognition for Improving SEL
December 25, 2019 03:12 - 9 minutes - 8.69 MBThinking is an on-going, non-stop process for all of us, starting from our earliest ages. As educators, one of our major responsibilities is to awaken students’ awareness about how to expand their thinking processes to achieve more and more constructive outcomes … meta-cognition is an essential key. Please subscribe to this podcast, and LIKE our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/BigPictureSocialEmotionaLifeskillsPodcast --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/nini-white/m...
Ep. 52 - "Graceful Receiving"
November 27, 2019 07:25 - 7 minutes - 5.4 MBPretty much all of us appreciate that Mr. Rogers related to young children in ways that were truly, genuinely, unquestionably meaningful to kids. Children’s innate radar for what is True, what is Real was never a stumbling block for Mr. Rogers… because connecting with children, with their hearts, with their spirits was as natural to him as breathing … because, truly, he “saw” each child he met, saw how to BE with each child… how to BE with them so they felt the truth of their own unique sig...
Ep. 52 - Receiving in Respect and Gratitude
November 27, 2019 07:25 - 7 minutes - 7.28 MBPretty much all of us appreciate that Mr. Rogers related to young children in ways that were truly, genuinely, unquestionably meaningful to kids. Children’s innate radar for what is True, what is Real was never a stumbling block for Mr. Rogers… because connecting with children, with their hearts, with their spirits was as natural to him as breathing … because, truly, he “saw” each child he met, saw how to BE with each child… how to BE with them so they felt the truth of their own unique sig...
EP. 51 - Personal Responsibility with JORDAN HARRISON
November 09, 2019 21:38 - 21 minutes - 12.5 MBJordan’s perspective is profoundly respectful of the kids he works with, (even, and perhaps especially, the so-called ‘troublemakers’). The foundational philosophy of Jordan’s approach is that kids, all kids, have everything they need to succeed… within themselves… and he’s just there to help them bring it out from within themselves… which is why our conversation eventually came around to the most powerful motivating engine of all: personal responsibility… which, I hope you’ll agree, is an e...
Ep. 50 - Documentation: Honoring Children’s Hearts and Minds with ANN PELO
November 03, 2019 03:15 - 30 minutes - 17.5 MBDocumentation has been deemed necessary by the profession of early childhood education, which is why I think you'll appreciate ANN PELO's approach to reclaiming the task as one that is rich with potential to name and honor each child’s uniquely lived experiences of joy, grief, angst, curiosity, intelligence, their unique proclivities, and ... you know … the full range … (in addition, of course, to reporting on what each child has done, said, learned and accomplished). Ann shines her brigh...
Ep. 49 - Halloween Preparations for Trauma-Impacted Kids, with KELLY VRCHOTA
October 25, 2019 21:15 - 13 minutes - 7.85 MBThis episode of the BIG PICTURE SOCIAL EMOTIONAL LEARNING Podcast is specifically focused on upcoming Halloween celebrations, and the ways in which teachers and parents can provide thoughtful environments for children who’ve been effected by trauma, which implies that they might be, or will probably be, more sensitive to the intensity of experiences they’ll be encountering around October 31st. Kelly Vrchota is a founding member of the Hope Connections Team, which is on a mission to support ...
Ep. 48 - Journaling WITH Students to Open Lines of Meaningful Communication with BRENDA YOHO
October 22, 2019 16:52 - 23 minutes - 21.8 MBAs we all know, students need to feel safe before they’ll ever be able to get any real advantages from their time at school. Brenda Yoho, our guest educator on this episode of the Big Picture Social Emotional Learning podcast, is a heartfelt proponent of communicating through back-and-forth journal writing as an effective tool for establishing students’ all-important sense of safety, and equally important sense of being seen. Unfortunately, there is a low-level background buzz during our con...
Ep. 48 - Journaling WITH Middle & High Schoolers to Open Lines of Communication: BRENDA YOHO
October 22, 2019 16:52 - 23 minutes - 10.8 MBAs we all know, students need to feel safe before they’ll ever be able to get any real advantages from their time at school. Brenda Yoho, our guest educator on this episode of the Big Picture Social Emotional Learning podcast, is a heartfelt proponent of communicating through back-and-forth journal writing as an effective tool for establishing students’ all-important sense of safety, and equally important sense of being seen. Unfortunately, there is a low-level background buzz during our conv...
EP. 47 - CONNECTION FIRST with Rusty May
October 11, 2019 21:40 - 26 minutes - 15.3 MBRusty May is a practical, deeply passionate educator, and a former basketball coach, committed to helping teachers create connected, caring, working relationships with every student. In this episode, Rusty provides us with unique and highly educated insights for interacting with even the most challenging students that walk into our schools and classrooms. Rusty was the son of a 3-Star General who tended to parent as a 3-Star General, by emphasizing punishments over communication and tho...
Ep. 46 - Constructive CHOICES for Building Belonging
October 06, 2019 21:01 - 9 minutes - 6.2 MBCHOICES ARE GOOD for children because they create a sense of being RESPECTED, and because legitimate choices provide the opportunity for children to move from reactionary impulsiveness to more mindful and considered evaluation of available options that are constructive, which, of course, lights up important - in fact - critical areas of neuronal development that might otherwise not get the exercise needed for their brain’s development. A fundamental theme of this podcast is BUILDING BELONG...
Ep. 45 - A Muslim Woman's Perspective on Life in America
September 26, 2019 19:12 - 40 minutes - 23.1 MBSometimes, when something or someone is markedly different from what we’re used to, our minds automatically jump to conclusions based on something or someone we've previously encountered… or maybe just read about, or just seen on the news or even in a movie … Science explains that automatic response, which we all have - to one degree or another, as the brain’s attempt to maintain a sense of order within the high volume of sensory input all of us encounter every day ~ all day. To put it mil...
Ep. 44 - Gun Violence or Preemptive SEL Solutions
September 17, 2019 18:35 - 13 minutes - 9.18 MBThere are so many ways to build healthy belonging in schools... ways that require little to no formal training in order to implement. This episode suggests just a few of the wide-ranging options available: Therapy dogs in the classroom are dogs specially trained to provide both physical and emotional health benefits for students. According to one study published by the National Institutes of Health(NIH), having a dog present in the classroom promotes a positive mood and provides significa...
Ep. 43 - Community Circle LA with LINDA GLASER
August 29, 2019 15:33 - 20 minutes - 11.6 MBLinda Glaser, a former LAUSD teacher, created Community Circle LA over 7 years ago. Linda is on fire about this program, because it’s proven to be powerfully effective at helping students, TK thru 5th grade, focus on and improve their social interactions, their emotional well being and their life skills development. Her program is uncommonly creative and wide reaching… and it is the most effective approach to creating family engagement that I have yet to learn about. LINDA'S WEBSITE: ...
Ep. 42 - From a student's perspective with ENRIQUE ALVERDE
August 27, 2019 18:39 - 18 minutes - 10.8 MBHigh school junior, Enrique Alverde and I met at a day long community forum which invited attendees to build a collaborative tomorrow by participating in interactive study sessions with the local board of education and also with district leadership. There were a lot of great adults there… educators, parents, coaches, volunteers, and just 3 students… Enrique was one of those 3, and I couldn’t resist the chance to have him share his thoughts and ideas with all of us on this podcast… so I invit...
Ep. 41 - "From Teaching to Thinking" with ANN PELO
August 23, 2019 02:34 - 21 minutes - 12.1 MBAnn Pelo, author of “From Teaching to Thinking,” brings potent energy and waves of intelligent insight to the profession of early childhood education. Get ready to have your assumptions and habits jostled a bit, but with true respect for you and your noble profession as an educator. Ann's publisher, Exchange Press, is offering a 20% off coupon code: FT2T. Go to www.ChildCareExchange.com, then go to the PRODUCTS pulldown menu, and you’ll see several books being offered. Just click on Ann’s...
Ep. 40 - GPS Navigation and SEL
August 21, 2019 16:46 - 7 minutes - 7.13 MBYou and I have internal navigation systems, or at least that’s how we started out in life … but maybe, by now, some of us have lost touch with our natural born guidance systems…. you know … from lack of use … which probably happened because we stopped trusting that our natural born guidance systems could actually steer us in the best directions, in the smartest directions, in the directions most right for our own unique and individual selves. Can we just “BE” around kids … so they can...
Ep. 40 - Internal Navigation and SEL
August 21, 2019 16:46 - 7 minutes - 5.29 MBYou and I have internal navigation systems, or at least that’s how we started out in life … but maybe, by now, some of us have lost touch with our natural born guidance systems…. you know … from lack of use … which probably happened because we stopped trusting that our natural born guidance systems could actually steer us in the best directions, in the smartest directions, in the directions most right for our own unique and individual selves. Can we just “BE” around kids … so they can ju...
Ep. 39 - I, I, Me, Me, Mine Mindset
August 10, 2019 01:46 - 9 minutes - 6.35 MBYoung children are just naturally the center of their own universes, but one of our many responsibilities, as teachers, caregivers and parents, is to expand immature horizons of self-interest. In this episode we make a few suggestions that sincerely hope will help you help the kids in your life grow smoothly through this dimension of their social and emotional development.
NAME CHANGE for this PODCAST
August 08, 2019 02:01 - 1 minute - 845 KBSometimes, even when it's awkward and causes discomfort, change needs to happen for progress to continue at an optimal pace. The newly revised name of this podcast aligns much more appropriately with the intention of this podcast, which is to deepen everyone's perception about the wide-ranging relevance, application, and inclusivity (not to be confused with exclusivity) of social emotional learning. Any questions? Please know that your questions and comments are always welcome.
Ep. 38 - Reading Comprehension & SEL Comprehension
July 30, 2019 03:06 - 12 minutes - 8.79 MBHere's the LINK to everything you need to try out the ideas presented in this episode: BLOG on Kids' Own Wisdom, dated 7.29.19 Even though many so-called “poor readers” can sound out words when they see them in print, they often do not comprehend most of what they’re sounding out. Comprehension, it turns out, is a whole other ‘ball game,’ and it requires at least 2 other layers of enrichment besides the ‘decoding’ skill: LAYER #1: a Continually expanding vocabulary, which needs to be ex...
Ep. 37 - Independent Transfer of Learning
July 20, 2019 20:54 - 7 minutes - 5.14 MBIn addition to remembering what you’ve taught them, do your students actually transfer knowledge into new, related, but distinctly different situations and challenges? Intentionally developing those kinds of skills for your students requires less effort than you might, at first, imagine....
Ep. 36 - "Mean Girls" with LISA McCROHAN, Pt. 2
July 08, 2019 19:46 - 22 minutes - 12.9 MBThis is the second part of my conversation with Lisa McCrohan, a heart-full and highly respected licensed Somatic Experiencing® psychotherapist, integrative coach, educator, author and poet who is dedicated to creating a more compassionate world for all ... one in which "mean girls" receive mindful and constructive guidance from us in the direction of becoming "includers," rather than "excluders."
Ep. 35 - "Mean Girls" with LISA McCROHAN, Pt. 1
July 08, 2019 19:24 - 21 minutes - 12 MBWho among us doesn't have a story to share about mean girls? Either your feelings were hurt by them when you were in school... or you have them in your classroom, or... HORRORS.... you're the parent of one. Any one of those perspectives will be adequate motivation to listen in on this interview with Lisa McCrohan, a heart-full and highly respected licensed Somatic Experiencing® psychotherapist, integrative coach, educator, author and poet. Her practical wisdom goes wide and deep. Enjo...
Ep. 34 - Values & Character Development in ECE
July 07, 2019 23:47 - 9 minutes - 6.35 MBStatistical evidence of declining moral values in our schools is attributed, in part, to the sad fact that many teachers are overwhelmed by the pressure and time demands required to deliver academic content. Focusing on values and character development, most teachers feel, is just one more demand on their time constraints.... ... but one possible solution, one powerful solution in my experience as a teacher with 22 years of teaching experience, is to intersperse age-appropriately chal...
EP. 33 - Coaching for Teachers' PD with LANI MEDNICK
June 26, 2019 21:23 - 30 minutes - 17.5 MBIn this episode, our very special guest educator is Lani Mednick who grew up in a family of well-respected educators in Seattle, WA. She has taught and tutored all grades, TK - 6th, mostly at low-income schools in Denver, San Jose and Oakland. Three years ago, Lani was recruited to be coach and mentor teachers in the early literacy program in the Oakland Unified School District. Her responsibilities have since expanded to include coaching other teacher coaches to create foundational le...
Ep. 32 - 21st Century Teaching Skills
June 18, 2019 00:32 - 14 minutes - 10 MBThe 21st century with its previously unimagined challenges and colossal opportunities is where we've landed, and I’m wondering … has it become apparent to you, yet that those previously unimagined challenges and colossal opportunities are making it absolutely essential for all of us educators to rethink not only WHAT we teach but, far more importantly: HOW we teach. The time is NOW for us to be exercising even our youngest students’ natural born abilities, namely: critical thinking, c...
Ep. 31 - Pt. 2: MISTAKES and the Brain Science of Learning
April 28, 2019 21:54 - 9 minutes - 6.22 MBMistakes happen. There’s no avoiding them. They’re part of the learning process. When we understand the brain science of learning, we can be all the more skillful at using mistakes to increase and accelerate our students’ SOCIAL EMOTIONAL learning for everyone’s advantage.
Ep. 30 - Helicopter Parenting/Teaching vs. Engaged Parenting/Teaching with DEBORAH STEWART
April 22, 2019 19:00 - 24 minutes - 11.4 MBThere are BIG differences, and BIGGER consequences to be considered, when we compare parenting and teaching approaches. Deborah Stewart, a highly respected early childhood educator, has noticed stark effects on young children's behaviors, and development of their potential as competent and confident individuals, when they're been 'helicoptered' most of their young lives.
Ep. 29 - 4 Things Teachers Should NOT Ask Their Students To Do, with Sheila Marshall
April 22, 2019 01:13 - 16 minutes - 9.48 MBThe April 8th, 2019 issue of Education Week, was titled “4 Things Teachers Shouldn't Be Asking Their Students to Do.” Those 4 things were (1) BEING SILENT, (2) SITTING STILL, (3) FORCING APOLOGIES, and having (4) ZERO TOLERANCE FOR FORGETFULNESS. Today's interview is the Sheila Marshall, a First/Second Grade teachers. Sheila addresses a variety of challenges in ways that help her young students grow as engaged, cooperative, empathetic, considerate and mutually respectful learners. Pl...