Regenerative Ed
58 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsA podcast from Grounded Teaching, Regenerative Ed explores how thinking about education as a living system can help all of the humans in this system to grow and thrive...from the ground up.
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Inputs: How to Use Precious Classroom Time to Plan for What's Important. (Alternate title: Inputs: Sickness, Soil, and that FANCY lesson plan.)
January 28, 2020 15:17 - 21 minutes - 15.5 MBThe instagram/pinterest game can be tough and a little misleading about what our role is as educators, and where we can spend our super finite time creating the inputs our students need. In this episode, Sarah opens the conversation of where to start with planning. Spoiler, it doesn't have to do with fancy-looking lesson plans-- it has to do with student output. Sarah shares the connection to this realization with her own health and farming journeys at the beginning, tying it into practical ...
Flies and Yachts: Thoughts for Hopeful Human Teachers
January 19, 2020 23:56 - 22 minutes - 17 MBThis episode might helps us avoid getting sucked up in the past, the future, or the little things that we let steal our presence and our joy. Sarah goes through two specific reflections about this and leaves you with two tips for healing. Show notes: https://www.groundedteaching.com/podcast/episode6
Episode 5: The Wild Opportunity We Have As Teachers
January 10, 2020 17:37 - 35 minutes - 26.9 MBIn this podcast, Sarah asks the question we don't often ask, at least not in formal situations: What is this whole K-12 machine attempting to do, and what should it be doing? What should we be striving for? This podcast provides an analogy and some language that might help you talk about it with your own colleagues, as well as two practical tips at the end to get started making some shifts in your room tomorrow. You have permission to think about the whole thing differently! For show n...
Episode 4: The Other Side of Relationships with Students: Nourishment, Tools, Tillers...and Fungus.
December 10, 2019 00:56 - 23 minutes - 17.8 MBIn this episode, Sarah uses lessons from nature as a way to better understand symbiotic relationships in the classrooms as one way teachers can find impact, nourishment, and a sustainable career (and some teacher tools that might get in the way).
Episode 3: Mr. Rogers's Pause
November 17, 2019 20:58 - 20 minutes - 15.4 MBIn this episode, Sarah explores an idiosyncrasy of one of the kindest modern TV icons, what it has to do with living systems, and how it can directly translate to the classroom with two crystal-clear, high-leverage pausing strategies. Check out the show notes page for all the links!
Episode 2: Those Edges Aren't That Sharp
November 05, 2019 22:50 - 21 minutes - 16.6 MBIn this episode, Sarah looks at naturally occurring phenomenon in nature: edges, and the margins that surrounds them, and explores what an application of this type of thinking might mean for our classrooms.
Episode 1: The Mechanical Mind
November 05, 2019 22:36 - 16 minutes - 11.8 MBIn this episode, Sarah explores the effects of a mechanical mindset in our educational system, and how some slight shifts away from that mechanical mindset might open up possibilities to see our schools as living systems.
Regenerative Ed: The Trailer
November 05, 2019 22:10 - 7 minutes - 5.48 MBThis brief episode shares what regenerative ed is, what the goals for the podcast are, and how Sarah's career as a former classroom teacher (NBCT) and current instructional coach came to meet her background as a community organizer as a land steward for local fashion-- and how the connection of these two systems as living systems might lead new paradigms in education that are holistic and successful for every human in the system.