Latest Educationreform Podcast Episodes
AIR ELEMENT Deep Dive: What Can Air Teach Us About Reimagining & Remembering A Thriving Education System?
Regenerative Ed - April 20, 2023 12:41 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday we get into our about deep-dive workshop-in-a-podcast-series! We're tackling the first element in this deep dive series on what Air, Fire, Earth, and Water, and we're asking: What can air teach us about reimagining and remembering the ed system? 00:00 - Introduction - Why We're Doing Thi...
Intro to the ELEMENTS series: What Air, Fire, Earth, and Water Can Teach Us about Re-Modeling the Education System
Regenerative Ed - April 06, 2023 16:23 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday is an introduction to a 4-part deep dive (well, 5 if you count this intro). It’s a workshop-in-a-podcast learning series on the the four elements of air, fire, earth, water, what we can learn from them about creating new systems and structures around education. The goal of digging into...
Teaching Black History All Year + Joy, Picture Books, Teaching Teachers, Kindergarteners, and more.
Regenerative Ed - March 28, 2023 18:39 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday I'm joined by Dawnavyn James whose main message for us as an audience today is TEACH BLACK HISTORY!!! :) Dawnavyn is an early childhood, elementary, and Black History educator. She is a PhD student at the University at Buffalo and a fellow for the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial...
Rebecca Harrison and Mending for a More Regenerative Future
Regenerative Ed - March 06, 2023 20:18 - 55 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWhat does mending have to do with reimagining education? Check out this conversation I had with Rebecca Harrison of Old Flame Mending Company! Rebecca is the person you'd turn to when you rip your absolute most favorite pair of jeans that fit you like a glove and you're having an internal dile...
Episode 52: Twins Talking About Teaching, Trains, Poisons, Place-Based Education, SAT Tests & more
Regenerative Ed - February 28, 2023 22:35 - 42 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday is a special podcast because I’m chatting with Jess, my twin. She’s here and well with a new baby in tow, and I for one am so very very very grateful that she is here and well and that we can continue our chats like we have since the womb (I assume?!). This morning we were chatting about...
Place-Embedded Learning with School Leader and Teacher Rachel Balkcom
Regenerative Ed - February 23, 2023 23:16 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsI felt really privileged to have this conversation with such a light! Rachel is so clearly passionate about her work, and it's contagious. Our conversation discusses the model of place-based--nay, a place-embedded micro-school, La Luz, and the ripple effects that happen when you embed student...
Maja Watkins: Improv for Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom
Regenerative Ed - December 08, 2022 19:37 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsI was thrilled to get the chance to interview classroom teacher, author, founder (and so much more!) Maja Watkins recently! When a colleague said I needed to connect with her, I Googled her up, and there I saw-- for the first time-- "Improv Curriculum" related to social emotional needs. IMPROV C...
A Buffet of Failures (and Feedback)
Regenerative Ed - November 09, 2022 00:21 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFAIL. We all fail. What's it mean? What can we do with it? In a non-toxic-positivity sort of way, there's a lot failure can teach us about...teaching. And in a living-systems sort of view (which is what we do on the podcast and at Grounded Teaching), there's a lot we can learn about feedback sys...
The Industrial Education Complex & Clinging to Rot
Regenerative Ed - October 20, 2022 19:56 - 31 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis week it's just me, talking about some things I hold dear: applying principles and themes of living systems to heal ourselves, our relationships to ourselves as "educators", and to make possible change for our learners by breaking down the barriers of modern western culture (that we might no...
David Bidler: A Compelling Conversation on Why Education Needs to Consider Physiology, First
Regenerative Ed - September 13, 2022 18:58 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsTune into this amazing conversation I have with David Bidler, founder of Physiology First, where we explore the role physiology plays as educators who work, primarily, with the student brain (and, who do THAT, with ... our own brains)! What would happen if we were to put the physiology of the...
Jennifer Lumpkin and Molly Martin: Expanding Democracy and What That Has to Do with Education
Regenerative Ed - August 30, 2022 17:17 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis episode I'm in conversation with Jennifer Lumpkin and Molly Martin, two Cleveland Community Organizing powerhouses. We're talking about the role of expanding democracy and what that has to do with viewing education as a living system. We get deep into the specific structure that they are wo...
Tyler Bastian on Starting a Farm School, Cultivating Belonging, and Spreading how Everything is Incredible
Regenerative Ed - August 11, 2022 13:29 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsI was so excited to get to talk to Tyler Bastian today about so many *incredible* things-- everything from a film he co-created years back. It's titled "Everything is Incredible"-- a theme which actually surfaced so many times in our conversation about education and life in general. I know you'r...
Dr. Ruth Ann Smalley on Teaching, Homeschooling, Healing, and Writing for a Future Based in Care
Regenerative Ed - July 29, 2022 15:59 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsToday we're talking with Dr. Ruth Ann Smalley, a former educator, about teaching, homeschooling, healing, climate change, and writing. Ruth Ann shares her journey and the threads that pull everything together. Our conversation feels really generative and hopeful in the midst of bleak climate ca...
Ian Sanderson: Facilitating Experiences as a Blue Feather Educator
Regenerative Ed - May 18, 2022 18:13 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsEek! I'm thrilled to bring you a conversation I had this week with Ian Sanderson. Ian Sanderson is a member of the Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan, from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory. He is committed to serving people from all backgrounds as they develop and elevate their awareness—of t...
PATTERN RECAP! Twin Talk with Jess
Regenerative Ed - May 12, 2022 13:47 - 27 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis week, a special Twin Talk with Jess (co-founder of Grounded Teaching and HS English teacher AND twin sister to me!) where we briefly review each of the previous pattern podcasts we discussed over this series in a casual, bite-sized conversation. We also answer some frequently asked ques...
Pattern #8 for Biomimicry: Scatter!
Regenerative Ed - May 05, 2022 17:11 - 30 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFind new definitions of success! Detach from outcomes! Ask yourself "what is uniquely mine here to do?"! And then scatter those seeds, ash, glass, lava rock out into the world through an explosive move...or a gentle drop. Your choice! The natural pattern of scattering provides us with so much ...
Pattern #7 for Biomimicry: Nets!
Regenerative Ed - April 24, 2022 20:02 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsCreate (flexible) boundaries! Harvest Nourishment! Broaden instead of bulldoze! How? Nets. Really, Sarah? Yep! The natural patterns of nets provide us with a lot of food for thought for reshaping patterns of linear shots and/or burnout that come from existing in all sorts of industrial models--s...
Pattern #6 for Biomimicry: Lobes!
Regenerative Ed - April 07, 2022 17:51 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsCreate Attraction! Embrace Diversity! Grow Stronger and more Nourished! How? Lobes. I know, it sounds a little weird. But the natural patterns of lobes provide us with a lot of food for thought for reshaping patterns of boredom and weakness that come from an industrial model. We talk about how t...
Pattern #5 for Biomimicry: Cloud Forms!!
Regenerative Ed - March 23, 2022 14:39 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsStay Awake! State Your Change! Practice empathy! Rest! Clouds can teach us so much, and we talk about it all in this episode where we offer some insight on how to live. It's slightly different than the other podcasts in this pattern series-- a little broader-- but that's okay. Float on! Page e...
Pattern #4 for Biomimicry: Streamlining!
Regenerative Ed - March 17, 2022 20:52 - 34 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsFriction! Speed! Industrial Culture in a Nutshell! We talk about it all in this episode where we offer some insight on maybe where we DON'T need to streamline, actually. Where it actually is counter to our values (wait, what are OUR values, even?!). We take a stab at where it's most helpful to a...
Pattern #3 for Biomimicry: Branches!
Regenerative Ed - February 11, 2022 17:30 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsExtraction! Cracking under pressure! Reciprocity! Simplicity! We talk about it all in this episode where we offer some insight on appreciating branching patterns in natural systems, and then how we might consider modeling patterns or systems or thought processes in our life after a branching pat...
Pattern #2 for Biomimicry: Waves!
Regenerative Ed - January 28, 2022 15:36 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsWaves is episode #3 of a 9-episode podcast (#1 was the intro!) that we'd normally deliver in an online workshop, but, really, maybe you're sick of logging into Zoom AFTER work, and would prefer it coming through your weekly podcast feed. In this pod I share some observations I make about wave...
Pattern #1 for Biomimicry: Spirals!
Regenerative Ed - January 20, 2022 23:42 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis is the second episode in a 9-episode series about biomimicry and using patterns in nature to help us re-consider elements our lives (and maybe even the ed system), and design them for patterns that create more life. The last episode was the intro, and today we're digging into our first natu...
PATTERNS PATTERNS PATTERNS Series Intro!
Regenerative Ed - January 11, 2022 16:04 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsHappy New Year! Today's podcast reviews why we should be spending time looking at patterns, how to recognize patterns in order to set us up for an 8-part series on different types of patterns found in natural systems. Why? Well, so we can be present and feel empowered to be designers of resilien...
Slow Food, Slow Fashion, Slow... Schooling?
Regenerative Ed - October 12, 2021 20:04 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsIs a response to the two profit-driven, extractive systems of fast food and fast fashion that's resulting in a crisis is actually...being slow about it? And what can we learn from this for Education? Dare we call it slow...schooling? (just another way to see it as an industrial, mechanical, colo...
Happy Equinox! Orienting Our Idea of Work Around Seasonal Shifts
Regenerative Ed - September 21, 2021 18:02 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThe first day of school. The first day of Thanksgiving break. The dates of Winter break. The dates of spring break. PD days. The last day of school. All definitely on my calendar, and all used to orient my way through the year. While that's fine and even logical, what could happen to the way we ...
F*CK! That's Cold!
Regenerative Ed - September 15, 2021 16:28 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis week I muse about STRESS in a way that will (I'm hopeful!) leave you feeling a little better, maybe with a little game plan, and maybe also with a few ideas for creating a more regenerative classroom towards the end. Listen in and let us know what you think! Links: Article: "The Effect o...
"Ownership"
Regenerative Ed - September 08, 2021 17:18 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings"My goal this year is for you to own your learning." "Teachers need to have ownership over their own professional development." "I'm working to help principals own the relationships they foster with their community." Today, I chat (with myself-- solocast!) about one of the ed jargon-y terms ...
"Ownership"
Regenerative Ed - September 08, 2021 17:18 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 16 ratings"My goal this year is for you to own your learning." "Teachers need to have ownership over their own professional development." "I'm working to help principals own the relationships they foster with their community." Today, I chat (with myself-- solocast!) about one of the ed jargon-y terms ...
Teaching as Band Life with Teachers (and musicians!) Shanna and Eric of By Light We Loom
Regenerative Ed - August 03, 2021 16:51 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsThis week I'm talking to teachers AND musicians, Shanna and Eric of By Light We Loom, who have their music has been featured in movies and countless stages. We check in about how music can teach us about teaching, focusing in on four areas: presence, process, rhythm, and emergence. About Shan...
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