Latest Independent learning Podcast Episodes
Sharpen Your Moral Compass: A Conversation with Dane White, City Mayor
Element Is Everything - June 07, 2024 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsDane White, Mayor of Escondido, CA, tells his story of a rocky road to finding his element and the power of patience, perseverance, purpose, and people to find your moral compass.
Ned Johnson Part 2: The Science and Sense Behind the Self-Driven Child
Element Is Everything - April 20, 2024 16:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsTerri continues the conversation with Ned on what we can do to reverse the trend of anxiety and learned helplessness.
Ned Johnson Part 1: The Science and Sense Behind the Self-Driven Child
Element Is Everything - April 16, 2024 17:00 - 30 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsWe are wired to care. Care about ourselves, our learning, and each other. Ned Johnson, co-author of The Self-Driven Child, shares his experience and views on why we are becoming an uncaring society.
Relationships: Screens vs Humans
Element Is Everything - January 08, 2024 17:29 - 36 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsCasey O'Roarty of Sproutable discusses adolescents and smartphones.
#26 School is in Session: Get Out of the Classroom
Element Is Everything - December 11, 2023 15:36 - 24 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsMeet young high school students who share how their natural love of learning remains alive through a personalized learning journey.
Out of the Muck with Consent-based Learning
Element Is Everything - November 02, 2023 23:14 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsKen Danford, author of Learning is Natural; School is Optional and co-founder of North Star, a center for teen learners shares his story and insight on self-directed learning.
Stress vs Passion: Different Forms of Rigor
Element Is Everything - October 25, 2023 22:10 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhile rigorous learning requires challenge, it doesn't have to be painful. Two high school students share their experience transitioning from meaningless to meaningful learning. Show Notes: https://realitychangers.org/
Spark and Go Wild. Part 2
Element Is Everything - October 09, 2023 16:02 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsPart 2: John Ratey, MD, best-selling author and doctor of psychiatry, shares common everyday practices that bring a natural sense of well-being. Show Notes: Healthy Habits Inventory
Spark and Go Wild: Part 1
Element Is Everything - October 04, 2023 20:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsJohn Ratey, MD, best-selling author and doctor of psychiatry, shares common everyday practices that bring a natural sense of well-being. Show Notes: Harvard Article on Exercise Can Boost Your Memory and Thinking Healthy Habits Inventory
Standing By the Water: Owning What You See
Element Is Everything - June 07, 2023 17:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsPersonal leadership for success and happiness requires personal accountability. Stryder Spillane, CEO of Leader Prep, explains the crucial step of problem-solving – owning the situation. Show Notes: Meet Stryder Spillane, recently featured in HR Tech Outlook magazine, to reflect on how ownin...
The Power of a Picnic: Time to Relax, Reflect, and Rejuvenate
Element Is Everything - April 24, 2023 22:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsThey say life is no picnic...but what if it was? What if every day we scheduled time for ourselves to relax, reflect, and rejuvenate. Discover how a new mindset and habits can lead to better results with less work. This is the first of five parts of Season 3: Taming the Modern Day Sabertooth
Heading for Open Waters: A Reflection on the Purpose of School
Element Is Everything - June 17, 2022 15:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsImagine your children waking each day, knowing what they are going to do and how they need to go about doing it. You've prepared them and the environment so well, they hum along in their work driven by curiosity and fueled by discovery. They tackle the “boring stuff” with patience and overcome ...
If I Only Had a Brain - Using Multiple Brains for Better Decisions
Element Is Everything - November 21, 2021 00:48 - 29 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsFollow your heart, use your head, trust your gut. Which is a person to do? The neuroscience behind mBraining and Multiple Brain Integration Techniques (mBiT) tells us to do them all. A discussion with Lisa Blackett, certified mBIT coach and trainer, tells us how.
Make Time to Find Your Element
Element Is Everything - October 06, 2021 21:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsConnor Swenson discusses the Make Time Framework to manage the forces that compete for our time.
Redefining Success
Element Is Everything - September 11, 2021 17:00 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsScott Schimmel, Founder, and CEO of You School walks us through the process of identifying what success looks like and explains why it is different for everyone. "Where do you go to figure yourself out?"
Learning as a Fountain, Not a Drain
Element Is Everything - September 03, 2021 19:00 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsDr. Yong Zhao, award winner and author of hundreds of articles and thirty books on education, talks about the need for a new paradigm for assessment, technology, and the purpose of education.
All Is Not Lost When There is Play
Element Is Everything - June 25, 2021 20:00 - 44 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsPlay is self-determined learning at its best, Peter Gray author of Free to Learn states, nature does not turn off our desire and capacity to learn when children turn five or six, we turn it off with our coercive system of schooling. In this episode, Terri speaks with Dr. Gray on the history and ...
The Hidden Element in Your Play History
Element Is Everything - June 11, 2021 17:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsMore and more research is showing there is a correlation between play deprivation and depression. Dr. Stuart Brown, who we will hear today is the founder of the National Institute for Play, and the author of the national best-selling book Play, How It Shapes the Brain Opens the Imagination, and ...
Supporting the Self-Determined Learner
Element Is Everything - June 04, 2021 18:00 - 32 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsImagine spending time on what you care about using your observation of others as not only motivation, but as an actual learning resource. Today is part four of four on making learning personal. Mike Wehmeyer, co-author of the 2020 book titled, Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners...
Different Learners, One Roof
Element Is Everything - May 21, 2021 17:00 - 46 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsImagine a household of independent, self-determined and cooperative beings, where everyone understands their role and embraces it with pride. Today, we hear from three working mothers, one of them widowed, all of whom have multiple children with different learning styles and power traits, and wh...
Turning a Space into a Place: How to Create Your Most Productive Environment
Element Is Everything - May 14, 2021 19:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsImagine working and learning where you feel safe, comfortable, and inspired. Having the freedom, the insight, and the courage to design a place to do your best learning and work. A place, where you will lose track of time, dive deeper into your task with no desire to make excuses to avoid your w...
Take Learning Personal - Designing the Personalized Learning Plan
Element Is Everything - May 08, 2021 21:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsImagine paving your own path for learning and professional development, the freedom to determine your own learning objectives, resources, and work products. This month, Terri's focus is on the personalized learning plan. Whether a student in a traditional school setting, a homeschool student, a...
A Matter of Perspective
Element Is Everything - April 30, 2021 21:00 - 27 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsImagine looking at the members of your family, your team, your workplace, and feeling a sense of appreciation, recognizing them for their uniqueness. Imagine the sense of pride that comes from recognizing your own uniqueness, how you think, what makes you tick, what you have to offer others. Per...
A Helping Hand with Second Hand Stress
Element Is Everything - April 25, 2021 21:20 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsTerri Novacek of Element Education connects with educators, parents, researchers, and authors to discuss the mindset and behaviors that help us discover and develop our element– that place where interests and talents collide so the heart, mind, and body work together to do good and feel good.
Second Hand Stress: A Roadblock to Your Element
Element Is Everything - April 25, 2021 21:20 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsToday we talk with Dr. William Stixrud, a clinical neuropsychologist and faculty member at Children's National and George Washington University School of Medicine, as well as the author of the book, The Self-driven Child in his book, which runs the gamut on topics related to child development, s...
Don't Misunderstand Me - Why We Do the Things We Do
Element Is Everything - April 16, 2021 19:15 - 34 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsImagine the important relationships in your life like family, friends, and colleagues, being peaceful, open, trusting, and cooperative. Feeling understood, and understanding others. Feeling respect. Today we hear from Lois Ingber, licensed clinical social worker and certified trainer for Positiv...
Executive Functioning - You've Got the Power
Element Is Everything - April 09, 2021 19:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsImagine feeling smart, balanced, important, and connected. Executive Functioning-You’ve Got the Power is part one of four on connection is key. Last month, Terri introduced the concept of finding your element and talked a lot about the importance of self-worth and mindset and how what we know an...
Life Happens - The Courage to Own it and Make it Better
Element Is Everything - March 26, 2021 16:00 - 26 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsWhile the path to your element is not always smooth, it is the rocky points that have the potential to bring out our best. Before we can help our children, our students, and others, we need to get ourselves on the right path first. And then we can walk the path together.
Given the Circumstances: Integrating interests and talents into your life
Element Is Everything - March 19, 2021 01:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsTerri speaks with Rick and Laura Sylvester about how and why they created a program of support dogs for children with special needs, especially keeping their son in mind, who has been diagnosed with non-verbal autism.
Looking for the Element in all the Wrong Places
Element Is Everything - March 12, 2021 00:00 - 21 minutes ★★★★ - 10 ratingsEarl Otte, Montessori educator, shares his story of the many paths it took for him to get to a place where work is play and he experiences joy on a daily basis.
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