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This week on #Educrush, our guest Alora Popow shares the importance of both the Physical and Education portion of Physical Education. As a PE teacher herself, Alora shares her Philosophy of education, how classroom outcomes intertwine with outcomes in the gym space and how we can better utilize physical education to aid our instruction of class outcomes.

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Wellness is so much more than a pizza party or a coffee cart; it’s deep, personal excavation and ruthless time management. Jonathan Erickson is currently the principal of Parras Middle School in Redondo Beach, California, and he joins Natalie to share what he learned about the discipline of wellness when he studied it during his PhD, and how he’s bringing it to life in his school.

Show Notes:

·       Jonathan’s journey through innovative teaching contexts and a PhD in mindfulness and workplace outcomes. (5:50)

·       Wellness; the story being told and how we can rewrite the narrative. (11:30)

·       Rethinking teacher education and after-school care to build collective capacity in social-emotional learning. (16:00)

·       Th importance of designing for academic engagement as a facet of social-emotional learning for all. (25:35)

·       Determining a defensible position to inspire rethinking. (33:20)

·       How a principal can create the conditions for wellness on their campus. (37:25)

·       Managing your time so you can show up for people. (44:00)

·       The purpose of education (53:50)

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This week we further explore what we started in Ep 72, where Natalie and Alex talked about what it means to “craft a public narrative” in education. Welcome to part of Alex’s public Narrative. “Cross Curricular Conversations to energize your time.”

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Links Mentioned:

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3b3q7KO62YBCDgRdvBwtgT?si=11eb0df263704caa

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/crafting-a-public-narrative/id1529486348?i=1000600616054

This season, we have explored many stories of education here in the present, but what is the future of education? Join Natalie to play within two future simulations that will stretch your capacity to discover creative opportunities, today.

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Show Notes:

·       When does the future start? (4:45)

·       Jane McGonigal, SuperStruct, and the power of a future simulation to build our capacity for creativity today. (7:00)

·       Future simulation #1: CurriculumGPT (15:00)

·       Future simulation #2: IncorporatED (24:30)

·       10 ways anything can be different in the future. (32:00)

This week on #Educrush we dive into how our expectations of students change the stories that they get to tell about themselves. Kelsey Brown talks a bit about a restorative justice program run out of the Calgary Youth Justice society.

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Show Notes:

10:45 Introduction

15:30 Community mentorship

17:08 How students have negative interactions with their school communities.

20:00 Students participating in risk behaviors.

23:14 Schools allowing students to be a part of their communities.

27:48 The importance of community

30:14 The purpose of education

Links Mentioned:

https://calgaryyouthjustice.ca/

 https://calgaryyouthjustice.ca/programs-services/cyjc/

https://calgaryyouthjustice.ca/get-involved/volunteer/

This week on #Educrush we dive into how our expectations of students change the stories that they get to tell about themselves. Kelsey Brown talks a bit about a restorative justice program run out of the Calgary Youth Justice society.

Don’t forget to sign up the Empowerment Ecosystem Summit!
https://sites.google.com/view/empowermentecosystemsummit/home

Alex on Twitter: @MrAlexNoel

Natalie on Twitter: @natabasso

Podcast on Twitter: @educrushpod

Podcast on Instagram: @educrushpod

Show Notes:

10:45 Introduction

15:30 Community mentorship

17:08 How students have negative interactions with their school communities.

20:00 Students participating in risk behaviors.

23:14 Schools allowing students to be a part of their communities.

27:48 The importance of community

30:14 The purpose of education

Links Mentioned:

https://calgaryyouthjustice.ca/

 https://calgaryyouthjustice.ca/programs-services/cyjc/

https://calgaryyouthjustice.ca/get-involved/volunteer/

Breana Jacques and Shannon Finnegan are two “engagement guides” at the Collaborative Lab School in Minneapolis with a fascinating mission: to empower students to reinvent school. What principles do students think school should follow? What do they think should be assessed? How do they want to feel? They join Natalie to share the story of how they’ve shared power with students as co-designers of school and are rewriting the narrative of education.

Show Notes:

·       Introduction to Breana and Shannon, two “engagement guides” at the Collaborative Lab School. (7:30)

·       How reimagining the role of a teacher is energizing and rehumanizing. (12:00)

·       What students want when they are empowered to co-design school.  (19:30)

·       The co-design journey that led to the Collaborative Lab School. (29:00)

·       Co-designing an assessment system grounded in competencies. (36:45)

·       The barriers that folks are facing in traditional contexts that keep them from sharing power and co-designing with students. (49:00)

·       The purpose of education. (60:00)

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Throughout history, we have told the story of girls as precious eggs and boys as kept princes. However, as we begin to explore gender identity as a spectrum rather than a binary, it’s time to update this narrative and that begins with interrogating the scripts we perform when talking to students. Author, speaker and gender awareness coach, Jason Ablin, joins Natalie to unpack this gender equation in schools and uncover how it is impacting literacy and numeracy achievement.

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Jason’s new book “The Gender Equation: How to Create Equity and Fairness for All Students” is out now!

Show Notes:

·       Introducing Jason Ablin. (5:00)

·       Jason’s first move as a new principal to remove the gender barriers to learning. (8:00)

·       The origin story for Jason’s passion in gender-related issues. (14:00)

·       How students and teacher respond to each other in ways that uphold gender bias. (19:30)

·       Girls as “precious eggs” and boys as “kept princes.” (28:45)

·       An academic rationale for taking gender issues seriously in school. (32:15)

·       A first step for a leader looking to tackle gender bias in their school. (44:30)

·       The purpose of education. (49:45)

Dave Conrad is the Community Engagement Program Director at a Non-Profit organization called the Mustard Seed. They are an organization that specializes in providing aid to people around Canada who are facing homelessness. On this episode, Dave and Alex explore what life could be like for students who could be experiencing homelessness and the importance of dignity and person first language.

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Show Notes:

Introduction [09:17]

What leads students into experiencing homelessness [01:39]

Things teachers can look for [10:56]

School communities can provide support [16:08]

The discomfort of showing others dignity [20:24]

Students benefit from volunteering [24:38]   

Talking to students about homelessness [26:57]

The purpose of education [32:42]

Significant quotes:

“I think the key to it is, we need to see people for more than their experience they’re going through right now. We need to see people for more than how they are presenting right now” 17:23

“I think first and foremost we need to be treating people with dignity, building relationships out of that place, and then there are practical supports that can come into that, but it all needs to come out of a place of relationship.”  18:10

Links Mentioned:

Homelesshub.ca