When has a superintendent EVER answered her own phone?

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How would your teenager solve the problem of eviction, what message would she want to give and take away from a political rally, what would he plan to do to clean up the local rivers and surrounding areas, how would living in China would heighten her understanding of the shades and subtlies of

 For those of you who were mesmerised by the first part of my chat with Robert and his verbal illustrations of what makes a school system that works - and I can only imagine it was all of you - you are sooo lucky because there is even more more of how a leader can use his position to make each teacher, each student, each parent, each administrator feel valued and a participant in the positive changes in their educational world.

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With corruption in Nigeria rampant, Okechukwu Anunobi, has the structure to include character development in the schools so that educators can literally be the societal changers for the generation that will one day soon lead the country.

Ahmed Baba, world-renown journalist and media literacy expert, joins us today to share ways that we can detect disinformation and become generally more conscientious citizens walking the world.

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As my experiences on the planet have changed and my perspective of life has evolved, I see education very differently. I believe the classroom is where we encourage human connection and where the curriculum the content is far less important that than the social skills our students can develop when we’re all together. If we want a generation of students, learners, humans on the planet who can work together to solve the problems they have been born into and have had no part in creating, we need to give them as many opportunities to develop the skills to work in teams – not to conform to each other’s ideas but to know how to respectfully share and listen to each others ideas, know how to actively listen, negotiate different perspectives, encourage variations based on justifiable visions, and in short work together to shine as one ray of light made up of crystals of each one’s individual light. How does that sound for the New Year?

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On this episode we have not one but two very special guests for our Winter holiday episode. Parents are also educators and these two women are parents and very intentional teachers. They come from two different parts of the world, and from two very different cultures. What they have in common is theor willingness to explore how their cultures and the cultures they have around them have influenced their lives, the lives of their children, and the lives of the students and people they have worked with.

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Have you ever been bullied as an adult? Were you also bullied as a child? Adult bullying comes in many forms and sometimes we don't even recognise it. The person who takes a parking place from us as we're about to turn into it, someone who won't let us go ahead on the checkout line when we have one item, a partner who demeans any request we have to strengthen the comfort level of our relationship, a supervisor who uses degrading terms and abides by unforgiving schedules to control us, a neighbour who dismisses requests for respecting those around her.

And how did these adults become bullies or rather - when? In most cases, this started from their childhood. And why wasn't it stopped, curbed, dissipated? In most cases because the teachers were not trained in how to reteach these misled souls to be kind to themselves, first and foremost, so that they knew how to be kind to the people around them.

This podcast explores a specific case of adult bullying and how then some specific tools educators can use to begin the process of stopping this type of misdirection in its tracks at the youngest ages.

This a not-to-be-missed quick and energetic exploration of the origins of bullying and how we can be enormously impactful and proactive in the face of it.

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Can we change the behaviour of the people around us? I mean, how much are you aware of the people around you and how much do you take into account your own behaviour with regards to their best interests? I’ve been thinking about this a lot recently, because I just got back from Finland and the difference between the expectations when we’re out in public between Finland and Spain is incredible. Scandanavians have an attitude towards what’s appropriate in public and what’s not that’s similar to how I grew up – in the. Northeast and pretty much everywhere in the States and Canada as well.

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Have you been in an online course, put in the Breakout Room and someone hijacks the conversation? Actually, it isn't a conversation because it's one person talking and asking for help on her/his needs? Is there an equanimity within the people connected? Is there generosity? Is there respect and honour for the opinions, ideas, searching of all?

If you've found all these elements, please feel you've won the lottery!! If you haven't, it's probably simply because you and the rest did not learn team building techniques when you were younger.

In this episode we explore the importance of connection - to ourselves and to others, and how that connection needs to be practiced within the classroom so that it later leaves the learning environment and becomes second nature in adulthood.

Join us for a quick yet inclusive consideration of team building and connection, and click here for a simple and effective activity to energetically unite your group. Let me know how you feel when you're finished participating!

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If you've lived with dyslexia, you can see it as a curse or you can see it as a challenge. Julie Hundley takes it one step further: she sees it as her super power!!

There aren't many opportunities we have as educators to hear from our students' own mouths what helped them and hindered them in their schooling. We can learn so much from their experiences, and Julie is here to offer her journey, hoping that it will help other children, young adults, parents and teachers to have realistic but positive expectations in living, working with, being an advocate for, facilitating, a child with dyslexia. This is a fascinating and informative conversation with a young adult who remembers still, and is still compensating for neural challenges.

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