Element Is Everything

Scott 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?" 

Dr. 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.

Play 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 value of play, parenting styles, his definition of play, and the concept of learning loss.

Resources:
Free to Learn

Social Media
Peter Gray Facebook

Blog:
Psychology Today Blog

Four new collections of essays:
Tipping Points Press

More 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 Invigorates the Soul. His decades of work have proven play to be a biological drive as integral to our health as sleep and nutrition. 

For the next three episodes, we're going to focus on play, what it is, why it's important, and how to ensure we engage regularly.


Recommended Links:

https://www.playcore.com/drstuartbrown

Dr. Stuart Brown TED talk. https://www.ted.com/talks/stuart_brown_play_is_more_than_just_fun/transcript?language=en#t-958746

Kevin Carroll TED talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pz72Wygg8c

Imagine 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, shares with us strategies for student ownership and self-determined learning, as well as why now more than ever, the development of those skills are crucial.

Element Challenge of the Week: Role Model for Self-Determined Learning Activity

Additional Resources Mentioned:
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030645366
Teaching Students to Become Self-Determined Learners

Imagine 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 whose children have engaged in multiple forms of education, from site based schools to homeschooling to hybrid learning. How did they manage it all? What tips tricks, resources, and strategies help in raising independent, self-determined, and cooperative humans? Let's find out.

Imagine 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 work.

In this episode, Terri speaks with Mariaemma Pelullo-Willis, co-author of the book Discover Your Child's Learning Style and co-founder of the Learning Success Institute.  They talk about the power traits assessment and their focus is on environment. They discuss how one can turn a space into a place that fits your personality, gives you a sense of connection, and a good vibe that helps you do your best work.


Power Traits Assessment (discount link)

Resources Mentioned In the Podcast!
Discover Your Child’s Learning Style
Self-Portrait™ Power Traits Assessment

E-Books:

Learning Doesn’t Have to Hurt: The Magic of Relationship in Teaching & Learning

What To Do When They Don’t Get It: Simple Techniques That Work Like Magic

Website:
schoolathomemadeeasier.com
powertraitsforlife.com

How to Contact Mariaemma:
[email protected] 

Imagine 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 parent honing your parenting skills, a hobbyist perfecting your talent, or a professional seeking more from your work, creating a learning plan that works for you is essential to meeting your goals.

Included with this episode is a template to guide you in designing a Personalized Learning Plan!

Imagine 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. Perspective is very powerful and personal bias comes in many forms. Significant experiences, for better or worse shape, our beliefs, our perspectives. But even something as simple as disposition, the way we are hardwired can lead to strong opinions which influence our judgment. There's a lot of talk about tolerance these days, with a focus on race, ethnicity, religion, and gender identification. But no matter how you slice it, we are all human. We are a bigger picture, a puzzle if you will, not a label. Today we hear from Trish Ruppel, a certified learning success coach who is currently working in the role of Student Support Manager. With a long history of homeschooling and personalized learning, as well as a background in special education and her training and learning styles, Trish offers her perspective of the importance of perspective.

Learning Success Model
Power Traits Assessment (discount link)

Today 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, such as technology, sleep, exercise, homework, motivation, academic testing, control, and yes, stress.