Empowered Teaching

Gary gray is an International Teacher from Nova Scotia who is currently based in Singapore. He is very passionate about encouraging other teachers to be culturally responsive in the classroom. 

In this episode we discuss what international teaching is all about, the meaning of culture, how to make all students feel included, what it feels like to be a minority teacher and much more.  

LINKS: 

Gary Gray Instagram

Gary's Podcast

Gary Gray's Blog

Gray Gray's Youtube

Gary Gray's twitter

Zeretta Hammnd's Book: Culturally Responsive Teaching And The Brain 

 Season two of Empowered Teaching Podcast is here. Our first guest is Doctor Jose Medina Hernandez.  Chief Educational Advocate at Dr. José Medina: Educational Solutions. 

In this episode, you will get to hear the second half of our powerful interview with Dr. Jose Medina, who shares with us his expertise in the Dual Language Education. Get to know what makes this educator so passionate about the dual language system. Discover some critical insides of what goes into dual language schools, know what teachers will be able to fit in nicely into this type of schools even though they are monolingual, and find out who was the teacher who first created access for Dr. Medina and how he continues to be inspired today by his old experiences in education. 

" I am here because I represent my Mom, my Dad. I represent the latino community. And my purpose in education is about creating access for students who have been oppressed, discriminated against and  marginalized in public schools" Medina cries. 

Connect with Dr. Jose Medina Hernandez. 

http://drjosemedina.com/services/

Dr. Jose Medina's twitter

Dr. Jose Medina's Instagram

Season two of Empowered Teaching Podcast is here. Our first guest is Doctor Jose Medina Hernandez.  Chief Educational Advocate at Dr. José Medina: Educational Solutions. 

In this episode, you will get to hear the first half of our powerful interview with Dr. Jose Medina, who shares with us his expertise in the Dual Language Education. He takes us through his journey as a child who had a traumatic entrance in the educational system. Kicked out of kinder garden at the age of five and roll in into his new class strapped to a gurney in a pool of his own urine. Looked over by his teachers and pears for many years, for being a nervous kid who was afraid of most things. 

Despite his difficult childhood, he grew up to be a men who embraced his sexuality as a gay person and became a successful entrepreneur, who today travels the world to serve dual lingual schools all over the world and bring his message to create access to education for the oppressed student. 

" I am here because I represent my Mom, my Dad. I represent the latino community. And my purpose in education is about creating access for students who have been oppressed, discriminated against and  marginalized in public schools" Medina cries. 

Connect with Dr. Jose Medina Hernandez. 

http://drjosemedina.com/services/

Dr. Jose Medina's twitter

Dr. Jose Medina's Instagram

When the new year approaches everyone starts making resolutions for the upcoming year because "This year it going to be different" but most people forget to focus on the one thing that matters the most. Without it, your resolutions are more likely to not work out. 

Get to know why this new year's resolution is so vital. Find out why your other resolutions haven't worked out and follow seven simple and free steps to guarantee that you are on the right path to make all of your wildest dreams come true.

Get to know why and how you can stop yourself from complaining. Better yet, learn some tips that will help you head off chronically complaining coworkers that are often trying to take away your joy of teaching by finding everything that is wrong with the place where you work.

Get to know my point of view as a parent, language teacher, and someone who learned a second language later in life, along with a glimpse of what the data and research are saying today about raising bilingual kids. 

In this episode, I share with you my personal struggles with learning english as well as the journey of raising a bilingual son in an environment where I am basically his only source of his second language. 

On today's episode I share with you 10 things that I have learned while being on my yoga mat and that I have brought into my classroom. With this 10 lesson we hope you can see that teaching is not as hard as we may see it at sometimes. 

Do you find it difficult to get out of your comfort zone? Mikey Bee is a New Jersey Teacher who is very passionate about his career, but just as much as he loves teaching, he enjoys empowering others to live their dreams. This year he took a very crucial decision and left the classroom to pursue his dreams, and he is convince that you can do this too. 

Today, Mikey is going to teach us about why building emotional intelligence in our students is so important. He shares his critical advice for old and new teachers, explains to us the importance of learning how to dream big and the steps that one should take to accomplish their dreams to live our best lives. 

An episode that hopes to get you see the vital importance of taking big risks and really practicing what you preach to your students. 

Get to know how my students were the ones who actually gave me the encouragement I needed to pursue my dreams of having a podcast. I take you on a litle journey from college days back in Colombia, to what really happens in my classroom. 

As a minority Teacher, this is my open letter to a society that desperately needs to encourage more diversification in its schools. 

A podcast inspired on a single Instagram story by Joe Dombrowski, aka Mrdtimes3. We talk minority, LGTBQ, education and much more.