In Conversation with Stephen Hurley

From beginning to end, it took 41 days for Eric Walters to write and publish his latest book. Today is release day and we were thrilled to spend an hour with Eric and members of his Orca Book Publishers team on voicEd Radio. Join Eric Walters, Leslie Bootle, Andrew Wooldridge, Fiona Ross and Luke Hurley in this special conversation about Don't Stand So Close To Me.

Find out more about the book by visiting https://www.orcabook.com/

Shree Paradkar writes about issues of race and gender at the Toronto Star. in 2018/19, Shree was the Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy which gave her the space to explore issues of race and equity in our public education system.

In this conversation, Shree speaks of the questions that framed her year-long fellowship, the patterns that she discovered and some of the calls to action that emerged from this work.

You can find the complete "Education without Oppression" series at https://theatkinson.ca/site/uploads/2020/01/EducationWithoutOppression_12720.pdf

Premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, "Influence" takes us into the world of marketing and manipulation within our most foundational public institutions. It’s grounded in the story of Lord TImothy Bell, the firm Bell Pottinger and a politically-charged South Africa, but the questions posed and the realities revealed should be important to all of us.

A great conversation about deep journalism, following the money and media literacy.

David Barnum returns to voicEd Radio to talk about his approach to Place-Based learning in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis. David teaches elementary school in North Vancouver and is also a Faculty Associate in the Faculty of Education, Graduate Studies in Education at Simon Fraser University.

Khary Lazarre-White is the cofounder of Brotherhood Sister Sol, an organization that provides four-six year rites of passage programming, thorough five day a week after school care, school and home counseling, summer camps, job training and employment, college preparation, community organizing training, and international study programs to Africa, the Caribbean and South America.

In this conversation, Khary shares his 25 year journey with Bro/Sis, his theory of change and how the organization embraces young people with support, love, a vision for self-discipline and for agency in their communities and their world.

Find out more about Brotherhood Sister Sol at https://brotherhood-sistersol.org/

We last caught up with Ottawa resident, Lindsey Barr, soon after she began World Changing Kids, an organization that empowers young people to make a difference in the world.

Today, we connect with Lindsey again to see how her work has been transformed by the current COVID-19 crisis.

Find out about Lindsey's work by visiting https://worldchangingkids.ca/

Angela Hanimyan is a teacher at an Ontario-based Montessori school with over 26 years of experience teaching young children. That experience, coupled with a knowledge of Self-Reg and social emotional learning has led to the writing of Fearless Felicia. In our conversation, we explore how this story will help children identify their feelings and empower them to take ownership of their feelings and positively transform them.

Michelle DIttmer is President and Co-Founder at Canadian Gap Year Association, a national not-for-profit that provides support for young people looking for an alternative step in educational and/or career pathways through taking a gap year.

In this conversation, we talk about the trend toward more students considering a gap year, and how the Canadian Gap Year Association can support that thinking and planning.

Find out more about Michelle's work by visiting https://www.cangap.ca/

Rick Kelly is the founder and the energy behind Just Us: A Centre for Restorative Practices. Through his work, Rick inspires us to "widen the lens" as we look at how we build, nurture and heal relationships in our organizations, communities and families.

There's a whole lot more to Rick's work than can be written here so you're invited to explore more through his website: https://justusrestorativepractices.weebly.com/

Dr. Bryan Sanders is passionate about rethinking education using a critical techno constructivist lens. Yup, try to say that three times fast! it's a perspective that draws together key thinking by Dewey, Freire and Papert, and it not only led to his doctoral thesis, but also to some of his current energy around the way that we can do school in a different way.

Along with Dr. Verena Roberts, Bryan regularly brings together other educators and education thinkers to open up education discourse in this time of pandemic shutdowns.

Follow Bryan on Twitter: @nayrbgo