Intersection Education

In this episode we review our first 19 episodes and discuss the main themes that were put forward by our guests. We try and look for links between the ideas presented in our conversations. Thanks for listening and supporting us in our first 20 episodes, we look forward to many more.

Connect with Intersection Education on our website and on Twitter.

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This episode features Dr. Valin S. Jordan, Assistant Professor of Diversity Education at University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Dr. Jordan believes in the strong commitments of teachers to understanding their narratives as raced, classed, gendered people in order to move the social justice needed. She has committed her areas of focus to curriculum theory, social justice education, and teacher identity. 

You can connect with Dr. Jordan on her website https://www.yoga4socialjustice.org/ and on Instagram @yoga4socialjustice

If you like what you are hearing, connect with Intersection Education. You can go to our website, intersectioneducation.com, or follow us on Twitter @intersectionEd. We really appreciate it when you rate us on iTunes and leave a review.

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This episode features Carolyn Cameron, who currently works as an instructor at the University of Calgary in the Werklund School of Education. Throughout her career she has been a teacher, an assistant principal, a principal, a district principal, responsible for leadership development and has worked for Alberta Education, helping to implement new Principal Quality Standards. She has far ranging experience that helps us to improve our practice and get better.

You can connect with Carolyn on twitter @carolynjcameron

If you like what you are hearing, connect with Intersection Education. You can go to our website, intersectioneducation.com, or follow us on Twitter @intersectionEd. We really appreciate it when you rate us on iTunes and leave a review.

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Our guest in this episode is Dr. Suzanne Squires, who is a family physician in Edmonton Area of Alberta. She has spent over a decade in service of families and has taken a particular interest in Mental Health of both young people and adults. She has some great advice for anyone who is concerned about the mental health of a student or a colleague. This is an important topic that I hope helps others to reach out to those in need.

If you want to follow her work, you can go to her clinic website at westgroveclinic.ca or westviewpcn.ca

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This episode features Dr. Nancy Wise, who is the Director of French Immersion Educational Consulting Inc. based in the Toronto Area. She has her Ph.D. in Second Language Education and a M.Ed. in Special Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto. I have seen her present at conferences including the Association canadienne des professionnels d’immersion (ACPI) annual conference.

After spending her career working as a special education teacher and advocating for the educational needs of exceptional students and those with learning challenges, she now runs a consulting business that assists parents who are either considering French immersion for their child or have a child who is struggling in the French immersion program.
To connect with Dr. Wise, follow her on Twitter @FIEdConsulting or go to the French Immersion Educational Consulting website.

If you like what you are hearing, connect with Intersection Education. You can go to our website, intersectioneducation.com, or follow us on Twitter @intersectionEd. We really appreciate it when you rate us on iTunes and leave a review.

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This episode features Dr. Dwayne Donald, Associate Professor in Secondary Education at the University of Alberta. Dr. Donald was born and raised in Edmonton and is a descendent of the Papaschase Cree. He taught both abroad and in Alberta before moving into academia.

Dwayne’s primary research focus is on curriculum initiatives that require teacher and student engagement with Aboriginal concerns and priorities. He looks at the emerging understandings of Plains Cree and Blackfoot philosophies that provide insight into Aboriginal-Canadian relations and the tensions often at play when Aboriginal peoples and their concerns are discussed in classroom contexts. 

You can connect with Dr. Donald via email [email protected]

If you like what you are hearing, connect with Intersection Education. You can go to our website, intersectioneducation.com, or follow us on Twitter @intersectionEd. We really appreciate it when you rate us on iTunes and leave a review.

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In this edition of the Intersection Education Podcast we speak with Andrew Milne. Andrew started his teaching career in London, England before emigrating to America in 2008. He currently teaches at New Tree-er High School in Illinois. Andrew was awarded the SHAPE America Teacher of the Year for Health Education in 2017.

Andrew has some great ideas about making health education meaningful. He talks about how this is important not only for grades, but for overall health and for our society. You can tell from our conversation that he is a passionate and professional educator. I know you will be able to get some tips to try in your school.

You can connect with Andrew on twitter @carmelhealth or on his outstanding blog https://slowchathealth.com/.

If you like what you are hearing, connect with Intersection Education. You can go to our website, intersectioneducation.com, or follow us on Twitter @intersectionEd. We really appreciate it when you rate us on iTunes and leave a review.

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This episode features Dr. Natalie Keefer. Dr. Keefer is an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She received her Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction with a cognate in anthropology from the University of South Florida. While earning her Ph.D., Dr. Keefer taught high school social studies for ten years in Tampa, Florida. 

In her first year of teaching, Dr. Keefer was a nominated finalist for the Florida Council for Social Studies, New Social Studies Teacher of the Year for the State of Florida.  Dr. Keefer’s research and scholarly interests include educational anthropology, poverty and education, experiential methods in social studies instruction, and global citizenship education. Dr. Keefer was a 2016 recipient of the Louisiana Educational Research Association Rayma Harchar Outstanding Research Paper Award. Dr. Keefer teaches K-12 social studies methods, graduate and undergraduate courses in diversity for educators, and classroom management.

If you like what you are hearing, connect with Intersection Education. You can go to our website, intersectioneducation.com, or follow us on Twitter @intersectionEd. We really appreciate it when you rate us on iTunes and leave a review.

To connect with Dr. Keefer, email her [email protected] or look for her on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/natalie.keefer.96).

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In this episode we speak with Dr. Dean Kriellaars. Dr Dean Kriellaars is a world-renowned expert in the field of Physical Literacy. He is a faculty member of the College of Rehabilitation Sciences, Department of Physical Therapy at the University of Manitoba. He is also a scientist at the Children’s Health Research Institute.

His Human Performance Laboratory has numerous students and staff directed to undertake research on physical literacy and exercise.

Dr. Kriellaars has been awarded two major university teaching awards and national and international awards for scientific research and innovation.

He works with Canadian Sport for Life, Physical and Health Education Canada, the Sport Medicine and Science Council of Manitoba, as well as the RCMP on community wellness initiatives. He also undertakes extensive research in performance enhancement and
Injury prevention in the high performance circus setting at the National Circus School and Cirque du Soleil.

He has practical advice for anyone working with young children about developing physical literacy and increasing overall health.

You can conect with Dr. Kriellaars via email ([email protected]), on twitter (@DeanKriellaars) or search him on YouTube.

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In this episode with speak with Dr. Eric Anctil who is a professor of media and technology in the School of Education at the University of Portland. The focus of much of Dr. Anctil’s work is to search for humanity in a TechnoHuman world and to shed light on the hidden shadows of change beneath the surface as humans evolve side-by-side with their technological creations.

Eric shares his thoughts on the use of “machines” in our lives and gives some strategies to become more mindful of how we use them.

You can connect with Dr. Anctil on twitter at @ericanctil or at his website, http://www.ericanctil.com/

If you like this episode, please connect with Intersection Education on our website (www.intersectioneducation.com), on facebook or on twitter (@intersectioned). It also helps us out when you rate and leave a review on iTunes.

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