Journeys to Belonging

Heidi Carr is the ultimate professional example for our teachers, families, students, and community. She is an elementary educator and leader with the Clark County School District which is the fifth-largest school district in the United States.  She is currently in her 14th year of teaching and has taught 2nd - 5th grade. Heidi is a Nevada Department of Education, a Digital Engineer, and a facilitator for code.org. She is currently the president of CUE-Nevada. She is the founder of PLAYDATE Vegas and of EduNV on Voxer. Heidi is an innovator, a risk-taker, and is always willing to go the extra mile to meet her students’ needs. She is an advocate for all students. Heidi is dedicated to her students, school, and community. 

Twitter: carr_8

Voxer: carr_8

IG: @carrificclass

Check with Heidi about Battle Born Buddies and the Voxer Book study.

Kellie Bahri is an elementary teacher with a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership. She is passionate about supporting learning through establishing strong connections and creating learning spaces that promote equity and inclusion. She is an Instructional Strategist, serves on the Instructional Leadership and School Improvement Team, is a Culturally Responsive Teacher, and a Sustainable Development Goals lead educator. In March she will release her first book from her children’s book series with Code Breaker Edu Publishing.

She encourages you to connect with her on

Twitter @kbahri5

Instagram @kbahri6.

Zoe Weil - Solutionaries: 

CodeBreaker EDU website: http://www.codebreakeredu.com

Kellie Bahri is an elementary teacher with a Master’s Degree in Curriculum and Instruction and Educational Leadership. She is passionate about supporting learning through establishing strong connections and creating learning spaces that promote equity and inclusion. She is an Instructional Strategist, serves on the Instructional Leadership and School Improvement Team, is a Culturally Responsive Teacher, and a Sustainable Development Goals lead educator. In March she will release her first book from her children’s book series with Code Breaker Edu Publishing. 

She encourages you to connect with her on 

Twitter @kbahri5 

Instagram @kbahri6.

Sherry MacKay (MEd in TESOL) has extensive teacher training experience and 25 years of experience teaching adults. She is the co-founder of Glocally Connected non-profit that promotes community building in order to support refugees. More recently, Sherry founded TLC (Transformational Learning Communities) a unique organization focusing on providing applicable methods and techniques for teachers of students that have experienced trauma and revolves around three axes: (a) mindfulness; (b) connection and community building; and (c) teacher self-care. Sherry has a passion for making connections, supporting people in need, and the transformational potential of mindfulness.

FB group: ESLwithTLC

Website: https://eslwithtlc.com

Email: [email protected]

Conner Resiliiiency Scale

The Stranger is My Friend - a collection of poems

Farah Bishara aka DJ Bonita loves music, especially hip hop, is a Kuwait-based DJ who also owns Vinyl Destination, a local record store. She started pursuing her passion for mixing hip-hop tracks for a living around in 2014 and has pushed boundaries and stereotypes about women working in the music industry. When she first stepped foot on the scene “People didn’t understand why a Kuwaiti woman was mixing hip-hop for a living, and it often made me second-guess my career choice” she says, but that didn’t stop her! Read more about her in this 2020 article: 

https://www.moderneast.com/entertainment/listen-entertainment/women-power-meet-kuwaits-farah-bishara-aka-dj-bonita-221102.html

Farah's IG: https://www.instagram.com/dj.bonita

Vinyl Destination IG: https://www.instagram.com/vinyldestinationkw

Dana Fulwiler is an Alberta-based educator, consultant, and facilitator. She earned her Master of Applied Positive Psychology (MAPP) from the University of Pennsylvania, where she learned from leading wellbeing researchers and the field’s founder, Dr. Martin Seligman. Her teaching and professional experiences over the past 15 years span public education, non-profit, and post-secondary, including current roles as an Assistant Instructor in UPenn's MAPP program and BEd Sessional Instructor at the University of Calgary.

Twitter: @danafulwiler

Website: https://danafulwiler.com

Resources mentioned during the podcast:

https://www.viacharacter.org

https://characterlab.org

Lea Waters: SEARCH framework: https://www.leawaters.com/vwb-search-for-wellbeing-course

Brooke Anderson: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/six_daily_questions_to_ask_yourself_in_quarantine

Professor Prilleltenski: https://www.professorisaac.com/mattering

Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David

A former educator and Director of Innovation and Technology turned technology and mental health consultant, Mandy Froehlich’s passion lies in reinvigorating educators back into their profession and support in their pursuit of divergent teaching. She consults with organizations in topics such as innovative pedagogical practices, technology department leadership coaching, 1:1 rollouts and LMS deployment, and the impact of mental health on innovation. Froehlich’s also an adjunct for an organizational technology class for graduate students. Mandy is the author of several books for educators about mental health and how it impacts our teaching practice.

Twitter: @froehlichm

Website: https://www.divergentedu.com

Books:

DivergentEDU

The Fire Within

Reignite the Flames

The Educator's Matchbook

More about Blended Learning from Heather Staker: https://amzn.to/3aYfoZE

A former educator and Director of Innovation and Technology turned technology and mental health consultant, Mandy Froehlich’s passion lies in reinvigorating educators back into their profession and support in their pursuit of divergent teaching. She consults with organizations in topics such as innovative pedagogical practices, technology department leadership coaching, 1:1 rollouts and LMS deployment, and the impact of mental health on innovation. Froehlich’s also an adjunct for an organizational technology class for graduate students. Mandy is the author of several books for educators about mental health and how it impacts our teaching practice. 

Twitter: @froehlichm

Website: https://www.divergentedu.com

Books:

DivergentEDU

The Fire Within

Reignite the Flames

The Educator's Matchbook

Nicole Biscotti wrote I Can Learn When I’m Moving: Going to School With ADHD along with her 10-year-old son, Jason. They share the unique perspectives of a child and a mother who is also a teacher. She has seen both personally and professionally how children struggle to be understood and how adults are often at a loss with how to handle the difficult behaviors associated with ADHD. Nicole empowers parents and teachers to provide game-changing support for children with ADHD in school with kid-approved, researched-based strategies.  Her greatest accomplishments are Her four children: Nicholas who is preparing to become an Officer in the US Marines, Rose and Julia, identical twin divas who love riding horses and inspire Nicole to be a role model for them, and her brilliant ADHD'er, Jason.  Nicole lives in Yuma, Arizona and enjoys barbecues and road trips to Mexico. She's originally from New York City where she gained a love of culture and travel. Nicole has a Bachelor's degree in Spanish from the University of Florida and a Masters in Secondary Education from the University of Phoenix. She is also a Spanish teacher and finishing up her last class for a second Masters in Education Administration. Nicole is a certified Translator & Interpreter as well.

Twitter: @BiscottiNicole

Amazon link for book: https://amzn.to/37xGaWi

Tan Huynh is a career teacher specializing in language acquisition.  He is currently a secondary social studies teacher at an international school in Bangkok. When he is not teaching and planning, Tan maintains a blog, a podcast, and facilities workshops on advocating for language learners. You can find him on his podcast, blog, and Twitter.

Podcast: https://www.empoweringells.com/podcast

Blog: https://www.empoweringells.com

Twitter: @TanKHuynh

Ilene's blog post about Abraham Maslow: https://eddilene.edublogs.org/2021/02/09/fact-abraham-maslows-hierarchy-of-needs-is-not-a-pyramid