Powhatan Pulse Podcast

In this episode, our co-hosts cover six significant changes in education over the past decade and beyond. This conversation lasted well over an hour, so we split it into two episodes. So, if you missed Part 1, head back to our podcast and start from the beginning. We hope you enjoy Part 2 today!

Part 2:  6 significant changes in education over the past decade

There is no surprise that the podcast went dormant in 2019... So now in 2022 we've relaunched the podcast. Each month we encourage you to join Dr. Caitlin Gosnell, Lower School Director, and Evan Robb, Upper School Director, for conversations around teaching and learning. The Powhatan Pulse Podcast is recorded and produced at Powhatan School (Boyce, Va.). You can find the Powhatan Pulse Podcast on Apple Podcasts and iTunes, or head over to our school website for a desktop experience. Be sure to follow Powhatan School on social media on Instagram and Facebook. 

Podcast on our website: https://powhatanschool.org/community/pulse-podcast/

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In this episode, our co-hosts cover six significant changes in education over the past decade and beyond. This conversation lasted well over an hour, so we split it into two episodes. We hope you enjoy Part 1 today!

Part 1:  6 significant changes in education over the past decade

There is no surprise that the podcast went dormant in 2019... So now in 2022 we've relaunched the podcast. Each month we encourage you to join Dr. Caitlin Gosnell, Lower School Director, and Evan Robb, Upper School Director, for conversations around teaching and learning. The Powhatan Pulse Podcast is recorded and produced at Powhatan School (Boyce, Va.). You can find the Powhatan Pulse Podcast on Apple Podcasts and iTunes, or head over to our school website for a desktop experience. Be sure to follow Powhatan School on social media on Instagram and Facebook. 

Podcast on our website: https://powhatanschool.org/community/pulse-podcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powhatan1948/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powhatanschool

YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/PowhatanSchool/videos

Welcome to the Powhatan Pulse Podcast. 

Join Dr. Caitlin Gosnell, Lower School Director, and Evan Robb, Upper School Director, each month as we discuss various topics in education.  

In this short outtake from a prerecorded session this summer, our co-hosts answer the question: "what are you most looking forward to at the beginning of the school year?"

There is no surprise that the podcast went dormant in 2019... So now in 2022 we've relaunched the podcast with a goal of producing a new episode each month. You can find the Powhatan Pulse Podcast on Apple Podcasts and iTunes, or head over to our school website for a desktop experience. Be sure to follow Powhatan School on social media at @powhatan1948 on Instagram and @Powhatanschool on Facebook. 

Podcast on our website: https://powhatanschool.org/community/pulse-podcast/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/powhatan1948/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/powhatanschool

YouTube:  https://www.youtube.com/user/PowhatanSchool/videos

Welcome to the Powhatan Pulse Podcast. We are excited to relaunch the podcast for the 2022-23 academic year!

In this episode, we sit down with our Lower School Director, Dr. Catlin Gosnell, and our Upper School Director, Evan Robb, as they introduce themselves to our campus community.

Join our co-hosts, Dr. Caitlin Gosnell and Evan Robb, each month as we discuss interesting topics in education and explore the educational experience at Powhatan School. 

Special thanks to Mr. Stitcher, our Lower School Music Teacher, for composing the upbeat intro music. 

Mrs. Scarborough leads a roundtable discussion with Mrs. Slavin and four of her students from last year as they discuss The Cap Project. A campus-wide recycling effort, the students reflect on this year-long undertaking. 

Mrs. Scarborough, Head of School, sits down to speak with Dr. Caitlin Gosnell and Mr. Darren Holgate. Gosnell is the new Director of Lower School and Mr. Holgate is the new Director of Upper School. Listen in as Mrs. Scarborough introduces them to the school community.  

Each year Earth Week is a microcosm of our school at its best. As I walked around campus observing activities, three aspects really stand out:

1. That our children are learning about the importance of conservation and our Earth.

2. A sense of community and teamwork.

3. That our children are outside in nature.

It is important to get children outside in nature. There has been of research lately that focuses on the effect that getting outside has on our bodies. There’s a fascinating study out of Aarhaus University in Denmark that tracks one million individuals over almost three decades. While it focuses on the connection between health and nature with people at various ages, it zeroes in on the impact that the amount of time children spend in nature has on individuals over time. Mrs. Coutts and I discuss this research in the podcast at the top of the page, so I hope you will take the time to listen as we talk about nature and its effects on stress, mental health and well being.

Dystopian literature is headlining the world of fiction and the big screen. We sat down with Louise Jaffe, a sixth grade English teacher at Powhatan, to discuss the preeminent piece, The Giver.

Listen to the podcast above as Ms. Jaffe discusses The Giver—the book written 20 years ago that inspired later books such as The Hunger Games and Divergent.

A former elementary and middle school math teacher, Nicole understands the pressures that integrating technology into a curriculum can put on teachers, so her goal is to ease that anxiety for her colleagues. She is willing to teach a lesson in any teacher’s classroom, work with a teacher on a project, or set it all up for the teacher to take the ball and run with it – no task is too small or large and all subjects can benefit from technology use. On the flip side, with a teaching background, she understands the importance of introducing technology to students as a tool; one to be used carefully, creatively, and efficiently. On both sides, her flexibility and “can-do” attitude opens the door of learning for both students and faculty alike.

During the weeks I visited Nicole’s classes, it was all about coding. At the younger grades, students were learning the basics of coding through card play with squares and arrows and Scratch, an on-line coding curriculum. As I moved up the grades, I saw students who were already creating games, video book reviews, and other animations. All ages were enjoying the process of learning and using this fun skill of coding, which is puzzle solving on the computer!! Nicole’s next step for technology education is that Powhatan will participate in the Hour of Code, which many schools around the world will be doing. She is using this international activity to officially launch Powhatan’s computer science program, which will build upon the skills she has already introduced to her students and further their ability to independently code. Next, she will be working with teachers to incorporate coding projects into a unit they are currently doing or a topic they are currently studying.

Read more:  http://powhatanschool.org/pulse/head-of-school-message/november-letter-computer-science/