Regenerative Ed

Stay Awake! State Your Change! Practice empathy! Rest! Clouds can teach us so much, and we talk about it all in this episode where we offer some insight on how to live. It's slightly different than the other podcasts in this pattern series-- a little broader-- but that's okay. Float on!

• Page episode (cloud visuals)

Regenerative Ed Links:

• UPDATE SINCE THIS EPISODE AIRED: WE ARE VERBS! Read more! It's a program and a community for educators who are interested in regenerative futures, and we'd love for you to join! You can now get a podcast-specifically-for-you, access to the resources on the blog, access to the breathing room (breathwork for educators!) for FREE (forever) by joining our first tier. Check it out!
• If you love Patreon, we're on there! For as little as $3 you can support this podcast and join in the co-creation of this podcast. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Patreon.com/regenerativeed
• If you enjoyed this episode, you could also choose to support us through a one-time donation or recurring donation on our website! Thank you so much!

Most of all, if this podcast meant something to you, please share this podcast with your educator buddies, share on your social medias, subscribe, leave a review-- it helps us out a lot! Thank you!

Friction! Speed! Industrial Culture in a Nutshell! We talk about it all in this episode where we offer some insight on maybe where we DON'T need to streamline, actually. Where it actually is counter to our values (wait, what are OUR values, even?!). We take a stab at where it's most helpful to apply streamlining, and where might be doing us a disservice-- mainly in the classroom, but this episode, as most of them, can apply to most other areas of life. Since our culture mainly exists in this industrial paradigm. :)

Streamlining is episode #4 of a 9-episode podcast (#1 was the intro!) that we'd normally deliver in an online workshop, but, really, maybe you're sick of logging into Zoom AFTER work, and would prefer it coming through your weekly podcast feed? I dunno! We're experimenting here!

• Check out the podcast series website page

Regenerative Ed Links:

• UPDATE SINCE THIS EPISODE AIRED: WE ARE VERBS! Read more! It's a program and a community for educators who are interested in regenerative futures, and we'd love for you to join! You can now get a podcast-specifically-for-you, access to the resources on the blog, access to the breathing room (breathwork for educators!) for FREE (forever) by joining our first tier. Check it out!
• If you love Patreon, we're on there! For as little as $3 you can support this podcast and join in the co-creation of this podcast. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Patreon.com/regenerativeed
• If you enjoyed this episode, you could also choose to support us through a one-time donation or recurring donation on our website! Thank you so much!

Most of all, if this podcast meant something to you, please share this podcast with your educator buddies, share on your social medias, subscribe, leave a review-- it helps us out a lot! Thank you!

Extraction! Cracking under pressure! Reciprocity! Simplicity! We talk about it all in this episode where we offer some insight on appreciating branching patterns in natural systems, and then how we might consider modeling patterns or systems or thought processes in our life after a branching pattern if what we're going for is more reciprocity and simplicity. Tune in!

Links:

• Workbook link on website
• Regenerative Ed Patreon
• Regenerative Ed Mighty Network

Waves is episode #3 of a 9-episode podcast (#1 was the intro!) that we'd normally deliver in an online workshop, but, really, maybe you're sick of logging into Zoom AFTER work, and would prefer it coming through your weekly podcast feed. In this pod I share some observations I make about waves, where they occur, what their functions are, and then we take a look at how we can apply this structure to some of the areas of our lives that are causing us friction because, well, we're human beings, and perhaps the friction is because this part of our life was unconsciously (or consciously) designed to work like a machine. This is where we have an opportunity, folks! Where we can invite in a pattern where the functionality isn't something like, say, meeting a quota, but something else much more beautiful.

I spend a good bit of time in this episode discussing the medium of waves, specifically water as a medium. Let me know what you think!

Links:

• Download the workbook
• UPDATE SINCE THIS EPISODE AIRED: WE ARE VERBS! Read more! It's a program and a community for educators who are interested in regenerative futures, and we'd love for you to join! You can now get a podcast-specifically-for-you, access to the resources on the blog, access to the breathing room (breathwork for educators!) for FREE (forever) by joining our first tier. Check it out!
• If you love Patreon, we're on there! For as little as $3 you can support this podcast and join in the co-creation of this podcast. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Patreon.com/regenerativeed
• If you enjoyed this episode, you could also choose to support us through a one-time donation or recurring donation on our website! Thank you so much!

Most of all, if this podcast meant something to you, please share this podcast with your educator buddies, share on your social medias, subscribe, leave a review-- it helps us out a lot! Thank you!

This is the second episode in a 9-episode series about biomimicry and using patterns in nature to help us re-consider elements our lives (and maybe even the ed system), and design them for patterns that create more life. The last episode was the intro, and today we're digging into our first natural pattern: spirals.

Join me as I think-aloud how I've come to look at breaking out of the industrial patterns in life--things like making sure everything is in a straight line!--because, well, there may be some places where straight lines aren't actually the best. What are those places? And how can we look to spirals for inspiration?

Links:

• Download the workbook!

• UPDATE SINCE THIS EPISODE AIRED: WE ARE VERBS! Read more! It's a program and a community for educators who are interested in regenerative futures, and we'd love for you to join! You can now get a podcast-specifically-for-you, access to the resources on the blog, access to the breathing room (breathwork for educators!) for FREE (forever) by joining our first tier. Check it out!
• If you love Patreon, we're on there! For as little as $3 you can support this podcast and join in the co-creation of this podcast. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Patreon.com/regenerativeed
• If you enjoyed this episode, you could also choose to support us through a one-time donation or recurring donation on our website! Thank you so much!

Most of all, if this podcast meant something to you, please share this podcast with your educator buddies, share on your social medias, subscribe, leave a review-- it helps us out a lot! Thank you!

Happy New Year! Today's podcast reviews why we should be spending time looking at patterns, how to recognize patterns in order to set us up for an 8-part series on different types of patterns found in natural systems. Why? Well, so we can be present and feel empowered to be designers of resilient systems in our own life (and work!)! We hope you'll join us for this series. Next episode, we'll get started with the first pattern: spirals. Be sure you listen to this one first!

Regenerative Ed Links (UPDATED SINCE THIS EPISODE AIRED):

• WE ARE VERBS! It's a program and a community for educators who are interested in regenerative futures, and we'd love for you to join! You can now get a podcast-specifically-for-you, access to the resources on the blog, access to the breathing room (breathwork for educators!) for FREE (forever) by joining our first tier. Check it out!
• If you love Patreon, we're on there! For as little as $3 you can support this podcast and join in the co-creation of this podcast. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Patreon.com/regenerativeed
• If you enjoyed this episode, you could also choose to support us through a one-time donation or recurring donation on our website! Thank you so much!

Most of all, if this podcast meant something to you, please share this podcast with your educator buddies, share on your social medias, subscribe, leave a review-- it helps us out a lot! Thank you!

Is a response to the two profit-driven, extractive systems of fast food and fast fashion that's resulting in a crisis is actually...being slow about it? And what can we learn from this for Education? Dare we call it slow...schooling? (just another way to see it as an industrial, mechanical, colonial, extractive, capitalistic, etc. system) "Slow Schooling" doesn't quite have the ring, I get it, but in this podcast I riff about the concepts and draw the comparisons for what we can learn!

Regenerative Ed Links (UPDATED SINCE THIS EPISODE AIRED):

• WE ARE VERBS! It's a program and a community for educators who are interested in regenerative futures, and we'd love for you to join! You can now get a podcast-specifically-for-you, access to the resources on the blog, access to the breathing room (breathwork for educators!) for FREE (forever) by joining our first tier. Check it out!
• If you love Patreon, we're on there! For as little as $3 you can support this podcast and join in the co-creation of this podcast. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Patreon.com/regenerativeed
• If you enjoyed this episode, you could also choose to support us through a one-time donation or recurring donation on our website! Thank you so much!

Most of all, if this podcast meant something to you, please share this podcast with your educator buddies, share on your social medias, subscribe, leave a review-- it helps us out a lot! Thank you!

The first day of school. The first day of Thanksgiving break. The dates of Winter break. The dates of spring break. PD days. The last day of school. All definitely on my calendar, and all used to orient my way through the year. While that's fine and even logical, what could happen to the way we view work if we use seasonality and connection to orient ourselves in this time-space continuum, instead of just not-work days or commercial holidays? I share some brief thoughts and application for the classroom. Please continue the conversation on Instagram @groundedteaching or on our free community!

Regenerative Ed Links (UPDATED SINCE THIS EPISODE AIRED):

• WE ARE VERBS! It's a program and a community for educators who are interested in regenerative futures, and we'd love for you to join! You can now get a podcast-specifically-for-you, access to the resources on the blog, access to the breathing room (breathwork for educators!) for FREE (forever) by joining our first tier. Check it out!
• If you love Patreon, we're on there! For as little as $3 you can support this podcast and join in the co-creation of this podcast. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Patreon.com/regenerativeed
• If you enjoyed this episode, you could also choose to support us through a one-time donation or recurring donation on our website! Thank you so much!

Most of all, if this podcast meant something to you, please share this podcast with your educator buddies, share on your social medias, subscribe, leave a review-- it helps us out a lot! Thank you!

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This week I muse about STRESS in a way that will (I'm hopeful!) leave you feeling a little better, maybe with a little game plan, and maybe also with a few ideas for creating a more regenerative classroom towards the end. Listen in and let us know what you think!

Links:

• Article: "The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work: A Randomized Control Trial" (2016)
• Article: "Hormesis Defined" (2007)
• Download the hormesis poster for your room (or for behind your desk as a reminder!

Regenerative Ed Links (UPDATED SINCE THIS EPISODE AIRED):

• WE ARE VERBS! It's a program and a community for educators who are interested in regenerative futures, and we'd love for you to join! You can now get a podcast-specifically-for-you, access to the resources on the blog, access to the breathing room (breathwork for educators!) for FREE (forever) by joining our first tier. Check it out!
• If you love Patreon, we're on there! For as little as $3 you can support this podcast and join in the co-creation of this podcast. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Patreon.com/regenerativeed
• If you enjoyed this episode, you could also choose to support us through a one-time donation or recurring donation on our website! Thank you so much!

Most of all, if this podcast meant something to you, please share this podcast with your educator buddies, share on your social medias, subscribe, leave a review-- it helps us out a lot! Thank you!

"My goal this year is for you to own your learning." "Teachers need to have ownership over their own professional development." "I'm working to help principals own the relationships they foster with their community." Today, I chat (with myself-- solocast!) about one of the ed jargon-y terms that get thrown around a lot by us well-meaning educational professionals. "Ownership". Does it have a place in our communication about school when we're using school as an entry point for creating a more regenerative future? Let's explore some alternatives!

Links from today's podcast:

• MOST IMPORTANTLY: READ BRAIDING SWEETGRASS by Robin Wall Kimmerer (seriously, what are you waiting for).
  • If you can, support your local bookstore!
• As a side-bar, I mention supporting your local Fibershed, which is supporting the folks who are trying to relocalize the fiber industry. Think: farm-to-table, but only farm-to-fashion. You can probably find one that's been established near you by using this map. (Hey! If you live within 250 miles of Cleveland, Ohio, we're Rust Belt Fibershed!)

Regenerative Ed Links (UPDATED SINCE THIS EPISODE AIRED):

• WE ARE VERBS! It's a program and a community for educators who are interested in regenerative futures, and we'd love for you to join! You can now get a podcast-specifically-for-you, access to the resources on the blog, access to the breathing room (breathwork for educators!) for FREE (forever) by joining our first tier. Check it out!
• If you love Patreon, we're on there! For as little as $3 you can support this podcast and join in the co-creation of this podcast. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Patreon.com/regenerativeed
• If you enjoyed this episode, you could also choose to support us through a one-time donation or recurring donation on our website! Thank you so much!

Most of all, if this podcast meant something to you, please share this podcast with your educator buddies, share on your social medias, subscribe, leave a review-- it helps us out a lot! Thank you!