Episode Highlights:

• Thinking strategically and stretching ourselves to reimagine education in the name of serving students
• Changing the narrative through curriculum,  course placement, discipline, and hiring practices
• Checking educational biases around assessment, the school day schedule, expectations for achievement, and pathways for success
• Creating seals (civic action, social justice, engineering, theater, biliteracy) to highlight student skills beyond usual transcripts

Connect with Henry Turner:

• Twitter, Instagram, Website, LinkedIn
• Purchase his book Change the Narrative: How to Foster an Antiracist Culture in Your School
• Subscribe to the Lessons in Social Justice newsletter

Episode Highlights

• Learning about education through many different lenses and contexts
• Finding a mentor and building upon your educational passion
• Implementing an action research process to collect data and fail forward
• Fostering mutually beneficial relationships and teams
• Overcoming fear and intimidation to achieve our purpose and passion

Episode Resources

• Connect with Jorge Valenzuela: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook Page, Resources,  Linktr.ee
  
  

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Story-weaving is finding inspiration in individual stories to embrace how our connection.
• Hold each other by leaning in and actively listening to one another.
• Each of us carries the gift of empathy, hope, and optimism.
• Your WHY is what should carry you through the storms that arise.

EPISODE RESOURCES:
Follow Barbara Bray: Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn page, YouTube channel
Barbara's Resources: 

• Rethinking Learning Podcast
• Toolkit of Resources
• Competency Agency chart

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Aligning administrator, staff, and student perceptions of experiencing the learning environment
• Unpacking perception data to enhance dialogue about and support for student success
• Investing in building community and connection
• Leveraging empathy and curiosity to counter disconnection

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• Connect with Dr. Damion Lewis: LinkedIn, Instagram, and Twitter  
• Dr. Lewis' publications:
  • Secondary Student Experiences with Mandatory Enrollment in North Carolina Virtual Public School Courses: A Hermeneutical Phenomenological Study
  • Postcolonial African American Female Writers and their Three-Way battle against Imperialism, Canonization, and Sexism: Developing a New Multicultural Feminism

Episode Highlights:

• Creating the reflection we want to be proud of, that we can be at one with, that promotes connection with others
• Honoring time and space for students to be fully present and aware
• Seeing and promoting the light in others
• Viewing mindfulness as an important part of our physiology
• Recording mindfulness sessions during COVID at the request of parents and students

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Steven Lin on Twitter and  Youtube: Mindful Mornings at Fort Zellner

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Connecting SEL to diversity, equity, and inclusive practices
• Promoting self-care among the caregivers
• Calling someone in as a gift of feedback for growth
• Addressing the four “Is” of Oppression
• Understanding culturally responsive-sustaining education

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• NYU Metrocenter for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools
  • website and Twitter
  • CRSE scorecard (for curriculum assessment)
  • CRSE facilitator's guide
• RE·Center Race & Equity in Education
• Paul Forbes-  website and Twitter
• EduColor
• Paul Gorski and Equity Literacy Institute and LiberateandChill
• Dena Simmons and LiberatED_SEL

Episode Highlights:

• Creating a program for students who are not necessarily cognitively impacted or need special education services but thrive in smaller educational settings
• Cultivating a self-efficacy mindset among students with mental health needs
• Helping educators respond to mental health
• Connecting mental health and neurodiversity
• Differentiating between anxiety and stress
• Advocating for families and specifically for students impacted by mental health needs

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Kristin: Website, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube: Mental Health - MacGruder High School
• Child Mind Institute
• Johns Hopkins School of Education - Mind, Brain, and Teaching 
• Youth Mental Health Canada Resources (Workbooks & Guides)  

Episode Highlights:

• Engaging in courageous conversations
• Ensuring representation of students in literature
• Leveraging language to close access gaps
• Utilizing the Five Part Belief Check to self-reflect and build relationships

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Matthew Woods: Website, Twitter, Leading Out of the Woods podcast
• I Wanna Be... book collection

Episode Highlights:

• Connecting physiology to engage in productive thinking patterns
• Consciously using breathing to self-regulate; the power of responding versus reacting
• Aligning identity with the situation
• Teaching SEL with conviction, from the heart
• Soliciting feedback and listening creates avenues for increased voice and engagement

Episode Resources:

• Connect with Martín Blank: website and Instagram
• The Physiology of Social-emotional Learning
• Self-care is not the solution for burnout

EPISODE HIGHLIGHTS:

• Using mathematical discourse and productive struggle to enhance social emotional learning skills such as problem-solving, critical thinking, growth mindset, and emotional regulation
• Leveraging Universal Design for Learning to make learning accessible for students
• Flipping the "gradual release of responsibility" model to increase student ownership and agency
• Exploring "just in time scaffolds" versus "just in case scaffolds" - Juli Dixon

EPISODE RESOURCES:

• Connect with Naomi Church: website, twitter, instagram
• Cognitively Guided Instruction (book)
• Universal Design for Learning Framework