By Melanie Battles, PhD
The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.
Are you an educational leader committed to fostering the academic and social-emotional growth of your black and brown students?
Do you aspire to become a culturally responsive leader who can truly make a positive impact?
If so, this live broadcast is tailor-made for you!
In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the role of Cultural Responsive School Leaders (CRSLs) has never been more vital. Join us for an insightful live broadcast that will take you on a transformative journey from self-doubt to confidence as a CRSL. Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge and tools to ignite positive change within yourself, your school, and your community.
🎯 Session Objectives:
1️⃣ Grasp Cultural Responsiveness: Understand the concept of cultural responsiveness in educational leadership, including its significance and practical implications. Our expert leader, Dr. Melanie Battles, will delve deep into the foundations and principles of this vital approach.
2️⃣ Embrace the Journey: Explore the inspiring stories of growth and the challenges faced by culturally responsive leaders. By learning from their experiences, you'll gain valuable insights into your own opportunities for growth as a leader.
🔑 Key Takeaways:
Practical strategies to embed cultural responsiveness into your leadership style and support culturally responsive teachers
Confidence to navigate the complexities of working with diverse student populations.
Tools to foster academic and social-emotional development among black and brown students.
Hey there soul scholars! We're back with the second part to last week's episode. If you missed Part I, PAUSE and click here to catch up.
As mentioned in the podcast, here is more information about our I Am a Soul Scholar 5 Day Challenge to be held June 25-29th. We offer general admission tickets for $49 and VIP tickets for $89. These prices CANNOT be beat and I'm honestly not sure when I'll have the time to offer this challenge again.
Who is this challenge for?
How is VIP admission different from regular admission?
Click here to access more information about this challenge. This is an opportunity you DON'T want to miss!
Talk soon soul scholars!!!
Hey soul scholars!!! I've missed you all so much, but I have been extremely blessed and busy working through my business and providing support to educators across the country in culturally responsive teaching and social emotional learning.
This episode is a clip from our recent Instagram live where I discussed a bit of background behind my why and some of my experiences in education that pushed me to expand my reach from the classroom to partnering with educators, schools, and districts.
Feel free to leave any comments or questions you may have after you have listened. The second part to this podcast will air next Wednesday as we are working hard to consistently release weekly episodes. Send your prayers! LOL
Be sure to stay connected to us on all the socials (FB/IG/LinkedIN/YouTube).
You can find all of these links (scroll down to the bottom) and our free E-book by clicking here.
Talk soon!
Welcome to Teaching Matters 101: a podcast for folks who are passionate about educating diverse students with compassion, care, and courage. I am your host, Dr. Mel, lifelong learner and educator and CEO of Scholars for the Soul: An Educational Solutions Firm. We are here to talk about all things education: from teacher identity to teaching strategies, we unpack it all and invite you to join us on this journey of discussing teaching matters that impact education and make real teaching matter.
This episode goes deeper into the qualities of a warm demander. We talk about encourage productive struggle and teaching with rigor according to the science of learning.
We dive into the brain science of learning and how to strengthen pathways for deeper connection and higher learning. We also tap into how to recover from a lesson that bombed! Yes, you planned well. Yes, you aligned the standards. Yes, you gave it your all, but something just didn't stick. I provide some ideas for how to recover with soul and encourage productive struggle.
Remember, the goal of culturally responsive teaching is to close instructional equity gap. The only way to do so is to teach cognitive routines as habits of mind that focus on the process of learning so that the skill set naturally sticks to whatever content is being presented.
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Welcome to Teaching Matters 101: a podcast for folks who are passionate about educating diverse students with compassion, care, and courage. I am your host, Dr. Mel, lifelong learner and educator and CEO of Scholars for the Soul: An Educational Solutions Firm. We are here to talk about all things education: from teacher identity to teaching strategies, we unpack it all and invite you to join us on this journey of discussing teaching matters that impact education and make real teaching matter.
You are listening to a replay of an episode from our series "Being a Warm Demander". A warm demander earns the right to demand excellence, both academically and emotionally, through relationship building and cultivating a space of belonging and responsiveness.
We're diving into some research (CASEL) about social emotional learning and instructional needs that reflect the Goldilocks method of teaching and ways of being that inform our practice to provide a "just right" methodology of teaching, learning, and engagement.
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Episode Disclaimer: The recording is a bit spotty and I'm not really sure why. Please bare with me and grant me some grace in our imperfections. It's not too bad where you can't understand but it gets a bit blotchy from time to time. But the content is so good that you'll want to hang around and listen in! I'm working on solutions now! Any recs, please email us at [email protected]. We're always open to grow!
Welcome to the Teaching Matters 101 Podcast! This was the last episode in the series of The Science behind Building Authentic Relationships Series. We were unable to post the previous two episodes due to tech issues, but feel free to listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast channels.
This episode dives into understanding and identifying trust generators and how to use them in building relationships and planning for the cultivation of this space during your lesson. Trust generators include the following:
Selective vulnerability
Familiarity
Common interests
Academic competence
Genuine Concern
Listen in for some tools to add to your toolbox on the journey to "being" culturally responsive and walking in your position as a Soul Scholar.
Resources mentioned in the podcast:
1) Free E-book: First Steps to Understanding and Implementing Culturally Responsive Teaching: Exploring the journey from identity to instruction.
2) Free masterclass this Saturday, April 1, 2023 10:00 AM-11:30 AM CST
3) Join our community to stay abreast to all that we offer, gems that are dropped, and exclusive offerings and specials to our paid events and services.
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Welcome to Teaching Matters 101: a podcast for folks who are passionate about educating diverse students with compassion, care, and courage. I am your host, Dr. Mel, lifelong learner and educator and CEO of Scholars for the Soul: An Educational Solutions Firm. We are here to talk about all things education: from teacher identity to teaching strategies, we unpack it all and invite you to join us on this journey of discussing teaching matters that impact education and make real teaching matter.
In our last episode, we discussed a prerequisite to relationship building: radical welcoming and radical belonging. There will be no relationship building if we don’t welcome and make space for the diversity and beauty of our students’ individual and collective identities and cultures.
This episode is going to take understanding the science of relationship building to the next level through an understanding of how relationships actually do foster increased academic achievement.
Resources discussed in the podcast (click the highlighted text to access resource):
"How to Build Academic Mindset through Powerful Instruction" Masterclass.
🗓️ April 1st 10-11:30 AM CST
FREE!FREE!FREE!
Learning outcomes:
✍🏾Participants will be able to seamlessly integrate social emotional development skills within their content area.
✍🏾 Participants will be able to design a learning environment of radical belonging that cultivates student intellectual and emotional genius.
✍🏾Participants will be able to design a lesson plan using the 4 academic mindset components.
CLICK HERE FOR THE REGISTRATION LINK.
Welcome to Teaching Matters 101: a podcast for folks who are passionate about educating diverse students with compassion, care, and courage. I am your host, Dr. Mel, lifelong learner and educator and CEO of Scholars for the Soul: An Educational Solutions Firm. We are here to talk about all things education: from teacher identity to teaching strategies, we unpack it all and invite you to join us on this journey of discussing teaching matters that impact education and make real teaching matter.
Listen in as we go on a journey to break down the science behind building authentic relationships with students...and it all starts with Embracing and Enacting Radical Welcoming & Belonging!!!
Resources discussed in the podcast (click the highlighted text to access resource):
Welcome to Teaching Matters 101: a podcast for folks who are passionate about educating diverse students with compassion, care, and courage. I am your host, Dr. Mel, lifelong learner and educator and CEO of Scholars for the Soul: An Educational Solutions Firm. We are here to talk about all things education: from teacher identity to teaching strategies, we unpack it all and invite you to join us on this journey of discussing teaching matters that impact education and make real teaching matter.
Today's episode is a conversation from one soul scholar to another. You will be emboldened by the passion of Dr. Mel to continue to reflect upon and examine the fuel to your fire that motivates why you do what you do in our nation's schools and classrooms.
Dr. Mel breaks down the current state of education, specifically as it relates to the state of Arkansas and other southern states, with their current attack on critical race theory and "indoctrination". She provides a refreshing insight into reframing our teacher mindset and identity work from deficit to strength based and offers solutions that center culturally responsive teaching as the way to engage diverse learners and their families and communities.
Important note:
Culturally responsive teaching is the solution.
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Welcome to a brave space to discuss teaching matters through the belief that good, soulful teaching really does matter. In this space, we are curators of culturally responsive teaching and leadership spaces where we believe in the power of student engagement, teacher self-efficacy, and strong professional development that matters!
In this episode, we're rejecting the lie that teachers are superheroes.
WE.ARE.NOT!!!
We are humans who teach.
We are humans who answered the call to serve.
We are humans who love what we do, but we love ourselves too.
Tap into this episode to take your power back and learn the value in saying no, while still doing the work of teaching from the soul to reach the soul.
Dr. Melanie Battles leads professional development workshop series in the areas of brain based teaching, social emotional learning, student and adult wellness, and strategic planning and implementation of culturally responsive leadership.
Visit our website at www.scholarsforthesoul.com.
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The podcast currently has 22 episodes available.