The Inspired Educator Podcast

On today's episode, I present a conversation with Dr. Kimberly Franklin, the former Dean of Education at Trinity Western University. We discuss the School of Education’s virtue pathways that aims to help student teachers develop reflective discernment. These pathways have spiritual origins, foster character virtues, and are aligned with the professionals standards.

On today’s episode, we present a conversation between Professor Nina Pak Lui and her student, Noelle Kelbert. Their conversation centers on significant moments of learning for transformational thinking. In particular, they discuss overall personal growth as a preservice teacher. This episode is part of a SSHRC Explore Grant, about preservice teachers and podcasts.

On today's episode, we present a conversation between Professor Nina Pak Lui and three preservice teachers, Michelle Bedry, Tasha DeVries, and Caroline Profitt. heir conversation centers on reflecting on the BC professional standards, communicating their beliefs about assessment and evaluation, and articulating any ethical, moral, or spiritual implications of their assessment practices. This episode is part of a SSHRC Explore Grant, about preservice teachers and podcasts.

On today's episode, we present a conversation between Professor Nina Pak Lui and two of her students, Rebecca Tazumi and Maria Giesbrecht. Their conversation centers around understanding curriculum philosophies and ideologies. Also, they discuss how Understanding by Design (UbD) can help with curricular and pedagogical planning. 

On today's episode, I present a conversation with Dr. Ken Badley, an author and Professor of education. We discuss his many books and how they converge around redeeming teaching and learning. This podcast was recorded right before Dr. Badley gave his public lecture at Trinity Western University on Redeeming Teaching.

On today’s episode, we present a conversation between Professor Nina Pak Lui and three of her students – Maria Dykstra, Emma Driedger, and Sean Hui. These students are 4th year preservice teachers and we believe their lived experience within our teacher education program is important and must be shared. Their conversation centers on academic agency, and pedagogical inquiry, especially relating to their developing understanding of assessment. 

On this episode, I am speaking to Dr. Matthew Etherington. Matthew is professor of education at Trinity Western University where he is also the director of the Institute of Indigenous Issues and Perspectives (IIIP). In our conversation, we discuss indigenous education and indigenizing education. Matthew offers a worldview approach to help us understand this important topic. 

On today’s episode, I’m sharing conversations that I had with 3 educators from Western Canada who taught during the height of COVID-19 before the summer break in 2020. 

In light of COVID-19, the Inspired Educator podcast will focus on the realities of teaching and learning in this new context. For this episode, I wanted to share a journal article from Health Affairs, a peer-reviewed healthcare journal described by the Washington Post as the bible of health policy. The article is titled, Closing the schools – lessons from the 1918-19 US Influenza Pandemic published in 2009. I thought this article is quite helpful as it paints a picture of how different cities and their schools were wrestling with the different interventions necessary to help mitigate the influenza pandemic over 100 years ago.

On today’s episode, I am speaking to Allyson Jule. Allyson is Dean, professor of education, and one of the founding directors of the Gender Studies institute at Trinity Western University. In our conversation, we discuss the complexities of gender and education.