Teachers, in their ongoing work, must reconcile their roles, histories, communities, and identities. This may be of even greater relevance as we approach the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation and the fall equinox. This is a keynote session and Q&A with The Honourable Murray Sinclair, recorded on May 6th, 2022. It was part of the Professional Learning and Leadership Centre's "Flourishing Communities and Anti-Racist Practice" Speakers Series, funded by Winnipeg School Division.
Sep 19, 2022•2 min
It’s 2021 – what’s news with you? Maggie Macintosh knows! The Free Press Education reporter talks with me about the relationship between reporter and subjects, what people are interested in reading about, what “counts” as news, how you report on stories, truth in reporting, anonymous sources, and predictions for the news of 2021. And if you, like me, missed this article, here’s is Maggie’s mini-review of education in Manitoba: https://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/education-special-568917622.h...
Jan 04, 2021•48 min
This conversation with Michael Fullan packs a lot of big ideas relating to the nature and necessity of change (post-COVID and in general) and the role of technology going forward.
Dec 16, 2020•21 min
I reach Rebecca from her home (which is not a school but is a place of learning) to talk about her switch from working in the public school system to home schooling. There's lots of talk about what this entails, similarities and differences between home and public schooling, but also the differences between child and learner and teacher and parent.
Dec 15, 2020•33 min
We're back! Who better to join me than Ellen Bees, middle school teacher and Queen of Data on EduTwitter. We talk about the pandemic (how could we not?), classrooms of the past, present, and future, what success might mean this year, social justice, and media literacy.
Nov 30, 2020•38 min
President of the Manitoba Teachers Society James Bedford talks with me about the recent WE scandal, the presence of WE in schools, the 2017 MTS decision to not support WE, and what all that means for teachers.
Aug 05, 2020•32 min
Tara has a great Youtube channel, and you should all check that out! As that loads, you can listen to this! I talk to Tara McLauchlan about graphic novels, what high school literacy can or should look like, using tech in the classroom, using tech, online learning, and the 6Cs.
Jun 29, 2020•51 min
In a digital conversation, as is the way things go now, Michelle Arnaud talks with me about her experiences teaching in the inner-city, teaching Indigenous perspectives, what remote teaching looks like for her, and being an Online Teacher.
Jun 24, 2020•46 min
As we come to the end of the year, I chat with Jen Watt on the occasion of her podcast, Schools of Well-Being. She talks with me about what wellness, well-being, and well-making might look like in the context of working with students.
Jun 22, 2020•22 min
Graphic novelist and former teacher Gene Luen Yang talks with me James Naismith and Historica Moments, finding your footing in your first years as a teacher, a pivotal moment that shifted his teaching, the lessons we can learn about his attempts at video lessons, and what a teacher would need to know in order to teach a graphic novel well. And I geek out about comics.
Jun 15, 2020•36 min
It is a fact that I was trying to find someone who teaches phys. ed to come on the podcast for a long time. Between not knowing a lot of gym people and gym people being busy…it took awhile. But here we are! This week, I speak with Colin Donato about his remote phys ed teaching, what it means to be ‘good’ at gym and how to work with students who don’t like to participate, assessing success when everyone is running around and more!
Jun 08, 2020•34 min
I had two reasons to talk to Tim Callahan. First, he wrote about his Five Core Principles of Virtual Learning: something we ought to be thinking about as digital teaching seems like it might be around for awhile. The other reason was more selfish. I read Tim Callahan’s comic criticism yeaaarrs ago, especially his writing on Grant Morrison. So when I found out he’s a principal? Well, this just made sense. In this episode, we talk about Grant Morrison and comics, leadership lessons from Dungeons a...
Jun 01, 2020•52 min
In this episode, Joel Westheimer joins me to talk about what education means in pandemic times, citizenship, assessment and standardization - you know, all the fun stuff.
May 25, 2020•40 min
As we start wondering what school needs to look like and how we can get there, I speak with Didier Jourdan, holder of the UNESCO chair and WHO collaborating center for Global Health & Education, and Nicola Gray, Affiliated Researcher to the UNESCO Chair for Global Health & Education. We talk about their respective roles pre- and mid- COVID, the importance of reliable information, inequalities and those students with long term conditions, the impact of school closures on students and on C...
May 15, 2020•41 min
This is an episode about policing. It's an episode about race. It's an episode about education. It's an episode about identity. Listen carefully.
May 06, 2020•1 hr 5 min
In another episode recorded back when things were normal, I talk with Marika Schalla! She tells her story of becoming a teacher, and in doing so, shares many lessons for how teachers can support their students, then we talk about teaching in the inner-city, the successes and challenges of being a first-year teacher, Indigenous woman, getting the knowledge to feel confident teaching Indigenous perspectives in the classrooms, teaching the water cycle and water teachings, land-based education, the ...
Apr 30, 2020•41 min
I talk with Geoff Krall about active caring his role as a coach, the context for teachers where he is, active caring remotely and otherwise, best remote math practices (if such a thing exists), and whether or not math teachers have a problem with caring. Oh, and we hear from his cat, which is genuinely joyful (as you will hear in my voice.) Check out his blog post on active caring here: https://emergentmath.com/2020/04/13/active-caring-now-more-than-ever/
Apr 23, 2020•44 min
Remember life three months ago? What a simpler time! You might wonder why we don't talk about the anxiety of living in a pandemic. Take a stroll with me back in time to what was approximately the 100th day of school and spoke with Geneviève Sprenger. We talk about Being president, dream MTSPDDay speakers, two different Edward Finneys, math education, unlearning to use textbooks, the pressure of teaching young students math, the 100 day conspiracy exposed, soccer as teaching identity, centres, in...
Apr 14, 2020•42 min
Superintendents are teachers too. I called Brian O'Leary at his office.
Apr 09, 2020•11 min
I called Kirsten Thompson at her remote office.
Apr 06, 2020•10 min
Micheal Geist joins me to talk about Access Copyright and the lawsuit happening in Hanover School Division and across Canada as well as, yes, how this pandemic might have an impact on how we are teaching in terms of copyright and what materials we access.
Apr 02, 2020•32 min
Cornerstone of educational philosophy and right good chap John Dewey talks briefly with me about college, among other things on this April 1st.
Apr 01, 2020•4 min
I call Jon Sorokowski in his home office.
Mar 27, 2020•11 min
I call Jenny Hughes at Governor Semple School.
Mar 24, 2020•20 sec
Okay, so things are weird now. And next steps aren't readily clear. One step being presented is shifting classroom learning to the digital sphere. There's one person I trust to talk about digital teaching and learning. Audrey Watters talks with me in this rushed-to-print episode to discuss digital tools, teaching online, the difference between remote teaching, e-learning, and moving online, if teachers have the background to pivot to online, digital privacy, the myth of free, how the school year...
Mar 16, 2020•35 min
I caught Shelley Moore between sessions at the MASS Conference and we talk about if inclusion is a fundamental reimagining of how schools have operated, the baggage people bring when discussing inclusion, being an expert at inclusion, working at high schools, frowning at universities and the necessity of knowing each others stories. Watch her Five Moore Minutes videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU-GCW3-EwNxcbJEFKKaABw
Mar 15, 2020•26 min
In a deep-dive on public education and issues surrounding it, I talk with Marc Kuly about Titles, teaching adults, teachers’ passion, the promise of public schooling, student teachers’ perception of schools outside their communities, perceptions of immigrant families vs. indigenous families, comfortable narratives, service learning, bringing students together in extracurriculars, finding joy in learning and sharing, world issues/global citizenship, a bold new way to assess the school system, ext...
Feb 28, 2020•1 hr 8 min
I'm talking Kindergarten this week as I visit Sara Neufeld to discuss Trees instead of numbers, how words reflects beliefs, how we can understand the world by observing kindergarten classrooms, deepening our relationships, inquiry, play: the first language of children, how different stories emerge depending on the classroom setup, noticing and wondering, social problem solving, the ways different cultures might effect the ways we solve problems, the capacity of children to hear each other, what ...
Feb 14, 2020•46 min
I talk with Dave Hoag, Victor Kolynchuk, Doug Hanna, Frank Locker, and Kyle Lewkowich about the structure of schools – the buildings themselves. We cover how a school begins in the planning stages, progressive and traditional design, portable classes and Michel Foucault’s idea that the design of school was inspired by prison. This episode is all about the *literal* shape of education to come.
Jan 31, 2020•56 min
It would be the end of a decade/start of a new decade without a retrospective, so Audrey Watters joins me to talk about her Top 100 Ed Tech Debacles of the Decade list. We take a close look at the top ten and some of the trends for the decade in ed tech.
Jan 15, 2020•42 min
