Meetings With Remarkable Educators

Ba and Josette Luvmour
Meetings With Remarkable Educators

Meetings with Remarkable Educators showcases the work, insights, and inspiration of educators dedicated to the whole child. This podcast intends to both enrich appreciation of the scope and depth of the capacities of children and to remedy the limitations and confusions permeating traditional education. We, the producers and participants, sincerely believe that these podcasts contain critical elements for social justice. We trust that everyone who cares for and about children, education, and the actualization of social well-being will grow in valuable and often unexpected ways through listening to Meetings with Remarkable Educators.

  1. 05/29/2019

    Episode 35: Talk at The Riley Foundation

    Everyone knows Ba and Josette and their great work Natural Learning Relationships. This podcast provides perhaps the best insight into the core of NLR. Consciousness must become the way of all relationships with children. Learn how it works and why this must be so. There is a spiritual essence expressed in through, and as nature, that is in each of us, and expresses itself in the natural development of children. If we're going to be with children, be with our life essence, be with the unfolding of our humanity, we have to participate in consciousness with children. We have to understand how the natural laws unfold in a consciousness way. …We can move away from the hurtful conditioning imposed on children. Josette said:…in every age of childhood, and every age of development, something different is organizing. Human development is governed by natural laws. We’re all unfolding in stages. The variable is the environment. What is the child exposed to in the environment? That's where we come in to play, because we are the environment of the children around us. We create it, we organize it, and we organize our time, and our space, and our relationships to them. Ba said:The actualization of wholeness—and the actualization of spirit, is lived through us, through the life force, and through consciousness. If we start relating to children in that way, then we have this great opportunity to allow a transformation to emerge and unfold according to natural laws, just like the flowers in your garden... To learn more start here: https://luvmourconsulting.com/natural-learning-relationships Click here for a transcript of the podcast.

  2. 02/05/2019

    Episode 29: Ali Ronder

    Ali is a founding principle in ICARE (International Council for Accrediting Relationship-Based Education). She lives and breathes education and is deeply invested in shaping the future of learning. ICARE’s mission is to catalyze, synergize, and nourish diverse edu-ecosystems to “enlight and ignite” the evolution of education. Co-creating the ICARE holistic accreditation program is a labor of love and an expression of her utmost respect for colleagues who are doing the vital work of relationship-based education in schools and other programs around the world. http://www.enlightignite.com/ Ali’s learning and teaching experiences span the range of conventional and alternative education approaches. As a child, Ali was homeschooled, unschooled, Waldorf schooled, Montessori schooled, and public schooled. She has worked for (and selected for her daughters’ education) parent-run educational cooperatives, Waldorf-oriented and Montessori preschools, Sudbury schools, traditional public schools, and public charter schools. Ali has been Development Director and Head of School for Sankalpa Academy, founding executive director of Integrity Academy at Casa de Luz, Center for Integral Studies, and executive director of AHB Community School, a creative and collaborative educational alternative that cultivates authentic, balanced critical thinkers who are prepared for a life of learning and community engagement. Her early teaching experience focused on early childhood at South Austin Children’s Cooperative, Starbright Preschool, and Escuela Montessori de Montopolis. She taught bilingual kindergarten at Maplewood Elementary (an Austin public school) and kindergarten/first grade at Austin Discovery School, a progressive charter elementary school Ali also helped found the Clearview Sudbury School of Austin. Ali holds an EC-4 teaching certificate from the State of Texas, a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in history/applied learning and development, and an M.Ed. from Texas State University in bilingual/bicultural education. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in educational administration at Texas State University. Ali has taught ESL in Mexico and Guatemala at Colegio Cuernavaca, Casa Xelaju, Colegio Alonzo Morelio, and La Pedrera. She also has taught yoga to both children and adults. Ali has distinguished herself as a community leader, serving on the boards of numerous alternative schools and nonprofit groups that support health and social justice. She is a three-time Texas State University appointee to the Clinton Global Initiative University. Click here for a transcript of the podcast.

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Meetings with Remarkable Educators showcases the work, insights, and inspiration of educators dedicated to the whole child. This podcast intends to both enrich appreciation of the scope and depth of the capacities of children and to remedy the limitations and confusions permeating traditional education. We, the producers and participants, sincerely believe that these podcasts contain critical elements for social justice. We trust that everyone who cares for and about children, education, and the actualization of social well-being will grow in valuable and often unexpected ways through listening to Meetings with Remarkable Educators.

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