23 episodes
Wholehearted Teaching with Adrian Del Monte Adrian Del Monte
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In the podcast, we hope to inspire educators to bring their whole selves into their classroom everyday. Through powerful conversations, we will explore how teachers can see their classrooms and students as extensions of who they are as people. We will help you embrace your calling as educators, teaching from authenticity, vulnerability and the power of the heart.
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A Full Heart with TCDSB Director of Education Brendan Browne
At the end of a very difficult year I went into this conversation with TCDSB Director of Education Brendan Browne looking for something: I was looking for the heart in what he would say. I knew there would be limits to how much I could ask my boss (on air!), but that's not what I wanted to hear.
As you listen, I encourage you to ask yourself this question: are you heartened by the work of education this year? You’ll hear Director Browne talk about his desire to build trust in the community, to work towards equity and, as the largest Catholic school board in the world, to show that we follow Christ by our love. And then you can decide if these beliefs are grounded in some kind of distant principles or if at the heart of the board, is a deep value for people.
This is our last episode until the fall. I want to thank you again for tuning in. It has been my deep and genuine pleasure.
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A Year of Grief and a Year of Joy with my Wife, Amy Del Monte
In this week's conversation, my wife Amy and I sit down to discuss what was an extraordinary year. We hope that our story might help other parents and teachers process theirs.
We reflect on the joys of the year-- our neighbourhood coming back to life, sharing laughter around the dinner table and becoming a reading family-- as well as the challenges-- wrestling with our own privilege, trying to support our sons in French Immersion, and watching so many of our friends leave the city.
Amy helps me remember that we must "sit" in both the joy and the grief. That is how we have the most complete human experience. I was so glad that we could process our year together in this way.
Amy is not on any social media but feel free to let us know what insights the episode offered you by reaching out on twitter @podcastforheart
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How Marriage Shapes Our Teaching with Educators and Spouses Dan and Rachel Vigliatore
If you're a teacher who is a parent or a spouse, this is a wonderful conversation for you!
Today's guests are Dan and Rachel Vigliatore, a wholehearted husband and wife who both teach in the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Dan is an elementary PHE teacher and Rachel is a secondary Guidance Department Head. They are also the parents to two lovely girls.
Together, we talk about the many many parallels between teaching and parenting and even marriage. This conversation shows just how much our parenting and our spouses shapes our teaching and how much our teaching shapes our families.
At the end of the conversation, I pose an exercise that would I would suggest for all of you: to create a family mission statement. It's a powerful exercise that can become a real map for both your family and, I would say, your own classroom teaching.
You can connect with Dan and Rachel on Twitter!
https://twitter.com/PhysEdDynasty
https://twitter.com/wellcoachrachel
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Building to Last with Educator, Champion and Advocate Skye Bowen
In this week’s conversation I’m talking to one of the most wholehearted educators I’ve ever met: Skye Bowen. Skye is an activist, a community builder, a champion, and is working actively to dismantle systems that oppress racialized students.
This conversation will give you confidence to engage in those conversations that can shift thinking and change systems. One by one, Skye addresses some common reactions and objections we hear when we really push for anti-racism classrooms:
1. "You can't hire someone just because they're racialized" (17:30)
2. "Like everything in education, there is always something new; we'll be on to the next thing soon" (20:45)
3. "You don't need all BIPOC authors...you need representation" (24:00)
4. "Should I say 'BIPOC' or 'racialized'?" (27:00)
5. "You can't assume that all racialized students have struggled" (29:15)
6. "Ok, ok...we get it...enough with the racism talk...." (31:30)
We also discuss how Skye's faith informs her work. In particular, we talk about WWJD-- "what would Jesus do?"-- to challenge systems that oppress.
Connect with Skye on Twitter at https://twitter.com/HealthyMsB1 or on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/skyebowen37/
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Empowering Students to Tell Their Stories with Best Selling Author Jael Richardson
How often do we let our students (and our own children) just tell their story? That is the question I'm discussing today with Jael Richardson, author and Executive Director for The Festival of Literary Diversity.
So often as teachers and parents we have certain expectations of what "learning" ought to look like. I hope that today's conversation will help you see the power of letting go and letting our students free to find themselves in the stories they consume.
In particular, we talk about the Educator's Guide to Gutter Child and how teacher's can use it to help students navigate the adolescent years.
Listen to the whole episode or jump to the parts that resonate with you most!
4:45: The original Old Testament Jael and her tent-peg for change
8:50: Using reading to help students find themselves
12:30: Finding opportunities for students to write about what matters
15:30: Convincing our students their stories are worth telling
20:25: What Gutter Child is all about
21:55: Stories as a form of resistance
24:40: Jael's hope for Gutter Child in our classrooms
31:40: Raising readers for a lifetime
39:15: The end goal of reading
42:05: What makes the Educator's Guide to Gutter Child so special
46:00: Make reading a priority for everyone (and getting involved in The FOLD)
52:00: Risk, vulnerability and change
Some Links
1. Jael's website
2. The Gutter Child Educator's Guide
3. The Festival of Literary Diversity website
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Celebrating a Changing School Board with TCDSB Superintendent of Education Kimberly Dixon
When I first reached out to Kimberly Dixon, Superintendent in the Toronto Catholic DSB, I was hoping we would talk about intersectionality for much of the conversation. I assumed that because Kimberly is only the second black, female superintendent in the TCDSB, her story would be full of examples of how she had to rise above obstacles in what has been called the "dinosaur" of education systems.
But this conversation turned into more than I expected.
Kimberly's story is one that celebrates diversity and richness in the TCDSB. She talks the wonderful people and communities she has worked with. She talks about the progress and innovation and pivoting she has seen in this board. She talks about the incredible anti-racist educators she sees. And, despite me asking more than once, she is very clear that no one doubted her abilities as she climbed to a position of leadership.
Listen right to the end. Kimberly’s final message will be an encouragement if you work in Toronto Catholic, if your children attend her or if you know a teacher who does.
Connect with Kimberly on twitter at https://twitter.com/1wholeads
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