Posts by Mark Taylor
135: Conscious Learning with Janelle Christa
Education comes from life experiences not just schooling. Today we share some of those lessons that have empowered our guest Janelle Christa to breathe life into “conscious entertainment”
Janelle is a Hollywood coach, actress, producer, screenwriter and creator of “conscious entertainment”. Having come from a history of affairs, divorce, and family dysfunction as well as a bi-polar diagnosis, she strongly believes that happiness is a choice. Janelle’s level of expertise sees her coaching celebrity clients and people from all walks of life seeking to bring fulfillment into their lives. Janelle is also a founder of conscious production company Le Murian Dreams.
http://janellechrista.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/janelle_christa/
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire’
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The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools.
For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at nape.org.uk
134: Ai Addyson-Zhang – Classroom without walls, using technology to reimagine education
Who knew at the time of recording that so many children would be forced to learn online because of countries being in lockdown. However there are many people who have been advocating this for a while.
A timely bonus episode as we continue to share podcasts previously released on the network as Learning on Fire.
Ai Addyson-Zhang, Ph.D is a Social Media Pedagogy consultant. She created Classroom without walls – Using technology to reimagine education and has recently been featured in Forbes.
I am here to help you transform your classroom teaching.
Social Media Pedagogy has elevated and transformed my classroom teaching as well as my career as a College professor. I want to help you experience the same transformation that social media pedagogy has brought to my classroom teaching and my professional career.
BENEFITS OF SOCIAL MEDIA PEDAGOGY
- Your students are more excited about learning and are more proactive at self-directed learning
- Your students are getting hired and internships because of the strong personal and professional brands that you have helped them build through effective and strategic use of social media
- You are building a learning community that transcends geographic barriers and interlinks education and practice, as well as the broader community
- Your personal brand as a professor is gaining visibility and recognition. You become more known in your field as an authority in your subject matter.
- Your strong personal brand is attracting opportunities for you to speak at conferences and events, to contribute featured and paid, articles to blogs and major publications, to collaborate on research projects, to be interviewed on podcasts and live shows, and much more.
- Your teaching evaluations are improving.
- You are gaining more recognition from your school because of the visibility you have created for yourself, your class, your department, your university, and your broader academic and professional community.
- And much more …
Questions asked on the Podcast
- Who are you?
- What does your life look like now and how is it different from when you were growing up?
- What was valuable about your school experience?
- Which teachers do you remember and why?
- Who did you admire when you were young?
- What was it about that person that had such an impact?
- What was the best piece of advice you have ever been given and who gave it to you?
- What advice would you give your younger self?
- What does your future look like?
- What podcast, book, video, film, song or other resource has had the biggest impact on your life and why?
Resources Mentioned
Originals – How non-conformists Change the World by Adam Grant
Mind your business podcast – James Wedmore
Contact Information
Featured in Forbes: https://goo.gl/yoK2Uo
Twitter: @AiAddysonZhang
Instagram: @AiAddysonZhang
Medium (Top Writer in Social Media): https://medium.com/@aiaddysonzhang
Facebook weekly show (Classroom Without Walls): https://www.facebook.com/AiAddysonZhang/
Website: https://www.aiaddysonzhang.com/
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools.
For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at nape.org.uk
A new dawn for education? NAPE 047
The National Association for Primary Education (NAPE) brings together everyone who has a concern for the learning of children from birth to 13 years. Members and affiliated schools work to improve education through the Early, Primary and Middle Years.
We are looking to hear stories and experiences of those involved in education during the lockdown. We would like to create a vision of how education can change following these events by using the creativity and positive response from schools who enabled learning from home.
Get in touch at
Twitter @N_A_P_E
133: I Love My Job, but It’s Killing Me
Lesley Moffat has taught high school band for over thirty years in the Pacific Northwest. Her ensembles have performed all over the US and in Canada, including four performances at Carnegie Hall.
Following decades of chronic illness and exhaustion that were the result of the stress that comes with running a band program that included over 300 students, she revamped her teaching strategies to support a healthier balance and lifestyle.
Her first book, I Love My Job but It’s Killing Me, became an international Best Seller as teachers all over the world recognized their story in hers. Now on a mission to help other music teachers learn how to balance the responsibilities of the greatest job on earth with their own lives, she founded the mPowered Music Educator Academy, where she runs Band Director Boot Camp, a program designed to help music teachers build successful programs without burning out. A FREE download of the book is available for a limited time: mPoweredEducator.com/contact
Fun Fact: Lesley, her husband, father, and all three of her children have performed at Carnegie Hall.
Find out more and get a FREE copy of her ebook at www.mPoweredEducator.com
‘Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire’
Show Sponsor
The National Association for Primary Education speaks for young children and all who live and work with them. This includes parents, teachers, governors and all those interested in primary education. NAPE is a non-political charity and works tirelessly to support teachers in the classroom. NAPE leads the Primary Umbrella Group of thirty primary subject associations and unions and gives teachers and schools a voice at governmental level at consultative meetings with ministers for schools.
For full details of how they can support you please visit their website at nape.org.uk
132: World Class with Teru Clavel
Teru Clavel talks to Mark Taylor about her book, World Class: One Mother’s Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children and her own educational experiences.
Teru Clavel is a comparative education expert and author who has shared her insights on education and globalization on Fareed Zakaria’s GPS, The TODAY Show, CBS This Morning, CNBC’s Squawk Box, as well as Channel NewsAsia. She has written columns for The Japan Times and Financial Times and has been interviewed on nationally syndicated radio shows and podcasts to millions of listeners. Teru earned a master’s degree in Global and International Education and a bachelor’s degree in Asian Studies. Teru spent over a decade raising her three children in the public schools of Hong Kong, Shanghai, Tokyo and California and returned with her family to her hometown, New York City, in 2018.
www.teruclavel.com
Twitter & Instagram: @teruclavel
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TeruClavelWriter/
Linkedin: Teru Clavel
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnEP-sxBOL6d2DFSNAnPIKw