Bring Your Machete to Work Day | Episode #20 - Kelly Haldane

Hello friends, Kelly Haldane is currently a Junior High Humanities Teacher who has been in the profession for more than a decade. On Part 1 of this episode, Kelly and I discuss the utility of our university education, her experience working in a women’s shelter in Edmonton, teaching in Kenya, a machete surprise in the classroom, how her Kenyan students created their own Track and a chance encounter with Kenyan Olympians, her experience teaching in England as well as the riot that occurred in her school, the different treatment experienced by male vs. female teachers, drowning in work during the early years, how teachers place guilt on one another, how she balanced teaching with being a new mother and, much more. Thank you all for tuning in and hope you enjoyed the show!Send us a textThoughts shared on the podcast are purely our own and do not represent the views of the Anglophone South School District or the relevant jurisdictions associated with my guests.