PODCAST · education
Elevate with Spark! @ Catlin Gabel
by Rob van Nood
Big ideas, little projects and everything in between from Catlin Gabel teachers, students and administrators. Elevate is hosted by Rob van Nood & Matt Woodard.
Episodes
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S4-E1 An In-Person Homecoming: a conversation with Kate Williams and Da’Mon Perry
With the approach of Homecoming, Catlin Gabel is transitioning back to the sporting events that are so special to our community. Part of that transition is the new team that is leading the CGS Athletic Program. Rob and Matt sat down with Athletics Director, Kate Williams, and Associate Director…
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S3-E16 What Should We Keep? A year-end conversation with students
As this year of remote and socially distanced learning comes to an end we wanted to talk with students about the types of experiences or learning environments they think the school should consider holding on to in the future. In this two sectioned episode Rob spoke with Lower School students...
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S3-E15 What Will Change? A conversation with Michele Hoang, Kenny Nguyen, Beining Hu & Traci Kiyama
Following our previous podcast where AAPI (Asian American Pacific Islander) students shared their stories, Rob joined Upper School and Middle School teachers Kenny Nguyen, Beining Hu, Traci Kiyama, and Michele Hoang for a wide-ranging conversation about the experience of being Asian at Catlin…
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S3-E14 How We Fit In: A conversation with 3 Asian and South Asian students
As part of our year-long exploration of anti-racism work here at Catlin Gabel, Matt and Rob sat down with three Upper School students and two Upper School faculty who identify as Asian or South Asian. Math teacher Traci Kiyama and English teacher Krystal Wu co-host a conversation with Issa, Zia,...
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S3-E13 It's Gonna Take a Minute: A conversation with Damien Geter
When Damien Geter took a leave of absence as the Upper School Music Teacher in June of 2019 to pursue an opportunity at the Metropolitan Opera in New York he never thought that his singing and composition life would take a major leap forward. But in the two years since he last taught at Catlin...
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S3-E12 What Do We Want To Hold On To? A conversation with educator Jodie Ricci
Teaching and learning in a pandemic has forced all of us out of our comfort zones and required us to be in a constant state of re-invention. Jodie Ricci knew a lot about living in that ambiguity even before Covid-19. As the Performing Arts Chair at Hawken School in Cleveland, a coach with Project...
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S3-E11. Join the Club: A conversation about a social media platform that connects
Matt and Rob decided to do something a little different for this year’s 11th episode of Elevate. Rather than covering a story, a project, or a person they held a conversation about the new social media platform called Clubhouse. They invited Catlin Gabel parents, artists, and Clubhouse users…
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S3-E10 A Growth Mindset: A conversation with Alison Ward
As the school gears up to return to in-person teaching and learning Matt and Rob thought it would be a good idea to sit down with someone who has been doing on-campus, in-person teaching and learning for quite a while this school. Alison Ward wears many hats at Catlin Gabel, including as the...
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S3-E9 Embracing the Imperfect: A conversation with John Harnetiaux
As John Harnetiaux stepped into the role of Upper School Dean of Students this summer, after 4 years as the Director of Outdoor Education, he began to understand that it required many of the same skillsets that he had acquired over years of supporting students and teachers at Catlin Gabel and…
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S3-E8 8th Grade Independent Art Projects: a conversation with Alex Juarez and Zoe Miner-Winter
Since the 1940s Catlin Gabel has put on a theatrical production of Not St. George each December. This Middle School tradition is always accompanied by the rumor that this year it just might not happen. Well, this year it really didn't happen. Because of the hurdles remote learning placed in the…
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S3-E7 Focus on the Stories & the Big Picture: A conversation with students of the Environmental Action Committee
Malala Yousafzai, the well-known human rights activist and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate, said "some people only ask others to do something...Why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward." The four members of Catlin Gabel’s Environmental Action Team (EAT) that...
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S3-E6 A Path Forward: A conversation about anti-racism with Tim Bazemore, Jasmine Love & Aline Garcia-Rubio
In September Catlin Gabel's leadership made a clear and decisive commitment to becoming an anti-racist school. In this fifth episode focusing on anti-racism Head of School Tim Bazemore, Director of Inclusion and Outreach Jasmine Love, and Head of Upper School Aline Garcia-Rubio give a…
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S3-E5 Playful Possibilities: Stories about in-person learning in the preschool
While K-12 students are learning from home and interacting with their teachers through Zoom, preschool students at Catlin Gabel come in each day to learn and play in the Beehive and throughout the school's 67 acres. Classroom teachers Diana Post and Jennifer Pitts and Beginning School Woodshop...
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S3-E4 You Can’t Opt Out: A conversation with the Anti-Racist Collective (ARC)
In this moment of collective reckoning since the death of George Floyd, Catlin Gabel, like many educational institutions, has had to examine the ways in which racism exists within our school. Black students, families, employees, and other People of Color, made clear that the school must do a…
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S3-E3 Having Space To Do Something Else: A conversation with Erica Babino
The Office of Inclusion and Outreach at Catlin Gabel plays a pivotal role in helping the community think about and expand the culture of the school. In her new full-time role as the Assistant Director of Inclusion and Outreach Erica Babino brings a deep passion for the work of diversity…
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S3-E2 Lift Up The Voices: A conversation with Matt Woodard
Most people know Matt Woodard as a go-to man when dealing with all manner of digital and audio issues. But as Matt moves into his new role as Media Arts teacher in the Upper School Rob wanted to take the opportunity to chat with him so everyone has a chance to see some of the other great talents...
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S3-E1 Teacher as BLM Activist: A conversation with Marcelle Donehower
In the middle of the literal firestorm that is September 2020, we are all looking for ways to feel hope and ways to feel connected to others and our world. In this first episode of Elevate's third season, Rob van Nood and his new co-host Matt Woodard sit down with second-grade teacher and…
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S2-E20 Una Mirada Global al Coronavirus (a Global Look at the Coronavirus)
Over the past 33 episodes, Elevate has covered a wide variety of topics and people, but there has always been one constant, Rob has always been the voice of the interviewer. In this 34th episode, we are changing things around by sharing out a student-made podcast. Not only will this be the first...
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S2-E19 A Conversation With 4 Graduating Seniors
What does it feel like to be on the threshold of leaving the nest during a worldwide pandemic, an economic recession, and a large scale revolt against police brutality and centuries of systematic racism? The four graduating seniors I spoke with for this podcast were wary but shared a heartening...
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S2-E18 Exchange for Change: Students Bridging Urban & Rural Oregon
What happens when you bring together a group of students from the Portland metro area and a group from Josephine County in Southern Oregon for a two-week cultural exchange? At a time when our country seems more and more factionalized the Exchange for Change program was devised as a way for urban...
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S2-E17 Supporting Hearts & Minds During Tough Times
We hear over and over how challenging our current situation is. With work and school disrupted, and all of us feeling isolated in one way or another, issues of mental and emotional health are on everyone's minds. In this week's two-part episode Rob brings together staff and faculty who play a...
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S2-E16 Living and Teaching in Flux: A conversation with Sharon Ravitch, PhD.
About a year ago, on May 3rd, 2019, the inaugural episode of Elevate was launched with a conversation about the treehouse that was built from scratch through the ideas and vision of Beginning School students. For this 30th episode, Rob wanted to branch out beyond the Catlin Gabel community and…
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S2-E15 Life and Learning during Quarantine: a conversation with students and parents
As the realities of this long term quarantine set in Rob reached out to students and parents to hear about how they were coping. In this extended, two chapter episode of Elevate middle school students Erik, Maya, and Mira, upper school students Stella, Lauren Mei, and Benjamin and PFA reps Mimi…
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S2-E14 It's Not Just About a Sunday in November: A Heritage Day Retrospective
In the last episode of Elevate, Rob had the chance to interview 3 teachers about their experiences during the quarantine. This week he interviewed both students and parents for an upcoming episode, One thing that was very clear from all those conversations is that people are missing and longing…
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S2-E13 How Do We Get Through the Dark? An honest conversation with 3 teachers.
As Catlin Gabel ends its second full week of remote learning because of the Covid-19 pandemic Rob was curious about what kind of magic teachers were observing in their Zoom classes. He really wanted to share some examples that might inspire or motivate the community of teachers? But when he...
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S2–E12 Keep Calm and Pivot
As Catlin Gabel was making plans on how to react to the Covid-19 crisis the auction committee, headed by Events Director Gen Kady, had a big choice to make. With the school moving toward remote learning, and the public being advised to do social distancing, should the school's largest fundraising...
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S2-E11 Real-World Collaboration: a Student Run Non-Profit
When Rob started this series on collaboration he was really thinking about the idea in the context of teaching and learning at the school. The amazing thing about Catlin Gabel is that there are so many examples of collaborations that extend beyond the school itself. His guests on this episode...
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S2-E10 Start-Up Camp Collaboration: A conversation with two Seniors
In their freshman year, Britt Masback and Li Lambert both got involved in Founder's Weekend, a three-day entrepreneurial experience for high school students organized by then Catlin Gabel teacher Meredith Goddard. It was an experience that allowed them to create a non-profit that four years later...
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S2-E9 What Can the Preschool Teach Us?
Rebecca Wirth & Brendan Clark are in their 6th year of collaboration as Catlin Gabel's Preschool teachers. Having had a chance to work in their class on a weekly basis for the past 4 months I really wanted to sit down with them and hear what it takes to work so closely year after year. At the…
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S2-E8 The Crown Project: 3 first graders share insights
After interviewing Sheri, Peter and Peggy for last week's "Light and Shadow" episode, Rob wanted to sit down with some first graders to hear their perspective of the project. Sitting down to talk with a group of seven-year-olds presents such a great view of what children remember from their...
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S2-E7 Light & Shadow: A collaboration that embraced the unknown
After being inspired by visual artist Olafur Eliasson Lower School science teacher Sheri Cocquio had a vision for a project with the first-grade class. She approached Lower School music teacher Peter Musselman and Lower School art teacher Peggy Schauffler to see if they would join her in a world…
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S2-E 6 “I Love Your Work": 16 years of artistic collaborations
16 years ago, in her first year as the drama teacher in Catlin Gabel's Middle School, Deirdre Atkinson approached Middle School music teacher Mark Pritchard to see if he wanted to join forces on a theatrical production. After 103 productions Rob had the privilege of sitting down with both of them...
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S2-E5 Outdoor Education: Building connections and skills
The Outdoor Education program at Catlin Gabel gives students and teachers unique opportunities to explore the natural world. In this 5th episode of the collaboration series, Rob sits down with Director of Outdoor and Global Education, John Harnetiaux, and Assistant Director of Outdoor Education,...
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S2-E4 American Studies: An Upper School Interdisciplinary Collaboration
As we head into a week where we celebrate a very American holiday, why not hear about the collaborative work that goes into teaching a very American class. Upper School teachers Amanda Lighthiser and Maureen Reed sit down with Rob to talk about their interdisciplinary American Studies class which...
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S2-E3 Art, Chinese and Wood Shop: A Lower School Collaboration
In this third episode of the "Collaboration Series", Rob chats with 3 Lower School teachers about a project that is seeing its second iteration this school year. Art teacher Peggy Schauffler, Chinese teacher Guimin Tang and Wood Shop teacher Ric Fry connected during the 2018-2019 school year to...
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S2-E2 Art & Science: An Upper School Collaboration
For episode one of Elevate’s second season, Rob sits down with Upper School science teacher Becky Wynne and Upper School art teacher Chris Mateer to hear about their collaborative and integrated class called Structural Design and Engineering. It’s the first in a multi-episode exploration on the...
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S2-E1 Poetry & Ecology: A Middle School Collaboration
In this Episode of Elevate, Rob continues his exploration of collaboration across the campus at Catlin Gabel by sitting down with Middle School English teacher Christa Kaainoa and Middle School Science teacher Jesse Lowes to hear all the ins and outs of how they have developed a successful...
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S1-E13 Predicting the Stock Market: a senior’s project
In this episode of Elevate Rob sits down with senior Sasha Agapiev to explore the details of a year-long investigation he pursued in the Honors Computer Science class with Andrew Merrill. Sasha's interest in the world of quantitative finance led him to design a project that explored ways to use...
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S1-E12 Place-Based Science
In this episode of Elevate Rob sits down with science teacher Sheri Cocquio to explore how her passion for place-based education grew from her earliest years of teaching in her native Hawaii and how she translated that to her work with Lower School students here at Catlin Gabel School. To explore...
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E1-E11 Can You Really Evaluate Participation?
In this episode Rob sits down with Upper School History Teacher Pat Walsh to talk about his year-long action research project that explored the question "How do students engage in collaborative work and how do we better record and assess it?" Pat was one of four educators who worked with the…
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S1-E10 Equity is Not a Program: Identity, Code-switching and The Center
In this episode of Elevate Rob sits down with Director of Inclusion and Outreach, Jasmine Love, and Coordinator of Multicultural Programs and Youth Partnerships, Kofi Obeng, to talk about the experience of being black at independent schools, code switching and how The Center has empowered…
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S1-E9 Art of Storytelling: Making Space for Refuge Stories
In this episode of Elevate Rob sits down with Middle School teachers Brendan Gill and Deirdre Atkinson to talk about their year-long student teacher experiential project called "Art of Storytelling" and how their original vision turned into something completely different after meeting refuge camp...
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S1-E8 Genius Hour Part 2: Chess in Equatorial Guinea
In this second episode about the use of Genius Hour in the Upper School Rob sits down with seniors Avi and Seth to talk about how they used their time to develop a three year project that ended with a trip to Equatorial Guinea to establish a national chess curriculum and federation there. More...
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S1-E7 Genius Hour Part 1: Letting Students Decide
In this first of a two part series on the use of "Genius Hour" Rob sits down with Upper School Spanish Teacher Enrique Escalona to discuss how and why he decided to give 20% of class time over to students to explore anything they want. For more information about genius hour check out the work by…
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S1-E6 Democratizing Discussions with the Harkness Method
In this episode Rob sits down with Upper School Dean of Students Brandon Woods to talk about his class Rewriting Childhood and the Harkness Method he uses to democratize classroom discussions. If you have questions about this episode, are curious about this podcast in general or have people or...
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S1-E5 A Peak into the Upper School Learning Center
In this episode Rob sits down with Upper School Learning Specialist (and Elevate host) Jeffrey Silverstein to talk about how the Learning Center is an advocate for students and what Jeffrey wants to improve in the coming year. If you have questions about this episode, are curious about this…
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S1-E4 Reimagining Feedback for Writers
In this episode Rob sits down with 8th grade English teacher Holly Walsh to hear about how she, with the help of the Ed Lab Team and her students, uncovered a more powerful way to get writers to consider and use ongoing feedback. If you have questions about this episode, are curious about this...
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S1-E3 The 5th Grade Capstone Project Part 2: a student's perspective
In this episode Rob sits down with 5th grade student Mira to hear about her passion for Harry Potter and how it became a driving force for a film she is creating and a lens to look at peace, conflict and change. If you have questions about this episode, are curious about this podcast in general…
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S1-E2 The 5th Grade Capstone Project Part I
In this episode Rob sits down with 5th grade teachers Maggie Bendicksen and Keli Gump to learn about a whole new way they are approaching inquiry and student questions through a Capstone Project. If you have questions about this episode, are curious about this podcast in general or have people or...
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S1-E1 The Tree House Project
In this episode Rob sits down with Jennifer Marcus (the Beginning School wood shop teacher) and Leondra Brackett (the Beginning School art teacher) to talk about a year long project that started from one student's idea and developed into a division wide project that lasted an entire year. If you...
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