PODCAST · education
Teachers Aligned
by Todd Scholl
Real conversations about mindfulness, trauma-informed practices, restorative practices, social-emotional learning, yoga, neuroscience, psychology, and teacher wellness.
Episodes
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Dr. Dean Ornish on Undoing Chronic Disease
Dr. Dean Ornish is the author of is the author of seven books, all national bestsellers. UnDo It! (co-authored with Anne Ornish) was published by Random House as their lead nonfiction title in January 2019. His three main-stage TED.com talks have been viewed by almost six million people. The...
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Pete Stone, Chanda Jefferson, Jed Dearybury, and Saani Niri on Dismantling Inequities and Standardized Testing
This is a special edition of the Teachers Aligned Podcast featuring four amazing educators in South Carolina. Pete Stone is the Chester County Teacher of the Year. Chanda Jefferson is the 2020 SC Teacher of the Year from Fairfield. Jed Dearybury was a 2014 Honor Roll Teacher in SC and a national...
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Mag Dimond on Traveling Mindfully
Mag Dimond is the award-winning author of BOWING TO ELEPHANTS, Tales of a Travel Junkie (which hit #1 in 5 countries on the day it launched and just won Best Indie Biographies & Memoirs from Kirkus). Her book has been compared to EAT, PRAY, LOVE in professional reviews and has received accolades...
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Meena Srinivasan on Mindfulness, Appropriation, and Transformative Educational Leadership
Meena Srinivasan, MA, National Board Certified Teacher, is a South Asian-American edupreneur with deep expertise in the fields of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) and Mindfulness in Education. She is the Founding Executive Director of Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL), an empowering,...
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Bonus: If We Treated Doctors the Way We Treat Teachers
This is a short audio skit exploring a scenario where doctors were suddenly treated the way teachers are treated.
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Dr. Rick Hanson on Cultivating Well-Being & His Latest Book, Neurodharma: Science, Wisdom, and Steps to the Highest Happiness
Dr. Rick Hanson is a psychologist, Senior Fellow of UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center, and New York Times best-selling author. His books have been published in 29 languages and include Resilient, Hardwiring Happiness, Buddha’s Brain, Just One Thing, and Mother Nurture – with 900,000…
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Susan Crooks on Suicide Prevention and Removing the Stigma of Mental Health (TRIGGER WARNING - This podcast contains information about suicide which may be upsetting to some people.)
TRIGGER WARNING - This podcast contains information about suicide which may be upsetting to some people. Susan Crooks is an educator with over 25 years of teaching experience. She holds a M.Ed. from Clemson University and is a certified trainer and ambassador for The Foundation for Critical...
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Shelly Fox on Leading a Contemplative Progressive School
Shelly Fox is the Director of Blue Mountain School, a contemplative progressive school in Floyd, Virginia. Her background is in community-based and school-based counseling. Blue Mountain School’s model of Contemplative Progressive education is also grounded in values and practices that facilitate...
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Katy Swift on Making Yoga Fun and Slowing Down
Katy Swift is a certified guidance counselor who spent the last three years working at a low Socioeconomic status, high trauma primary school in Texas. Prior to her time as a counselor, she was a dyslexia interventionist in an elementary school as well as an intervention consultant to several...
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Taylor Walsh on Whole Health Learning
Taylor Walsh established the Project for Whole Health Learning in K-12 in 2017 as a result of his work as a consultant in integrative medicine and health. Attracted to the patient- and consumer-driven demand for therapies like mind-body medicine and acupuncture, he helped client organizations...
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Sophie Scholl on School, History, and the Multiverse
Sophie Scholl is a fourth grade student in Horry County. She is a legendary basketball and soccer player. She began playing the violin in third grade. Sophie loves history, video games, Stranger Things, and Dr. Strange. She was named after a German student and anti-Nazi political activist, active...
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Dr. Gloria Boutte on Equity Pedagogies, Social Justice, and Teaching African-American Students
For more than three decades, Dr. Boutte's scholarship, teaching, and service have focused on equity pedagogies and teaching for social justice in Early Childhood Education. She has served as Chair in the Department of Instruction and Teacher Education and held a distinguished endowed chair for…
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Dr. Ann Marie Taylor on Vulnerability, School Leadership, and Systemic Change
Dr. Ann Marie Taylor began her college education studying Criminal Justice at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan. She quickly realized that many of her young charges were struggling with special education needs which inspired her to become a special education teacher. She received her...
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Jill Guerra Burger on Teaching Mindfulness and Yoga in an Elementary School
Jill Guerra is the mindfulness prep teacher at an east Oakland elementary school where she is proud and grateful to serve 425 students per week. She was a classroom teacher for thirteen years prior and holds a master’s degree in Critical Environmental and Global Literacy. She is the author of…
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Leigh Brasington on Meditation
Leigh Brasington has been practicing meditation since 1985 and is the senior American student of the late Ven. Ayya Khayma. He began assisting Ven. Ayya Khemma in 1994, and began teaching retreats on his on in 1997. He is also authorized to teach by Jack Kornfield. He has taught the jhanas, along...
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2020 Teachers Aligned Mindfulness Retreat Details
This is a special edition of the Teachers Aligned Podcast. Todd discusses details about the 2020 Teachers Aligned Mindfulness Retreat. Learn more about the retreat at http://mindfulnessretreat.weebly.com/.
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Dr. Erica Sibinga on Mindfulness, Health, and Equity
Dr. Sibinga is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins School and the Past-Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ Section on Integrative Medicine. Dr. Sibinga is a general academic pediatrician, keenly interested in improving the lives of children and families through the...
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Heather Marshall on Mindfulness, Creative Writing, and Yoga in Schools
Heather Marshall is a teacher and writer. She has taught creative writing, arts integration, and English in classrooms K-16 for the past 22 years. Since she became an registered yoga teacher in 2013, she has a been teaching yoga in studios and schools. Most recently, she has begun teaching...
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Chrissie Keillor on Yoga
Chrissie Keillor is a yoga instructor and high school teacher in the Myrtle Beach area. She graduated with a degree in Kinesiology from Illinois State University and began her career as a certified athletic trainer at the high school level. Searching for a more creative outlet, she became a 200...
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Danna Thomas on a Happy Teacher Revolution
Danna Thomas is a former Baltimore City Public School teacher turned founder of a global initiative to support the mental health and wellness of educators. Her organization, Happy Teacher Revolution, is on a mission to increase teacher happiness, retention, and professional sustainability by...
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Senator Mike Fanning on Education & Politics
Senator Mike Fanning represents District 17 in South Carolina which includes Chester, Fairfield and York Counties. A military veteran and former high school social studies teacher, Senator Fanning has been a strong advocate for public education in South Carolina. In this episode, he discusses the...
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Mathew Portell on Leading a Trauma-Informed School
Mathew Portell has dedicated a decade and a half to education in his role as a teacher, instructional coach, teacher mentor, and school administrator. It is through the collaborative team approach and building positive relationships that Portell is leading his school into success. He is currently...
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Lucy MacGregor and Jelena Popovic on Communities of Practice & Applied Mindfulness
Lucy MacGregor leads adventure based programs that empower young women and offers mindfulness workshops, retreats, and communities of practice to educators, parents and families in North Carolina and beyond. She holds a degree in Sociology and is an accredited Montessori teacher. She is currently...
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Erin Fox on Teacher Wellness
Erin Fox is originally from Murphy, North Carolina, and she received her BSED in Secondary English Education from Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina. She earned her master’s degree in Gifted and Talented Education several years later from Converse College in Spartanburg…
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Techa Smalls-Brown on Finding Your "Home" and Systemic Change
Techa Smalls-Brown is an artist in every sense of the word. Using her gifts to add beauty wherever she goes, Techa has been an educator for 20+ years with the Charleston County School District. As a teacher she has taught exceptional children, African-American studies at the secondary level, and...
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Dr. Amy Saltzman on Mindfulness in Sports and Schools
Dr. Amy Saltzman is a holistic physician, mindfulness coach, long-time athlete, devoted student of transformation, wife, mother and occasional poet. Her passion is supporting people of all ages in achieving peak performance and finding flow. She is recognized by her peers as a visionary and…
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Vikas Srivastava on Mindfulness Programs in Public Schools
Vikas P. Srivastava holds an MA in Education from Harvard (HGSE) in Education and a BA from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in Sociology. Vikas specializes in integrating mindfulness, nonviolence, creative confidence and an entrepreneurial mindset in educational design. Vikas is...
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Jed Dearybury on the Importance of Play and Advocating for LGBTQ+ Teachers
Jed Dearybury began his education career in 2001. During his 13 year early childhood classroom tenure, he received numerous awards. He was featured in GQ Magazine as Male Leader of the Year, met President Obama as the SC winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science…
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Dr. Tish Jennings on The Trauma-Sensitive Classroom
Patricia (Tish) Jennings is an internationally recognized leader in the fields of social and emotional learning and mindfulness in education. She became a meditation practitioner at 17 and has taught mindful awareness practices to children and adults for over 40 years. Her research places a...
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Dr. Frank Morgan on School Leadership & Systemic Change
Dr. Frank Morgan retired in 2018 after 43 years working in public education in Virginia and South Carolina. He holds degrees from The College of Wooster in Ohio, Virginia Commonwealth University, and The College of William and Mary. During his career, Dr. Morgan served as a teacher, coach,...
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Dr. Ram Bhagat on Building a Compassionate School Climate & Culture
Dr. Bhagat received his doctorate in Educational Leadership from VCU, where he specialized in a regional approach to school diversity. His post-doctoral work is in the areas of Restorative Justice in Education, Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience, Social Emotional Learning, and...
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Dr. Emily Whitecotton on Mindfulness in the Classroom
Dr. Emily Whitecotton is a fifth grade teacher at the Center for Inquiry in Richland School District Two. Emily has earned a Bachelor's Degree in Elementary Education, a Masters in Language and Literacy, and a PhD in Language and Literacy from the University of South Carolina. She has implemented…
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How to Start a Mindfulness Practice
On this episode of Teachers Aligned, we examine how to start a mindfulness practice. Jon Kabat-Zinn - Your Thoughts are Bubbles Jon Kabat-Zinn - Defining Mindfulness Jon Kabat-Zinn Books
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Lisa Ellis on SC for Ed and Teacher Advocacy
Lisa Ellis is the founder of SC for Ed, a teacher advocacy group whose goal is to place an extraordinary teacher in every classroom in South Carolina. Born and raised in South Carolina, Lisa Ellis’ path follows the quote “Not all who wander are lost.” Lisa earned a bachelor’s degree in English…
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Kara Foster-Lee on Trauma-Informed Education
Kara Foster-Lee is a veteran early childhood educator who currently serves as the Program Director for Compassionate Schools at USC-Upstate in Spartanburg, SC. Kara has incorporated mindfulness in her classroom for several years and completed the certification program offered through Mindful...
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TJ Rumler On Restorative Practices
TJ Rumler is a social worker and trauma-informed specialist for Greenville County Schools. His TED Talk, "What Are We Doing About School Suspensions" has been viewed over 5,000 times. In this episode, TJ shares his thoughts on trauma-informed practices and restorative justice. If you are…
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Real conversations about mindfulness, trauma-informed practices, restorative practices, social-emotional learning, yoga, neuroscience, psychology, and teacher wellness.
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Todd Scholl
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