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Confessions of a PYP Teacher — 168 episodes
C168 (Book Club) John Dewey: Traditional vs. Progressive Education
C167 (Book Club): Experience and Education Introduction
C166: Well-Being for All
C165: Trauma
C164: Learner Boreout
C163: Teacher Boreout
C162: Learner Burnout
C161: Teacher Burnout
C160: Stress Overload
C159: Why is Anxiety so Important?
C158: Why am I so Anxious?
C157: Panic and its Impact on Learning
C156: Let's Not Have a Panic Attack
C155: Facing our Fears (Part 2)
C154: Facing our Fears
C153: Don’t be a Worrywart
C152: The Journey Towards Well-Being
C151: Specialist and Supporting Teachers (Challenge)
C150: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Conceptual Understanding
C149: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Understanding the Role of Conceptual Understanding
C148: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: International Mindedness 2.0
C147: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Seeking Ways to Show International Mindedness
C146: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Learner Profile 2.0
C145: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Leaning into the Learner Profile
C144: Specialist and Support Teachers (Challenge): Bring about Agency and Inquiry in our Thinking
C143: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Inquiry 2.0
C142: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Inspiring Inquiry
C141: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Agency 2.0
C140: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Bringing about Agency
C139: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Honoring the Unique Role
C138: Specialist and Supporting Teachers: Myths about our Roles
C137 (Book Club): Growing Brain Power, Yes Please! (pg 122-151)
C136 (Book Club): Reshaping the Academic Mindset (pg 108-120)
C135 (Book Club): Creating an Alliance with our Learners (pg 88 -107)
C134 (Book Club): Supporting Culturally Responsive Relationships with our Learners (pg 72-87)
C133 (Book Club): Continuing to Become Aware of our Actions (pg 59-69)
C132 (Book Club): Becoming a Culturally Responsive Educator (pg 52-60)
C131 (Book Club): How Culture Effects the Brain (pg 36-51)
C130 (Book Club): Understanding the Power of Cultural Roots (pg 21-35)
C129 (Book Club): From Pedagogy of Poverty to Ready for Rigor (pgs 14- 20)
C128 (Book Club): Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain (pg 1-13)
C127 (Application): Making our Classrooms reflect the PYP journey
C126 (Application): Lessons from The Expert Effect
C125 (Application): Local and Global Inquiry in our Context
C124 (Application): Using Personal Inquiry in our Practice
C123 (Application): Our Learning Journey with ChatGPT
C122: How do learners visually represent their unit of inquiry journey?
C121: How do we guide learning through differentiation?
C120: How are we celebrating student voice through agency?
C119: What key and related concepts live here?
C118: How are our walls interactive and transdisciplinary?
C117: How do we show the expectations of a school within the classroom?
C116: How do we tickle our learner’s brains through our teaching and classroom walls?
C115: Creating a PYP Classroom Success Criteria
C114 (Book Club): Teach others as experts (pg 131-148)
C113 (Book Club): Students become the experts (pgs 91-130)
C112 (Book Club): Talking with Experts (pgs 59-90)
C111 (Book Club): Learning from Experts Near & Far (Pgs 29-58)
C110 (Book Club): Laying the foundation for the Expert Effect
C109: Local and Global Inquiry in the Early Years
C108: Local and Global Inquiry for Specialist and Supporting Teachers
C107: The Commonality of the Human Experience
C106: The Story Behind Local and Global Inquiry
C105: Going Local to Global (Part 2)
C104: From Local to Global (Part 1)
C103: Finding Experts in our Local Community
C102: Going from a Content Standard to a Local Issue
C101: The Properties of a Local Inquiry
C100 (Book Club): My Personal Inquiry Journey
C99 (Book Club): Reflecting on the Process & Taking Action
C98 (Book Club): Managing Personal Inquiries (Section 4)
C97 (Book Club): Documenting, Reflecting, Assessing, Sharing & Action (3.6-3.7)
C96 (Book Club): Supporting, Conferring, and Sustaining the Process (3.4-3.5)
C95 (Book Club): Lighting the Spark of Personal Inquiry to Proposing, Pitching, and Planning (3.1-3.3)
C94 (Book Club): Designing and Assessing our Inquiry Framework (2.6-2.8)
C93 (Book Club): Creating a Culture for Personal Inquiry (2.1-2.5)
C92 (Book Club): Why not PI, Sharing pictures of Practice, and Setting your Own Goal (1.4-1.6)
C91 (Book Club): What and Why of Personal Inquiry (1.1-1.3)
C90 (Application): Playing with the ATL
C89 (Application): Designing an Environment for Play
C88 (Application): Shaping Learning through the Environment
C87: Using Design Thinking with our Learners
C86 (Challenge): Evolving our Practice with POWR
C85 (Overview): How Do We Evolve Our Thinking?
C84 (Challenge):- Creating a Prototype with the CME Model from Pop-Up Studio
C83 (Overview): How Do We Create a Prototype?
C82 (Challenge): Learning to Ideate with the 4A's from Pop-Up Studio
C81 (Intro): What Does it Mean to Ideate?
C80 (Intro & Challenge): Define Your Problem with the Four Agreements
C79 (Challenge): Let's Empathize with the Four Agreements
C78 (Intro): What Does it Mean to Empathize?
C77: The Design Thinking Process
C76: Play versus Playfulness
C75: Engaging Play through a Conceptual Lesson Cycle
C74: Play in the Early Years
C73: The importance of Play
C72: The Relationship between the Learning Environment and Play
C71: Designing Other School Spaces
C70: Designing for Learners with Disabilities
C69: Designing for the Gifted Learner
C68: Designing for the Language Learner
C67: The Importance of Learning Space Design
C66: What's in a Name?
C65: Using Split-Screen Teaching to Spark Learning Goals
C64: Split-Screen Teaching with ATLs and Learner Profile
C63: Choosing Sub-Skills for our Units of Inquiry
C62: Self-Management Skills for Homeroom (1-6); Specialist & Supporting
C61: Self-Management Skills for Early Years (PK-K)
C60: Social Skills for Specialists & Support
C59: Social Skills for Elementary (1-6)
C58: Social Skills for Early Years (PK-K)
C57: Juneteenth (Giving a Voice to the Voiceless)
C56: Communication Skills for Specialist & Support
C55: Communication Skills for Elementary (1-6)
C54: Communication Skills for Early Years (PK-K)
C53: Research Skills for Specialists & Support
C52: Research Skills for Elementary (1-6)
C51: Research Skills for Early Years (PK-K)
C50: Thinking Skills for Specialist/Support
C49: Thinking Skills for Elementary (1-6)
C48: Thinking Skills for Early Years (PK-K)
C47: Understanding the ATL structure
C46: Approaches to Learning Overview
C45: Putting all the Pieces Together
C44 (Challenge): Performing a SWOT Analysis
C43 (Intro): Evaluating Transdisciplinary Learning
C42 (Challenge): Transdisciplinary Learning Across the School
C41 (Intro): Connecting with Specialist Teachers
C40 (Challenge): Creating Transdisciplinary Connections with Standards
C39 (Intro): Looking at Standards Differently
C38 (Challenge): Unpacking the Themes in the POI
C37 (Intro): Understanding the Transdisciplinary Theme Descriptors
C36 (Challenge): How Transdisciplinary Looks and Feels
C35 (Intro): Transdisciplinary Learning 101
C34 (Application): Agency and Action
C33 (Application): International Mindedness
C32 (Application): The Learner Profile
C31: Building Relationships with International Mindedness
C30: Creating an Internationally Minded School Mission
C29: Connecting Agency with International Mindedness
C28: Fostering International Mindedness Daily
C27: Connecting the Learner Profile with International Mindedness
C26: Using the Learner Profile to Build School Culture
C25: Guiding Behavior with the Learner Profile
C24: Embedding the Learner Profile into the Learning and Teaching
C23: A Time for Giving Thanks
C22: Embedding the Learner Profile into the Learning Space
C21: Learner Profile First Steps
C20: Tackling Learner Profile Misconceptions
C19: Framing of the PYP
C18: Assessing Agency and Action
C17: Taking Simple Actions Now
C16: Putting Action Together with the Golden Circle
C15: Unlocking Action at its Highest Level
C14: The Road Between Agency and Action
C13: Start Agency with 5 Easy Steps
C12: Agency Can Go Deeper with the SDGs
C11: Agency Deepens When We Take Ownership
C10: Agency Thrives When There is Choice
C9: Agency Requires our Unique Voice
C8: Agency Drives Inquiry
C7 (Challenge): Inquiry is a Process
C6 (Challenge): Evidencing the Inquiry
C5 (Challenge): Guiding the Inquiry
C4 (Challenge): Asking the Right Questions
C3 (Challenge): Inquiry Takes Careful Planning
C2 (Challenge): Defining our Focus in Inquiry
C1 (Challenge): Teaching Requires a Purpose