Teaching Saves Lives Podcast

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Doing What's Best For Kids Dec 14, 2020

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In today's podcast, Emily talks without a script about the ups and downs of remote learning, the importance of a social media break, how we have pivoted as instructors this year, the feelings of burnout that all of us are facing, and how we have modified and continue to adjust our practices to ensure we are meeting our students where they are, during a global pandemic.

After this podcast, we will be taking a hiatus until January 2021 to enjoy some relaxation.
Enjoy you holiday break, friends.
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Jet Wash: Teacher Influencers and Social Media Pitfalls Nov 30, 2020

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Join me this week as I take us on a walk through the world of teacher influencers, discuss why this is just noise and make a plan for emerging from the jet wash so we can continue to do the critical and crucial work of elevating education back to the profession it deserves to be.
Links:
Kristin Instagram: @MsKennedyReads

OODALOOP info
Big Love by Scott Stabile quotation:

“Find people who can handle your darkest truths, who don’t change the subject when you share your pain, or try to make you feel bad for feeling bad. Find people who understand we all struggle, some of us more than others, and that there’s no weakness in admitting it. Find people who want to be real, however that looks and feels, and who want you to be real, too. Find people who get that life is hard, and who get that life is also beautiful, and who aren’t afraid to honor both of those realities. Find people who help you feel more at home in your heart, mind and body, and who take joy in your joy. Find people who love you, for real, and who accept you, for real. Just as you are. They’re out there, these people. Your tribe is waiting for you. Don’t stop searching until you find them.”
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Poets Love Best: A Conversation with Noheli Nov 23, 2020

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Join me in this powerful conversation between myself and Noheli Hernandez, a former student from my time in Chicago as well as a poet and educator in her own right. Our time today we discuss intersectionality, identity, self care and how we are navigating this pandemic. She also opens up about losing Marlon, her boyfriend of 10 years, in 2019 and how that experience moved her to use poetry as catharsis and healing. I'm so grateful for her, for Marlon, and for the power of writing in difficult times.
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Covid Crisis: I'm Right Here With You. Nov 16, 2020

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Join me in this week's episode as we discuss the COVID 19 crisis facing our schools, our students and our teachers. Teachers are dying and we are screaming for help, for anyone to notice us. I spend time this week giving voice to all of our struggles, and trying my best to buoy y'all as we navigate this very difficult time in our world.
Links:
Michigan Rural District
NEA Tracker
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A Conversation with Kindergarten Teacher @teach_finn Oct 30, 2020

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Join me and Finn (@teach_finn) as we discuss all things back to school, teacher identity, intersectionality, and our educational philosophies. If you don't know Finn, trust me when I tell you, he is one of the BEST humans to exist on the planet, and a Kindergarten teacher of the most amazing variety. Vulnerability and honesty in this week's episode had me in tears of hope and joy.

Links:

Instagram @teach_finn

Q Inclusion: https://www.qinclusion.com/
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Own Your Own (Radical) Education Oct 23, 2020

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Join me in this week's podcast as I take a ramble through all things standardized testing, evaluations, patriotic education, the Elvis Year and the constant question of, "Am I doing enough?" We'll cover a lot of topics in a round up of Week 8 of remote teaching, 2 weeks out from the election, and living through a global pandemic.

Links:

Dr. David Stovall Video

Elvis Year Shirts Bonfire Link (you know you want one...)

On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

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Walking Each Other Home. A Conversation with Zack. Oct 16, 2020

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Join me today as I talk with my good friend, Zack, who is one of the students who inspired me to start Teaching Saves Lives. We cover a lot of topics from his journey since high school, the meaning of life to the military industrial complex to toxic masculinity to the importance of friendships.

This episode is a sprawling conversation and one not to miss.

Links:
The Mask You Live In documentary

Ram Dass Quotation

The Will to Change by bell hooks
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A Conversation with English Teacher @aswrittenbykristen Oct 09, 2020

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Join me in conversation with Kristen, of @AsWrittenbyKristen (Instagram). We discuss all things virtual teaching, colleagues who challenge us to be better, edu celebrities, choice reading, graduate school and how we find joy in our work during tumultuous times. This conversation is not one to miss!
LINKS:
University of Michigan MAC program
180 Days by Penny Kittle and Kelly Gallagher

Dr. David Stovall of the University of Illinois-Chicago

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Friends Vote Together Oct 02, 2020

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In today's episode, I'm joined by the inimitable Cate Mayer, founder of Friends Vote Together and we get into all things election 2020, voting, gerrymandering, and Constitutional crisis. If you're looking for some info about what you can do to make significant change and wrench our democracy back from the brink, this is the episode for you!

Links:
Friends Vote Together

OMG WTF Constitution Really Say?

OMG WTF Is Gerrymandering?

Thank You for Voting

Marco Polo App

Jessica Yellin Instagram

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Holding Space Sep 25, 2020

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In this week’s episode, I dig into quite a bit of what has happened in the past couple of weeks in the country and how that is impacting our work as educators. I talk about living in reality, what it means to allow students the space they need for silence and how we continue to sustain.
Notes:
James Baldwin Video for reference.
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