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Have you ever imagined what role teaching and learning could play in the evolution of our species? Or how teaching and learning might change as we change, or reflect changes we need to make? If these questions resonate with you, or make you curious or excited, we want you to start conversations where you are too! In Season 1, we're going to explore how teaching, learning, and education might transform to reflect our changing needs as humans, and how we exist together.
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In Fall 2023, I gave a talk at the second annual Higher Ed in Prison conference organized by the Tennessee Board of Regents, as part of their work with the Tenneesee Higher Education in Prison Initiative. This was the first keynote I gave outside of the Pacific Northwest region and I thoroughly appreciate the experience. I am learning that each tim…
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Welcome to Episode 8, the final epsiode of Season 1! Our hope this season has been to start a different conversation about what learning and teaching might be, and we think that is happening. But as often as we say we don't have any 'final' answers, we also want to know how practitioners apply these ideas to how they already teach, or bring them in…
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Of all of the topics we considered for this first season, grief was not one of them. It didn't become a contender until a few days before we started prepping the episode. The Abolition X pod had been in the back of my mind all season and it would not go away, so I asked ambar if we could talk about grief, instead of the topic we had on deck. We sta…
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Are you feeling alone and isolated at the front of your classroom? Disconnected from your students, your colleagues, maybe even yourself? Teaching has become a pretty isolated place and connecting with students feels more and more difficult. But what if we could have a practical conversation about love in education? How would bringing love and comp…
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We are finally dropping an episode about the thing no one wants to talk about - boundaries in teaching! If you are like me, boundaries are confusing enough in my personal life, let alone in the classroom, and there is almost ZERO info on setting boundaries in higher ed (or really any classrooms)! As teachers, we are constantly being bombarded by de…
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Are you tired of being a brain in a jar? A content dispensary? Do you long for a different way to teach and learn, one that welcomes and embraces you and your students in all your full, radiant humanity? We want that too! In this episode, emareena & ambar discuss radical self love and how its presence could transform our experience of teaching and …
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Welcome to our first relisten pod! We're not quite exaggerating when we say we kind of started this podcast so we could relisten to some of our favorite and most influential thinkers, dreamers, and visionaries, and adrienne maree brown was always going to be first ♥ In this episode, we discuss two of her interviews and how her work applies to trans…
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This is our second episode talking about language and the last before we start our podcast relisten series. This week, we're discussing ability to learn, change/transformation, and practice, connecting all of these our hope for creating a new vision of teaching and learning. We know part of that work is a different way to relate to education, and t…
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Welcome to our first full episode! For this ep, our guiding questions are "How are we defining ‘teaching & learning’? How are they different from (organized) education?" In this episode, we're discussing how we define organized education, teaching, learning, and emerging consciousness. Talking about new ideas means new language, or old language use…
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we recorded this mini-episode to answer the question "why are we here?" but only for the podcast, not to cause an existential crisis! we liked the idea of introducing ourselves separately, so here we are - it was just that simple. emareena and ambar are both adult educators and are interested in how teaching and learning need to grow and expand, ju…
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