Conscious Curriculum

Michael Brownstein started his career in education teaching English, social emotional learning and technology courses at the high school level.

As an education consultant, he has worked with students and their parents, business and community partners, and educators of all stripes (K-16 teachers and administrators, officials at Local Education Agencies and State Education Agencies across the country) to translate innovative ed...

Soleil Sabalja has been in education for 11 years, teaching high school English in China for 2 years, and for the past 9 years has been back in New York City, working with high school students learning English, and students with Special Needs.  This year she is also teaching and creating a brand new high school course called Environmental Activism.

Inspired by community organizing around Racial Justice Movements in 2020, Soleil fou...

Oona is a senior in The Landmark School, a 2-12 day and residential private school in Beverly Massachusetts specializing in serving students with dyslexia and language-based learning disabilities or challenges.  

Oona is passionate about self-understanding and whole human well-being.

Since first grade, Oona felt frustrated with school.

At that young age, she knew she was capable of learning but school wasn't providing th...

Moises Santos, Innovation and Transformation Coach and Education Consultant, Leadership & Education Coach, Mindset Coach, Entrepreneur, and "Mindset Mechanic" explores how intentional learning about emotions, consciousness, and the body can lead to radical change for humans, educators, and young people.

He shares his journey through education, innovation, and business start-up, and shares how we can empower human...

What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey inspired much of this episode.

Amidst a country of continued shooting, violence against Trans, Black, POC, Disabled communities (and beyond), and perpetual individual and collective traumas...it can feel almost impossible to know what to do, or how to have a positive impact.

The answers are simple - not easy, but si...

Sarah Miller is a visionary in education and has served to support transformational models of education throughout her 20 year career in schools as teacher, leader, coach, and consultant.

She started her career in 2002 teaching in rural Mississippi, and then moved to Boston to support the building of a charter network specifically designed to serve youth who are disconnected from formal educational institutions.  There she fel...

If you're looking for inspiration to create radical change in your own life or the life of others - - this episode is for you!

My Why: I want as MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE to be as HAPPY AS POSSIBLE so they can LIVE IN THEIR FULLEST POTENTIAL and GIVE BACK TO THE WORLD in EXACTLY the way they were designed.

My Mission: To reinvent the institution of public education so people have the power to heal themselves and achieve whatever...

"SMART" Goals ain't cuttin it.  Not for us, and not for our kids.

How to we teach ourselves and young people to set goals and achieve them...for real?

What shifts need to happen in the way we think about and practice goal setting - for ourselves and for our young people?

How do we know if a goal is a "good goal" for us?

All that and more in today's episode.

Got a goal you want to achieve?  Book a consultati...

Elisabeth Kristof is an expert in using applied neurology to move people out of pain, unwanted behavior and stress response. She is the founder of Brain-Based Wellness, an online platform that trains the nervous system and body to resolve old patterns, improve performance and increase well-being. 

She is the co-founder of the Neuro-Somatic Intelligence Coaching Certification Program, an accredited practitioner certification - ...

These are two questions I am hearing from a lot of teachers.

The bigger questions, at the root of these questions are: 

- What has school come to in the United States?

- What's one simple thing we can do, amidst an epically ineffective system, to massively support ourselves and our young people?

In this episode, I offer concrete, practical, bite-sized shifts that to lead to radical change...and they are all connected...

Jason Valle grew up in the South Bronx, and graduated high school in June of 2020, at the beginnings of the Covid Pandemic.

Throughout school, his struggles with mental health significantly impacted his academic progress and social-emotional development.

Jason implores educational institutions to do better for young people.

Hear his story, and amplify his voice.

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David E. Kirkland, (@davidekirkland) is a Professor of Urban Education at New York University, and served as the long-standing Executive Director of The Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and The Transformation of Schools until starting his own educational equity company, forwardED. 

He is an activist and educator, cultural critic and author, and a leading national scholar and advocate for educational justice.&nbs...

In this Halloween Episode, we tackle that there are few things scarier than what we are ACTUALLY practicing in schools - and how those practices impact how we function (or don't) as adults.

What makes us human is that we are CONSCIOUS.  We have capacity to reflect, and make change, and create with intention.

...but we're not really practiced in those elements of consciousness in school.  We're taught what to do, how ...