The Missing Link with Rola Tibshirani

The Missing Link with Rola Tibshirani

Rola Tibshirani invites educators to connect with many groups, organizations or individual educators to bring the learning from inside the classroom to connect with real-world projects. Rola also shares the pedagogical process and the purpose of connection based learning.

Episodes

October 15, 2024 28 mins
Dr. Vriend shares that stress is healthy and has fewer negative outcomes. We are rethinking stress. The balancing beam overestimates the bad and underestimates our ability to cope. Balancing is being realistic with expectations. Better coping opportunities. Aggressive state can be an overreaction. The nervous system is on overdrive: flight-responsive avoidance or withdrawal, anxiety, anger aggression, irritability, and body hyperac...
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David McFall is a principal of Pierre Elliott Trudeau Elementary School in Gatineau, Quebec. How do we rethink schools? David sees the school through the students' eyes. He is an instructional leader focusing on project-based learning, play-based learning and community connections for educators and students' learning. Edutopia Links highlight the school's learning approaches. https://www.edutopia.org/school/pierre-elliott-trudeau-e...
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January 3, 2024 32 mins
Jennifer Nieradka, a behaviourist Analyst with #OCSB @ocsbABA, shares Functions of Behaviour, reducing challenging behaviour through behaviour strategies and a skill-based approach. Listen to learn more about the 7 dimensions of #ABA to address behaviour that is observable, based on research. Goals have to be practical and meaningful for the students. The importance of the De-escalation plan to prioritize safety, relationships, Ha...
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August 8, 2023 38 mins
Dr. Lyn Sharrat is a widely published researcher and author. She focuses her time and efforts on increasing each student’s growth and achievement by working alongside leaders and teachers to put FACES on their data, taking intentional action to make equity and excellence a reality for all students. Dr. Lyn Sharratt shares the importance of providing learning to everyone by ensuring where students are in our care in order for them t...
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August 2, 2023 27 mins
Tom D'Amico, the Ottawa Catholic School Board director of education, shares that Iterative improvements are important to set yearly goals and improve yearly to continue learning. Transformative learning is important to challenge the status quo that is not serving everyone; the goal and the outcome are equality and social justice. Ethical leadership is important to have trust, support the dignity of every human being and create co...
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July 25, 2023 55 mins
Livia has so much passion for leading with joy. Self-awareness is the foundation, and it is important to understand who you are, bringing strengths to anchor your values and beliefs. Believe in ourselves and meaningful connections, be compassionate leaders, and discover challenges as opportunities. Atomic interactions, small interactions of kindness, recognizing everyone, insightful reflections and emotional contagiousness for maki...
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February 5, 2023 33 mins
Kim Lockhart shares the importance of the Science of Reading in a second language. The phonemic awareness of reading through all subjects in French and seeing learning through the Science of reading. Explicit instructions and explicit systematic instructions. Beefing up tier 1 instructions to the whole class is important. As educators, we need to give students more opportunities to practice.
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January 29, 2023 33 mins
The deep learning movement fosters all learners contributing to the common good. The progressions contribute to deep discussions used for peer assessment and self-assessment. The progressions are a way to anchor reflective conversation—a pedagogical transformation of a classroom culture where each student's voice is heard. The educators are adapting to the learning environment for stimulating learning through the 4 elements. Edu...
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January 14, 2023 28 mins
Sean Kelly is a superintendent of Intermediate and Secondary Student Success at the Ottawa Catholic School Board. Sean shares the importance of building relationships through listening for deep learning. He emphasizes the importance of giving opportunities to educators to be creative and passionate by highlighting the process and the next steps. Leaders need to recognize what needs to be prioritized for the benefit of the schools ...
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October 10, 2022 22 mins
With the learners, give them a chance to ask questions & listen to understand than to respond! The curriculum goes hand in hand with building relationships & connections with the students. "Your story is the Soul in each lesson," centering students' voices & stories. Building with them learning based on their voices by tailoring & tweaking activities & tasks, is a vulnerable part of education, not just how, but the WHY.
Getting to ...
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October 2, 2022 29 mins
The adults need to feel comfortable speaking their minds by creating shared agreements. Employers are happier when they express their needs, when everyone comes together and co-creating with the leaders.
Article to steps for the shared agreement. Empathy for perspective taking.
https://www.edutopia.org/article/shared-agreements-working-together-benefit-teachers-and-administrators

SEL skills will be uplifted through PBL.
Explore the...
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July 10, 2022 34 mins
Community building is the essence of empowering the teachers, the students and the parents. Having the vision to have the confidence of empowering innovative progress through personalized comprehensive support of unlearning and relearning. A School wide initiative of Gratitude Attitude by thinking globally and acting locally. " Good leaders create great leadership with others. "
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May 28, 2022 28 mins
Liz Dozier shares about being aware of our biases and decolonizing our minds in terms of our own biases. We have to take care of ourselves physically, mentally, and spiritually, because you can’t begin to unpack those biases if you’re worn down. It is really about remaining curious about the world around us and others’ experiences. How are schools focusing on from problem fixing to possibility creating?
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February 27, 2022 27 mins
Melanie shares that we need to stop doing school and focus on deep learning. We need to create knowledge and focus on students' assets. It is a continuous process of shifting and dancing to access learning in the best possible way.
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January 16, 2022 39 mins
Hedreich Nichols shares the importance of teaching human kindness citizenship explicitly through the development of interpersonal relationships, examining feelings, and building empathy.
Social actions already walk in with the students. We need to create a culture of kindness that models explicitly what kindness is and makes someone feel bad without attacking their character or behaviour. In the classroom, students are more empathe...
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Making a difference in the lives of the students by maximizing their potential. By creating a culture in which students can take risks to take ownership of their learning. Creating clearer targets on why they are learning. Students should not be punished when they learn incorrectly. Educators should be transparent in their assessment practices. Students should understand self-assessment & feedback, as well as how grades are assigne...
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October 17, 2021 33 mins
Stephenie creates learning communities that support students' voices, agencies, and gamifications.  Stephanie approaches coaching for teachers' through design thinking for pedagogical powerful ways. Following up with teachers about the process involves inspiring them through a coaching cycle. To learn more about Stephanie's initiatives, please visit her website : https://sites.google.com/mrshowell24.com/mrshowell24/home and https:/...
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October 12, 2021 33 mins
Episode #112 Stephanie Howell by Rola Tibshirani
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October 10, 2021 26 mins
Ludenso focuses on discoveries for all ages through AR. Students create through 3D modelling to connect real authentic problem solving to the world. The tools are cocreated through the pedagogical process that encourages students' inquiries. Ludenso has based its AR on pedagogical practices and full feedback from teachers and students. There are SDGs challenges to create futuristic sustainable solutions by the students.
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October 3, 2021 38 mins
Educators are empowered to disrupt unjust systems and create change at the core of equity. To teach from an equity standpoint, we must first recognize our identity. To extend our learning, we must begin with ourselves first identifying ourselves before teaching the curriculum. Multiples perspectives are at the foundations of the curriculum. Students are given authentic tasks that explore perspectives from different angles. In what ...
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