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Global Education Episodes

June 25, 2024

How to Teach Students About Slavery (Adam Andre)

In this episoode of the Have a Life Teaching podcast, Adam Andre - museum participation facilitator at the International Slavery Museum in Liverpool - and I discuss how and why we should not shy away from teaching students ab...

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May 29, 2024

How to Develop Community Partnerships through PBL - Part II (Carolyn …

Earlier this week, we chatted with Ryan Steuer and Andrew Larson about the mechanics of embedding PBL within our teaching practice. This week, we speak with Carolyn Brown, Acting VP of the Japanese American Museum of San Jose...

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April 30, 2024

How to Teach Students About Islamophobia and Anti-Semitism (Debbie Al…

These are challenging times in the world and, as we see on university/K12 school campuses, global events are having a direct impact on the teaching and learning environment. How do we teach students about both Anti-Semitism a...

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April 9, 2024

How to Teach Students About the Impact of Hate and Extremism (Jacquel…

April 7th will be the thirtieth anniversary of the start of the Rwandan Genocide in which 800,000 men, women, and children - mostly from the Tutsi minority group - were deliberately and systematically murdered because of who ...

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Jan. 30, 2024

How to Ensure Educator Wellbeing - Part II (Aimee Presnall)

In Part I, Sybil Hall and I discussed what educators can do to take ownership of their own wellbeing. Here, in Part II, Aimee Parkinson Presnall. Founder and CEO of Well-Nest (Australia) and I discuss how individual responsib...

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Jan. 9, 2024

How to Design a 21st Century School (Prakash Nair)

Many teachers are teaching 21st Century students in buildings designed in the 19th and/or early 20th Centuries. Join my next guest, Prakash Nair, CEO of Education Design International, and I as we discuss in this episode what...

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Jan. 3, 2024

How to Develop Resiliency in Students (Nicola S. Morgan)

Join me and my guest Nicola S. Morgan - Founder/CEO of NSM Training and Consultancy - as we discuss strategies for developing resiliency in the students we teach. Nicola also is one of a select few to successfully swim across...

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Dec. 20, 2023

How India Educates Its Primary/Secondary Students (Greshma Momaya)

India is becoming an ever increasingly important player on the international stage. It is the largest democracy in the world and its population to set to shortly overtake that of China. Further, citizens of India have long be...

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Nov. 28, 2023

How to Create Thinking Classrooms (Alice Vigors)

The rigor of any lesson begins with the learning objective and what we are asking students to know and be able to do. However, far too often, we do not ask our students to engage in heavy cognitive lift. Join …

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