Best Amy Edelstein Podcasts (2024)

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Plato Knew It All Along - Teachers, Transmission & Trustworthy Impact 1:04:14

12d ago1:04:14

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Send us a Text Message. Can shifting the focus for teachers from content to connection be the key to lifting adolescent loneliness? Journey with Amy Edelstein on this episode of the Conscious Classroom podcast as she unpacks the role of teachers as moral exemplars, following the principles laid out by Plato. You'll explore how transmission occurs a…

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Loneliness or Connection in the Classroom? 25:28

1M ago25:28

25:28

Send us a Text Message. What happens when a student fails to show up for a crucial presentation? Explore the profound lessons on commitment and responsibility in this episode of the Conscious Classroom podcast. Join me as we unpack the culture of individualism and what that means when we try to instill a sense of commitment and purpose in our youth…

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Education Design that Works: Blending Visionary Ideas with Classroom Realities 29:16

3M ago29:16

29:16

Send us a Text Message. In this episode we pack two levels of insight that are mostly at odds with one another when it comes to improving educational design. We examine the dual landscape of educational innovation, where grand visions and data analysis for systemic change clash with the hands-on challenges of classroom application. Working with sys…

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Jim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education Gap 32:57

4M ago32:57

32:57

Send us a Text Message. Jim Crow's Pink Slip - Dismantling the Education Gap with Amy Edelstein In this episode of The conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein helps illuminate the little-known history and ongoing influence of resistance to de-segregation within America's education system - and how mindfulness, being conscious and aware of our biases, is…

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Awareness & Innovation: The Wings of Tomorrow's Education 30:02

5M ago30:02

30:02

Send us a Text Message. Unlock the synergy between mindfulness and innovation as Amy Edelstein explores the relationship between these two orientations in this episode of the Conscious Classroom. Imagine a learning environment where the air is alive with creativity, and students and teachers alike are inspired to view the world through a lens of fr…

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Mindful Joy: The Secret Sauce in Educational Leadership 25:11

5M ago25:11

25:11

Send us a Text Message. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein unpacks the importance of teacher happiness and how to use mindful awareness and perspectives to improve teacher wellbeing and sense of possibility prior to making practical changes, which undoubtedly also need to occur. Amy explores the impact of educators who tap in…

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Mindfulness Is Not A Pill, It's a Perspective 21:41

6M ago21:41

21:41

Send us a Text Message. Discover the keys to unlocking our children's potential in an era where education is at a crossroads and technology's influence is undeniable. This enlightening journey through the world of learning reveals how an evolved mindset, coupled with a transformative educational system, is essential for nurturing the curiosity, pur…

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A Human Relationship to AI 24:19

6M ago24:19

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Send us a Text Message. Discover how the relationship we forge with AI in our classrooms can go beyond mere functionality to touch the very core of our humanity. Join me, Amy Edelstein, as we unveil the transformative potential of AI when approached with the same reverence we approach the great mysteries and subtleties of sentience and life. It's a…

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Scaling Compassion? AI possibilities & Real Life Examples 31:32

7M ago31:32

31:32

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Amy Edelstein reflects on a recent trip to India, which raised intriguing and inspiring possibilities as she visiting with the founders of the Happiness Curriculum, that reaches 1.7 million students each day. She also explores AI potential and urgency to train AI on compassion and wisdom and scale that use f…

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The Power of Fostering Friendships in the Classroom 37:36

9M ago37:36

37:36

Send us a Text Message. There's a hidden superpower in a regular teen activity that will provide support for teachers as well as students. This inclination, when activated, encouraged, and guided can create a safety net for students, build webbing so classrooms feel warm and encouraging, catch students who are falling behind, and bring out the sens…

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Peace, Reason & Care in the Face of War 24:10

10M ago24:10

24:10

Send us a Text Message. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares from the heart about the impact of the eruption of war between Israel and Gaza, and that pain that is bringing to so many in the region and beyond. How do we provide steadiness and guidance within our classrooms? How do we rise authentically and demonstrate car…

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The Future of Education - New Teacher Training Grounds 30:18

12M ago30:18

30:18

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, The Future of Education, Amy Edelstein explores a visionary approach to teacher training. If we are to truly inspire teachers and students to engage with their own learning in an innovative and even prophetic way, the training grounds that prepare teachers to teach must exemplify that new world and its highe…

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AI - Potential or Peril or Both? 31:32

1y ago31:32

31:32

Send us a Text Message. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein shares insights about the potential and peril of new AI tools and considerations explored in the recent C20 meetings on Technology, Security and Transformation. As a panelist for the convening on Technology & Education, Edelstein was able to share views on the importa…

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Empathy or Compassion? Discovering an Orientation that Brings Energy & Joy 28:28

1+ y ago28:28

28:28

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Amy Edelstein looks at the difference between empathy and compassion, exploring the elements of compassion that allow it to become a source of our own joy and upliftment. She also illuminates how detachment, universality, and self-care enable us to orient ourselves around compassion and fuel our own resilien…

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Uncommon Leadership: The Path for the History Makers of Tomorrow - Villanova Women's History Speaker of the Month 54:23

1+ y ago54:23

54:23

Send us a Text Message. In honor of Women’s History Month, Amy Edelstein was invited by Villanova University's School of Business to unpack what it takes to pursue our own calling, break limits, and strive to for excellence in our work, our personal growth, and our contribution to the world. These days, we are pressured to achieve in so many sphere…

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Virtual Reality Education- It's Coming, Are We Ready? 29:17

2y ago29:17

29:17

Send us a Text Message. Virtual Reality Education is not a future prospect. Higher Education spaces like Morehouse College have already taught full semesters using VR. This Metaverse is rapidly expanding into K-12. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein asks who is thinking about the potentials of this space to train us to be tru…

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A Web of Connection: Systems & Solutions for Teen Discouragement 29:18

2y ago29:18

29:18

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Amy shares a brief look at how our awareness of large scale systems that we can intuit through our mindfulness practice and through exploring the interconnected systems we see in nature and in the structure of the cosmos can reveal new solutions to our very entrenched problems. For teens who are discouraged …

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A Freedom Worth Striving For - Independence Day 16:35

2y ago16:35

16:35

Send us a Text Message. A Freedom Worth Striving For - Reflections in Independence on the American Holiday 4th of July What makes freedom exalted? What can our students aspire to when the "freedom" they have been taught to cherish is either - in the case of politics and social orders - profoundly inequitable and even harmful or - as in the case of …

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Meditation on Love in the Face of Violence 27:35

2y ago27:35

27:35

Send us a Text Message. These recent weeks have seen the scourge of senseless gun violence tearing through a school, a supermarket, and neighborhoods across America. In this episode, Amy Edelstein reaches deep into the power of meditation to imprint in us the undeniable experience of interconnectedness and love, a love that inspires us to want to d…

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Purpose Driven Education and the Role Mindfulness Can Play 34:31

2+ y ago34:31

34:31

Send us a Text Message. Purpose Driven Education and the Role Mindfulness Can Play In this episode, Amy Edelstein talks about the role of purpose in teen flourishing. When people are connected to a purpose greater than themselves, they experience more resilience, ability to persevere through challenges, sense of connection, and happiness. We can wo…

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The Power of Purpose 35:00

2+ y ago35:00

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Amy Edelstein explores the power of purpose and the value that speaking about purpose with youth has on the rest of their lives. She discusses the great Stanford Educator and Author William Damon and his book The Path to Purpose , which looks at the impact of materialism and our fast-paced technological worl…

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Engaged Buddhism: In Honor of Thich Nhat Hahn 26:03

2+ y ago26:03

26:03

Send us a Text Message. The world renowned and beloved Vietnamese teacher Thich Nhat Hahn passed this week at the age of 95. This episode is dedicated to his work and life, bringing mindfulness to a secular environment, connecting deep mindfulness practice with social, political, and environmental activism, and being a powerful -- albeit profoundly…

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Happy New Year! Establishing Presence, Courage & Centeredness 25:03

2+ y ago25:03

25:03

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Amy Edelstein talks about the need of our times for greater courage, centeredness and connection to presence, or being. This episode and its guided meditation will start the new year off on a positive and directed note. Support the Show. If you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your review supports…

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Tech + Teens: Part 3 in dialogue with XPrize semifinalist Anthony Holland 21:27

2+ y ago21:27

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Send us a Text Message. Can technology empower rather than divide? Can we train robots to exhibit the empathy of their operators in humanitarian situations? How is Inner Strength looking ahead and the possibilities for supporting youth wellness through technology? Join Amy Edelstein in dialogue with XPrize semi-finalist and Inner Strength Board Mem…

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Tech + Teens: Part 2 in dialogue with XPrize semifinalist Anthony Holland 32:41

2+ y ago32:41

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Send us a Text Message. Can technology empower rather than divide? Can we train robots to exhibit the empathy of their operators in humanitarian situations? How is Inner Strength looking ahead and the possibilities for supporting youth wellness through technology? Join Amy Edelstein in dialogue with XPrize semi-finalist and Inner Strength Board Mem…

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Tech & Teens: in dialogue with XPrize Semi-Finalist Anthony Holland Part 1 34:05

2+ y ago34:05

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Send us a Text Message. Can technology empower rather than divide? Can we train robots to exhibit the empathy of their operators in humanitarian situations? How is Inner Strength looking ahead and the possibilities for supporting youth wellness through technology? Join Amy Edelstein in dialogue with XPrize semi-finalist and Inner Strength Board Mem…

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My New Memoir! Adventure in Zanskar 12:23

2+ y ago12:23

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Send us a Text Message. Adventure in Zanskar: one woman's solitary journey to reach physical and metaphysical heights This episode of The Conscious Classroom is a little different, some fun. I just published a memoir about a solitary trek I undertook in the highest mountains of the world, the western most corner of the Tibetan Plateau, and area cal…

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Breakthrough Insights Can Come Quickly - Classroom Highs and Lows 31:11

2+ y ago31:11

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Send us a Text Message. Do you often relate just to the ways teens present in the classroom and forget that what goes on in their personal reflection may be much deeper? Teens present in all their awkward ways, they are in a growth stage and sometimes it feels like their bodies don't quite fit their minds and emotions or vice versa. Remember, there…

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Mindfulness - How Can It Impact Gun Violence? 22:46

3y ago22:46

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Send us a Text Message. Recently I've been asked, "How does your Inner Strength school mindfulness program help prevent gun violence?" When you are being asked that in a city that has one of the fastest rising rates of gun violence per capita in the United States, that's a serious question. In the last 4 weeks, we've seen 4 shootings at schools, wi…

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Fun: It's Good for Learning - Playing Mindful Games 26:13

3y ago26:13

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Send us a Text Message. We all know play is important for little kids. Imagination, working out scenarios, assuming roles. It's how kids develop a wider sense of being in the world. Play is also important for teenagers. They need to have fun while learning. Play can also break up the day, change the rhythm. It teaches important and deep values as w…

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Creating Optimal Learning Environments - 5 Anchor Tools for Stress 38:30

3y ago38:30

38:30

Send us a Text Message. Back to school this year is new territory. How can we manage our own sense of uncertainty? How can we build a welcoming class environment for students who have experienced so many challenges over the past year, challenges which haven't ended. In this Back to School session, you'll learn: 5 Anchor Tools to manage stress in th…

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Happiness Is a Subversive Pursuit 25:25

3y ago25:25

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Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Amy Edelstein talks about why pursuing happiness is not selfish. She looks at what happiness is, why caring about our own happiness and the happiness of others is foundational to creating a positive learning environment, and how to shift students' orientation so they care about the well being of the classroo…

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What We Learned from the Pandemic 31:46

3y ago31:46

31:46

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Amy Edelstein explores what we learned about students, teaching online, and essentials during this past year. What supports students' well-being? How do we create relationship even when we are not in the classroom? When we are forced to simplify, what rises to the top as the most important learning tools? Th…

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Grief & Loss: Supporting Students in the Post Pandemic Classroom 32:43

3y ago32:43

32:43

Send us a Text Message. In this, our third and final episode of this mini-series The Post Pandemic Classroom, we are going to look at how to support students who are returning to school having lost someone during the pandemic. Students often try to hide their grief or don't know how to process emotions, and the school day marches on with little roo…

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Working with Social Anxiety - The Post Pandemic Classroom 27:56

3y ago27:56

27:56

Send us a Text Message. The second episode in this series looks at the phenomenon of teens who are reluctant to go back to the classroom, who are afraid, ashamed, or anxious about their peers' response to them. These students need support to break the ice. They will need to be able to trust the boundaries set up in the class. In this episode, Amy E…

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What to Expect in a Post Pandemic Classroom 27:15

3y ago27:15

27:15

Send us a Text Message. We are coming towards the end of the year, Districts are sending out plans, metrics, and expectations for the coming year. Oftentimes, without enough discussion and recognition that this Fall will be one unlike previous years . . . and we don't really know what to expect. Teachers are tired. It's been a trying year. There's …

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Mindful Journaling - Restorative Teachers' Series 27:07

3+ y ago27:07

27:07

Send us a Text Message. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, we explore the art of contemplative writing, mindful journaling. It is a practice that can help us as teachers access our deeper purpose which sometimes gets buried beneath submitting grades and filling out forms for the District. Mindful journaling helps us untie knots, allow diff…

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Back to In Person School - Building the Habit of Resilience 29:31

3+ y ago29:31

29:31

Send us a Text Message. Wow, many schools are going back to full-time in person classrooms. There are many emotions to navigate! Relief and worry. Now is the time to work with all the mindfulness momentum to dial back self-defeating worry, frustration, and concerns. In this episode, we're going to work with the: Three Keys of Positive Habit Buildin…

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Self Care for Teachers - Essential In These Times 34:02

3+ y ago34:02

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Send us a Text Message. Highlighted in this podcast are the real concerns teachers are facing right now, named, so that you can externalize them and then create space and care for your own wellbeing. We work on three primary steps for stress reduction and self care. For more on free Self Care MasterClass for Educators visit www.TheConsciousClassroo…

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Choice: Helping Students Believe in Themselves 32:25

3+ y ago32:25

32:25

Send us a Text Message. Giving students choice over many small activities and decisions in the classroom sets a tone of respect, appreciation, value, and collaboration. Any classroom has an inherent power dynamic. Teachers with good classroom presence command authority and provide wholesome structure. And, they also are able to facilitate an enviro…

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Finding Balance - Work Life and Work Again 21:35

3+ y ago21:35

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Send us a Text Message. Does work ever stop these days? It's not just negotiating with all the demands, it's setting boundaries. Here are some ways to set limits and allow yourself to keep your sense of energy, agency, and positive parameters. Mindfulness tools really do help stretch time and enforce boundaries. In this era of ongoing demands, ther…

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7 Learning Styles & Mindfulness Cues for Different Learners 23:28

3+ y ago23:28

23:28

Send us a Text Message. In this episode, Amy outlines the seven different learning styles. During the pandemic, while most students are learning online, we need to make special effort to reach different types of learners. Learn the 7 different styles and how to give mindfulness cues and classroom cues that appeal to different learners. Support the …

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Tapping Inspiration & Building Accountability 42:18

3+ y ago42:18

42:18

Send us a Text Message. The New Year is a time when all of us make resolutions to improve, accomplish, and achieve. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein will talk about how to use the tools of mindful awareness and contextual thinking to tap into a student’s passion to learn. When we feed their inspiration and show them how to …

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Joy to You - Special Better Sleep Session 35:02

3+ y ago35:02

35:02

Send us a Text Message. Joy to the World starts with sending joy to ourselves. Most of us probably believe that but how many of us practice that? Here are some special tips for deepening your experience of joy and restoration during this holiday season. Included is a long guided meditation for better sleep. You can use this year-round and start to …

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Amplifying Generosity 33:59

3+ y ago33:59

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Send us a Text Message. Holidays are a time of giving and family. For students who are resource-challenged, this time of year can be challenging. In this Conscious Classroom episode, Amy Edelstein shares mindfulness tools and perspectives to bring the spirit of the holidays into your classroom. You will learn how to emphasize human connection, care…

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Camera Up? 28:06

3+ y ago28:06

28:06

Send us a Text Message. Teaching in an online environment due to coronavirus restrictions has required us to deal with new and challenging questions. How can we teach if we can't see our students faces? How do we know if they are comprehending or struggling? Do we demand that they "camera up" or do we allow them to find their way? In this episode, …

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Finding Your Center 26:22

3+ y ago26:22

26:22

Send us a Text Message. When there's distraction in the classroom and students are disengaged or wound up, our inclination as teachers is often to clamp down, to try to control. We do that with greater or lesser degrees of success. But after that, how do we feel? Those are the days that usually leave us more spent, drained, and wound up. In this ep…

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Gratitude: Building Community in the Classroom 27:03

3+ y ago27:03

27:03

Send us a Text Message. Thanksgiving is a time for conscious appreciation, recognizing the gifts in our lives, even during hard times like these days during the pandemic. How to we build gratitude and what is the relationship between gratitude, awareness, and ease? In this episode, Amy Edelstein will share some insights about the deeper dimensions …

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Expressing Gratitude 31:21

3+ y ago31:21

31:21

Send us a Text Message. In this Conscious Classroom episode, Amy Edelstein will explore different ways to think about gratitude as well as several different mindfulness practices that you can share with your students to cultivate a deeper sense of care in your classroom. Support the Show. If you enjoyed this episode please leave a review! Your revi…

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Building a Culture of Thanks 39:06

4y ago39:06

39:06

Send us a Text Message. Gratitude feels good. In this episode of The Conscious Classroom, Amy Edelstein will talk about building a culture of thanks. As we lean into the Thanksgiving season, it’s a time where we can begin to bring in awareness of the things that we’re grateful for and start helping our students appreciate so much around them. Speci…

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