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Diane Rehm’s weekly podcast features newsmakers, writers, artists and thinkers on the issues she cares about most: what’s going on in Washington, ideas that inform, and the latest on living well as we live longer.
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Teaching Into the Future explores how Integral teaching and learning practices take shape in the classroom or home environment. Hybrid teaching tips bring live education practices for parents or teachers. Host Diane Walters identifies student voice, student inquiry based lessons and teaching from emergent, holistic and integrated curriculum ideologies.
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Understanding Project 2025 -- and how it could shape a Trump second term
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The Republican National Convention convention wrapped up last night with a speech from Donald Trump that lasted more than 90 minutes. It capped a week that was heavy on rhetoric, short on specifics. Enter Project 2025. If you haven’t heard of it, it’s a document created by the conservative Heritage Foundation that lays out a vision for the next Rep…
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The nation's first Black female billionaire on resilience, creativity, and following her passions
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Sheila Johnson is known as the nation’s first black female billionaire. She first rose to prominence as the co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, or BET. Since then, she has become a widely recognized business leader, a hotel mogul, and the co-owner of three professional sports teams. But, Johnson says, her triumphs masked deep trauma and p…
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A retired federal judge on his life on the bench and the current Supreme Court
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Judge David Tatel sat on the bench of the powerful D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for nearly three decades. Appointed by Bill Clinton, he became a prominent, liberal-leaning voice in the judiciary, widely considered a top candidate for the Supreme Court had Al Gore won the 2000 election. Tatel was known as a brilliant legal mind, whose opinions help…
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The first Trump-Biden debate of 2024: "They both lost"
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Last night President Biden and former president Donald Trump took to the debate stage. Hosted by CNN, the conversation focused more on personal attacks than policy. Throughout the night, Trump rattled off strings of lies that largely went unchecked. Biden, meanwhile, sounded meandering and unsteady, raising questions about his fitness as a candidat…
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How Barbara Walters changed the news media for women -- and everyone else
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Once upon a time television news was dominated by men like Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley. Some might call it an old boys club. Today, the sight of a woman in the anchor’s chair is commonplace. For this, we can thank Barbara Walters. In 1976 she became the first female host of a network nightly news program – and it did not go wel…
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The push to remove "forever chemicals" from America's drinking water
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Almost half the tap water in the United States contains PFAS, also called forever chemicals. This class of compounds never fully break down in nature and have been linked to serious health problems. In April the Environmental Protection Agency required the removal of PFAS from drinking water. Now industry is pushing back. This week a group of chemi…
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Interview with Gawinoh Parker/ Skaronhyase'kó:wa. Mohawk Immersion School
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Send us a Text Message. Join Diane in an interview with Gawinoh Parker, Grade 3 teacher at the Skaronhyase'kó:wa. Mohawk Immersion School in the 6 Nations Territory, Canada. Find out how this Waldorf Inspired school teaches through total immersion into traditional Indigenous Wisdom. Support the Show.…
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How Trump's guilty verdict shifted the race for president (if not the minds of the voters)
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After a New York jury found former President Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies last week, the reactions were swift and vehement. The former president’s calls for vengeance have become louder. GOP attacks on the justice system have become nearly universal, backed by specific threats and proposals. And Democrats seem to be struggling to find a way t…
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'The Spirit of America' vs. 'America First': Revisiting FDR's war of words with Charles Lindbergh
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In 1939 fascism was on the march around the world and America found itself at a crossroads. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt believed Hitler and the Nazis posed an existential threat to democracy. But the American public, still reeling from the Great Depression, remained wary of getting involved. Fascist sympathizers and powerful right-wing medi…
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The Story Of One Woman's Decision To End Her Life
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Diana Williams lived a rich life by any measure. She was a wife, a mother, a traveler, and the founder of a job training organization at San Quentin prison in California. But for three decades, Williams was plagued by mysterious symptoms. These included exhaustion, night sweats, brain fog, and throbbing headaches and chills that left her bedridden …
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How U.S. Public Schools Became Political Battlegrounds
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Three years ago, conservative activists took over the school board in a small suburb in Texas. They ended diversity initiatives, rolled back LGBTQ protections, and banned books they said did not reflect their values. Mike Hixenbaugh, NBC News senior investigative reporter, has been following the story ever since. He says what happened in Southlake …
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 16: The Most Important Thing
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Send us a Text Message. The most important thing in teaching Tweenagers (12-14) is found in the play of opposites. Join Diane as she talks about teaching science through subjectivity and contrasts. You might find yourself inspired. Support the Show.
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 15: The Red Thread
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Send us a Text Message. Diane takes you on a journey of the red thread that weaves through time and space in-and-out of the classroom. Through experience and story, she weaves a web which renews past learning and enlivened present learning and delves into the future of learning to deepen your teaching practice. Support the Show.…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 14: Temper the Temperaments
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Send us a Text Message. What is a human being? Understanding the human being leads to more questions, more developments, more possibilities....like a pattern or puzzle waiting to be linked together. This podcast discusses the 4 Greek Temperaments as a tool to greater insight for teachers and parents in order to develop a heightened sensitivity to c…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 13: Adolescence - Guiding the Passage
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Send us a Text Message. We must ask ourselves if we are able to guide and gift our teenagers with the means to nourish their bodies, souls and spirits so that they walk into the world with confidence, courage and equanimity; bringing to birth true idealism as a contribution to this world. Support the Show.…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 12: Holding Space for the Students
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Send us a Text Message. Most teachers are adept at seeing the big picture. Caught up in the hectic pace of modern life, we feel compelled to immediately distinguish what is important from what is not. The assessment is an easy one to make when we are mired in the daily grind of our classrooms. and school life or in our home environment if you are a…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 11: The Curriculum Seal - Embracing Diverse Instructional Strategies
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Send us a Text Message. Our human striving for connection with our earth, our communities and ourselves reunites through our individual and collective knowledge and art based creative endeavor. In reaching for the stars we inspire innovation and change, emerging into a new consciousness of ourselves and our world. Creativity and our learning is a g…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 10: The Tin Man and the Human Heart - Teaching into our Digital Age Part 2
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Send us a Text Message. I believe that we are all educators. We are all students. Whether we term ourselves mentors, learners, parents, or teachers, the world is on offer on every level of human understanding, place and time. We are living in a time of unprecedented change and if we do not want to be swept off our feet or simply led by algorithms, …
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 9: The Tin Man and the Human Heart - Teaching into our Digital Age Part 1
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Send us a Text Message. Human intelligence far surpasses computational intelligence. The deeper capacities of genuine human intelligence are based in the light of insightful dialogue, creative approaches as a community of people with diverse interests and capabilities. It is to be found when we engage and collaborate with others on any level, at an…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 8: The Classroom As A Theatre
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Send us a Text Message. The teacher actively practices the art of weaving potential teaching moments between themselves as teachers, and the students they teach. By doing so they have learned to improvise and be present; to love the times we live in. Students to become active creators with imagination, student voice or preferred experiences with en…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 7: Letting Go and Letting Come
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Send us a Text Message. I believe we are not finite human beings, though our culture portrays us this way. Teachers who abandon being a ‘presenter’ and turn towards their students as the true subjects of a lesson, generate a true meeting place of souls, like the crossing point of a lemniscate. Then there is a possibility to begin to relate to a liv…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 6: Radical Unknowing
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Send us a Text Message. The principle of unknowing is at work, Steiner suggests, acting as a force, through ideas. Unknowing takes on the guise of a patient teacher actively listening to the “as yet unknown” teachable moment. Support the Show.By Diane Walters
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 5: Light and Warmth
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Send us a Text Message. “Living thinking” are warmth and light processes in the mind and heart of the teacher. Light and warmth when actively practiced while engaging students is at the core of educational practices which have come alive. A true teacher possesses a capacity for connectedness through the very heart and spirit of the teaching profess…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 4: Playful, ActIve Minds
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Send us a Text Message. Steiner stated that active participation in the classroom calls for the dynamic interplay between the active and the passive mind. In Waldorf education, he highlights both an active and passive state of learning like a process of breathing. “When the world is passive, we become active. When the world is active, we become pas…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 3: A Community of Truth
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Send us a Text Message. I began to explore the balance between teacher presentation and student participation in subject material in order to leave room for what I call the unfinished lesson. My lenses were Steiner’s educational philosophy, contemporary educators, theorists and futurists. My experience as a teacher showed me the longings of both te…
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 2: Beholding Joy
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Send us a Text Message. How do we educate for the development of students as human beings where the emphasis is based on laughter, joy, heart based interest, and active participation as a key to unlocking all learning? Support the Show.By Diane Walters
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Integral Teaching Podcast Episode 1: Discovering Balance
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Send us a Text Message. In this introductory epsiode, host Diane Walters will go over integral teaching practices while discovering balance in the hybrid classroom. Her depth of experience brings inspiration to teachers as well as homeschooling parents. Support the Show.By Diane Walters
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