Best Eric Jansen Podcasts (2024)

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How Catholic Charities Lives the Gospel with Kerry Robinson 40:16

1h ago40:16

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If you made a list of the best things about the Catholic Church in the United States, Catholic Charities USA would be in that list’s very top tier. A network of 168 local agencies based in dioceses throughout the country, Catholic Charities served more than 15 million of our at-risk neighbors last year alone. They serve people without homes, those …

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Pathway to Priesthood: Why Religious Life? 47:50

3h ago47:50

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Welcome to “Pathway to Priesthood”—a limited audio series from the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States in which host Eric Clayton talks with Jesuits who are in the final days of preparing for priestly ordination. Hear Jesuits reflect back on their vocation stories and experience of formation, all while wrestling with some of the bigge…

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Why we need inquiry more than ever - A Conversation with Trevor Mackenzie 57:01

1d ago57:01

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All the talk about systems change in education is great, and a topic we cover lots on the podcast. But the current reality for many educators might feel very removed from such visions. And yet, when you get into the details of what really deep and energised inquiry looks like with curious and questioning young people in classrooms, the two worlds f…

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English version: Reynaldo Domínguez's Deadly Fight to Care for Creation 44:30

4d ago44:30

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In 60-plus years of life, Reynaldo Domínguez has never heard someone say, "I live without water and I live in peace." Water is fundamental to a healthy and peaceful life, he says. Yet for Reynaldo and his community in Guapinol, Honduras, access to clean water has become a deadly fight that has killed two of his brothers and sent him and his family …

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Versión en español: La lucha mortal de Reynaldo Domínguez para el cuidado de la creación 50:01

5d ago50:01

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En más de 60 años de vida, Reynaldo Domínguez nunca ha oído a nadie decir: "Vivo sin agua y vivo tranquilo". El agua es fundamental para una vida sana y en paz, nos afirma. Sin embargo, para Reynaldo y su comunidad en Guapinol, Honduras, el acceso al agua potable se ha convertido en una lucha mortal que ha matado a dos de sus hermanos y lo ha envia…

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Our brains are not just memory machines! A Conversation with Dr. Laura Desirèe Di Paolo 1:01:15

8d ago1:01:15

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Over the last decade, there has been a surge of interest in the evidence and research-backing that support choices that educators and leaders are making in schools. In an effort to prove “what works” they reach for the Cognitive and so-called learning sciences. Personally, I’ve always felt a bit uncomfortable about how narrow these discussions are,…

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Grace, Attention and Beauty with Marilynne Robinson 50:28

12d ago50:28

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The American essayist and novelist Marilynne Robinson may not be Catholic, but her writing reveals a deeply sacramental imagination. Through five books of fiction and dozens of essays, Robinson trains her readers in the art of spiritual attention. Where is God’s grace operating in nature and in the ordinary ways humans love, disappoint and forgive …

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Musical Spaces for Transformation & Community Building - A Conversation with Eric Dozier 1:11:44

15d ago1:11:44

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Eric Dozier (https://www.ericdozier.com/) is not only an incredible musician and, as he calls himself, itinerant blues preacher, but also a cultural activist and anti-racism educator. We talk about the power of music as a social force that brings people together to learn, builds community and holds space for transformation, in particular in Eric’s …

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Strengthening Tasks Through Student Talk - Guest: Drs. Amber Candela and Melissa Boston 16:23

18d ago16:23

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Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 16 – Strengthening Tasks Through Student Talk Guests: Dr. Amber Candela and Dr. Melissa Boston Mike Wallus: One of the goals I had in mind when we first began recording Rounding Up was to bring to life the best practices that we aspire to in math education and to offer entry points so that educators would feel comfort…

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How Poetry and Prose Change Lives with Gary Jansen 41:03

19d ago41:03

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In honor of National Poetry Month - which is currently underway during April 2024 - author and editor Gary Jansen returns to the podcast to talk about his latest book, "Meditations at Midnight: Poetry and Prose."Gary lives at the intersection of faith and art. He’s worked in publishing a long time—both at secular publishing houses editing Catholic …

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A Radical New Kind of 'Probiotic' Education - A Conversation with Dr. Vanessa Andreotti 51:24

22d ago51:24

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What does it mean to help our young people understand all of the forces that have brought us to where we are, and also to take real responsibility for all of the benefits and harms that that has caused, in particular to indigenous communities around the world? What kinds of education might 'enable healthier possibilities of (co)existence that are v…

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The Story Behind Flannery O'Connor's New Novel with Jessica Hooten Wilson 37:47

26d ago37:47

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You might be familiar with the American Catholic novelist, Flannery O’Connor. You might have read her short stories in a class, maybe “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” or “Everything That Rises Must Converge,” to name a few. You might have even read one of her novels, an essay or two or some of her letters. You might know that she spent much of her rela…

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Systems Thinking in Practice - A Conversation with Prof. Ray Ison 1:15:32

29d ago1:15:32

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With so much talk about 'systems thinking' in education, sometimes it can become framework overload! Which one should I pick? What's the difference between them anyway?! This week, it is a huge privilege to chat to someone who has been doing this longer than most! Professor Ray Ison has been teaching systems practice for the Open University for the…

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Making Sense of Story Problems - Guest: Drs. Aina Appova and Julia Hagge 32:13

1M ago32:13

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Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 15 – Making Sense of Story Problems Resources: Schema-Mediated Vocabulary in Math Word Problems Guest: Drs. Aina Appova and Julia Hagge Mike Wallus: Story problems are an important tool that educators use to bring mathematics to life for their students. That said, navigating the meaning and language found in story pro…

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From Video Game Designer to Jesuit with Shane Liesegang, SJ 56:27

1M ago56:27

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There’s an old saying in Jesuit circles: If you’ve met one Jesuit, you’ve met one Jesuit. A fun list to make is all the different careers guys had before joining the Society of Jesus. We have actors and comedians, doctors and lawyers, astronomers and one former lieutenant governor. Shane Liesegang, SJ, today’s guest, is the only Jesuit host Mike Jo…

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Towards Liberation - A Conversation with Jamilah Pitts 57:30

1M ago57:30

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This week I’m chatting with Jamilah Pitts, whose incredible work challenges us to root our educational practices in activism, healing and love. This is so that we tell the truth about the deep biases and harms that continue to persist within our societies and many of our educational settings. Jamilah’s work follows in the incredible tradition of be…

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Founding and Growing the Cristo Rey Network of Schools with Fr. John Foley, SJ 43:01

1M ago43:01

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Fr. John P. Foley, SJ, spent 34 years as a missionary in Peru -- a full career in most lines of work. But then, in 1995, he was missioned back to the United States to start a high school for Latino students from low-income backgrounds in Chicago. Despite immense challenges -- like not knowing where the school would be even at the press conference a…

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Creating an inquiry and research culture in our schools - A Conversation with Prof. Rex Li and Dr. Clara Cheng 48:58

1M ago48:58

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In this week’s conversation, with Professor Rex Li and Dr Clara Cheng, we take a wide-ranging look at how we can take inspiration and ideas from past educational projects, such as those of John Dewey and Howard Gardner, as we develop education into the future. But also learning from their experience at GT College in Hong Kong, how can we use resear…

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Mathematizing and Modeling The World Around Us - Guest: Erin Turner, Ph.D. 37:59

2M ago37:59

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Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 14 – Three Resources to Support Multilingual Learners Guest: Dr. Erin Turner Mike Wallus: Many resources for supporting multilingual learners are included with curriculum materials. What's too often missing though is clear guidance for how to use them. In this episode, we're going to talk with Dr. Erin Turner about th…

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Leading Creighton University in a Secular Age with Fr. Daniel Hendrickson, SJ 43:13

2M ago43:13

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While Fr. Daniel Hendrickson, SJ, president of Creighton University, is excited for both his women's and men's basketball teams' March Madness journeys, today’s episode isn’t about basketball at all. (Well, it makes an appearance for a couple minutes at the end.) It’s about the roles of Jesuit colleges and universities in our world today.Host Mike …

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Educating for the 'Long Now' - A Conversation with Homa Tavangar 48:38

2M ago48:38

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Homa Tavangar (https://homatavangar.com/ ) is an incredible educator and leader. She is the co-founder of the Oneness Lab with Eric Dozier (https://www.onenesslab.com/ ) where she helps schools and companies go ‘deeper than diversity,’ as well as the Big Questions Institute, (https://bigquestions.institute/) where, with her co-founder Will Richards…

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Making the Jesuit App “Pray As You Go” with Emma Holland 38:29

2M ago38:29

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Ever since the Jesuits in the United Kingdom launched the daily prayer project “Pray As You Go” (PAYG) in 2006, the creative team behind the resource has shared fabulous audio prayer programs that are spiritually nourishing in their beauty and simplicity. Each day combines music, Scripture from the lectionary, and short spoken prayer prompts that a…

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Decolonising our Institutions - A Conversation with Prof. Jonathan Jansen 36:52

2M ago36:52

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How are the knowledge and skills that we choose to teach or not teach implicated in the power structures and political histories of the places in which we live? Professor Jonathan Jansen (⁠https://www.jonathanjansen.org/⁠ ) is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. He is currently President of the Sout…

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Rough Draft Math - Guest: Dr. Amanda Jansen 21:48

2M ago21:48

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Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 13 – Rough Draft Math Guest: Dr. Amanda Jansen Mike Wallus: What would happen if teachers consistently invited students to think of their ideas in math class as a rough draft? What impact might this have on students' participation, their learning experience, and their math identity? Those are the questions we'll explo…

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How Fr. Walter Ciszek, SJ, Found God in Soviet Captivity with Jim Keane 36:24

2M ago36:24

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The basic details of Father Walter Ciszek life sound like a movie: An American Jesuit priest ministering in Eastern Europe around the time of World War II, he was arrested by the Soviet Union and falsely accused of being a Vatican spy. He spent time in a KGB prison and more than a decade in Siberian labor camps. His family and his Jesuit brothers b…

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In Search of Play - A Conversation with Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy 39:44

2M ago39:44

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This week’s episode is a conversation about the importance of play and playfulness with the fantastic Dr. Jane Hession and Ronan Healy. Based on their extensive research and expertise of the Lego Serious Play method, Jane and Ronan are successfully reintroducing play to learning and work environments as an invitation to qualitatively different mode…

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Learning to Love Lent Through Music with Margaret Felice 43:45

2M ago43:45

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When you hear the word “Lent,” what is the first thing you think of? Maybe it’s purple or giving up social media or chocolate. Or maybe it’s trying to build better prayer habits or abstaining from meat on Fridays. Or famous Lenten Scripture passages like the Transfiguration. For Margaret Felice, today's guest, one thing that’s always near the top o…

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Evidencing Edtech - A Conversation with Prof. Natalia Kucirkova 40:53

2M ago40:53

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Professor Natalia Kucirkova is Professor of Reading and Early Childhood Development at the University of Stavanger. She researches children’s use of media and technologies. She is especially interested in children’s use of e-books and literacy apps, particularly in relation to the use of personal data (digital personalization) and evidence-based ap…

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Counting - Guest: Dr. Kim Hartweg 19:16

2M ago19:16

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Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 12 – Counting Guest: Dr. Kim Hartweg Mike Wallus: Counting is a process that involves a complex and interconnected set of concepts and skills. This means that for most children, the path to counting proficiency is not a linear process. Today we're talking with Dr. Kim Hartweg from Western Illinois University about the…

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Synodality: Embracing Tension, Staying at the Table with Fr. Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, SJ 31:13

3M ago31:13

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Today's guest has an incredible amount of experience of the truly "catholic," global nature of the church. Fr. Agbonkhianmeghe Orobator, SJ, today serves as the dean of the Jesuit School of Theology at Santa Clara University. This school is one of the two Jesuit “theologates” in the United States, which means it’s a place where Jesuits in formation…

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Why countries should get out of PISA! - A Conversation with Dr. Yong Zhao 31:23

3M ago31:23

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⁠Yong Zhao⁠ is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the ⁠School of Education at the University of Kansas⁠ and a professor in Educational Leadership at the Faculty of Education, University of Melbourne in Australia. He previously served as the Presidential Chair, Associate Dean, and Director of the Institute for Global and Online Education in the…

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Writer Dwayne Ratleff on ‘Dancing to the Lyrics’ 29:30

3M ago29:30

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Dwayne Ratleff grew up poor, Black and gay in 1960s Baltimore. As a youngster, his loving grandma taught him: “Don’t explain yourself, be yourself.”By Eric Jansen

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Get to Know Pierre Teilhard de Chardin with Sr. Kathy Duffy, SSJ, Ph.D. 42:26

3M ago42:26

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Even though the French paleontologist and theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin died in 1955, it feels like his work is still being discussed and debated in theological circles all the time. There are numerous associations and publications dedicated solely to exploring Teilhard’s huge body of work. He made it back into the news this past fall when …

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Context Changes Everything - A Conversation with Dr. Alicia Juarrero 52:00

3M ago52:00

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Alicia Juarrero, is Co-Founder and President of VectorAnalytica and Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Prince George’s Community College (MD). She is the author of Context Changes Everything: How Constraints Create Coherence, published last year: https://direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monograph/5600/Context-Changes-EverythingHow-Constraints-Create⁠ Her ot…

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Translanguaging - Guest: Tatyana Kleyn, Ed.D. 20:51

3M ago20:51

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Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 11 – Translanguaging Guest: Tatyana Kleyn Mike Wallus: Over the past two years, we've done several episodes on supporting multilingual learners in math classrooms. Today we're going back to this topic to talk about “translanguaging,” an asset-focused approach that invites students to bring their full language repertoi…

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Solidarity and Service in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps with Tom Chabolla 34:49

3M ago34:49

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For more than 60 years, the Jesuit Volunteer Corps (JVC) has been a pioneer in the service landscape. With over 100 volunteers each year and over 12,000 alumni, they are one of the largest lay, Catholic, full-time volunteer programs in the world. JVC gives young adults the opportunity to engage in service and solidarity with local communities, root…

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The Problems of Translating the Science of Learning - A Conversation with Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath 1:18:46

3M ago1:18:46

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Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath is an award-winning cognitive neuroscientist, best-selling author and renowned keynote speaker with an expertise in human learning, memory, and brain stimulation. Jared has published 6 books, including most recently with co-author David Bott: 10 THINGS SCHOOLS GET WRONG (and how we can get them right) Other books include: ⁠…

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Service Never Stops: Talking Ignatian Volunteers with Mary McGinnity 32:52

3M ago32:52

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In the final meditation of the Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius of Loyola reminds us “that love ought to manifest itself in deeds rather than in words.” We are called to love and serve in all things.And so, it’s hardly a surprise that in the 500 or so years since Ignatius wrote those words, countless service organizations have grown and flourished…

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Transforming Professional Learning - A Conversation with Prof. Rachel Lofthouse 50:19

3M ago50:19

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It is increasingly clear that recruiting, developing and retaining teachers is a very real issue around the world. Dr. Rachel Lofthouse is at the forefront of thinking through how we might be able to address some of these challenges. Rachel is the Professor of Teacher Education in the Carnegie School of Education at Leeds Beckett University. She ha…

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Beauty, Leadership and the Mystery of God with Fr. Leo O'Donovan, SJ 51:26

3M ago51:26

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It’s hard to know where to start an interview with Jesuit Fr. Leo O’Donovan. At 89 years old, Fr. O’Donovan’s could boast a hefty list of accomplishments and accolades—though he’s not much interested in bragging. A theologian by training, he studied under the prominent Jesuit Fr. Karl Rahner in Munich, where O’Donovan’s own body of work would event…

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Overhyping Tech & AI in Education - A Conversation with Dr. Gary Stager 47:50

4M ago47:50

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As an elementary teacher by training, Dr. Gary Stager has taught students from preschool through doctoral studies. In 1990, Gary led professional development in the world’s first laptop schools and played a major role in the early days of online education. Gary is the founder of the Constructing Modern Knowledge summer institute for educators. Gary…

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The Big Place Value Episode - Guest: Eric Sisofo, Ed.D 37:20

4M ago37:20

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Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 10 – Place Value Guest: Dr. Eric Sisofo Mike Wallus: If you ask an educator to share some of the most important ideas in elementary mathematics, I'm willing to bet that most would include place value on that list. But what does it mean to understand place value really? And what types of language practices and tools su…

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How the Jesuit Prison Education Network is Changing Lives with Fr. Tom Curran, SJ 43:06

4M ago43:06

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Have you ever met someone so passionate about something that you just couldn’t help getting excited about it, too? That was host Mike Jordan Laskey's experience when he first met Fr. Tom Curran, SJ, today's guest.Fr. Curran, who served as the president of Rockhurst University in Kansas City for 16 years, is now the coordinator of the Jesuit Prison …

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On Compassionate Systems Change in Education - A Conversation with Dr. Mette Miriam Böll 58:14

4M ago58:14

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Today’s guest has been doing amazing work in this areas alongside Peter Senge, Daniel Goleman and colleagues at the IB, through the Center for Systems Awareness at MIT. Dr Mette Miriam Böll is the is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the centre, as well as the co-founded of The MIT Systems Awareness Lab with Peter Senge. Her academic backgro…

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Peers connect on Pacifica Pier in ‘Spell Heaven’ 28:59

4M ago28:59

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As we await the reopening of the Pacifica Pier — now closed due to recent storm damage — we bring you poet Toni Mirosevich's stories of connection on this historic pier.By Eric Jansen

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Still Following Yonder Stars with Br. Bob Macke, SJ 29:17

4M ago29:17

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This past weekend, we celebrated the Feast of the Epiphany, when the three magi followed yonder star to God’s perfect light (to paraphrase the old song). By gazing at the stars, people from near and far we’re drawn to Christ—a reminder that, woven into the very fabric of the universe, God reveals Godself, guiding us deeper into God’s mystery and an…

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(Un)common Sense Teaching - A Conversation with Dr. Barbara Oakley 56:26

4M ago56:26

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Professor Barbara Oakley is a Distinguished Professor of Engineering at Oakland University. Barbara’s research has been described as “revolutionary” in the Wall Street Journal. She is New York Times best-selling author who has published in outlets as varied as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and The New…

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Responsive Interpretations of Student Thinking - Guest: Kim Morrow Leong, PhD 23:25

4M ago23:25

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Rounding Up Season 2 | Episode 9 – Instructional & Assessment Practices Guest: Dr. Kim Morrow-Leong Mike Wallus: What are the habits of mind that educators can adopt to be more responsive to our students' thinking? And how can we turn these habits of mind into practical steps that we can take on a regular basis? Dr. Kim Morrow-Leong has some though…

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