Empowered Teaching: Recent Episodes
Vanessa Taborda-Cronin
Welcome to Empowered Teaching. The podcast for teachers who are ready to embrace their imperfections, so that they can become their better selves in and out the classroom. To be empowered means to show up for yourself, and to consciously decide what you listen to, what advice you take and how you perform.
Empowered teaching is the kind of teaching that gives teachers the ability to recognize the power that already lives within them, so that they can show up for their students, and bring them to success by teaching in their own terms.
On today's podcast I take you on a little journey about me learning to accept and embrace my very particular foreign accent. A podcast for language teachers, language lovers and anyone who knows somebody "with an accent".
In this episode, we discuss the lack of minority educators in leadership positions. The role of language teachers and the power of utilizing social media to learn and grow professionally.
Important Links:
Connect with Dr. Jose Medina Hernandez.
http://drjosemedina.com/services/
Dr. Jose Medina's twitter
Dr. Jose Medina's Instagram
In this episode, we discuss the lack of minority educators in leadership positions. The role of language teachers and the power of utilizing social media to learn and grow professionally.
Important Links:
Sign Up For The 2.0 Teach Your Heart Out Virtual Conferences
Connect with Dr. Jose Medina Hernandez.
http://drjosemedina.com/services/
Dr. Jose Medina's twitter
Dr. Jose Medina's Instagram
Welcome to the Minority Educator series with special guest Doctor Jose Medina Hernandez. Chief Educational Advocate at Dr. José Medina: Educational Solutions.
In this episode, you will get to hear the first half of our powerful interview with Dr. Jose Medina, who shares with us his expertise in the Dual Language Education. He takes us through his journey as a child who had a traumatic entrance in the educational system. Kicked out of kinder garden at the age of five and roll in into his new class strapped to a gurney in a pool of his own urine. Looked over by his teachers and pears for many years, for being a nervous kid who was afraid of most things.
Despite his difficult childhood, he grew up to be a men who embraced his sexuality as a gay person and became a successful entrepreneur, who today travels the world to serve dual lingual schools all over the world and bring his message to create access to education for the oppressed student. Tune it to hear it all.
Important Links:
Sign Up For The 2.0 Teach Your Heart Out Virtual Conferences
Connect with Dr. Jose Medina Hernandez.
http://drjosemedina.com/services/
Dr. Jose Medina's twitter
Dr. Jose Medina's Instagram
Chrisitna is a full time high school English teacher with more than a decade of experience in the classroom who is here to share her experience with teaching remotely. Tune in to hear what has been working for her and and to find out her biggest take aways from this season in her teaching career.
Important Links:
Visit Christina's blog
Follow Christina On Instagram
Sign Up For The 2.0 Teach Your Heart Out Virtual Conferences
Creating strong relationships with our students in an era of remote and hybrid teaching is harder than ever. Today's episode brings to you "The Dot Activity" a fun and engaging lesson for you to do with your kids at any age, any class, no special material or planing needed.
Important Links:
Sign Up For The 2.0 Teach Your Heart Out Virtual Conferences
Jed Dearybury's Instagram
Buy The Playful Classroom Book
Imposter Syndrome is the feeling that you haven’t earned your success, you simply got lucky, and you’re a fraud or “imposter” around people who actually earned it and know what they’re doing. It makes one feel that they do not have the skills or expertise to hold your current job.
Tune in to find out if you have it and learn how to overcome it.
Important Links:
Sign Up For The 2.0 Teach Your Heart Out Virtual Conferences
Worry about what you should focus on this unusual school year? Would like some guidance to make sure you are doing the best you can for your students right now? Tune in today to take notes of the five most important elements that educators should implant into their practices today.
Important Links:
Sign Up For The 2.0 Teach Your Heart Out Virtual Conferences
We are back! Today's podcast seeks to help you understand the most difficult situations in which often we find ourselves in. If you are going through a hard season in your life and need some hope and guidance about how to get out of that funk, or simply need some inspiration to help you teach a vary valuable lesson to your kids, tune in and take a listen.
Importan Links:
Sign Up For The 2.0 Virtual Teach Your Heart Out Conferences
Today's episode brings to you the stories of 15 educators all across America, who are sharing insights about how they and their districts are dealing with the Covid - 19 madness that no one was prepared for. Get to know how they are feeling, their concerns, worries, and what they are doing to still be able to serve their students from the distance during this critical times for all.
Credits:
Thank you so much to everyone who collaborated and donated their time and efforts to produce today's podcast.
- Rosa Casado @Educandoentremundos
- Denise Nikole @denise.nikole_
- Laura DeMars @teachingfrombeyondthedesk
- Maria Hampton @laprofesoraviajera
- Mary Crouch @maryecrouch
- Stephanie Edmonds @class.disruption
- Olivia Bertels @missbertels_
- Libby Klinner @theprimarypartner
- Paula Petrowitsch @profetips
- Nicole Marte @marteinthemiddle
- Chris Rogers @elprofeloco_proferogers
- Gwendolyn Henshaw @teachingwitha6thsense
- Sam @peacock_poet
- Skylar Billingsley @the_heart_in_teaching
- Valeria Hernandez @bilingualdiaries
With spring upon us and all the madness going on right now, is tempting to walk out of the classroom and make a living by being something else than an educator. These teachers, are not going anywhere and they want to share their philosophy with you during this difficult times. Tune in to hear their perspective from different parts of our country.
Thank you to everyone who made this possible:
Esmeralda Lara from @mrs_sra_lara
Claire Garcia @leadwithculture
Rachael Roberts @liferesourceful
Giselle Morales @moralesgiselle___
Erin Coleman https://www.theengagedspanishclassroom.com/
Miriam Renedo @miaulatraslamirilla
Maria Hampton @laprofesoraviajera
On todays episode, we talk about the following tween we saw that we we identify with it:
"I recently gave an exam where the average score was 40%. I felt like a failure. I took some time over the past 2 weeks to re-teach the skill. average score? 80%. Moral of the story? If the kids aren't getting it, it's probably no them. Humble yourself & try again"
This tweet, we lated posted on out Instagram account @empoweredteachingpodcast where we asked teachers about what they do when this happens to them. They collaborated, and shared their thoughts with us. Get to know what they do to learn about what may be best for you and your kiddos.
Thank You To These Amazing Educators
(Please go and support them)
@chris_tyner1
@leigh_bag/
@jixichick
@txteach1963
Yalissa is an 18 year old alumni of mine, who today is coming to the podcast to talk about her experience as a brown student who went to underfunded schools most of her life. Get to know how despite her upbringings, she made it to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut on a full ride scholarship, where she is getting ready to one day be able practice Law.
Yalissa is an 18 year old alumni of mine, who today is coming to the podcast to talk about her experience as a brown student who went to underfunded schools most of her life. Get to know how despite her upbringings, she made it to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut on a full ride scholarship, where she is getting ready to one day be able practice Law.
Kayse is the founder of the CEO Teacher Academy, a place where Teachers can learn how to become the CEO of their own side business. she hast built a sever figure a year business and believes that you can do it. Tune in today to learn from her journey and find the step to step that you need to realize all your teacher entrepreneur dreams.
You will get to hear the second part of our conversation. Kayse dives into her first years as a teacher, talks about what she did en her classroom to bring all her students to success, what social media has done for her. In addition you will learn about her believes, meditation, the hustle mentality and much more.
Important LInks:
https://kaysemorris.com/
Listen To Kayse's CEO Teacher Academy Podcast
Connect with Kayse On Social Media
Thank you to Amped Up Learning for sponsoring today's episode.
https://ampeduplearning.com/
Get 15% off with the code: Empowered
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Kayse is the founder of the CEO Teacher Academy, a place where Teachers can learn how to become the CEO of their own side business. she hast built a sever figure a year business and believes that you can do it. Tune in today to learn from her journey and find the step to step that you need to realize all your teacher entrepreneur dreams.
Important LInks:
https://kaysemorris.com/
Listen To Kayse's CEO Teacher Academy Podcast
Connect with Kayse On Social Media
Thank you to Amped Up Learning for sponsoring today's episode.
https://ampeduplearning.com/
Get 15% off with the code: Empowered
Do you have an Instagram? if you do, then weather you want or don't want to know how to get 400 likes in one picture on Instagram, you are going to want to get to hear the sweet turn this episode took.
Tune in to learn how much, REALLY! a like is worth on Instagram.
Thank you to Amped Up Learning for sponsoring today's episode.
https://ampeduplearning.com/
Get 15% off with the code: Empowered
Caitlin Mitchell and Jessica Cannata are two ELA Middle School educators that went from working full time as teachers, to built and online community that offers tangible support to ELA Teachers across the country and beyond.
They are here to talk about their journey, and give us advice about succeeding in the business world as teachers.
These are six valuable lessons that I learned in 2019 about podcasting. If you have thinking about the idea of starting a new podcast but don't know if it is really what you should be looking into it, you will love to hear this episode. I am sharing with you five tools that I consider to be important to stary a new podcast.
Mentioned In This Episode:
The Use Your Sick Days Dilemma
Crushing It By Gary Vaynerchuk
Happy 50th episode to us! We have come a long way and couldn't see any other better way to celebrate such special episode than to launching our las episode for the Undocumented Student Series.
On this episode, you will get to hear from Mrs. Kriss Bergton Mendoza, an educator who is committed to serve undocumented students and who is here to share her experiences with us.
With today's episode you will be informed about the rights that undocumented students hold. Help them feel and be safe by knowing exactly what is available to them. Here, you will find the tools to know what you can do to serve them better.
Important Links:
Google Folder With All Resources
College Access Information
Institutional Aid Information
Legal Aid Information
Mariza Davilamadwid is an experienced high school Spanish Teacher, with a Master's in School Counseling at Western Connecticut State University. In this podcast, you will get to hear the journey of two Teachers who once were undocumented. Their struggles, what they learned along the way, the reason behind it all and much more.
Important Links:
Mariza's Instagram
Mariza's TPT
Bienvenidos to the Undocumented Student Series. A series of podcast made from the heart, with the purpose of bringing to life the tabu topic of undocumented students. We aim to offer critical tools to Teachers all across USA so they can serve their undocumented students better.
You will hear real life stories told by undocumented students, teachers who work with undocumented students, leaders and educators committed to protect the rights of undocumented students in United States.
On today's podcast, get to know Anthony Barroso. a students an leader who is committed to support undocumented students through New England.
Monica Genta is an author, TED talker, speaking, motivator and one amazing Teacher, who is here to share her journey and what has brought her where she is today.
On this episode, we talked about being obsessed with learning, making things happen, the game changers that could really make an impact in your classroom and much more.
Important Links
Monica Genta's Website
Monica Genta's Blog
Monica Genta's Instagram
Other Important Links
The Four Agreements By Don Miguel Ruiz
How do I make them all listen to me? What do I need to do so that they all pay attention and behave how I want them to? Today's episode seeks to help you understand better your audience (AKA your students).
Get to know what Jim Gaffigan does to captivate his audience and bring his powerful advice into your classroom to be able to draw your students more into your lessons.
Mentioned In This Episode
The School Of Greatness Podcast
Hear Jim Gaffigan's And Lewis's Entire Podcast Episode
https://www.jimgaffigan.com/
Carrie Conover is a successful entrepreneur and educator who is here to talk about the importance of self-reflection to know what direction to take.
Should I stay in the classroom? should I go for something else? Am I happy here? What else can I do with my teacher credentials? Are some of the questions, we hope you are able to answer when you listen to this episode.
Important Links:
https://www.educators2educators.com/
Join e2e Today
Become A Presenter For e2e
Follow Carrie On Instagram
Listen To e2e's Podcast
Take The Personality Tests Suggested By Carrie
Take The Myers Briggs Test
https://high5test.com/
Ace Schwarz, is a 7th grade science teacher in Maryland, who identifies as non-binary and goes by they/them/theirs pronouns. Ace is here to teach us about non-binary people and to help us deconstruct the gender binary, to support better our LGBTQ+ students in our classrooms.
Get to know how to create a more inclusive environment for your students and learn what you can do to become a safer place for your entire school community.
Important Links
https://www.teachingoutsidethebinary.com/
Follow Ace on Instagram
Jed Dearybury began his education career in 2001. He is successful educator who has been featured in GQ Magazine as Male Leader of the Year, met President Obama as the SC winner of the Presidential Award for Excellence in Math and Science Teaching, and was named as a top 5 finalist for South Carolina Teacher of the Year because of his passion, love, and success in education.
Jed is here to talk about his passion for teaching, to give us practical advice for us to grow as educators and to speak his heart about what he believes in what he stands for.
Mentioned On This Episode
https://www.mrdearybury.com/
Follow Mr. Jed Dearybury's Instagram
https://empatico.org/
Tools' For A Playful Classroom
Follow Mr. Matt Johnson's Instagram
Welcome to season three of Empowered Teaching Podcast! Whohoooo! and welcome to the beginning of a brand new school year. I wanted to start this new season by sharing something that it is very important to me as a high school Teacher.
In today's podcast, I am talking about a word that your students probably often use a lot but that mine are not allowed to say in my classroom. You will get to hear why I don't allow my little teenage humans to say the word "fail". I don't know about you, but mine often use it in sentences such as, "I am going to fail!".
Get to hear my story about what this has done for my students and for me. What has happened in the last three years of implementing this and can happen to you if you decide to give this a try in your classroom.
In June of 2019, Teach Your Heart Out hosted a conference in the Bahamas with more than 600 teachers from all across America. In this podcast, you will hear the honest review of several teachers who participated of this life changing experience.
Get to know what really was it like, how much it coast, how you could get the 2021 Teach Your Heart Out paid for, what the conferences brought to the participants and much more.
Special Thanks To Everyone Who Made This Podcast Possible
Christina A. Tittaferante @heartsoulteach
Nicole Bentley @inspiring_teachermama
Krushinda Brannon @believeteachrepeat
Kelsey Renner @sassy_in_specialed
Lauren Roig @therealtravelingteacher
Tune in into today's episode, to get to hear the lessons that 10 different Teachers from all United States learned in the 2018-2019 school year.This is a podcast brought to you by hard working educators who donated their time so that we can all continue to learn and grow, please go and check them out to show them some support and thank them for their efforts and kindness.
Teachers Who Made This Podcast Possible
Rachel Ells from @teachandbefabuous
Alexis Arias from welcome_to_alt_ed
Maria @laprofesoraviajera
Aisha Khan @classroom.couture
Rebekah Poe @lessons_and_lattes
Kati @happyteachingfirst
Melia Lee @Mrsleereads
Jen Johnston @teacherista_ The Treasured Life Blog
Jennifer @learning_out_loud5
Joseph http://picdeer.com/2guysinaclassroom33
An educator giving a spelling test with imaginary words may not seem like the most traditional method of promoting learning, but then again, there isn't much that can be considered conventional in Joe Dombrowski's - or as many know him, Mr. D - classroom.
On today's show we get a front row seat to what it really is like to be @Mrdtimes3 An honest conversation with someone who got to be to where he wanted to be by obsessing with winning.
Importan Links:
https://www.mrdtimes3.com/
@MrDtimes3 on Instagram
Tickets To Indoor Recess
Also mentioned on this podcast:
http://http://drjosemedina.com/.com/
Dr. Jose Medina's Instagram
On today's episode we are sharing a powerful conversation we had with Robin K Hicks from Growing Minds Podcast. Get know about my journey into teaching, what it really is like to be an immigrant, how I feel about being a minority Teacher, and my believes as a Teacher.
Important Links
https://www.growingmindspodcast.com/
Listen To Growing Minds Podcast
Follow Growing Minds Podcast On Instagram
Dr. Crystal Laura is a professor, author, and consultant, who is passionate about yoga and about teaching educators how to thrive in urban schools by grounding their practice in an ethic of love towards justice. If you are passionate about education and feel curious about the yoga world, tune in into today's episode to find out what yoga can do for you.
Importan Links:
https://www.crystallaura.com/
Free Teachers Self Love Series
Dr. Laura's Instagram
Dr. Crystal Laura is a professor, author, and consultant, who is passionate about yoga and about teaching educators how to thrive in urban schools by grounding their practice in an ethic of love towards justice. If you are passionate about education and feel curious about the yoga world, tune in into today's episode to find out what yoga can do for you.
Importan Links:
https://www.crystallaura.com/
Free Teachers Self Love Series
Dr. Laura's Instagram
Teacher appreciation week is here, but yet a lot of us struggle with feeling appreciated and important in our profession. Tune in into today's episode to find ways in which you can make your own beautiful and hard working self, feel appreciated and loved.
I while ago, I made a collaboration with Kyle and Will from the Value Adds Value Podcast. This is our conversation where I talked about my journey to teaching, what is like to be an immigrant teacher, what I have learned from the podcast, yoga and much more. I told them everything!
Links:
https://theledproject.com/podcast/
250 million kids can't read or write. In rural areas throughout the world, kids walk hours just to get to school, and even after years of schooling 75% of kids still can't read a single world.
Threads For Education's mission is to provide students world wide with access to quality education.
Important Links.
Threads For Education's website
Use Code: Empowered for 15% off
Professional developments plus personal development, brings competent leaders, but in which one should I focus first? Is there one that is more important than the other one? Kyle Krueger, a teacher and the hot of the Value Adds Value Podcast is here to share with us his teaching journey, his thoughts on this matter, and what he has learned from interviewing more than 100 teachers around the globe.
"If you develop yourself as a teacher, this will not change your personal life, but if you develop as a person, this will impact your profession" Kyle cried.
Important Links
https://theledproject.com/
Value Adds Value Podcast
Value Adds Value Instagram
Professional developments plus personal development, brings competent leaders, but in which one should I focus first? Is there one that is more important than the other one? Kyle Krueger, a teacher and the hot of the Value Adds Value Podcast is here to share with us his teaching journey, his thoughts on this matter, and what he has learned from interviewing more than 100 teachers around the globe.
"If you develop yourself as a teacher, this will not change your personal life, but if you develop as a person, this will impact your profession" Kyle cried.
Important Links
https://theledproject.com/
Value Adds Value Podcast
Value Adds Value Instagram
Liz Kleinrock is an anti-bias educator and consultant based in Los Angeles, California. A transracial adoptee, Liz was born in South Korea and grew up in Washington, DC. Liz is a teacher who is known for being passionate about social justice, identity, race, and privilege.
She is also a published author with Teaching Tolerance, and her work has gained national recognition through a documentary produced by Fluid Film, and media outlets such as CNN, The Washington Post, NPR, and The Huffington Post. Liz recently did a very successful Ted Talk about teaching kids to talk about taboo topics, and today she is here to share with us her teaching journey and to elaborate more on teaching kids about subjects that are difficult or uncomfortable to talk about for most of us. "I am passionate about making an environment where kids love to learn" Liz cried.
Links:
https://www.teachandtransform.org/
Liz's Instagram
Liz's Ted Talk
Teachers well-being is often overlooked. They do much more than teaching academic lessons and with so much on their plate, it is hard for them to keep up, which is no wonder why it seems that stress is a common denominator for most educators.
Tune in today's episode to get to know more about Teachers' Physical Health and hear about the journey of Tifanny Tagozzino, AKA @prettylittlelifters, an LA PE Teacher and fitness enthusiast share her experience in both, teaching and the fitness world.
Important LInk:
www.theprettylittlelifters.com
Instagram: @theprettylittlelifters
Enjoy the second half of the interview with the one and only, Wilkie Law. He is an educator, the executive director of the Light House Educator Development and the cohost of LED project podcast, soon to be the Value Adds Value podcast. Willkie has more than 12 years of experience in the classroom and has interviewed more than 100 teachers around the world with the purpose of adding value to the global teaching community.
Will's goal is to inspire teachers to be the most authentic version of themselves, and today he is here to share the knowledge he has acquired during his successful carrier with us.
"I make sure I let students Know they matter. I want them to walk around in the planet with their heads up, knowing that at least one person gets them" Wilkie cries.
Important Links
Theledproject.com
LED Project Podcast
Wilkie Law is an educator, the executive director of the Light House Educator Development and the cohost of LED project podcast, soon to be the Value Adds Value podcast. Willkie has more than 12 years of experience in the classroom and has interviewed more than 100 teachers around the world with the purpose of adding value to the global teaching community.
Will's goal is to inspire teachers to be the most authentic version of themselves, and today he is here to share the knowledge he has acquired during his successful carrier with us.
"I make sure I let students Know they matter. I want them to walk around in the planet with their heads up, knowing that at least one person gets them" Wilkie cries.
Important Links
Theledproject.com
LED Project Podcast
Happy teachers make happy students. On today's episode, we dive into the journey to happiness and the importance of one pursuing happiness every day.
Dr. Karmen Pev, who has more than a decade of professional experience in the field of human relations, working with a diversity of individuals, whose ages span from kindergarten to adulthood, is here to answer all of our questions in this matter.
LINKS:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ModernAdulthood
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/karmenpevc/
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karmen-pevc-546979146/
Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/karmen_pevc
They are given to you for a reason. I rather not to write sub plans. The kids are going to fall behind. You first need to take care of you first. What are they going to think? I already use too many this year.
We all been there before. Who is right? Today, we are proud to host this show with the voice of many American Teachers, who were happy to share with us their real honest stories.
Please go thank them and show them some support.
Mr. Mcmillian @themcmillianexperience
Elizabeth Liedke @elizabethliedtke
Krista P. @cafesitoclasechisme
Erika Peña @duallearners
Kathy Q. @msskathycue
Robbi K. Hicks https://www.growingmindspodcast.com/
Mariza M. Davila-Madwid @sra.davilamadwid
Edgar Vila @ed_ed_ny_newyork
Jess Martin, is one of those people you run across on Instagram and makes you automatically wonder, why have you been away from my life for so long?
Also known as the @Whimsicalteacher, Jess is here to talk about her beginnings in social media. About her grow journey, the ups and down and the lessons learned in the way. "I like to learn from the criticism. What can I change about what I am doing, and try to take a lesson away even from the haters" Jess cries.
Mentioned on this episode:
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Happy Valentines Day! In today's episode, we discuss the vital importance of teachers loving and caring for her students on a deeper level. "Students don't learn from people they don't love" Before a student loves a class, they have to love their teacher. Personal and honest connections between students and their teachers are vital for the learning process to take place.
Monica Genta, who is an author, speaker, and educator who makes a short and very sweet appearance in this episode. She is here to prove why relationships are the core of it all in schools. "School is just a building until the people inside of it decides that the most important thing happening are those relationships" Monica explains.
Mentioned On This Episode:
Dr. Rita Pierson's Ted Talk
180 Days Of Awesome Book By Monica Genta
Important Links
Monica Genta's Website
Monica Genta's Blog
Monica Genta's Instagram
Perla Oyervides is a Mexican American Teacher who was born and raised at the border. Shortly after she graduated from college, she was presented with the opportunity to go out and start her career somewhere else, but she decided to stay to serve the community that saw her grow.
She is here to talk about her journey. About what it was like to be raised at the border and to attend to public education in her town. Listen to this episode, to get to know what it really is like to teach at the border. Perla is here to show you, that her community is way more than what you and I see on the news.
"When I close my eyes, I see my family, home, friends. I don't see what they are showing on tv: drugs, weapons, people crossing over. We are much more than just a border that people are trying to cross over" Perla explains.
Gary Gray is an International Teacher from Nova Scotia who is currently based in Singapore. He is very passionate about encouraging other teachers to be culturally responsive in the classroom.
During the second part of this interview, we talked about privilege, identity, and discrimination. In addition, Gary explains the importance of learning how to share your own experiences with your students and much more.
LINKS:
High School Student Gets His Dreadlocks Cut
Gary Gray's Instagram
Gary Gray's Youtube
Gary Gray's Twitter
Gary Gray's Podcast
Gary Gray's Podcast
Culturally Responsive Teaching And The Brain Book
Gary gray is an International Teacher from Nova Scotia who is currently based in Singapore. He is very passionate about encouraging other teachers to be culturally responsive in the classroom.
In this episode we discuss what international teaching is all about, the meaning of culture, how to make all students feel included, what it feels like to be a minority teacher and much more.
LINKS:
Gary Gray Instagram
Gary's Podcast
Gary Gray's Blog
Gray Gray's Youtube
Gary Gray's twitter
Zeretta Hammnd's Book: Culturally Responsive Teaching And The Brain
Season two of Empowered Teaching Podcast is here. Our first guest is Doctor Jose Medina Hernandez. Chief Educational Advocate at Dr. José Medina: Educational Solutions.
In this episode, you will get to hear the second half of our powerful interview with Dr. Jose Medina, who shares with us his expertise in the Dual Language Education. Get to know what makes this educator so passionate about the dual language system. Discover some critical insides of what goes into dual language schools, know what teachers will be able to fit in nicely into this type of schools even though they are monolingual, and find out who was the teacher who first created access for Dr. Medina and how he continues to be inspired today by his old experiences in education.
" I am here because I represent my Mom, my Dad. I represent the latino community. And my purpose in education is about creating access for students who have been oppressed, discriminated against and marginalized in public schools" Medina cries.
Connect with Dr. Jose Medina Hernandez.
http://drjosemedina.com/services/
Dr. Jose Medina's twitter
Dr. Jose Medina's Instagram
Season two of Empowered Teaching Podcast is here. Our first guest is Doctor Jose Medina Hernandez. Chief Educational Advocate at Dr. José Medina: Educational Solutions.
In this episode, you will get to hear the first half of our powerful interview with Dr. Jose Medina, who shares with us his expertise in the Dual Language Education. He takes us through his journey as a child who had a traumatic entrance in the educational system. Kicked out of kinder garden at the age of five and roll in into his new class strapped to a gurney in a pool of his own urine. Looked over by his teachers and pears for many years, for being a nervous kid who was afraid of most things.
Despite his difficult childhood, he grew up to be a men who embraced his sexuality as a gay person and became a successful entrepreneur, who today travels the world to serve dual lingual schools all over the world and bring his message to create access to education for the oppressed student.
" I am here because I represent my Mom, my Dad. I represent the latino community. And my purpose in education is about creating access for students who have been oppressed, discriminated against and marginalized in public schools" Medina cries.
Connect with Dr. Jose Medina Hernandez.
http://drjosemedina.com/services/
Dr. Jose Medina's twitter
Dr. Jose Medina's Instagram
When the new year approaches everyone starts making resolutions for the upcoming year because "This year it going to be different" but most people forget to focus on the one thing that matters the most. Without it, your resolutions are more likely to not work out.
Get to know why this new year's resolution is so vital. Find out why your other resolutions haven't worked out and follow seven simple and free steps to guarantee that you are on the right path to make all of your wildest dreams come true.
Get to know why and how you can stop yourself from complaining. Better yet, learn some tips that will help you head off chronically complaining coworkers that are often trying to take away your joy of teaching by finding everything that is wrong with the place where you work.
Get to know my point of view as a parent, language teacher, and someone who learned a second language later in life, along with a glimpse of what the data and research are saying today about raising bilingual kids.
In this episode, I share with you my personal struggles with learning english as well as the journey of raising a bilingual son in an environment where I am basically his only source of his second language.
On today's episode I share with you 10 things that I have learned while being on my yoga mat and that I have brought into my classroom. With this 10 lesson we hope you can see that teaching is not as hard as we may see it at sometimes.
Do you find it difficult to get out of your comfort zone? Mikey Bee is a New Jersey Teacher who is very passionate about his career, but just as much as he loves teaching, he enjoys empowering others to live their dreams. This year he took a very crucial decision and left the classroom to pursue his dreams, and he is convince that you can do this too.
Today, Mikey is going to teach us about why building emotional intelligence in our students is so important. He shares his critical advice for old and new teachers, explains to us the importance of learning how to dream big and the steps that one should take to accomplish their dreams to live our best lives.
An episode that hopes to get you see the vital importance of taking big risks and really practicing what you preach to your students.
Get to know how my students were the ones who actually gave me the encouragement I needed to pursue my dreams of having a podcast. I take you on a litle journey from college days back in Colombia, to what really happens in my classroom.
As a minority Teacher, this is my open letter to a society that desperately needs to encourage more diversification in its schools.
A podcast inspired on a single Instagram story by Joe Dombrowski, aka Mrdtimes3. We talk minority, LGTBQ, education and much more.
As a consumer of social media and a creator of content, I recently found myself affected by two specific posts published from two different teachers I follow on Instagram. Two completely different stories happening in two different settings with a common denominator: social media "inspiration".
Give a listen to this episode to hear advice on learning how to use social media as a tool that can make you grow without letting affect your humble way of living life.
Inspired by @Thompshonteachings
This is a guide of five important lessons that your students REALLY want to learn in your classroom. Weather you are a K-12 Teacher, math or english Teacher, this episode is made for anyone who deals with students on a daily bases.
Get some powerful tools that will surely help you improve your practices and understand your students behavior.
Lets learn and grow together!
Like most teachers, on my very first year I thought I wasn't going to make it. Pregnant and with litle resources on my files I saw myself drowning and not being able to accomplish my big dream job. Luckily for me a few heroes came to the rescue to show me that it was possible and let me see what I was really made out of.
Find out what real heroes look like. Spoiler alert: They all don't wear capes, but this episode may help you to identify them and perhaps figure out if you are one of them.
If you have no idea about yoga, if you are new to the practice or curious about finding out what is this trend that everyone keeps talking about, you may want to listen to this. Discover how the practice works on its practitioners and learn how you can also find happiness on everything and everyone around you.
Have you ever feel overwhelmed by all the #pinterestperfect posts #igteachers do about their classrooms and lessons? Then you will love to listen to today's podcast, and please don't take me wrong, I also follow them and admire them, but I have to say one or two things about this matter.
In late spring I took a solo trip to New Jersey to visit a few good friends. During this trip one of them asked me a question that made me realize where I was standing in the game of life. This realization, not only was a big revelation, but it was one of the inspirations behind this podcast. Additionally, you will get to hear the words of a big celebrity talking about today's subject.
First me, second me and third me? sounds selfish right? Today's episode wants to make you realize of the vital importance of prioritizing one self. Find out how and why you should learn to take care of you first, before you take care of everyone and everything else.
On this very first episode I share the one thing I consider to be the most important pillar in a teacher's career. I take you through my journey as a new teacher and tell Kyle's story, a "difficult" student who taught me that teaching goes beyond teaching the curriculum, reaching objectives and classroom management.
This episode will give you a glimpse of who I am as a teacher. You will get to know what is my biggest goal for my students once they have left my classroom. In addition, you will hear about my favorite teachers and those who have inspired me through the years. Finally, I talk about Kayse Morris from @Teachingonless someone who with her empowering content gets to inspire me every single day.
Bienvendios!