A Conversation About Anxiety and Worry With Dr. Dana Dorfman
The Mindful Educators Podcast
Dr. Dana Dorfman has 30 years of clinical practice treating children, adolescents, parents, and adults in New York City and is also the author of When Worry Works: How to Harness Your Parenting Stress and Guide Your Teen to Success. In this episode we talk all about the most identifiable emotion today: anxiety. It’s a timely conversation! Her book is available on Show and Tell: Dave: Erin: Dana: If this episode resonated with you, please share it with your teacher friends and administrators, and most importantly on social media and tag us! And if you...
info_outline
School Safety: Feeling Emotionally and Physically Safe
The Mindful Educators Podcast
As educators, we again find ourselves in the aftermath of yet another school shooting. This time in Nashville, TN. In today’s podcast we try to find some agency over what is, for some, a terrifying part of our jobs as teachers. Feeling physically and emotionally safe is what we all strive for as human beings. But how can we feel that as these horrific shootings are increasing? We are not sure we have answers, but in this episode we talk about some ways we can build in some feelings of safety during such trying times. Show and Tell: Dave: Erin: If this episode resonated...
info_outline
Feeling inspired: a recap of SXSW EDU Austin, TX
The Mindful Educators Podcast
Recharging is such an important way to step back and find inspiration. In today’s episode Erin shares her experience at SXSW EDU, an educational conference in Austin, TX where she was inspired through amazing connections and learning opportunities. She left the week feeling that the profession is alive and well. There are some very motivated, highly creative educators out there working hard to stay inspired, connected and educated. Show and Tell: Dave: Erin: Instagram follow: @Elarroyo_ATX If this episode resonated with you, please share it with...
info_outline
Let's get caught up!
The Mindful Educators Podcast
Welcome back to the Mindful Educators Podcast. In this episode we catch our listeners up on what’s new with us, what we have been up to, and share our continued vision on how we want to support educators in our community. Plus we lean into the power of self-awareness as a skill and discuss several strategies we use to increase our awareness. Show and Tell: Erin: Prime Exclusive Dave: - Dick’s Sporting Goods If this episode resonated with you, please share it with your teacher friends and administrators, and most importantly on social media and tag us! And if you are so...
info_outline
Teach like a wrestler
The Mindful Educators Podcast
In this episode, we discuss the concept of educators teaching this year as if they were training like a wrestler. We talk about ways to take care of our physical, mental and emotional health while also acknowledging all the blood, sweat, and tears. With the proper training and mindset, we can all finish this year in a better place than where we began. We got this! Show and Tell Dave's Share - Erin's Share - Don’t forget to connect with us: Instagram: @themindfuleducators Facebook: @ The Mindful Educators Twitter: @themindfuleds Email: ...
info_outline
Here we go again!
The Mindful Educators Podcast
Welcome to Season 3 and to what seems like another challenging year in education. In this week’s episode listen in as we share our new transitions in the world of education. We also break down some of the new challenges educators are facing this year and share our thoughts on how our mindsets, support systems, and clarity on time and energy will be everything this year. Show and Tell: Dave: Erin: Hard Core on the Foor Facebook Group for awesome workouts. on Amazon So hopefully this episode felt supportive and helpful. We continue to wish you all the...
info_outline
Leveling up SEL practices
The Mindful Educators Podcast
As many districts are starting to transition more students back to in-person instruction, provide longer days of in-person instruction, or are preparing for the Fall 2021, we all need to know that these changes can be stressful for teachers, students and parents. In this episode we explain our long delay between episodes as well as offer some gentle reminders and new strategies for incorporating more SEL into our lives, schools, classrooms, and homes. Show and Tell: Erin: by Jamie Kern Lima the founder of IT cosmetics Dave: CASEL's website: So hopefully...
info_outline
What to do about the "pile on effect" in education right now.
The Mindful Educators Podcast
Teacher friends, are you feeling it? That piling on that is happening in our profession right now is at an all time high. Listen in to this week’s episode as we discuss the impact this is having on teachers everywhere and what we can do about it. Show and Tell: Erin: - personalized supplements Dave: Podcast: So hopefully this episode felt supportive and helpful. In this year that just might be the hardest year many of us have ever experienced personally and in education, we want you to know we see you, we are here for you and we love that you are part of our tribe....
info_outline
Found in Transition: our conversation with Paria Hassouri
The Mindful Educators Podcast
Friends this week on the podcast we sat down with Paria Hassouri, MD the author of Found in Transition: A Mother’s Evolution During Her Child’s Gender Change. Paria is a pediatrician, mother of three, and transgender rights activist and lives in LA. Erin was lucky enough to read her book as part of an educator book club and was so captivated by her story, by her honesty, and by her vulnerability. Since we are all doing the work around being mindful educators and broadening our awareness, we strongly suggest you pick up a copy of her book. You won't be...
info_outline
Elevating educator voices: our chat with Dr. Dan Johnson
The Mindful Educators Podcast
Join us this week for our first ever fireside chat where we sit down with every day educators deep in the trenches. We are hoping to amplify the voices of our fellow educators and remind each other that we are all in this together. This week we chat with Dr. Dan Johnson. Dan has been an educator for the past 25 years, 20 of which have been spent as an administrator. He started his career as an English teacher and then served as a department supervisor, assistant principal, elementary/middle/high school principal, assistant superintendent, and superintendent. During his...
info_outlineLast week on the podcast we talked about having what we called “the willingness to begin to look at our own hidden biases” and the willingness to look at how we are contributing to equity in education. We based a lot of what we talked about on the book Coaching for Equity: Conversations that Change Practice by Elena Aguilar. This book started to spark some deep conversations between the two of us and we thought that was the opportunity for us to begin to dive into this very important conversation.
So on this week’s episode we dive in a bit deeper and discuss what it means to come to this conversation with an open mind and heart. Approaching a conversation with an open mind allows us to be able to listen to new ideas, concepts, beliefs, or points of view without shutting them down. It also means being curious and asking questions of ourselves and others.
Listen in with the willingness to look at our own hidden biases and with an open mind.
Show and Tell:
Dave: John Biewen’s TedTalk "The lie that invented racism."
Erin: @theconsciouskid @theafroeducator (Alexis Shepard )
Hopefully this episode felt supportive and helpful. We would love to hear about what kind of promises you are making to yourself this year. We are wishing you all the space and grace you need to remain in good health, body, mind and spirit. Friends, we‘ve got this!
And lastly, If you are looking to build resilience this year and are interested in our Bite Sized PD offerings discussed on our podcast, please register at https://www.themindfuleducators.com or shoot over to our website @themindfuleducators.com to find the details and sign up.
We will gladly follow up with an email with details for access to the PD as well as the SEL PDF’s for use in the classroom.
Don’t forget to connect with us:
Instagram @themindfuleducators
Facebook @ The Mindful Educators
Twitter @themindfuleds
Email @ themindfuleducatorspodcast.com
Links and people mentioned in this podcast:
Coaching for Equity: Conversations That Change Practice
Onward:Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
@theconsciouskid
@theafroeducator (Alexis Shepard )