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Teaching Change

Teaching Change

Written by: Jerrid P. Kalakay
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  • Episode 49 - What is a Successful Life? with Student Guests

    Episode 49 - What is a Successful Life? with Student Guests
    Nov 5 2019

    On today's episode, we visit Professor Claudine Tomlinson-Burney's Radio and Podcasting Class at Valencia College to explore the question of a successful life.  The student guests on today's show Felice Mathie, Tim Hetz, and Makenna Waller, are all students in the radio and podcasting class.  Felice, Tim, and Makenna engage Jerrid in a conversation on what success looks like in their lives and share a bit about their current journeys.   

     
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    28 mins
  • Episode 48 - Peace, Passion, and Educator Burnout with Tina Medina of The VIBE Movement

    Episode 48 - Peace, Passion, and Educator Burnout with Tina Medina of The VIBE Movement
    Oct 29 2019

    On today's, episode we spend time with the Founder of The VIBE Movement Tina Median.  Tina shares her journey from teaching in Korea to teaching middle in Los Angles and San Diego to founding the VIBE Movement to inspire educators to vibe at a higher level.  She offers professional development programs for school staff and a Bold Educator Coaching Program aimed at teachers to re-engage in what their "why" is as a way to remain energized inside and outside of the classroom.   

     

    Biography

    A natural rebel and rule interpreter, Tina has promoted social change since her youth, risking her reputation with bold fashion statements like shaving her head when she was only a freshman in high school. Tina spent much of her youth living, working, studying and volunteering abroad in humbling places like South Africa, India, and Vietnam. With almost 30 countries and 20 states under her belt by the time she was 26, Tina got a good glimpse of a world that was full of both love and destruction. She realized at a very young age the meaning of global citizenship, the duty we owe each other as human beings, and the impact one person can have.

    With 12 years of teaching experience, Tina earned her Red Badge of Courage on the battlefields of some tough schools between South Central LA and San Diego. But she wanted more and felt confined by the four walls of the classroom and stifled by a bureaucratic education system. With a master's in peace and justice studies, Tina found her passions for education and peace align through restorative practices.

     

    Links

    https://www.vibemovement.com/

    https://www.vibemovement.com/vibe-deck Use Promo Code FREESHIP for free shipping if ordering within the United States.

    mailto:tina@vibemovement.com

    Instagram _thevibemovement_

    Facebook Page @vibewithvibe

     

    https://taylormali.com/ A Brooklyn-based Poet and Educator      
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    39 mins
  • Episode 47 - Center for Peace and Commerce's Work in the US Mexico Borderlands with Rachel Christensen

    Episode 47 - Center for Peace and Commerce's Work in the US Mexico Borderlands with Rachel Christensen
    Oct 22 2019
    On today's episode, we connect with Rachel Christensen, Assistant Director of the Center for Peace and Commerce, at the University of San Diego.  Rachel shares how much of her work and pedagogy stems from living in the borderland of the US and Mexico.  She shares her journey into social innovation work and how she sees herself first and foremost as a bridge-builder bringing people together.  Biography Rachel Christensen is the Assistant Director for the Center for Peace and Commerce. She cares about inviting more cultural brokers and bridge builders into the public, private, and social sectors to help individuals and communities flourish.    Formerly, she worked with social entrepreneurs in education in 9 countries across Africa, Asia, and Latin America with Edify, Inc. She also worked with a grassroots non-profit advocating for green transportation and placemaking in uptown San Diego neighborhoods.    She lived in the Dominican Republic, working with microfinance and SME models to improve education and studied mental health in rural Brazil. She has a Master's in Public Administration and is Chairwoman of the Board of Directors for the bi-national non-profit Create Purpose.  Links If helpful, here are some other places I talk about teaching social innovation in the borderlands   Ashoka Big Talk "Teaching In Between" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vMguJPNQUk&t=5s   Tedx Talk "Borderlanders" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Hxnp4eo0bY     Personal Website on Living In-Between https://www.livinginbetween.org   https://www.livinginbetween.org/themovement     Example of teaching design thinking across the border https://www.sandiego.edu/news/detail.php?_focus=68936     Links to resources mentioned   Acumen Resource Library https://www.plusacumen.org/     USD Fowler Global Social Innovation Challenge https://www.sandiego.edu/cpc/gsic/ https://www.sandiego.edu/cpc/newsroom/gsic.php   https://www.sandiego.edu/cpc/resources/   Impact Gap Canvas http://tacklingheropreneurship.com/the-impact-gaps-canvas/ Gap Frame (SDGs) http://gapframe.org/ Ideo https://www.ideou.com/ Equity & Design Thinking https://dschool.stanford.edu/resources/equity-centered-design-framework http://www.creativereactionlab.com/eccd Designing Your Life http://designingyour.life/resources-authorized/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SemHh0n19LA     Transcript Jerrid Kalakay 0:09 Welcome to the Teaching Change podcast, where we explore issues a Social Entrepreneurship, education, and innovation. I'm your host Jerrid Kalakay. On today's show, we're talking with Rachel Christiansen of the University of San Diego. Rachel, welcome to Teaching Change. Rachel Christensen 0:23 Yeah, thanks for having me. Jerrid Kalakay 0:25 Yeah. So, Rachel, I would love for you to kind of start out by talking a little bit about, introduce yourself, and then talk a bit of your work. You've done a bunch of stuff, a bunch of things, and now you're working in higher education, still doing a bunch of things. So anxious, just kind of who you are and what you're doing currently, and then we'll sort of dive off from that. Rachel Christensen 0:45 So my name is Rachel. I'm based in San Diego and park relevant a little bit for what we'll talk about today is probably two things. So my context is the US Mexico borderlands. We're about 15 minutes from Tijuana, Mexico. And that's part of Our pedagogy and how we interpret our context for the Social Innovation work that we do. And the other piece that's relevant to today is that I run our Center for peace and commerce, which is a center that's a partnership. I think it's a pretty cool radical way between the School of Business and a school of peace and justice. So the idea is we're trying to bring together sometimes disparate worlds, and paradigms around change, some of them that believe in business models, and some of them that believe in negotiation and, and community organizing, and realizing that we're going to need all approaches for us to make sustainable social change. And what that looks like on an operational level is I help primary students from the University of San Diego and our partner institutions around the world from about 12 countries to try their hand at building a social enterprise. So we kind of culminate a lot of our activities in a global social venture Pitch Competition that's oriented around the Sustainable Development Goals and really has as primary goals and learning and connecting around the Sustainable Development Goals and as a secondary goal and generating some ideas that could be sustainable social enterprises. Jerrid Kalakay 2:09 Wow. Wow. So that's a lot of stuff. It's a lot of stuff. What I think is really neat it talk a little bit more about your school of peace and justice and the School of Business coming together in the university to create the center that you work in. how unique is that in the landscape of higher education in the United States? And how did ...
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    32 mins
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