The pandemic gave us a chance to reflect on our education obsolete processes and methodologies: Based on our Industrial Revolution, our current system focuses on IQ in a one-size-fits-all model to “produce citizens ready to take part in employment processes that are destructive to the environment we live within” as Nora Bateson shared during our Episode #23.
As a result, many people feel an urgency to find alternative models to better support their children's needs. We are witnessing across the world a number of education initiatives from individuals, teachers and parents to collectivities in cities and states. This diversity of initiatives is essential to create critical thinking and brings momentum through a snowball effect that is revolutionizing our education system.
One of the challenges for people leading these initiatives is a feeling of loneliness.
Today, we’ll have a discussion with several founders of new educational initiatives and, in an unscripted discussion, our small group will attempt to address the following questions:
1. What is essential to learn in life?
2. What behaviors do we learn at school traditionally aside from academic contents?
3. How do your school or/and program support the essential learning in life and better suit students for the needs of our planet?
Max is a Maker, Designer, Futurist and Evil Genius. For the past several years he has been developing a secret weapon. Something so diabolical, that the repercussions are going to rip through the education system's old belief system, like a hot knife through butter. And by the time the system sees it coming, it will be too late, the wave of kids confident in their abilities and wise in their actions will be unstoppable. This is checkmate for the education system. Kids love it! Parents love it. Teachers love it. And the education system will have no idea what hit it.
Kristen is a High school teacher and a certified Forest School practitioner. in 2021, she founded The Sage Creek Prairie School offering forest school programming and a wide variety of other outdoor experiences including permaculture and bushcraft. The school has demonstrated that child-led learning paired with risk and beautiful natural spaces are integral to the development of resilience, independence, and creativity.
Ensuring that children have opportunities to visit wild spaces and experience risky and independent play has become her passion, and her overall goal is to mesh these invaluable outdoor experiences into current educational practices for all children as a vital part of their learning.
As A SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR, AN EDUCATOR, AND A PROBLEM SOLVER, heather is the Founder and Executive Director of "Classroom Connections" and an On-site leader of "Change It Up", an initiative within Alberta First Nations communities.
She is the Co-author of "Overschooled but Undereducated". As the
Mother of four children, Heather is Passionate about making the education system work for everyone.
VIRGINIE GLAENZER IS A LIFE EXPERIMENTER, CONSCIOUS LEADER AND TREND MAKER BUILDING COMMUNITIES. AN ENTREPRENEUR PASSIONATE AND CURIOUS ABOUT PEOPLE, SHE HAS FOUNDED TWO SOFTWARE START-UPS IN SILICON VALLEY AND ONE RETAIL VENTURE IN NYC.
SHE IS CURRENTLY CO-FOUNDER OF ACORNOAK, STRATEGIC ADVISORY AND DIGITAL MARKETING COOPERATIVE POWERED BY TECH-SAVVY, SOCIALLY RESPONSIBLE WOMEN HELPING ORGANIZATIONS AND LEADERS BUILD REMARKABLE BRANDS AND SEIZE OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROWTH.
PASS THE MIC PODCAST AIMS TO BRING COMPASSION AND CONSCIOUS LEADERSHIP TO BUSINESS AND IN OUR PERSONAL LIVES AND HELP LISTENERS ASK THEMSELVES QUESTIONS TO BECOME CONSCIOUS SELF-AUTHORING LEADERS.
