CHLL Podcast

In the final episode of the CHLL podcast series 3: Intergenerational Dinner Reflections , Cally, Heather, Lois, and Louise reflect on the week they have just shared together in Utah.  They look back on the successful intergenerational dinner for 40 guests at the beginning of the week, their trip to the Aspen Pando in the middle of the week, and what they learned from the five guests that participa...

In this episode Cally talks with two people, from different generations who attended the June 27, 2023 dinner in Heber Utah, who are both personal friends and mentors to Cally.  Cally, at 60 years old, is a baby boomer and she talks with Kay who, at 81 years, is from the silent generation and Heather who is a millennial at 32 years of age.  They share experiences, such as learning to cook, garden,...

Mark Borchelt, a boomer, and Christine Baird, a millennial, were both table hosts at the June 27 intergenerational dinner in Heber, Utah on June 27.  In the second episode in this series, they bring reflections on how the individuals representing the six generations interfaced with each other.  While both Mark and Christine shared that everyone enjoyed the opportunity to be in conversation with fi...

In the first episode of Season 3, titled, How the Times Change Perspective , Heather meets with Dan and Erik, Baby Boomers who both attended the Intergenerational Dinner hosted by the CHLL team in Heber, Utah on June 27, 2023.  They share their experiences as members of the Baby Boomer generation, their reflections on intergenerational families, and the generational experiences of Baby Boomers tha...

Earth, Art and Life: Young Artist’s Perspectives So much of what has been shared and discussed in this series on classrooms and climate change, has been focused on what adults think, say, do or do not do.  In this final episode of the series, “Is Climate Change Changing Classrooms” the CHLL group (Cally, Heather, Lois and Louise) reflect on what young people have to say through their artistic expr...

The Mural Project at Umana School in Boston The Sea Level Rise Mural Project at Umana School in Boston is an offshoot of another research project on extreme weather that Lois has been involved with.  It has been funded by the National Science Foundation for the past four years. This school year Lois has been working in a Spanish bilingual public school in Boston, called Umana elementary school. It...

Teachers Preparing Students As Changemakers of Our Changing Planet Lois shares a video created by the directors of Our Changing Planet, a professional development program that supports teachers' understanding of the environment in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.  The video features the voices of teachers who have participated in Our Changing Planet and tell how it has impacted them in th...

Tapping Intergenerational Creativity and Wisdom Through Native American Leadership In our culture, talking about the weather is considered small talk and unimportant. And yet, it's so much a part of our lives. Maybe the weather isn't small talk. Maybe it needs to become central to our conversations because it is central to our lives. One of the things we may need to do is integrate our schooling w...

Paradise Intermediate School: After the Wildfire Louise interviewed her cousin Michael, a PE teacher at Paradise Intermediate School about the lasting impact of the November 2018 Camp Fire that devastated their community. Paradise is a rural town of 10,000 people in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California, that along with many more communities up and down this state, have been ravaged by wildfir...

Hurricanes of Increasing Frequency and Intensity Heather and Cally spoke with educators in Louisiana and Florida about hurricanes in the regions which are more frequent and more intense because of climate change.  They learned new things about experiencing hurricanes. For example, all the teachers have a hurricane closet and in April they stock it up with canned goods and toilet paper and flashlig...

Cognitive Science, Climate Science, and the Apocalypse Our question for this series, Is Climate Change Changing Classrooms? puts the problem and the issue of improving classrooms directly in conversation with the climate crisis.  These two crises can actually, when put together, inform the solutions to each other.  They are both about humanity’s existential future. If we don't educate our young pe...

  Cally, Heather, Lois and Louise (CHLL) reflect on what has been so compelling about their CHLL conversations. They share what structures and strategies have made their time together valuable, what they learned from the cross-generational conversation they had with people from across the country, and what they believe is possible for CHLL in the future.   LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE Check-ins for get...

  In this episode, Cally, Heather, Lois and Louise (CHLL) dig deeper into the big ideas that surfaced within each generational cohort group: listening, climate change, interconnectedness and hope. Learn what the number one common concern was for people in each of the distinct conversations.   LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE Mark Borchalt suggests models such as the Integrated Learning Specialist Program t...

  CHLL – Cally, Heather, Lois and Louise – reminisce about the open-hearted conversations they had with five generational focus groups during the 2021-2022 school year. Gen Z, millennials, GenX, baby boomers, and members of the greatest generations discussed with CHLL how the problems of education and the world intersect and reinforce each other, and how the solutions for education and the world c...

  In this episode CHLL – Cally, Heather Lois and Louise – describe their plan to host intergenerational conversations with educators, artists, activists, community members, and youth to surface the wisdom needed to understand, adapt to, and solve the urgent issues facing humanity. LINKS FROM THIS EPISODE Margaret Wheatley’s book, Turning to One Another, Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the...