Donna Lee Fields

Doorways to Learning with Donna

Education EN ↓ 50 episodes

Step into the world of education transformation with Donna Lee Fields in "Doorways to Learning with Donna" This engaging podcast journey unravels the dynamic methodologies, innovative programs, effective techniques, strategic insights, and empowering decisions that can shape the future of education. Join Donna as she explores a myriad of educational initiatives that hold the promise of granting students agency and lifelong opportunities. From spotlighting dedicated educators making a difference worldwide to unveiling practical classroom techniques and cutting-edge tools.

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Author

Donna Lee Fields

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Education

Podcast website

scaffoldingmagic.com

Latest episode

Mar 23, 2024

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Episodes

S1 E25 Rose Griffin: Speech Pathology for Autistic Children 25.08.2023

Want fun facts about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? Find out all of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna If you like this episode,  ⁠ treat Donna to a coffee!! What is a commonality between all autistic children - or is there such a thing? What is the cross-over between speech pathology and autism? What are...

S1 E23 Mary Gordon: Where are the Roots of Empathy? 11.08.2023

Want fun facts about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? Find out all of it  ⁠⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠ If you like this episode, ⁠ ⁠ treat Donna to a coffee!! ⁠ Mary Gordon is an internationally renown educator, author, parenting expert  and especially a child advocate. and who has created award-winn...

S1 E22 Ssekitto Kalule Emmanuel: Using Art to Exorcise Emotional Trauma in Children 05.08.2023

Want fun facts about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? Find out all of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna If you like this episode,  ⁠ treat Donna to a coffee!! What do you do if 80% of the children in your classroom were emotionally traumatised? How do you plan a class not knowing which students will show u...

S1 E21 Elizabeth Medhurst: Teenagers Exploring Entrepreneurship 28.07.2023

Want fun facts about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? Find out all of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna If you like this episode,  ⁠ treat Donna to a coffee!! Should teenagers explore entrepreneurship? Should they be able to find their passion and learn how to monitise it? Aside from the economic side, wha...

S1 E20 Dana Winters: Fred Rogers' Ideology as Key to the Emotional Health of Educators 21.07.2023

Want fun facts about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? Find out all of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna If you like this episode,  ⁠ treat Donna to a coffee!! How can a children's television idol become the inspiration for educational communities that support teachers? What six principles of Fred Roger...

S1 E19 Ree Gillett: Using Passion as the Tool to Empower Lives in Rural Zambia 13.07.2023

Want fun facts about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? Find out all of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna If you like this episode,  ⁠ treat Donna to a coffee!! You're a teacher, mother, wife, and on your travels you see poverty all around you, yet you have no training on what you can do to ameliorate th...

S1 E18 Surabhi Yadav: Vanquishing Illiteracy in India and Next...the World 07.07.2023

Want fun facts about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? Find out all of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna If you like this episode,  ⁠ treat Donna to a coffee!! What would you do if 250 million people in your country were illiterate? What would you do if 600 million people in your country were at least three...

S1 E17 Sam Taylor: A Quaker Education and the Power of Community 30.06.2023

Want fun facts about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? Find out all of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna If you like this episode,  ⁠ treat Donna to a coffee!! You are about to fall into an adventure listening to Sam Taylor. He' is the Dean of Academics at a small Quaker school in Iowa that's imbued...

S1 E16 Michael Lacey Freeman: Internationally Renown Author of Graded Readers & Bullying 23.06.2023

You can find more conversations like this one at Doorways to Learning with Donna : Want some fun facts about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it HERE !! You are certainly in for a treat today. Among a plethora of other incredible accomplishments - and one is the song you're listening to and only hundreds he has in his musical pallet, the world-renown author of grad...

S1 E15 Suzanne Meyers: Learning Centers, Dyslexia, and Honouring intuition 16.06.2023

Our guest, Suzanne Meyers is a powerful advocate for following your own intuition even if all the messages around you are polar opposites. Like many of you, Suzanne has a child with special needs - in this case dyslexia. We know that one reaction to having special needs children is often shame because we feel responsible for these differences; however, after focused reflection, Suzanne realised th...

S1 E14 Katie & Ana Farinas: Hearing about Mental Health Issues from a Teen and How Her Mother is Making them More Transparent 09.06.2023

You can find more conversations like this one at  Doorways to Learning with Donna : Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  HERE !! It's estimated that one in seven adolescents experience mental health disorders This amounts to approximately 166 million adolescents globally. Human nature is such that when we hear statistics, we are at a l...

S1 E13 Kim Anderson: Educating Ourselves Intentionally through Travel 02.06.2023

You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠ : Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠ HERE ⁠ !! Travel is one of those integral ways of becoming more complete people so it's surprising it's not part of every educational conversation. Kim Anderson is going to take us there. Kim is someone who...

S1 E12 Roz Weitzman: Leading with Positive Reinforcement, and the Multi-Cultural Acceptance that comes from 15 years of Teaching in China 26.05.2023

You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠ : Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠ HERE ⁠ !! Behind this unassuming veneer and soft voice is a powerhouse educator. A mild-mannered Canadian, and profoundly affected by the inundation of Hong Kong residents fleeing to Toronto to escape the take over...

S1 E11 Robin Berlinsky: After-School programs and Partnerships that Promote 21st Century Skills 22.05.2023

You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠ : Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠ HERE ⁠ !! The talk you're about to hear with Robin Berlinsky is so inclusive it's hard to know where to begin. So, I'll ask you a few questions: If you want to know how to partner with local organisatio...

S1 E10 Alana Richards: A Budding Professional's look back on how her education has affected her career: Bilingual Immersion and the IB Program as critical junctures toward a Global Perspective 20.05.2023

Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠ Today we're taking a side road in our educational journey toward the post graduate years and an enlightening conversation with 24-year-old PhD candidate Alana Richards . We want to know how public edu...

S1 E9 Bianca Nita: Illustrating Mindfulness and Core Values 18.05.2023

Sign up for the Doorways to Learning with Donna Newsletter   ⁠⁠here⁠⁠ . Bianca Nita is a children's book illustrator, originally from an idyllic village in Romania and now working from London. Her illustrations are colourful, expansive, dreamlike, full of details that sets the minds gears into action to try to assemble the connections between the multiple moving parts. After creating an app th...

S1 E8 Russell Stannard: The responsibility of using technology in the classroom 16.05.2023

Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠⁠ Russell Stannard is the founder of www.teachertrainingvideos.com and winner of four awards in educational technology. He's ranked as no less than one of top 20 educational technologists by MIMIO....

S1 E7 Esther Bontrager: Homeschooling and the Six Stages of A Thomas Jefferson Education 13.05.2023

Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠⁠ Today we have an absolutely delicious chat with Esther Bontrager , a passionate advocate for homeschooling. Esther has created a structure for her own children and those of her closest friends, that i...

S1 E6 Shannon Warner: Charter Schools and Working with the Families 11.05.2023

Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠⁠ Today's very welcome guest is Shannon Warner , a former classroom teacher (although she herself insists that once a teacher, always a teacher!) with experience in two extremes - one urban and one...

S1 E5 Leesa Fields: Asperger's Syndrome and Faith-Based Bilingual Education 09.05.2023

Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠⁠ Leesa Fields , has an incredible background in International Affairs. Before becoming a mother of two very different and remarkable children, she travelled and worked all over the world as a specialis...

S1 E4 Stephanie Bacon: The Socio-Emotional Aspects of Teaching 07.05.2023

⁠⁠ Stephanie Bacon has been a teacher for more than 20 years, in a moment of inspiration she took a break from the classroom  to get her doctorate and so is now deep into a dissertation that will turn your mind over and over again regarding the beliefs you probably have  regarding teachers' emotional preparation in facing the challenges of today's students.   Stephanie shares her underlyin...

S1 E3 Kristen Ancker: Montessori methods and Educating the Whole Child 05.05.2023

Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠⁠ Kristen Ancker, Assistant Director of a Montessori school and is now a Montessori school consultant, Parent Empowerment Coach and if that isn't enough, a mom of three children. You're going to...

S1 E2 Sherrie Fisher: Leading with Compassion and Creativity 05.05.2023

Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠⁠ Sherrie Fisher is a retired teacher who spent over 31 years teaching and learning. During her career, she taught elementary and middle school students, as well as teachers in workshops across the coun...

S1 E1 Pamela Fields: Dyslexia and Bilingual Education 03.05.2023

Want some more fun fact about our guests? Little-known information about this topic? All of it  ⁠⁠⁠ HERE ⁠⁠⁠ !! You can find more conversations like this one at  ⁠⁠ Doorways to Learning with Donna ⁠⁠ Pamela Fields is the Deputy Secretary General of CULCON, which is both a part of and independent of the functioning US government, with the mission of joining U.S. and Japanese interests in cultural a...

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