Elements of Education

Essential Element Podcast

Education EN ↓ 30 episodes

The Essential Element Podcast launches on YouTube and your favorite podcast platforms in January 2023. Hosted by poet, author, and community advocate Christian Paige, this podcast explores the role of mentorship in teaching and learning and why trusting relationships between teachers and students are essential to developing thriving learning communities. Each week Christian will dive into the four student growth goals of mentorship (discovering yourself, building your strengths, engaging you community, and navigating your future) with teachers, mentors, advocates and community members.

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IDEA Mentor and Teacher Peter Rutter 05.04.2023 42:10

This week on the Essential Element, Christian sits down with IDEA teacher Peter Rutter to talk about creating an environment that brings empathy into the world of mathematics and electrical circuits. Peter talks about the importance of helping students create a network of connections to support themselves and each other, not just during their time at IDEA, but beyond it as well. Featuring original...

Mentorship Advocate John "Push" Gaines 29.03.2023 41:18

On the fourth episode of the Essential Element podcast with Christian Paige, Christian talks with speaker, educator, and consultant Dr. John Gaines. Their conversation focuses on relationships and mentorship centered around his three pillars of people, place, and purpose. People find their purpose through a specific place. This translates to the partner schools at SOTA, SAMI, and IDEA, each of whi...

SAMI Mentor and Humanities Teacher Duncan White 22.03.2023 41:35

On the third episode of the Essential Element podcast, Christian talks with SAMI teacher Duncan White about the importance of relationships and student voice in projects and assessments. Duncan talks about searching for student’s curiosity and passion and building on that to inspire engagement. Each student is unique with a complex set of interests and ideas, combined with a natural curiosity for...

SOTA Humanities Teacher and Mentor Tristan Towne 15.03.2023 46:42

This week’s episode of the Essential Element features SOTA teacher and mentor Tristan Towne. Tristan shares about her journey into education through theater, scriptwriting, poetry, improv, and storytelling. From teaching English to Seniors British literature at a traditional high school to teaching writing at SOTA, Tristan is a student of life that is passionate about people and brings that passio...

SOTA Mentor and Dance Instructor Robin Jaecklein 07.03.2023 45:21

On this innagural episode of the Essential Element podcast feautring Christian Paige, Robin Jaecklein shares her experience with being a teacher and mentor at the Tacoma School of the Arts and the Grant Center for the Expressive Arts before that. Christian dives into her passion for dance as an artistic medium and how she uses that passion as an individual to fuel her interest in helping young peo...