Grow Your Flow & Glow - Teacher Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this delayed release episode, Kurt openly talks about that one student going unnoticed and the busy teacher trying to deliver her best within the system. He talks frankly about an uncomfortable teaching experience and student experience, which thankfully has a warm GLOW   ending.  She wasn't defiant. She wasn't disengaged. She was sitting under a table, drawing animal...

Send us Fan Mail It starts in a sandpit. A child building something important. A question dropped in like a layer — not an interruption. And flow happening without anyone announcing it. In this episode, Kurt traces the pedagogical move he learned in early childhood education — joining the play before adding the teaching — and follows it all the way through to a practical flow architecture for prim...

Send us Fan Mail The student who fights you and the student who disappears into silence are doing the same thing. They are both telling you they don't yet belong here fully enough to risk genuine learning. In this episode, Kurt draws on thirty years of observation — from the babies room in long day care to Year 6 in primary school — to make the case that every disruptive behaviour, every act...

Send us Fan Mail In 2024, I asked thirty Year 4 students what was stopping them from focusing. They didn't mention the work. They didn't mention each other's behaviour. They listed assemblies, Harmony Day, incursions, bell times — and their own friends. Then they told me exactly what to do about it. This episode is about what happens when you let students diagnose the conditions of...

Send us Fan Mail ' Plot Twist: It's Series 1.5 - Episode 2'  Reflecting on the Early Years Learning Framework and its critiques - Belonging sounds warm. But belonging always involves power. And in a school where families have moved countries so their children can succeed, the hidden curriculum of belonging is one of the most complex things any teacher navigates. This episode is abou...

Send us Fan Mail "Plot Twist: It's Series 1.5" Kurt promised Series 2. Kurt did not deliver Series 2. What he delivered instead is arguably better — a deep dive into the research that unravelled one framework and grew a better one. In this honest, occasionally self-deprecating opening episode, he introduces Being, Belonging and Becoming, the concept of Becoming by Design, and a new...

Send us Fan Mail Want to immerse yourself in a deep, reflective professional (or personal) development journey after this episode? Subscribe here. Want to help keep this work going? Your support helps Kurt and his small research team continue creating meaningful, practical content for educators. Or perhaps you simply want to buy him a coffee to say thanks for the chat. You can do that here. Seven...

Send us Fan Mail Want to immerse yourself in a deep, reflective professional (or personal) development journey after this episode? Subscribe here. Want to help keep this work going? Your support helps Kurt and his small research team continue creating meaningful, practical content for educators. Or perhaps you simply want to buy him a coffee to say thanks for the chat. You can do that here. After...

Send us Fan Mail Want to immerse yourself in a deep, reflective professional (or personal) development journey after this episode? Subscribe here. Want to help keep this work going? Your support helps Kurt and his small research team continue creating meaningful, practical content for educators. Or perhaps you simply want to buy him a coffee to say thanks for the chat. You can do that here. What i...

Send us Fan Mail Want to immerse yourself in a deep, reflective professional (or personal) development journey after this episode? Subscribe here. Want to help keep this work going? Your support helps Kurt and his small research team continue creating meaningful, practical content for educators. Or perhaps you simply want to buy him a coffee to say thanks for the chat. You can do that here. What i...

Send us Fan Mail Want to immerse yourself in a deep, reflective professional (or personal) development journey after this episode? Subscribe here. Want to help keep this work going? Your support helps Kurt and his small research team continue creating meaningful, practical content for educators. Or perhaps you simply want to buy him a coffee to say thanks for the chat. You can do that here. In thi...

Send us Fan Mail Want to immerse yourself in a deep, reflective professional (or personal) development journey after this episode? Subscribe here. Want to help keep this work going? Your support helps Kurt and his small research team continue creating meaningful, practical content for educators. Or perhaps you simply want to buy him a coffee to say thanks for the chat. You can do that here. In thi...

Send us Fan Mail Want to immerse yourself in a deep, reflective professional (or personal) development journey after this episode? Subscribe here. Want to help keep this work going? Your support helps Kurt and his small research team continue creating meaningful, practical content for educators. Or perhaps you simply want to buy him a coffee to say thanks for the chat. You can do that here. What i...