In Conversation with Stephen Hurley

Dr. Stuart Shanker is a research professor emeritus of Philosophy and Psychology at York University and the Founder/CEO of The MEHRIT Centre. He is also the founder and Science Director of the Self-Regulation Institute. Stuart’s new book Reframed: Self-Reg for A Just Society brings together his deep knowledge of philosophy, political theory and psychology to create the type of multi-disciplinary p...

Ron Canuel is the former CEO of the Canadian Education Association (EdCan) and a former Director General of the Eastern Township School Board in Quebec. He is never at a loss for words or insights into new visions for schools and education. Ron joins me to talk about the desire to "return to normal" when schools go back in the Fall, but also the types of questions that we need to be asking to prev...

Sean Vanderklis is Mississauga from Curve Lake First Nation, a resident of the Niagara Region and one half of the podcast/broadcast team known as One Dish, One Mic. You can hear them weekly on Sunday mornings at 10 on AM 610 CKTB. Sean and his broadcast partner Carl Doxtdater are the recipients of the 2020 CBC Indigenous Journalism Fellowship. Sean and I talk about the transition from podcasting t...

Kalli Anderson is a broadcast journalist, a documentary film-maker and a Director of Audio Journalism at CUNY"s Craig Newmark School of Journalism. Kalli's article in Today's Parent. "Ontario's back-to-school plan ignores a glaringly obvious problem" has caught the attention of parents and educators alike. Find out what that glaringly obvious problem is—and more—in this episode of In Conversation....

Nicole and Barbara DeLory have a very unique connection. Not only are they mother and daughter, but Nicole has written a book based on some of her mother's writing. Nicole's book is Night at the Gardens and it draws inspiration from Barbara's book, Three Centuries of Public Art Historic Halifax Regional Municipality. Find out about both books and this unique collaboration in this special episode o...

From beginning to end, it took 41 days for Eric Walters to write and publish his latest book. Today is release day and we were thrilled to spend an hour with Eric and members of his Orca Book Publishers team on voicEd Radio. Join Eric Walters, Leslie Bootle, Andrew Wooldridge, Fiona Ross and Luke Hurley in this special conversation about Don't Stand So Close To Me. Find out more about the book by...

Shree Paradkar writes about issues of race and gender at the Toronto Star. in 2018/19, Shree was the Atkinson Fellow in Public Policy which gave her the space to explore issues of race and equity in our public education system. In this conversation, Shree speaks of the questions that framed her year-long fellowship, the patterns that she discovered and some of the calls to action that emerged from...

Premiering at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, "Influence" takes us into the world of marketing and manipulation within our most foundational public institutions. It’s grounded in the story of Lord TImothy Bell, the firm Bell Pottinger and a politically-charged South Africa, but the questions posed and the realities revealed should be important to all of us. A great conversation about deep journal...

David Barnum returns to voicEd Radio to talk about his approach to Place-Based learning in the context of the current COVID-19 crisis. David teaches elementary school in North Vancouver and is also a Faculty Associate in the Faculty of Education, Graduate Studies in Education at Simon Fraser University.

Khary Lazarre-White is the cofounder of Brotherhood Sister Sol, an organization that provides four-six year rites of passage programming, thorough five day a week after school care, school and home counseling, summer camps, job training and employment, college preparation, community organizing training, and international study programs to Africa, the Caribbean and South America. In this conversati...

We last caught up with Ottawa resident, Lindsey Barr, soon after she began World Changing Kids, an organization that empowers young people to make a difference in the world. Today, we connect with Lindsey again to see how her work has been transformed by the current COVID-19 crisis. Find out about Lindsey's work by visiting https://worldchangingkids.ca/

Angela Hanimyan is a teacher at an Ontario-based Montessori school with over 26 years of experience teaching young children. That experience, coupled with a knowledge of Self-Reg and social emotional learning has led to the writing of Fearless Felicia. In our conversation, we explore how this story will help children identify their feelings and empower them to take ownership of their feelings and...

Michelle DIttmer is President and Co-Founder at Canadian Gap Year Association, a national not-for-profit that provides support for young people looking for an alternative step in educational and/or career pathways through taking a gap year. In this conversation, we talk about the trend toward more students considering a gap year, and how the Canadian Gap Year Association can support that thinking...

Rick Kelly is the founder and the energy behind Just Us: A Centre for Restorative Practices. Through his work, Rick inspires us to "widen the lens" as we look at how we build, nurture and heal relationships in our organizations, communities and families. There's a whole lot more to Rick's work than can be written here so you're invited to explore more through his website: https://justusrestorative...

Dr. Bryan Sanders is passionate about rethinking education using a critical techno constructivist lens. Yup, try to say that three times fast! it's a perspective that draws together key thinking by Dewey, Freire and Papert, and it not only led to his doctoral thesis, but also to some of his current energy around the way that we can do school in a different way. Along with Dr. Verena Roberts, Bryan...

Harvey Bischof is the President of the Ontario Secondary School Teacher's Federation. Erika Shaker is the Director of The Education Project at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. In this conversation we use the current Pandemic context as a backdrop to talk about the policy conversations that need to be having if we are going to adequately address the many equity issues that are staring u...

In 2007, the World Health Organization released its report, A Safer Future—Global Health Security in the 21st Century. It would seem that not all of the recommendations, especially those around Pandemic planning were heeded. Drs. Marilyn Leask and Sarah Younie (DeMonfort University) join us today to talk about a chapter on pandemic planning in education that will be included in a new book that the...

When Werklund School of Education Associate Dean, Dr. Amy Burns, learned that field placement for teacher candidates would be threatened due to the COVID-19 shutdown, she put her team to work to create an alternative experience. Dr. Burns is joined today by Dr. Astrid Kendrick, Director of Field Experience for the Community-based Pathway and teacher Candidate, Deanna Parker about how the creation...

According to the Institute for Learning Innovation, just 5% of what we learn in a lifetime takes place in school. In this conversation, ILI Executive Director, John Falk, talks about the other 95%. We talk about free-choice learning in the context of the current pandemic and we also explore how challenging the common assumptions about "learning loss" might help us leverage learning opportunities i...

In this LIVE radio conversation, educator, author and systems thinker, Michael Fullan is joined by former CEO of the Canadian Education Association, Ron Canuel to talk about the signals, signs, challenges and opportunities emerging in this time of COVID-19. We talk about the shifting policy landscape as well as new demands for a different type of education leadership moving forward.

Today on In Conversation, we head to Dorset UK to catch up with author Gail Aldwin. Gail has just returned from a 4 month Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO International) placement working in the Ugandan refugee settlement of Bidibidi. It was an experience focused on the area of early childhood access to education. In this conversation we find out about that work and how it has impacted her work as...

Judith Koke is the Deputy Director and Director of Professional Development Institute for Learning Innovation, an organization committed to reshape the learning landscape by catalyzing innovation in lifelong, free-choice learning. In this conversation, we talk about the work of the organization and the opportunities for authentic learning in this time of pandemic and isolation. Learning more about...

Timm Holmes is an Ottawa-based writer and storyteller who has a real passion for teaching kids how to weave and tell stories. Hear about the connection between "telling" and "writing", a little about Timm's own history as a writer and a special excerpt from Peanut Butter & Dragon. (You're going to love this!) Find out more about Timm's work at http://timmholmes.com/

Dr. Ken Saltman, Professor of Education Leadership, UMass is joined by Erika Shaker, Director of the Education Project at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. We continue to dig deeper into issues around the privatization and corporatization of the Canadian public education space.

How is the current COVID-19 crisis impacting students who are already marginalized by the traditional structures of schooling? Are there ways of rethinking our current approach to remote learning to embrace the principles of culturally relevant pedagogy? Alison Gaymes is Centrally Assigned Principal for Principal Coaching, Equity & School Improvement with the Toronto District School Board. Ramon S...