In Conversation with Stephen Hurley

Joanne Foster is a parent, an author, an educator, consultant and expert in the area of gifted education. Her newest book "ABC's of Raising Smarter Children" is packed with resources, ideas and insights on how to nurture success in our children. Find out more about Joanne's work at http://joannefoster.ca

Monday, September 30, 2019 is International Podcast Day and, in this conversation, we catch up with Dave Lee who, along with his father, Steve, started the whole thing six years ago. Stephen and cohost Sara Candela dig a little deeper into the past, the present and the future of this day that celebrates the power of the podcast. Find out more about the day at http://internationalpodcastday.com

Chami Akmeemana is the CEO of the Blockchain Learning Group, an organization that facilitates experiential learning-based education programs to support the innovation and design-thinking objectives of schools and organizations globally. Chami speaks to me about the nature of blockchain, how it is having an impact on the way we think about education, as well as the role that technology can play in...

Artists Maria Doering and Fiona Chinkan have developed a unique way of collaborating that has resulted in a project called "Shared Energies: Cells, Stars and the Fluidity Between" The project is fascinating, but so is the story of how it came to life. Maria Doering is a German multidisciplinary artist and printmaker, living and working in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia since 2012. Her art practice moves f...

Dr. Sam Fecich is a professor of education at Pennsylvania's Grove City College where she passionately introduces presevice teachers to the connected worlds of technology and special education. Sam is the author of EduMagic : A Guide for Preservice Teachers and the host of the Edumagic Podcast!

Dr. Hetty Roessingh is a Professor in the Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary. Her recent article in The Conversation has created quite the buzz as educators, parents and researchers around the world are, once again, discussing the merits of the formal teaching of cursive writing.

Christie Zaza is a Faculty Liaison in the Centre for Teaching Excellence at the University of Waterloo. Her article, "Students distracted by tech leave professors longing for eye contact" appeared recently in The Conversation. In this conversation, we talk about the research she conducted with Dr. Elena Neiterman that grounds the article. Should technology be banned from the University lecture hal...

Dean Vendramin (@vendi55) is a teacher in the Regina Catholic School Division and a member of the Connected Educator program in that Division. This year, the group embarked on a Podcast Club and, over the course of a week in August, used podcast episodes to spark learning and connected conversations.

Benjamin Doxtdator is a Canadian-born educator now working in Belgium. Through his "A Long View on Education", as well as his presence on Twitter, Benjamin pushes us to look critically at our work in education, asking questions that many of us aren't used to asking. In this conversation, Benjamin helps me unpack neo-liberalism and neo-conservatism, especially as it applies to education. We also ex...

This year, Samantha Ellis introduced her students to "I Am Not A Number" by Jenny Kay Dupuis. Listen as she talks about the learning that she and her students encountered as a result, including the beautiful and poignant poetry that they produced in response. Supported by Viamonde District Consultant, Andrienne Lefebvre, this is a powerful story of learning about Canada's history of residential sc...

Nicole Stogaitis is an Instructional Coach with the Viamonde School District and she's passionate about working with students on the habits, dispositions and mindsets they have about their work and learning skills. Listen as she talks about her own learning in this area, as well as some of the visions that she has around her ideal school.

Barbara Martins-Coehlo has been passionate about language for most of her life. A native of Brazil, coming to Montreal as a young person, Barbara now lives in Sudbury where she is preparing to start a Masters degree in Speech and Language Pathology. Barbara joined me to talk about her professional journey, some of what she is learning about language development as well as the work of the Speech an...

Siann, Merrick and Caleb are students at École élémentaire des Quatre-Rivières. Their teachers, M. Roméo Choumkui and Mme Veronique Mabel have introduced students to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and given them the opportunity to use technology (Minecraft) to address some of these goals.

Michael K. Barbour is Associate Professor of Instructional Design for the College of Education and Health Sciences at Touro University California. He has been involved with K-12 online learning in a variety of countries for well over a decade as a researcher, teacher, course designer and administrator. Michael joins me to talk about the requirement that Ontario secondary school students take 4 of...

Académie de la Tamise teacher, Karyn Belanger-Sherman, didn't let the challenge of being assigned a 1/2 combined grade slow her down. Instead, she has leveraged available technology to "flip" her class so that all of her students are staying in touch with the learning throughout the school day.

For three years, 96 students and Aboriginal artist Philip Cote painted a timeline tracing Toronto's history from the ice age to today. Teacher and project lead, Auriane Sokoloski talks about the process and the impact of the project.

Stefan Dixon (s@tefandixon67) is the Vice-Principal at École élémentaire La Mosaïque in Toronto. As you'll hear in this conversation, Stefan is passionate about the learning that happens when we bring our students outside.

Alex Genest and Marie-Christine Côté took up the challenge of the "reluctant writer" and now use technology to engage students in exploring their story ideas using imagery, and multi-media software. The results have been inspiring for both teacher and student.

Acclaimed singer, author and child advocate, Raffi Cavoukian, joins Stephen Hurley to talk about his legacy work in Child Honouring and, in particular, a newly-created course that invites others to adopt a powerful respect for the voices of children in our world. Find out more about Raffi's Child Honouring work at http://raffifoundation.org

From Ms. Melanie White's Grade 10 English class, more conversation with students engaging in using Twitter to energize their personal inquiry projects.

Tracey Maxfield is a nurse with over 36 years’ experience and certfication in gerontology and dementia care. Most recently, she is the author of Escaping the Rabbit Hole, in which provides a brutally honest, raw, and vivid description of what life is like after experiencing an acute depressive episode. In this conversation, we discuss the journey through depression, her experience of workplace har...

At South Carleton High School near Ottawa, Ontario, Grade 10 students are learning to use Twitter as a research/connection tool as part of their English course. Teachers Melanie White and Chris Dales invited the world into a Friday afternoon Twitter chat about the social media platform and voicEd Radio was there to capture some of the voices of students participating.

Doretta Wilson is the former Executive Direct of the Society for Quality Education. Her support of parent choice in the arena of public education leads us to a conversation about the possibility of charter schools and vouchers in the province of Ontario.