Best Active Inquiry Podcasts (2025)

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197: Gothy McGotherson: Nocticadia by Keri Lake 44:13

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Stop twitching, that isn't the fluttering of dusty moth wings in your ear - its yr grls discussing NOCTICADIA by KERI LAKE. Lilia Vespertine is a destitute but extraordinarily hot smart orphan in evil Baltimore who happens to get a mysterious full ride to spooky Dracadia University - a private institution on an isolated island with a 30-year-old te…

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Invisible Made Visible: Authenticity, Healing, and Impact, with Barbara Brangan 56:37

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Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. Our guest, an expert grant writer for charities, social enterprises, and Indigenous organizations, shares her profound transition from a deep sense of invisibility to authentic visibility and happy invisibility. Barb also describes how integrating spiritual wisdom, trauma-informed healin…

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Ask Me Anything: Your Questions on Museum Engagement and Facilitation 39:01

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In today's solo episode, host Claire Bown celebrates the one-year anniversary of The Art Engager book with our first-ever Ask Me Anything format. She answers 10 practical questions from listeners about facilitating guided experiences in museums. From how long to let people look at artworks to building psychological safety with established groups, C…

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Spiritual Activism: The Great Power (3/3, EP14) 45:14

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Changing the world by being divine vessels of love through the power of prayer as the capacity to manifest Divine Will. Prayer as the power of positive mindset for personal healing, collective healing, and collective awakening. Multidimensional, spiritual solidarity. Spiritual Activism is community engagement and global healing within your daily ro…

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Differentiation in Action: Making Learning Accessible and Engaging for Every Student 30:12

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Differentiation doesn’t have to mean creating 30 different versions of a lesson. In this episode, I unpack what differentiation really looks like in practice and why it’s essential in today’s diverse classrooms. I share examples from elementary, middle, and high school to show how teachers can adjust content, process, product, and learning environm…

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Spiritual Activism: The Multidimensional View (2/3, EP13) 30:03

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Spirit guides and Divine guidance, community connection in shared life purpose of loyalty to Unity, Life, Love. Multiple dimensions of reality creating the physical world. This is part 2 of "Spiritual Activism", where we look at how to be of service during these times of global turmoil, from the spiritual perspective. Please listen to Part 1 first,…

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From Wounded Warrior to Universal Illuminator, with Juliano Innocenti, PMHNP, MSN 1:00:13

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Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J'aime Rothbard. In this episode, Juliano shares his personal journey from the trauma of in utero addiction and premature birth, to being raised in the foster system, to his healing through expressive arts and Compassionate Inquiry®(CI). As a psychopharmacologist with time-limited patient prescription assessments,…

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Driving Inquiry & Documenting Thinking with Learning Walls featuring Jessica Vance 49:34

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Edtech Smorgasboard: 8 Cool Websites for Teachers 31:51

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Spiritual Activism: From Aloneness to Togetherness. (1/3, EP12) 35:52

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True power as the Power of Love, empowerment through remembering our togetherness and connecting with spirit guides and Divinity. We begin here, on our multi-episode exploration of Spiritual Activism, where we look at how to be of service during these times of global turmoil, from the spiritual perspective. In this episode we consider how on both t…

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Peace Activation Begins Within, with Eva Dalak 57:55

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Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This conversation explores Eva’s transformative journey from traditional peacework to a trauma-informed, soul-centred approach. Her own experience of progressive vision loss forced her into two years of deep shadow work. In this process she identified and released unhelpful core beliefs …

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Exploring Poetry Through Museums and Visual Art with Tina Demirdjian 41:36

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In this episode of The Art Engager Claire Bown talks with Tina Demirdjian, a poet and educator who has spent over 30 years transforming how people connect with poetry and visual art. Tina is someone who in her own words 'changes people's minds' about poetry, about themselves and about their capacity for creative expression. Working primarily with s…

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Setting the Stage for Station Rotation Success: Agreements, Routines, and Student Accountability 28:33

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In this episode of The Balance, I tackle one of the biggest concerns teachers raise about the Station Rotation Model: can I really trust students to work independently while I’m at the teacher-led station? I share strategies for setting the stage for success, including co-creating class agreements, establishing a clear and consistent path of conseq…

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Patriarchy and Spirituality: Healing into the Great Mother. (EP11) 28:01

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Inner healing as liberation from cultural conditioning. How do we heal from patriarchy, at the deepest level, and where do we arrive to on the other side of that healing? To heal the soul-body split of the patriarchy, we turn towards what we had once turned away from. As a result we land into the arms of the Great Mother, feminine wisdom, integrati…

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Technology & AI : Benefits & Hazards, with Sat Dharam Kaur, ND 59:22

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Hosted by J’aime Rothbard, Kevin Young and Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. Join us as we explore the overall impact of technology and AI on human attachments, relationships, dependence, skills, wellbeing and our environment. AI is examined in therapeutic contexts, along with the considerable ethical and societal concerns around …

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Differentiated Instruction at the Teacher-Led Station: Making the Most of the Station Rotation Model 19:12

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In this episode of The Balance, I dig into why the teacher-led station is the heart of the Station Rotation Model. I share how I use this time with small groups for differentiated direct instruction, modeling sessions, and need-based instruction driven by real-time data. I also discuss how I facilitate rich discussions using Webb’s Depth of Knowled…

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Educators as AI Guides: Crafting Resources for Families and Communities 36:29

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196: NOThic: The Ruin of Evangeline Jones by Julia Bennet 52:46

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Don't be scared! That is just the loud cracking of our ankles over a totally normally recording of Whoa!mance's discussion of THE RUIN OF EVANGELINE JONES by JULIA BENNET. The titular Evie is a psychic medium scammer under the control/support of a Svengali type. Harcastle is a Due under the oppression of his dead father. Plus his hobby is busting f…

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Resolving Math-Anxiety Through Trauma-Informed Teaching, with Dr Bea Bleile 54:21

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Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard This conversation explores how academic learning is impacted by a student's emotional state, prior experiences, and the safety of the learning environment. Bea, who has been teaching in various roles since 1993, saw that traditional teaching methods fail to account for the "whole" student…

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Belonging, Community and Co-curation at Manchester Museum with Ciaron Wilkinson 45:08

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In this episode of The Art Engager, Claire Bown talks with Ciaron Wilkinson, Head of Partnerships and Engagement at Manchester Museum — one of the UK’s largest university museums and recent winner of European Museum of the Year. After a values-led redevelopment, Manchester Museum has reimagined how a museum can engage with its community. Its missio…

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Patriarchy and Spirituality: How Cultural Wounds Hijack Your Spiritual Path. (EP10) 42:16

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Patriarchy is deeper than cultural institutions or social norms — its root is a spiritual wound. Patriarchy is the result of a soul-body split, a dissociation that includes disconnection from the body, loss of groundedness or connection with Mother Earth, and spiritual bypass. Our cultural wounds are physiological, emotional, and spiritual — severi…

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Future-Focused Schools: Career-Connected Learning with Shira Woolf Cohen 51:45

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In this episode of The Balance, I talk with Shira Woolf Cohen, co-founder of Innovageous and author of Leading Future-Focused Schools: Engaging and Preparing Students for Career Success. With nearly three decades in education and workforce development, Shira shares why the gap between what students learn in school and the skills needed in today’s w…

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Trauma and Resilience: Becoming a Spiritual Warrior, Being Truly Alive. (3/3, EP 9) 36:19

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Soul incarnating into the body. True presence, good boundaries, creatorship, creativity, empowerment, life force, vitality, true self. These are the capacities of the Spiritual Warrior who is grounded, centered, and in the heart. Incarnating and embodying allows us not only to handle traumatic events but also allows us to enjoy bliss, ecstasy, and …

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The Final Four: Who's Your Shadow Daddy? 27:38

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Welcome to the Shadow Daddy Bracket: Final Four, where our pleasures are interrogated and pitted against one another. Our contenders? Rochester brooding in his attic-bound domestic gothic, Rhysand a fae High Lord wielding sovereignty and seduction, a couple of aristocrats flexing thier authority, and Buffy’s Angel/Spike—vampiric embodiments of tort…

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Elevating Consciousness & Healing Through Art & Music with Ester Martinez 1:04:09

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Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This rich conversation explores many topics, from Ester’s personal and professional journeys, to spiritual mysticism, to the parallels between experiencing ‘excellence’ in art, music and transformational trauma healing. Ester began sharing her NDEs and naming,”‘the Divine embrace” as her…

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How Schools Can Balance Curriculum Fidelity and Teacher Creativity 32:07

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In this episode, I’m digging into a challenge I hear about a lot: the tension between fidelity to an adopted curriculum and the need for teacher creativity. Too often, teachers feel pressured to follow lessons lockstep, leaving little room to respond to their students’ needs or bring their own expertise into the design. That rigidity can strip away…

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10 Low-Tech Ways to Refocus Students 35:37

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Edtech Throwdown Episode 197: 10 Low-Tech Ways to Refocus Students Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown. This is Episode 197 called 10 Low-Tech Ways to Refocus Students. In this episode, we will talk about 10 low-tech or no-tech ideas for brain breaks, mindful moments, whatever you call them, you’ll learn some cool ways to refocus students in your class…

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Trauma and Resilience: Intention, Incarnation, Determination. (2/3, EP 8) 21:45

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Trauma healing, building resilience, spiritual healing, and embodiment. What it really takes to confront difficulty head-on. Soul incarnating into the body. True presence, courage, determination, intention. Yes, you can do it, because you have to. Now you need to want to. We are all blown out by life's difficulties sometimes. Our toughest moments d…

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The Shadow Daddy Bracket 1:18:22

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Shadow Daddy's abound. But how do you pick the best one? what would the best even mean? How do you quantify or categorize the shadows and the daddies? Morgan and Isabeau developed a tournament style bracket ranking the shadow daddies of the past, present, and super natural--follow along and make your own! Who will take the crown? Hosted on Acast. S…

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Kute Blackson: The Magic of Surrender | How Letting Go Creates Freedom & Miracles 52:21

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➡️ Access the Liberation Masterclass I mention in this episode here ➡️ https://www.stephanie-trager.com/ Kute Blackson: The Magic of Surrender | How Letting Go Creates Freedom & Miracles 🌟 This episode is for visionaries, seekers, and leaders who feel the call to stop forcing life and start living from flow. Internationally renowned transformationa…

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Shining Authenticity's Light into Corporate Leadership, with Lubna Forzley 1:04:17

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Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This passionate conversation begins with Lubna’s upbringing in war-torn Beirut. She recalls seeing bombs falling and people dying and wondering, “What is the point of this? How do we find purpose?” Her mom told her, "It's okay, everything’s replaceable except you, the people you love and the story…

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Taking the fear out of inquiry-based teaching in the museum 23:51

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In today's solo episode, host Claire Bown shares practical strategies for overcoming the most common fears about inquiry-based teaching in museums. From handling uncertainty and awkward silences to managing participation and time, she guides you through simple, actionable ways to build confidence and make inquiry feel rewarding- for you and your pa…

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REFINE: A Structured Approach to AI Prompting for Educators 14:20

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AI is transforming education, but I believe strong prompts are the key to unlocking its potential. In this episode, I share the REFINE acronym I developed to give educators a structured approach to writing effective AI prompts. I walk through each step—assigning AI a role, setting clear expectations, framing the context, specifying inclusions, defi…

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Trauma and Resilience: Causes, Effects, and How to Heal from Trauma. (1/3, EP7) 37:37

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Trauma healing, building resilience, spiritual healing, and embodiment. This episode gives a definition of trauma and the cause of trauma, and explains the effects of trauma (disembodiment and the fragmentation of time itself). It also begins a definition of resilience, which we call spiritual resilience, or the "spiritual warrior" to distinguish i…

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Intimacy, Healing and "Sand in the System" with Kosha Joubert. 1:04:15

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Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This heart-felt conversation arcs from the pain of apartness to the healing power of connectedness. Kosha shares her personal journey, which led her from the cognitive and somatic dissonance of enforced separation (apartheid) to the synchronicity of inter-connection. She also explains ho…

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Personalized Learning in the Age of AI: Building Strong Foundations with Sunil Gunderia 45:32

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In this episode of The Balance, I chat with Sunil Gunderia, Chief Innovation Officer at Age of Learning, the company behind ABCmouse. Sunil is driving efforts to design AI-powered tools that personalize learning for young children while keeping safety and effectiveness at the center. We discuss how AI can support rather than replace teachers, the i…

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195.2 A Kingdom of Cocks and Shadows: Quicksilver Part 2: by Callie Hart 54:54

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Morgan and Isabeau return to the back half of Quicksilver—and yes, the vampires have arrived. With plenty of biting insights, they unpack what makes for a strong first-person narrative (and what can throw it completely off kilter). Then it’s on to the heart of romantasy: shadow daddies and fated mates. Why do some bonds feel electric while others f…

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Holistic Health Checklist: Emotions, Relationships, Energy Body, Spirituality. (2/2, EP6) 24:08

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Holistic health and wellness, healing fundamentals, and daily life hacks, in a quick summary + plug-and-play checklist. Emotional release tips, relational audit, info for empaths, energetic boundaries, meditation tips, and questions for you to reflect on what's working and what you could change in your routine, relationships, spiritual practice, an…

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Start Strong: Build Classroom Relationships and Community from Day One 13:56

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Strong classroom communities don’t happen by accident—they’re built through intentional, daily practices that prioritize connection. In this second episode of the Starting Strong series, Dr. Catlin Tucker explores how getting to know your students and creating a culture of belonging can transform your classroom environment. She shares practical str…

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6 Ingredients of Lasting Love with Dr Sara Nasserzadeh 1:09:42

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Hosted by Rosemary Davies-Janes. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. This conversation delivers rich insights on the importance of clear communication and intentional maintenance in healthy love relationships. Dr Sara also explores the ways personal and inherited trauma can impact intimate relationships, from causing ongoing emotional issues to expanding …

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Dr. Steven Young: Live a Life of Miracles | Catalyst Talks Podcast With Stephanie Trager 58:09

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➡️ Access the Liberation Masterclass I mention in this episode here ➡️ http://stephanie-trager.com Remembering the Future: Hermetic Principles & Conscious Creation 🌟 This is a reality-shifting episode for visionary leaders, determined entrepreneurs, and anyone ready to transcend the intellectual understanding of ancient philosophies and step into t…

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195.1 Shadow Daddy: The Sum of His Parts: QuickSilver By Callie Hart 1:00:52

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This week we’re diving deep into the shadowy (haha) corners of QuickSilver—where Saeris Fane finds herself escaping a burning kingdom in the arms of a shadow daddy by the name of Kingfisher. Badass tattoos and appellation aside what makes a shadow daddy? Is it literally just commanding shadows and six pack? Is it the brooding and the martyr complex…

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Holistic Health Checklist: How Healing Happens. (1/2, EP5) 30:35

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Holistic health and wellness, healing fundamentals, and daily life hacks, in a quick summary + plug-and-play checklist. What is the underlying mechanism of resilience and healing, and how can we increase our capacity through easy small changes in our daily habits and routine? This episode first explains the formula for resilience and healing, and t…

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The Sound of Healing with Reggie Hubbard 1:12:57

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Hosted by Kevin Young. Produced by J’aime Rothbard. Listen to hear a powerful and playful discourse that flows from racial anger to curiosity, skepticism, critical thinking, surrender and stroke recovery. Reggie speaks about how his unwavering self-care practices unleashed the transformative alchemy of inner peace. He also describes teaching peace …

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Start Strong: Why Teacher Reflection Should Come Before Back-to-School Planning 14:05

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Before diving into lesson planning, classroom setup, and organizing all the things, there’s one essential step too many teachers skip—reflection. In this first episode of the Starting Strong series, Dr. Catlin Tucker explores why thoughtful reflection on last year’s wins, challenges, and habits can lead to more intentional, energized teaching. She …

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#140: Parenting the Competitive Athlete: A Mother-Daughter Conversation 47:12

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Join Lexi Giblin, PhD (Opal Co-Founder) for a heartfelt conversation with mother-daughter duo Kara Bazzi, LMFT (Opal Co-Founder and Director of Opal's Exercise+Sport Program) and Sophia, a soon-to-be collegiate athlete. Together, they walk down memory lane to explore the stand out intersections of parenting and running in Sophia's high school caree…

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Classroom Activities for the Beginning of School 26:32

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Edtech Throwdown Episode 196: Classroom Activities for the Beginning of School Welcome to the EdTech Throwdown. This is Episode 196: Classroom Activities for the Beginning of School. In this episode, we will share 8 new and improved ideas for starting off the school year in the most fun, positive and student centered way possible. This is another e…