Only Relate! The best teachers understand that relationships are at the heart of learning. Join international educator Nat Damon and guests as they discuss the importance of trust-based human connection both in the classroom and the world our students are growing into.
Episodes
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
Thursday Mar 26, 2020
This episode centers on how building a remote classroom community can provide unforeseen gains in empathy, collaboration, and connection.
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
Tuesday Mar 24, 2020
This episode is about wellbeing. Join me and primary school teacher, author, and consultant Adrian Bethune for an inspiring and hope-filled conversation about areas of happiness that matter most: eudaimonia, flourishing, contentment and confidence.
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Tuesday Mar 17, 2020
Andria Zafirakou, a teacher at Alperton Community School in Brent, UK, won the 2018 Global Teacher Prize. She is passionate about education and changing the lives of young people and underserved communities through creativity. Andria used the $1 million prize money to found a charity called Artists in Residence (AiR) with an aim to improve arts education in schools. Andria has also been named in the Top Ten of The Evening Standard’s "1000 Londoners List", a list of the most influential people in London. She also sits on the World Economic Forum's Global Future Leaders Council.
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Tuesday Mar 10, 2020
Dr. Robert “Rob” Loe launches the London miniseries of “Reach Teach Talk” with a powerful discussion on the importance of relational teaching. Rob is the Founder of Relational Schools Project and currently CEO of The Relationships Foundation. Listen and learn from the global research that supports connection-building in all classrooms.
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
Tuesday Mar 03, 2020
What is the difference between being a teacher and being a coach? Over the past decade, Alex Rosenblum has been a massively successful secondary school history teacher and 4-time championship football coach. Join us as we dive into the nuances between both, and learn strategies from someone who can speak to the power of relationships both in the classroom and on the sports field.
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
Tuesday Feb 25, 2020
What is the difference between being a teacher and being a coach? Over the past decade, Alex Rosenblum has been a massively successful secondary school history teacher and 4-time championship football coach. Join us as we dive into the nuances between both, and learn strategies from someone who can speak to the power of relationships both in the classroom and on the sports field.
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
Tuesday Feb 18, 2020
25 years ago, Brian Wogensen was a stonemason’s apprentice in the foothills of rural Tuscany. For over two decades, he has been a supremely effective and deeply beloved English teacher. Join us as we navigate his course from Siena to his decades-long teaching career in Los Angeles. And learn how success is predicated on belief, whether in a one-to-one apprenticeship or in the classroom.
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Tuesday Feb 11, 2020
Los Angeles-based Parent Coach Oona Hanson has been a high school English teacher, a one-on-one academic tutor, and a parent educator. Listen to Oona share her definition of health while she explains why the student-parent-teacher "relationship triangle” is critical toward its maintenance.
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Tuesday Feb 04, 2020
Over the past 25 years, Matthew Arnold has been an educational technologist at schools in Chicago and Los Angeles. During that time, he has journeyed from a classroom technology evangelist to one of its greatest skeptics. His story is fascinating, and his wisdom benefits us all.
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
Tuesday Jan 28, 2020
A former cover model goes on a road trip and receives the call to teach on the Pacific Coast Highway, under a full moon. You can’t make that stuff up! 25 years since, Chip Williams has found himself in classrooms from Los Angeles to Turkey, observing the importance of teaching to the spirit in all kids everywhere.
Monday Jan 20, 2020
Monday Jan 20, 2020
“Every child has a talent. They may not be athletic. They may not be musical. It might be an emotional kind of talent. For many, you need to dig deeper. The harder you dig, and the more you find that special talent, the more a child will begin to know that you really, really like and know them.“
They say if you can build trust with a 5 year old, you can build trust with anyone. 45-year kindergarten/1st grade teacher Judy Mansfield gives truth to this. Listen and learn as she shares her wisdom, candor and insights in her uniquely humorous and loving way. I guarantee you will wish you had Judy as your teacher!
TRANSCRIPT
Tuesday Dec 31, 2019
Tuesday Dec 31, 2019
Eric and Nat talk about the importance of connection in the classroom and the key role identity plays in it. Join us as Eric shares his story of being a male elementary school teacher, and the importance of being authentic as the only adult in the room.Enjoy what you heard? Please spread the word to your network.
Interested in being a guest or referring someone who would make a fantastic guest on the topic of relationships in the classroom or workplace? Submit the name and a brief summary of the referral to: nat@reachacademics.com
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REACH. TEACH. TALK.
We live in a world of limitless opportunities for connection, yet we are lacking in authentic human relationships. This podcast is aimed at teachers, yet applicable to parents, students, and anyone seeking answers to the following questions:
How do we ensure that we are truly reaching others? How does our relationship with ourselves impact our relationships with our friends, colleagues, and family? What can we learn from the school classroom as we engage in the “classroom of life”?
Join 25-year International Educator Nat Damon in conversations about what it means to truly relate to other human beings. Through mindfulness. Through kindness and compassion. Through building bridges of trust. Through using our words with intention. Through navigating change, which is truly the only constant in life.
Guests include educators, school reformers, advocates of education, spiritual leaders, business leaders and coaches, and others who all share an appreciation for the relationships in their personal and professional lives.
Reach. Teach. Talk. with Nat Damon promises to inspire through authentic conversation and engage the listener through insightful discussion designed to make you feel as if you are part of an exchange between friends. Stories form the basis of each episode, and helpful life lessons are the result.
Whether you are a teacher, a student, or just someone seeking deeper meaning in your day-to-day interactions with others, this podcast is for you.