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A Work of Heart: Human Intelligence in Education is a podcast by Dr. Ilana Nankin and Michael Fenchel, co-founders of Breathe For Change.
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Teacher Burnout Isn't Your Fault. Here's What Actually Helps (opens the original)
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You are not burning out because you are bad at this job. You are burning out because no one trained you for the part of the job that actually breaks people, and because the story you have been telling yourself about it has gone unchallenged for years. That story usually sounds like this: I am a failure. I can't do this. I don't have what it takes. It feels like an assessment. It is actually a habit, and habits can be rewritten. Dr. Ilana Nankin and Beth Schreiber have both lived on the wrong end
Back to School Series | Episode 6: How Teachers Can Use AI Without Losing the Human Side of Teaching (opens the original)
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AI arrived in classrooms faster than any guidance for using it. Most educators are being handed the tools without being handed a framework, and the result is a lot of quiet uncertainty about what counts as appropriate use, what counts as cheating, and what is worth protecting regardless.This conversation offers a way through. Dr. Ilana Nankin is joined by Khushali Narechania, Director of Learning at aiEDU, a former high school math teacher who spent a decade developing educators before moving in
Back-to-School Series | Episode 5: Classroom Management, Reframed (opens the original)
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What Nobody Taught You About Classroom Management Nobody teaches you how to run a classroom. Kristy Herrera cannot remember a single lecture on it in her teacher preparation program. Chrizia Dela Rosa was told to be strict and not to smile until December. Between them, they now hold two of the most visible roles an educator in California can hold. Chrizia Dela Rosa was named California Teacher of the Year. Kristy Herrera was elected teacher union president. Neither of them got there by learning
Back to School Series | Episode 4: How to Understand and Support Student Mental Health (opens the original)
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Every fall, educators walk into classrooms full of students they don't yet know, watching for who might be struggling and unsure how to read what they see. Dr. Ilana Nankin sits down with child psychologist Dr. Allison Briosche-Smith to unpack something every teacher needs and few were ever taught: how to actually understand student mental health, not as something stable or fixed, but as something that moves. This conversation gives teachers exactly that: how to notice when a student has genuine
Back-to-School Series | Episode 3: The Relationship-Building Toolkit Every Classroom Needs (opens the original)
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Every teacher has met someone like this: the colleague who somehow gets kids to behave, gets the whole staff on the same page, and makes it look effortless. In Part 3 of our Back to School Series, Dr. Ilana Nankin sits down with Beth Schreiber to name exactly what that "effortless" thing actually is, and to prove it's learnable. "It's not magic," Beth says of the skill that took her from a depleted classroom teacher to her district's Director of Curriculum. "I just happened to have a very big to
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