336: Umbrella Project with Dr. Jen Forristal
Dr. Jen Forristal, BSc ND, is the CEO of The Umbrella Project and a Naturopathic Doctor with a primary focus in pediatric mental health.
She has worked extensively with schools, researchers, and organizations, developing mental wellness strategies for families facing social, emotional, and mental health challenges and those looking for optimal health and performance.
As the founder of The Umbrella Project, Dr. Jen trains medical professionals, educators and parents to proactively assess and develop the skills needed to cope with lifes’ inevitable challenges. In her private practice, she supports families in raising resilient, healthy children. Dr. Jen has a BSc with Honors from the University of Guelph, and a Doctor of Naturopathy from The Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine.
Website
Social Media Information
Instagram & Twitter
@umbrellapjct
Resources Mentioned
Instagram account – Response Parenting
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335: Charity United with William Tucker
William Tucker and his wife have helped over 100,000 kids & civilians in the slums of India, improving their quality of life through literacy education, emergency aid, and other philanthropic initiatives. As a Co-Founder of Charity United, a U.S.-based charity that provides humanitarian aid to children and civilians in need, William helps ensure children receive food, clothing, shelter, and education. He has worked as an educational specialist and corporate training officer in International Charitable organizations for several decades, training thousands of individuals for their jobs in order to improve the productivity of these organizations. After selling his house and living in the slums of India for a year, William discovered through on-the-ground experience the problems that kids most often face while living in the slums, mainly a lack of educational opportunities. In collaboration with charities and volunteers in India, Africa, and Latin America, Charity United provides educational tools to children with the aim of giving all children an equal opportunity for a promising future.
Website
Social Media Information
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/CharityUnitedRefugeeAid
LinkedIn – https://www.linkedin.com/company/charity-united/
Twitter – https://twitter.com/charityunitedus
Youtube – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDg-gIvWYDLtbVlf6w2f2Q
Resources Mentioned
https://charityunited.us/gift/
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334: Boundless Life with Suzanne Perkowsky
Boundless Life build a collection of thoughtfully designed communities located in beautiful destinations around the world comprised of private homes, co-working spaces, a school system based on experiential learning and locally adapted recreational hubs where like-minded families can develop connections, work, sustainably explore different parts of the world and be immersed in the local cultures.
Suzanne Perkowsky is the Head of Academics at Boundless Life. She was the co-founder of New Nordic Schools, a Finnish education development company that created the Nordic Baccalaureate based on the Finnish education system.
She has been in the education field for over 30 years as a teacher, leader and trainer, setting up and working in schools in Finland, Singapore, China, Saudi Arabia, UK and the US. She has been involved in the set-up of over 15 new schools or campuses.
Suzanne has qualifications from Finland, UK and the US which has been key in understanding global education, its accolades and its shortcomings to best inform current best practices. She believes there’s always something more to learn no matter how experienced or educated you are.
Revolutionising where, when and how children learn.
Inspired by the world-renowned Finnish system, Boundless Education was developed by taking the finest ingredients from the world’s best educational practices to build one coherent system to follow your child anywhere. Boundless Education is a transformational learning system that lays the foundation for innovation, maximizes experiential learning, and creates meaningful connections to ourselves, our communities and the world.
Along with rigorous academics, our education centres leverage local cultures and environments to deliver an unparalleled learning experience including arts, music and nature exploration.
Join a flexible, forward-thinking education programme for your children.
Website
Social Media Information
www.instagram.com/boundlesslife/
www.facebook.com/myboundlesslife
twitter.com/boundlesslife
www.linkedin.com/company/boundlesslife/
Resources Mentioned
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333: Creating art to be and stay human with Michaell Magrutsche
Michaell Magrutsche is an Austrian/Californian multidisciplinary artist, awareness and creativity educator, speaker, and author.
Michaell’s dyslexia and dysgraphia forced him to develop an awareness of seeing the world purely from a human perspective. Creating art completed his awareness of what it is to be human-relevant vs system-relevant.Michaell’s talent is recognizing awareness to seed a new consciousness that allows us to unveil the untapped superpowers of human’s limitlessness, art/creativity, healthy discourse and adaptability to make all humans fit within our human tapestry.
Because Michaell has been a sick child also dyslexic and has dysgraphia (hand eye coordination) he could only navigate in very few systems. Michaell was forced to find his salvation in art. Interacting and creating art outside of systems helped him feel humane and got him through life. Michaell is completely self-taught. Art allowed him to experience life with other humans and 5 books later, Michaell produced with Robert Evans and became a City Arts Commissioner etc. etc.
Michaell discovered that creating art is humans greatest inherent superpower, followed by healthy dialogue and our adaptability. These superpowers are applicable to everything from Creativity, Leadership, Business, Education, Relationships and what else humans focus on.
Today, Michaell keeps unveiling the limitations of all man-made systems like technology, science, economy and generalized knowledge to change systems to be more human adaptable instead of humans keep forcing themselves to be system adaptive.
Michaell’s mission is to show us something very different.
Website & Social Media
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332: What is self-efficacy and why should we be paying attention to it in Primary Schools?
RS Assessment conducted a study among 21,000 key stage 2 pupils in English schools recently. The study was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and aims to better understand the longer-term impacts of the Covid lockdowns on this cohort of kids’ attainment, wellbeing and attitudes to learning.
What is self-efficacy and why should we be paying attention to it in Primary Schools?
We talk a lot about self-esteem in our children, but what is the connection between self-efficacy and their achievements? Our research shows that the majority of Key Stage 2 pupils report feeling some vulnerability in self-efficacy, with large (greater than 7 Percentage Point, or 14%) drops since the pandemic. Professor Clare Wood and Katie Blainey, Director of Assessment at Hodder Education talk about the role of self-efficacy in improving pupil outcomes and how we can we restore our children’s sense of their ability to achieve – both in the classroom and at home.
Website
www.risingstars-uk.com/rs-assessment/whitepapers
www.schoolsweek.co.uk/whats-up-with-year-3-and-what-can-we-do-about-it/
Watch the live recording of this podcast at www.youtube.com/@educationonfire5530/streams
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