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LEARN PodcastsShiftEd Podcast 32: In Conversation with Dr. Debbie PushorIn this episode of the ShiftED Podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dr. Debbie Pushor, a distinguished educator, researcher, and professor at the University of Saskatchewan. Dr. Pushor shared her insightful research on fostering positive relationships between schools and families through the concept of family engagement. Dr. Pushor characterizes her work as a “strategic and progressive approach” designed to develop “evidence-based methods and practices that hold significant potential for educational impact.” Her research delves into the critical notion of “parents and educators collaborating as partners in the learning and development of children and youth.”
2024-09-1029 min
Victorian Parents Council - Parent Podcast SeriesEp05 VPC - Conversations around parent engagement with guest Debbie PushorIn this interview we hear from Debbie Pushor PhD, Professor, Department of Curriculum Studies, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Debbie has engaged in narrative inquiries into parent engagement and leadership, a curriculum of parents, and parent knowledge.
In her undergraduate and graduate teaching, Debbie makes central an often absent or underrepresented conversation about the positioning of parents in relation to school landscapes. Debbie, in collaboration with the Parent Engagement Collaboratives I and II, published, Portals of Promise: Transforming Beliefs and Practices through a Curriculum of Parents (Sense Publishers, 2013) and Living as Mapmakers: Charting a Course with Children Guided b...
2023-01-0338 min
School InterruptedHonouring Parents as Educational PartnersWhen you think about education, whose job is it to teach the child? This question can cause a bit of contention when people view teaching as only the teacher’s job. This week's host is Jessica Wall, a Kindergarten teacher in rural Saskatchewan. Jess welcomes Kelsi, a middle years teacher, also from rural Saskatchewan. Throughout the episode, Jess and Kelsi unpack what it means to honour parents as partners in their child's education. The notion of "Looking Out vs Looking In" is a crucial understanding and an essential element of honouring parents as partners in education. Jess and...
2022-12-2637 min
School InterruptedCo-Creating Nature Experiences from Parent Funds of Knowledge“It takes a village to raise a child” - ProverbWhat possibilities await when we tap into one of our greatest resources and engage in meaningful conversations? Join host, Haylee Olver, and parent guest, Lance Zacharias, in a meaningful conversation about nature and learning. Haylee Olver, BEd & MEd, is an early years teacher with Prairie Spirit School Division. Parent guest, Lance Zacharias, CPA, CMA, is a father of four, CFO of Zak’s Home Hardware in Hague & Warman, SK and a nature enthusiast. The two explore how learning happens everywhere through sharing experiences, stories...
2022-12-1948 min
School InterruptedWelcoming Parent Engagement Through Technology“The technology you use impresses no one. The experience you create with it is everything.” Sean Gerety. For years, technology was something new that many teachers resisted. Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, technology became part of their job description, and family engagement was more relevant for all students. Join our host, Rebecca Fisher, and her guest, Chandrée Gudmundson. Rebecca is an elementary school teacher. Meanwhile, Chandrée is a technology consultant with the Greater Saskatoon Catholic Schools Division and has brought forward a new way of introducing technology into the classroom.Today’s podcast focuses o...
2022-12-1241 min
School InterruptedParent Indigenous Knowledge in the Public-School CurriculumHow can indigenous parent knowledge be incorporated into the school curriculum? Can we infuse the curriculum with Indigenous knowledge from parents and others and fold it into a curriculum that is westernized by nature?Join host Tom Claxton as he unpacks his conversation with Linda Young and forays into the world of the public school curriculum. Tom Claxton is an Education Instructor at Northwest College, and Linda Young is a Traditional Knowledge Keeper and Sessional Lecturer. The two discuss the challenges of grafting parents’ Indigenous ways of knowing onto westernized school curriculums. This exploration delves into how we...
2022-12-0529 min
School InterruptedEmbracing Culture in SchoolsImagine a school community where all parents and children feel included and accepted, where cultural knowledge and diversity are embraced. Our host for this week’s episode is Katelyn Hopkins, a passionate Kindergarten teacher who works in rural Saskatchewan. Katelyn welcomes Shannon, former school community coordinator at Howard Coad School, as well as Ayesha, a parent in the Howard Coad community. They discuss the importance of developing an inclusive school community through the use of language, culture, and family funds of knowledge. This discussion provides ideas for integrating family knowledge into the classroom and school community to develop authentic re...
2022-11-2841 min
School InterruptedAuthentic Parent Engagement: Two Unique PerspectivesThere’s a lot of talk about how to engage families in schools, it’s an important issue to discuss. We want families to be part of a student’s education and we want them to feel welcome on the school landscape. Part of the conversation around this should then be how to engage families in curriculum and learning. How do we do this in a real and authentic way? Today’s podcast host, Lindsay Munroe, is a mother of two and a Grade 3 teacher. She will be speaking with Kirsten Kobylak and Brett Rowland, both teachers–one primary...
2022-11-2143 min
School InterruptedA Shift in Mindset: From Saviour to AllyWithin the broad field of parent engagement, this episode zeroes in on a topic that may make some people uncomfortable. The topic of white Privilege. White privilege is something that our hosts, Randi and Andrea, grew up with and had no idea existed. As young learners who struggled, and were later diagnosed with ADHD, both hosts wanted to help students who were often forgotten or who did not receive differentiated programming. These feelings were what led both Randi and Andrea to teach in a core community school with a high Indigenous population. Their intentions “to help” were good, they disc...
2022-11-1430 min
School InterruptedMotherhood & How it Impacts Our Teaching"The moment a child is born, the mother is also born" - RajneeshStacey Crowe hosts this week's episode alongside her guest Melanie Lynchuk. Join them as they chat about their experience of becoming new moms while taking their master's program and the life-changing impact it had on them as people and teachers.The two discuss the feelings and worries of being new moms and the life decisions they now face when putting their children into someone else's care. Further, they explore their fresh perspective on what their classroom families go through with their children.
2022-11-071h 02
School InterruptedTeachers & Parents: Changing Mindsets, Building RelationshipsThe simple act of a parent-teacher relationship can have a profound effect on the student. Join Michael Crowe on this week's episode, where he talks about changing mindsets and building relationships between teachers and parents. Michael will be interviewing Linda about working closely with parents, how it benefits the students she works with, and her experiences as a parent. Linda runs a behaviour support program at Michael's school. Her input is hugely impactful. Resources: Global Family Research Project. The Family Engagement Playbook.https://medium.com/familyengagementplaybookGlobal Family Research Pr...
2022-10-3134 min
School InterruptedFrom Schoolcentric to Familycentric: A Gentle RevolutionDebbie is a mother and educator with parent engagement as her driving focus. Having experienced schooling as a student from Grade 1 through doctorate, as a public school teacher, consultant, principal, senior administrator, and now as a researcher and teacher educator, Debbie is working to create a place and voice for parents in their children’s schooling. In this, the first episode of the School Interrupted podcast, Debbie will introduce herself, her body of work, and what’s to come in the rest of the series. Together, Debbie and a group of her incredible graduate students have put toget...
2022-10-2443 min
School InterruptedIntroducing School InterruptedWe hope you’re as excited as we are! We are one week from releasing the first episode of the School Interrupted podcast. Over the next 10 weeks, you will hear the voices of some truly incredible educators and parents as they dive into all things parent engagement. The core of this work is to make change in schools, to interrupt, to put something new in place of what we currently have. But our intention in all of this is to do it gently, to do it with love, with care, and with respect for children, parents, families, and educators. To...
2022-10-1405 min
Victorian Academy of Teaching and Leadership07 – Debbie Pushor champions family stories in schoolsParent engagement is one of the strongest predictors of a child's success in school. But what does it look like in an already busy curriculum?
Debbie Pushor explores the high impact teaching strategies of family-centric schools.
2019-07-0939 min
2018-02-2057 min