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The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everythingBuilding Emerging Consciousness CulturesWelcome to Episode 8, the final epsiode of Season 1! Our hope this season has been to start a different conversation about what learning and teaching might be, and we think that is happening. But as often as we say we don't have any 'final' answers, we also want to know how practitioners apply these ideas to how they already teach, or bring them in as fresh perspectives. This episode features our interview with Omar Marquez, a sociologist, tenured faculty at Everett Community College, and a good friend. Most of the episode is Omar answering our prompts, so we've incl...2023-08-0754 min
The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everythingGrief Changes EverythingOf all of the topics we considered for this first season, grief was not one of them. It didn't become a contender until a few days before we started prepping the episode. The Abolition X pod had been in the back of my mind all season and it would not go away, so I asked ambar if we could talk about grief, instead of the topic we had on deck. We started researching and writing, and the episode just...took us over. Grief in education is almost entirely unexplored, but it inhabits the space completely, and that inc...2023-07-1842 min
The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everythingEmbodied Love in TeachingAre you feeling alone and isolated at the front of your classroom? Disconnected from your students, your colleagues, maybe even yourself? Teaching has become a pretty isolated place and connecting with students feels more and more difficult. But what if we could have a practical conversation about love in education? How would bringing love and compassion to the front and center of teaching and learning transform our experience and education itself? Join us as we relisten to The Urgent Need for Compassion with Alok Vaid-Menon in The Man Enough Podcast and Possibilities of Relati...2023-06-2928 min
The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everythingBoundaries, Embodiment, and ExpansionWe are finally dropping an episode about the thing no one wants to talk about - boundaries in teaching! If you are like me, boundaries are confusing enough in my personal life, let alone in the classroom, and there is almost ZERO info on setting boundaries in higher ed (or really any classrooms)! As teachers, we are constantly being bombarded by demands to set better boundaries or to not be so rigid, and it can bring up issues of shame and feeling not enough. We don't have a magical solution, but we are offering a dif...2023-06-1437 min
The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everythingBodies, Shame, and Learning Are you tired of being a brain in a jar? A content dispensary? Do you long for a different way to teach and learn, one that welcomes and embraces you and your students in all your full, radiant humanity? We want that too! In this episode, emareena & ambar discuss radical self love and how its presence could transform our experience of teaching and learning. What do you think would change if we embraced the necessity of radical self love as educators? Reference material Unlocking Us, with Sonja Renee Taylor: The body is not an apolo...2023-05-2358 min
The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everythingNothing Changes Until We ChangeWelcome to our first relisten pod! We're not quite exaggerating when we say we kind of started this podcast so we could relisten to some of our favorite and most influential thinkers, dreamers, and visionaries, and adrienne maree brown was always going to be first ♥ In this episode, we discuss two of her interviews and how her work applies to transforming teaching and learning. Join us and explore your own vision for a new way to learn and teach. Pod relistens: Finding Our Way podcast, S1E2 “Visioning” and On Being “We Are in a Time of New Suns”2023-05-0335 min
The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everythingMoving With HopeThis is our second episode talking about language and the last before we start our podcast relisten series. This week, we're discussing ability to learn, change/transformation, and practice, connecting all of these our hope for creating a new vision of teaching and learning. We know part of that work is a different way to relate to education, and that can’t happen without a reshaping of how we vision, define, and embody teaching and learning. We’re watching our systems dis-integrate, K-12, higher ed, and beyond, which means we have an opportunity to reimagine and create a syst...2023-04-1822 min
The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everythingBegin at the BeginningWelcome to our first full episode! For this ep, our guiding questions are "How are we defining ‘teaching & learning’? How are they different from (organized) education?" In this episode, we're discussing how we define organized education, teaching, learning, and emerging consciousness. Talking about new ideas means new language, or old language used in new ways! If you like what you hear, make sure to Like, Subscribe, and Share. References “All that you touch, you change All that you change, changes you The only lasting truth is change god is cha...2023-04-0418 min
The Galactic Cow: Conversations about teaching, the Universe, and everythingMeet the Galactic Cow ♥we recorded this mini-episode to answer the question "why are we here?" but only for the podcast, not to cause an existential crisis! we liked the idea of introducing ourselves separately, so here we are - it was just that simple. emareena and ambar are both adult educators and are interested in how teaching and learning need to grow and expand, just as humanity needs to grow and evolve. we started our work together as part of a state-wide diversity and equity collective, and have been moving together in that space for several years. we disco...2023-03-2006 min