Posts tagged wellness
E33: Equitable Education and Passionate Play with Pasi Sahlberg

In this episode, we’re chatting with Pasi Sahlberg, author, Professor of Education Policy and Deputy Director of the Gonski Institute at the University of New South Wales about inequality in the australian education system, some of the excellent things happening in the Finish education system and how we can help rebalance this inequality.

👉 Raising Wildlings delves deep with Pasi about

  • His journey that led him to where he is today

  • The Gonski Institute of Australia and his work there

  • Equitable Education Systems and what that looks like in Australia

  • The Australian education funding system

  • The discrepancy of compulsory instruction hours in schools around the globe

  • Finnish education initiatives that would translate well into the Australian education system

  • The importance of play in schools, and how language and educational regulation can make a difference to how play is perceived.

  • How to communicate the importance of play to principals in schools

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E32: Present Parenting and Practicing Self-Compassion with Rebecca Branstetter

It’s been a rough year across the globe and particularly rough on parents. With lockdowns, quarantines, working from home, schooling from home, financial and health concerns, we thought it was a good time to get Rebecca Branstetter on Raising Wildlings.

Rebecca is a school psychologist, speaker, and author on a mission to help children thrive by supporting school psychologists, educators, and families.

She is the founder of The Thriving School Psychologist Collective, an online community dedicated to improving mental health and learning supports in public schools, as well as the co-creator of the “Make It Stick Parenting” course, which provides parents tools to build their child’s social-emotional learning, and the “Peace of Mind Parenting” course to support families during distance learning – so she is the right woman for today’s questions!

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