Pushing The Edge with Greg Curran
Are you passionate about making a difference in teaching?
Join me (Greg Curran) as I chat to educators and community leaders who are challenging systemic inequity and bigotry, along with privilege and silence.
Not content with traditional approaches to diversity and inclusion they're re-making their environments, supporting and uplifting the voices and worlds of those students and communities who've been sidelined for far too long.
Find Show Notes and Resources at: pushingtheedge.org
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 56
- Years Active
- 2014 - 2021
Making a Difference by Not Playing It Safe with Greg Curran - Part 1 - PTE016
Now normally I'm (Greg Curran) the host of this Podcast but over the next two episodes we're turning the tables.
I'll be in the hot-seat answering questions posed by former Pushing The Edge gues…
Shaking Up Our Mindsets About Indigenous Students with Surin McGrory - PTE015
They're at the top of all the wrong lists and bottom of all the right lists.
Or so our guest thought until she actually started teaching Maori students in a total immersion Maori School in New Zeal…
Whole School Change with Ray Boyd - PTE014
In this episode, transforming the opportunities and outcomes for our students - through Whole School Change
- How do you get staff, students and the wider community onboard with change - especially …
How to Navigate Social Justice Issues in the Classroom with Rusul Alrubail - PTE013
If you’re passionate about social justice and ‘making a difference’ in students’ lives -you’re probably familiar with a few choice accusations that can cause educators to withdraw, self-censor, t…
How to Navigate your Self Doubts and Connect Online with Ashley Hurley - PTE012
You’ve got something to say but you’re nervous. Your stomach’s in knots and your head’s filled with endless chatter
Why would anyone want to hear what I’ve got to say?
- What if they don’t like my id…
Powerful Professional Development Thanks to Global Connections with Craig Kemp - PTE011
It's a phrase that's often met with groans and rolls of the eyes - Professional Development.
But what if you could tailor that Professional Development or PD to your circumstances - making it relevan…
Take The Opportunity to Collaborate with Tom Snyder - PTE010
So you've been teaching for a while now.
You'd describe yourself as student centred but you're seeing the landscape change all around you, and you're starting to question the way you've always done…
Find Your Teaching Communities with Ashley Gravelle - PTE009
It's quite a journey - as you step into a classroom for the first time, or take on a new role in a different school. You look and listen, paying close attention to your colleagues, to how they engage…
Step Back and Let Young People Take The Lead with Laura Hill - PTE008
They're moments that catch you unaware. Moments that surprise and delight you.
When students stretch themselves in ways that you'd never have imagined, going far beyond what you thought possible. …
Find Your Voice and Really Connect with Jenny Moes - PTE007
How to Get from Survive to Thrive Mode - PTE006
Do an internet search and one word dominates relating to teaching - SURVIVAL. In this episode, we turn the tables, we're all about helping you THRIVE.
What is thriving? Four quite diverse Educators…
Embrace Your Weirdness as a Teacher with Doug Robertson - PTE005
It started as a comment whispered in the hallway,"He's the Weird Teacher."
From there, it became a book, and later a highly unpredictable and outside the box Twitter chat, simply called Weirded. …
Push Past your Comfort Zone with Rachael Lehr - PTE004
Rachael Lehr is an educator with much insight into Pushing Past Comfort Zones - often pushing past the 'Why Me?' and 'What have I got to offer?' feelings, and saying 'Yes' to the unknown and unfamil…
Shaking Up Our Beliefs and Values as Teachers with Erin Stevenson - PTE003
It inspires questions. It leads to wondering? It compels action. It fuels a desire to learn more about the Other.
Social Justice, that's the thread that weaves throughout this podcast episode.
Eri…
Reach Out to Thrive with Samantha Bates - PTE002
In this episode of Pushing the Edge:
- What resources are crucial to us thriving today as teachers and students?
- Why must we reach out and connect?
- How do we work with those fears and self-doubts tha…
Taking Care of Ourselves as Teachers with Jason Borton - PTE001
- How to really Th…