Love In A Big World EducateU's Podcast: Empower Yourself to Inspire Your Students

Love In A Big World EducateU is a podcast series that empowers educators and students to make a positive difference in the world through social-emotional learning (SEL). In this series, you will meet educators and entrepreneurs who share valuable perspectives on enhancing your teaching strategies. Here is a clip of Margaret Boersma sharing with podcast host Tamara Fyke practical tips on empowering yourself so you can be an inspiration to children Some main points include:

  1. Your perspective is your truth – how to calm someone down by understanding their perspective

  2. Building resolve/resilience – a strategy that allows us to be empowered, strong and creative

  3. Nurturing yourself and others – a practice of gratitude and acknowledgement

Boersma teaches teachers, parents and students on building resilience, practicing gratitude and understanding the perspectives of others while keeping themselves empowered.

 

I WISH I KNEW EDU: Looking back and leaning forward

Join host, Ramona Meharg (@RamonaMeharg) as she and her guests explore what it might look like if they knew then what they know now. This episode featured a wonderful conversation with Margaret Boersma about the past, present and future of her career in education.

 

Personal Playlist Podcast. Three songs—A world of stories

Noa Daniel asks guest educators to share their nostalgic, identity and pick me up songs. Through this songful conversation, we learn so much about the whole person. This is a project that came from Noa's classroom and one she continues to use and share to help students build skill, autonomy, community and connection.

Creative Education Consultant, Margaret Boersma (@BoersmaMargaret) shares her personal playlist with Noa Daniel (@noasbobs)

 

Have Your Organisation Leap Ahead with EQ

The BLOC (Building Learning and Organizational Culture) Podcast is a learning and development podcast where Heidi Kirby talks to professionals in the field who are passionate about finding creative, innovative ways to bring learning front and center at their organizations and beyond.

In this episode, Host Heidi Kirby chats with Margaret Boersma about emotional intelligence (EQ).

Margaret Boersma, OCT is an educational consultant, trainer, speaker with proficiency in Emotional Intelligence (EQ). Her career in teaching, combined with her expertise in Social Emotional Learning allows her to assimilate the affective domain (people skills) in the context of a company’s goals. In the role of a catalyst, her innovative programs are experiential in nature and have participants highly engaged in creating memorable and practical integration into their workplace.  Results are leadership skills, new models of communication and collaborative employees who embrace diversity, equity and inclusion. Margaret’s use of brain-compatible strategies to engage and internalize learning makes the transfer of knowledge to life impactful.

To connect with Margaret for a FREE lunch and learn and to find out more about her work, visit her website, CreativeEducationinAction.com

Margaret's suggestions for reading more about emotional intelligence:

 

Margaret Boersma and Carrie Rubel – Urban Retreat

Host Stephen Hurley scans the education ecosystem, looking for the people and ideas that are starting to change the way we think about teaching, learning, schools and communities.

In this episode, Stephen Hurley is joined by Margaret Boersma and Carrie Rubel who, along with Marise Foster are inviting Toronto-area residents to an Urban Retreat. It’s a way to Shift your Stress in today’s busy world. The event is on November 3, 2018, but the power of this conversation can’t be put on a calendar.

 

Enabling Both Students and Teachers to Thrive

Margaret Boersma, of Ontario, supports educators in using cutting edge brain research to teach us Social Emotional Learning (SEL). Creative Education in Action helps children from the age of 4 to adults. Teachers transform student relationships to learning through inquiry, discover and play. You CAN have more joy, experience more passion and achieve top-notch, fulfilling success. 

Lynn McLaughlin's website: https://lynnmclaughlin.com

 

dHLOnAir + Margaret Boersma

Margaret Boersma, OCT, is a creative educational consultant, coach, teaching artist, curriculum writer, thought leader and speaker, who is passionate about effecting a transformation in the education system by her innovative ‘first person learning’ approach to teaching.

With over 30 years experience teaching kindergarten to grade 8, Margaret is a life-long enthusiast of brain compatible strategies to engage students in a process of learning that incorporates ‘powerful personal expression’. Her methodology embeds social and emotional skills while enhancing the teacher and student communication synergy. This approach gets to the heart of how our students retain, relate and recreate themselves. The result is that students are empowered in their work, academic achievement escalates, powerful learning skills are adopted and students are compassionate citizens with a desire to make a difference.

 

Wellbeing For All

In this episode, we dive into:

  • How we create our own perception of situations

  • How to make situations right with others and with ourselves

  • How the more parts of the brain we use, the better the learning and the retention

  • How she makes learning stick

  • How we look for evidence for our inherent beliefs

  • Practical strategies to process our emotions and how to address difficult situations

  • The meaning we give to different events in our lives