The Wayfinder

Stretching Our Learning Edges with Jennifer Abrams

What does it mean to be your best adult self at work? Abril connects with Jennifer Abrams, a communications consultant who supports educators, health care personnel, and others on new employee support, being generationally savvy, effective collaboration skills, having hard conversations, and creating identity-safe workplaces. Their conversation centers the concept of lifelong growth and how this is used as a guiding principle in developmentally-minded organizations like NESA. In practical terms, what does prioritizing adult development look like? How important is it for us to look deeply at ourselves? Join Abril and Jennifer as they explore what it means to curl up to our learning edges in the workplace – and beyond.

Digital Storytelling with LeeAnne Lavender

How can we enable students to take their learning outside the four walls of the classroom? On our tenth episode, we sit down with LeeAnne Lavender, a storytelling, service learning and global citizenship educator, to discuss purpose-driven pedagogy, multimedia storytelling projects, and what it means to be a learner alongside your students.

Experience Strategy with David Willows and Suzette Parlevliet

How do we measure the school experience from every vantage point? On our first episode of season 2, Abril sits down with David Willows and Suzette Parlevliet of [Yellow Car] to chat about experience strategy, how we can best communicate a school's mission to prospective students/teachers, and felt experience measurements. Willows and Parlevliet close the episode with advice for educators wanting to incorporate experience strategy into their organization's operations.

Regeneration and Hope with Maddy Hewitt

How do we re-center hope? On our final episode of the season, NESA Executive Director Maddy Hewitt joins Abril in conversation and they discuss regenerative models of education, next year's NESA program, and the case for evidence-based hope.

Equity by Re-Design with Jacinta Williams

What does it mean to decolonize the classroom? Join host Abril, reporting from the field, in conversation with Jacinta Williams, a social justice practitioner, as they dive into why we should strive to approach the classroom through a decolonial lens, what we can do to celebrate students’ racial and ethnic identities, and how we can foster meaningful dialogue across difference.