Diane White has the hard but exciting job of creating a new school at Antioch: the Graduate School of Nursing and Health Professions, of which she is the founding Dean. In this conversation, Diane discusses how the COVID-19 pandemic shined a spotlight on health inequities…
S6 E10: Facing Book Bans and Budget Pressure, School Librarians Show Their Importance
A conversation about book bans, library misconceptions, and the important work school librarians do to serve students and the broader school ecosystem with Antioch faculty Jen Sturge and Christie Kaaland.
S6 E9: Is Talk Therapy Always Right For Kids? Play Therapy Offers Another Way
A conversation with Cary McAdams Hamilton about play therapy and how it can offer alternative ways to work through deep feelings and strengthen their mental health.
S6 E8: Our World’s Diverse Students Need Anti-Racist School Counselors
A conversation with Syntia Santos-Dietz about what school counselors need to work on in order to better serve diverse students around the world.
S6 E7: School Counselors Play a Vital Role, Schools Need to Let Them Do Their Jobs
A conversation with Taqueena Quintana about how much school counselors do to support students and schools—and how short staffing and mission creep impact their ability to do this key job.
S6 E6: Can We Bring Resilience, Innovation, and Joy to the Climate Crisis?
A conversation with Abigail Abrash Walton about new strategies that can lead us toward a just and effective response to the climate crisis.
S6 E5: Can Mindfulness Help Teachers Be Less Reactive, More Compassionate?
A conversation with Susan Dreyer Leon about mindfulness and how this practice can be a valuable approach for teachers to bring compassion and nonreactiveness into their classrooms.
S6 E4: We All Aspire to Be Life-Long Learners—How Can Universities Support Us?
A conversation with Terry Ratcliff about the power and place of continuing education for universities and life-long learners.
S6 E3: Panel Discussion – Careers at the Intersection of Education and Justice
Three Antiochian educators discuss their work making education more just—and more effective.
S6 E2: School Librarians Are Essential, So Why Are These Jobs Disappearing?
There’s a quiet epidemic wiping out school librarian positions across the U.S. Between 2015 and 2019, the number of librarians declined by 20%, and one in five school librarian positions was eliminated entirely.
S6 E1: Supporting Non-Traditional Learners Starts With Respecting Their Knowledge
For those of us who have been shut out of higher education in the past, the path back to being a successful student is full of obstacles. The right support can make this a little easier, though. In this episode, we explore this question with Russell Thornhill and Kathryn Pope, the Co-Directors of the BRIDGE program on Antioch’s Los Angeles campus—a financially free program that has helped over 700 students gain experience and credit studying at the college level. We try to answer how best to support each other as we advance in knowledge and power.