#onedmentors On Voiced Radio

This week on ONedMentors, it's a conversation about learning? What is it? What enables it? How do we know that it has happened? Host Noa Daniel welcomes panelists Derek Rhodenizer, Rola Tibshirani, Thaddeus Bourassa and Jonathan So. What is learning? Discuss!

A special ONedMentors program dedicated to the work of Learning Forward Ontario, a provincially-based, but internationally connected, network of consultants, co- ordinators, principals, vice-principals, teachers, superintendents, directors of education, business and support workers, and faculty of education personnel.Noa Daniel, Brenda Sherry and Beate Planche gather to talk about the power of professional learning in the 21st century as well as upcoming Learning Forward events.

In tonight's episode, Noa Daniel and Leigh Cassell catch up with some of the mentees involved in this year's OEMConnect program. Listen in as they discuss the power of personal mentorship as they begin their lives as teachers.

It's a transition week as the OnEdMentors show takes a bit of a turn into a new direction and some new territory. In this week's episode, Derek Rhodenizer prepares to hand the leadership reigns for the show over to Noa Daniel as Stephen Hurley, Catherine Tang and Carol Salva tag along for moral support, insight and their own reflections on the OnEdMentors experience.

This week, Mark Carbone, Noa Daniel and Stephen Hurley gather to dig deep in to the question of change in education. What makes it so difficult and contentious? What are the conditions that enable change? What advice do we have for change-makers in education?

This month the ONedSsChat panel discusses the connection between Music and Mental Health. The following questions guide today's discussion and this month's slow chat: 1. Why do you listen to music?2. Why should teachers use music in class and/or allow students to listen to their own music?3. How does music affect your mental health? Positively/ negatively?4. What impact does creating music have on your mental health? Why?5. What are you favourite songs/bands for different moods and/or activities? (For example, what songs/ bands motivate you #MotivationMusic, help you study #StudyMusic, help you sleep #SleepMusic, etc.)

Dr Samantha Fecich, author of EduMagic, joins OnEdMentors with two preservice teachers, Paige Wilson and Ashlyn Tucker, and two teachers, Melissa-Ann Pero and Kristen Nan, who are partner teachers in the Virtual Co-op. Listen to this episode to learn more about how this paired experience helps those in the faculty of education have a chance to connect, collaborate, and participate in an authentic, purposeful and meaningful learning experiences with teachers in the field using edtech to bridge distances and help both learn. You can read more about Virtual Co-ops on Dr. Fecich’s blog:https://www.sfecich.com/blog/virtual-co-ops

Noa Daniel welcomes mentors and mentees in Phase 2 of the OEMConnect program to the voicEd Radio airwaves for a reflection on their "why" for participating in the program and what they would like to see in a mentorship initiative.

A very special broadcast to launch Phase 2 of the OnEdMentors Connect collaborative inquiry Mentorship project. Join Noa Daniel and Leigh Cassell as they introduce some of the mentors, mentees and critical friends involved in this phase of the project

What happens to our face-to-face relationships when an increasing amount of our "social time" is spent in online environments? In particular, how is school culture impacted when, increasingly, teachers are finding their Professional Learning Networks and day-to-day supports on Social Media platforms?

This week's conversation took place just after National Pink Shirt Day in Canada—an initiative that, on the one hand, raises awareness about different forms of bullying but, on the other, draws attention to the power of kindness. Is kindness something can be taught and, if so, what are some of the powerful ways that this can be done?

What metaphorical images do you bring to your work as an educator? Teacher as... Gardener? Pilot? Magician? And when you explore that image a little deeper, what does it mean for the way you see your students, parents and others in your field of vision?