Wholehearted Teaching with Adrian Del Monte
In the podcast, we hope to inspire educators to bring their whole selves into their classroom everyday. Through powerful conversations, we will explore how teachers can see their classrooms and students as extensions of who they are as people. We will help you embrace your calling as educators, teaching from authenticity, vulnerability and the power of the heart.
Episodes
23 episodes
A Full Heart with TCDSB Director of Education Brendan Browne
At the end of a very difficult year I went into this conversation with TCDSB Director of Education Brendan Browne looking for something: I was looking for the heart in what he would say. I knew there would be limits to how much I could ask my b...
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48:20
A Year of Grief and a Year of Joy with my Wife, Amy Del Monte
In this week's conversation, my wife Amy and I sit down to discuss what was an extraordinary year. We hope that our story might help other parents and teachers process theirs.We reflect on the joys of the year-- our neighbourhoo...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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40:13
How Marriage Shapes Our Teaching with Educators and Spouses Dan and Rachel Vigliatore
If you're a teacher who is a parent or a spouse, this is a wonderful conversation for you!Today's guests are Dan and Rachel Vigliatore, a wholehearted husband and wife who both teach in the Toronto Catholic District School Board. Dan is...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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58:02
Building to Last with Educator, Champion and Advocate Skye Bowen
In this week’s conversation I’m talking to one of the most wholehearted educators I’ve ever met: Skye Bowen. Skye is an activist, a community builder, a champion, and is working actively to dismantle systems that oppress racialized students.&nb...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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52:36
Empowering Students to Tell Their Stories with Best Selling Author Jael Richardson
How often do we let our students (and our own children) just tell their story? That is the question I'm discussing today with Jael Richardson, author and Executive Director for The Festival of Literary Diversity. So often as teach...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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59:18
Celebrating a Changing School Board with TCDSB Superintendent of Education Kimberly Dixon
When I first reached out to Kimberly Dixon, Superintendent in the Toronto Catholic DSB, I was hoping we would talk about intersectionality for much of the conversation. I assumed that because Kimberly is only the second black, female superinten...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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43:05
What's in Your Heart of Hearts? with Vice-Principal and Documentary Filmmaker Anthony Perrotta
Today's episode is the story of one teacher's journey to allyship.We speak with Anthony Perrotta, a Vice Principal and a documentary filmmaker. Like many first or second generation European immigrants, Anthony grew up up in ...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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58:19
Dear White Teachers: No One Said it Would Easy with Asante Haughton
Today's episode is all about how hard it is to build anti-racist classroom. It's not just hard for our racialized students, but it's also hard for white teachers (myself included) doing the hard work of examining whatever biases we hold.
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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This is a Love Story with Teacher, Author and Advocate Penny Kittle
"This is a love story" are the first words of Penny Kittle's book, Book Love. They are words that may change how you see the students you teach. No one has been more influential on my classroom than Penny and I was ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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SPECIAL Episode: An Anthology of Occasional Poetry from a Wonderful Class of Students
In this episode, my students from this quadmester will share their own, occasional poems with you. This has been a wonderful group of teenagers and I have loved learning and growing with them. I want to especially thank them for their b...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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46:58
Moving from Shame to Love with Psychotherapist Kristen Hodges
This week's conversation is meant to help teachers-- particularly white teachers-- move from feelings of shame that immobilize us to connecting with healthy guilt that can guide us forward. Guilt moves us to anti-racism work and that work...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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WHY ARE YOU IN EDUCATION?? with TDSB Principal, Anti-Racism and Anti-Oppression Disrupter, Salima Kassam
This question-- WHY ARE YOU IN EDUCATION??-- frames our conversation today. If you stop to think about that, what would you say?My guest, Salima Kassam is a principal with the Toronto District School Board and has given her life t...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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44:16
Restoring a Broken System with TCDSB Human Rights and Equity Advisor Lavinia Latham
The second episode in our Anti-Racism series made me nervous.Lavinia is the most lovely person, but her role as Humanity Equity Advisor at the Toronto Catholic District School Board is to look at problems in the education system...and a...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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57:33
Having Brave Conversations about Race, Equity and White Fragility with Superintendent Derek Chen
In this conversation, we speak with TCDSB Superintendent of Equity, Diversity, Indigenous Education and Community Relations, Derek Chen. Superintendent Chen speaks about the importance of being brave enough to have courageous conve...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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38:33
SPECIAL New Year's Episode: Daring Greatly in 2021 with Chey Cheney and Pav Wander
Welcome to 2021, a year that has so much potential for teaching! We launch Season 2 through a wonderful conversation with Chey Cheney and Pav Wander, two Toronto teachers and hosts of The Staffroom Podcast who are just crushing it. Both...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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44:12
Finding the Kin in Kindness with Katie Akelaitis
In our Christmas Special, we talk about seeing differently, through the eyes of kindness. In this episode, mom, daughter and Vice Principal Katie Akelaitis speaks about how her father taught her to treat others as "kin," as if they...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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29:47
When Families Teach Together with John, Nic and Lukas Notten
This episode shows that strong teaching has all the same attributes as strong families: an emphasis on following your passions, finding ways to serve others, collaborating together and, most importantly, a cohesion between what happens in the c...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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35:33
Full Props to Hermione: Discussing Women in Leadership with WCDSB Director of Education Loretta Notten
This episode is framed around a question: How has being female prevented you from bringing your whole self to the classroom? It's an important conversation, and one that I am grateful to share a part. In this episode, we spea...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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35:15
Unleashing Our Teachers to Follow Their Passions with Anthony De Sa
Going off the beaten path, challenging formal education practices, and untethering teachers to bring their own passions to the classroom are all the topics that we discuss with our guest, teaching legend and critically acclaimed writer, Anthony...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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34:28
Embracing Vulnerability in the Classroom with Barb Russell
Vulnerability, making mistakes and accepting ourselves exactly as we are are all topics that we discuss today with our guest and award-winning teacher, Barb Russell. 10 years as an emergency room Nurse followed by 25 years in the cl...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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32:38
Humanity at the Highest with TCDSB Director of Education Brendan Browne
At the very highest level of an education system are people, and people, no matter their titles are human. In this episode, we speak to Brendan Browne, father, son, husband...and Director of Education for one of the largest school ...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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34:01
The Sacredness of the Classroom with Don Walker
Courage, authenticity, gratitude and the sacredness of the classroom experience are all topics that we discuss today with our guest and teaching legend, Don Walker. After retiring from 30 years of classroom teaching and ad...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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37:40
Introducing Wholehearted Teaching (Episode 1)
Welcome to my new bi-weekly podcast: Wholehearted Teaching!If there is one idea that drives this podcast, it’s this: there is no separation between who we are when we're inside the classroom and when we're outside of it. L...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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