Hosted by Radically transforming education · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 63 episodes
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Breaking the Paradigm is a new media organization that seeks to radically transform education through Montessori and learner-centered pedagogy to create a world that is more humane, equitable, and liberatory for all people. breakingtheparadigm.org
Radically transforming education hosts Breaking the Paradigm, a education show with 63 episodes published.
What is the best way to support students with diverse learning needs? It’s the question that almost every educator I know is asking. There’s a massive apparatus of intervention and support built around labels, diagnoses,
I was honored to deliver the keynote at this year’s Montessori Educators of Alabama conference around their theme of “Better Together.” I wanted to use this time to sit with a question that’s been nagging at me for years
There’s a quiet truth most schools are avoiding right now: our students are navigating AI, social media, and digital life every single day; and if we’re not in that conversation with them, something else is. Probably AI
What if the biggest obstacle in Montessori is moving past our fear? Kathy Leitch, executive director of the International Montessori Council, joins Breaking the Paradigm to explore what it really means to carry Montessor
What if peace education has nothing to do with teaching kids to be calm? Here’s the provocation from Tammy Oesting in her third Breaking the Paradigm apprearance: Peace education isn’t about mindfulness exercises or conf
What if the most powerful thing Montessori educators could do for children right now isn’t in the classroom, but in the halls of Congress? Mixed-age groupings. The three-hour work cycle. Observation-based curriculum. Tea
What if depression and anxiety in young people aren’t signs that something is wrong with them, but proof that something is wrong with what we’re doing to them? This is a special three-part episode recorded before, during
What if the crisis we’re facing isn’t something to be solved, but something to be composted? Raj Chawla and Andrew Kutt joined me for a conversation that asks us to slow down long enough to feel what’s actually happening
This was our first ever live stream with Breaking the Paradigm, and Kelly and I tackled a question that keeps coming up in our work: What are we really afraid adolescents will do when left unsupervised? The answers peopl
Yesterday, ICE murdered another innocent bystander, Alex Pretti. He was a US citizen Earlier this week, they took a 5 year old hostage in order to detain his parents. They are legally allowed in this country. Last week,
What if honoring the whole child means honoring the whole of humanity? Sometimes we convince ourselves that our work stops at the classroom door- that if we just prepare beautiful environments and follow the child, peace
What does it mean to create a space where people truly belong? Under Dr. KaLinda Bass-Barlow’s leadership, The Association Montessori International/USA (AMI/USA) is reimagining what it means to honor Maria Montessori’s l
What if we organized Montessori organizations the way we organize Montessori classrooms? When The Institute of Montessori Training’s previous organization became financially unviable, Carolyn Sweet and Suzanne Tipton fac
The best things I’ve ever done have been emergent- arising out of good conversation and dialogue with others. This is the MO of Breaking the Paradigm; bringing together Montessori and progressive practitioners and lettin
What if friendship with students isn’t unprofessional- but essential? Sometimes the most radical thing we can do is challenge the unspoken rules about teacher-student relationships. When we bring our authentic selves to
Dear Paradigm Breakers, We are starting this post with something new and different- sharing a new chapter for us at Breaking the Paradigm/Developing Education as we start our third year of operations in January! In respo
What if the real work of education isn’t preparing children- but preparing adults? Sometimes we focus so intently on where we’re getting students, on outcomes and benchmarks, that we forget to ask: what do we (the adults
What if the biggest barrier to student capability is our own fear of letting go? Sometimes we claim students “can’t” do things—but the truth is we stop them from doing things. When we step back from compulsory, coercive
What if the very structure of our schools prevents the transformation we seek? Sometimes the barriers to real education aren’t the teachers or students—they’re built into the system itself. When we fragment knowledge int
Why can’t you give an elevator speech about Montessori? What do quantum physics and indigenous research methods have in common? And how do 13-year-olds consistently operate at higher stages of moral development than most
Sawsan Jaber
author of Pedagogies of Voice
1 appearance on this show
Jason Blair
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Jonathan Wolff
Professor
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Dr. Dana Anderson
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Dr. Sabba Quidwai
Director of Innovative Learning at USC · Designing Schools
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Mike Nicholson
Senior Researcher with The Lines Between · Progressive Masculinity
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Tom Brown
author of The Mind of the Minister · Chicago Podcast Studio
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Kyle Wagner
PhD professor of Psychology, Chair of the Doctor of Education in the School Psychology Program · University of Findlay
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