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Leading Voices in Education -- co-hosted by Kristi Blakeway and Sundeep Chohan -- is a new podcast exploring leadership in education through insightful interviews with esteemed experts and advocates. To date, the podcast has featured conversations with the likes of former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern, special education expert Dr. Shelley Moore and renowned MIT systems scientist Peter Senge, with upcoming episodes including physician and author Dr. Gabor Maté and educational researcher and policy advisor Dr. Simon Breakspear.

A new podcast by district staff is making waves with educators, bringing on household names to discuss important subjects around leadership for teachers and administrators in Surrey, White Rock and beyond.

explores key topics on leadership in schools through insightful interviews with advocates, authors and experts, with a focus on compassion, diversity and inclusivity. The brainchild of Goldstone Park Elementary principal Sundeep Chohan, the podcast began as a way to reimagine professional development and connect educators with valuable voices, offering more accessibility than in-person workshops and time-intensive readings.

“I love learning through podcasts, and I realized that professional learning doesn’t always have to be a book that you need to read or a session that you need to attend,” she said. “Podcasts have so many different entry points for different people. And the beauty is you can have an author or an expert on, and depending on where you are in your learning journey, you can research it more for the reasons that are valuable to you.”

“When Sundeep had this vision, I thought it was brilliant, I just had no idea I was part of it,” said Kristi Blakeway, Director of Instruction with Building Professional Capacity, who was enlisted by Chohan to co-host the podcast. “We’re able to represent 推特视频 and pass on questions from our educators and have these genuine conversations with thought leaders, and then share it back to our community.”

While Leading Voices is only approaching its one-year anniversary, Chohan and Blakeway have landed some impressive guests – from Gwawaenuk First Nation Chief Dr. Robert Joseph to former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern – lending their expertise to conversations on reconciliation, healing, student voice and teacher influence. Many conversation topics are rooted in , highlighting district priorities around literacy and numeracy, student transitions, well-being, Indigenous student success and reconciliation, and racial equity.

“We started dreaming big and it’s been a combination of working hard and luck,” said Blakeway.

“We keep our audience in mind in terms of what teachers and principals would like to hear, the authors they would want or what area of leadership they would want to learn more about,” said Chohan.

Chohan also serves as a mentor with  Leading the Learning, a leadership develop program for new principals and vice-principals in their first and second year with the district. Podcast clips have been embedded into workshops to spark discussions on leadership, and Chohan notes she’s already seen the positive effects certain episodes have had on fellow administrators and staff.

“Our first guests, Peter Senge and Nicola Wilson, had a focus on compassionate systems. Three teachers from my school listened to those podcasts and went on to use the tools that were discussed – the podcast worked as a source of inspiration and a springboard for them to learn and incorporate in their classroom.”

“A number of principals have said things like, ‘We’re focused on inclusion so we’re playing Dr. Shelley Moore’s podcast,’ or, ‘We’re focused on Indigenous education so we’re listening to Chief Robert Joseph,’” added Blakeway.

Beyond Surrey and White Rock, the pair said Leading Voices has been used by educators in other districts – “It can be accessed by any school district in B.C. and be just as relevant,” said Blakeway – culminating in an invitation to host a provincial conversation with senior teams around how their work is reshaping professional learning, and how other districts can use their podcast or start their own.

With upcoming episodes featuring such guests as esteemed family physician and author Gabor Maté, and social and emotional learning expert Dr. Kimberley Schonert-Reichl, Leading Voices is set to continue its series of thought-provoking conversations to engage educators – and the duo are immensely grateful to offer such a platform to teachers and principals in B.C.

“I don’t think it would be successful if it wasn’t for our team of three people who help us put this on,” said Chohan. “The behind-the-scenes work, brainstorming, mapping out the order of guests, the questions, and being able to have different opinions and working together as a team – that is the magic of this podcast.”

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Episodes

• Shane Safir, Marlo Bagsik and Dr. Sawsan Jaber, authors of Pedagogies of Voice [ | ]
• Jacinda Ardern, former prime minister of New Zealand [ | ]
• Dr. Gholdy Muhammad, professor at the University of Illinois Chicago [ | ]
• Jo Chrona, Indigenous education advocate [ | ]
• Dr. Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto [ | ]
• Dr. Shelley Moore, Canadian educator and special education expert [ | ]
• Jody Carrington, bestselling author, speaker and psychologist [ | ]
• Mark Pearmain, Superintendent and CEO of 推特视频 [ | ]
• Dr. Michael Unger, renowned family therapist and resilience expert [ | ]
• Jessica Kruger, athlete, artist, entrepreneur and advocate [ | ]
• Lamis Sabra, esteemed educator and creative learning advocate [ | ]
• Gwawaenuk First Nation Chief Dr. Robert Joseph, leading figure in Canadian reconciliation efforts [ | ]
• Dan Pontefract, author of Work Life Bloom [ | ]
• Lisa Baylis, author of Self-Compassion for Educators [ | ]
• Nicola Wilson, international teacher and leader based in Rome and previously Singapore [ | ]
• Peter Senge, renowned systems scientist and senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management [ | ]

Upcoming Guests

• JB Mahli, Director of Instruction with Racial Equity
• Dr. Mette Miriam Boelle, biologist specializing in complex social systems
• Dr. Perry Smith, Assistant Superintendent of 推特视频
• Dr. Kimberley Schonert-Reichl, social and emotional learning expert
• Dr. Gabor Maté, Canadian physician and author of Scattered Minds and When the Body Says No
• Dr. Simon Breakspear, educational researcher, author and policy advisor