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ENCORE: Period Poverty Part 2 - Uganda
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Student Outcomes Don’t Change Until Adult Behaviors Change
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ENCORE: Period Poverty Part 1 - Beijing
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Age & Gender are NOT Barriers to being a Changemaker: A Conversation with Namya Joshi
On this episode I meet Namya Joshi, an education activist, changemaker, and “STEMinist” from India. She is passionate about getting more girls involved in STEM, and ga...
ENCORE: Photography, Leadership and the Value of Media in Education
On this visit back to our very first episode, I chat with Christina, a high school sophomore (at the time of recording) from Beijing, about photography, leading worksh...
Gr. 3 Students at COJOWA Support Local Farmers - A Service Learning Story
Dominique, Alithza & Martin are 3rd grade students at COJOWA in Cartagena, Colombia. In a recent unit, combining Spanish and Sociales, students collaborated and learne...
Empowering Students to Create Inclusive Communities: Reconnecting with STAND at ISH
On this episode, we return to the International School of Helsinki and reconnect with a student-led leadership group with a focus on diversity, equity and inclusion, S...
ENCORE: The Value & Impact of Community Service
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ENCORE: Coat of Ash - Videos for Change
On our first visit to Australia for the podcast, I meet Charlotte, a young filmmaker and changemaker who is having an impact through her media work. Her short film, Co...
ENCORE: What is it like to be a student with ADHD?
What’s it like to be a student with ADHD? Jason, my guest on this episode, has some first-hand experience. He is a 6th grade student and he has ADHD. On this episode w...
The Importance & Value of Community Engagement
Said El Kadi had an interesting experience in the fall of 2022. He was the keynote speaker at the NESA Leadership Conference held in Abu Dhabi, UAE. This is a space us...
ENCORE: YouthxYouth
“Activism is a verb. It’s a doing word. It’s not a title. It’s not a position. It’s what you do. The moment you make your environment, your community, or your current ...
SDG’s In Action at Evergreen Middle School
Happy 2023 to all of our listeners. The UN SDG’s, a set of goals and targets to help our global society reach a more sustainable future, were published in 2015. The ob...
ENCORE: The Future of Education
On our final episode of 2022, at a time of reflection and contemplation of next steps, I want to revisit the conversation I had earlier in the year with educators and ...
A Student-Led Focus on Well-Being
Sophia, my guest this week on the podcast, is a junior at BCIS in Beijing. At the time of recording, she was wrapping up her sophomore year and we discussed her person...
ENCORE: Media for Impact & Sustainable Development with ES Students from Malaysia
On this episode I meet Caroline, Fina and Neil who are living in Malaysia. We discuss a project that they did at the end of 3rd grade that involved becoming more aware...
Leadership: More of a Network than a Food Chain
My guests on this episode are Bloomy and Mig, two seniors attending the International School of Bangkok. You might be interested in hiring them to lead your next corpo...
ENCORE: A Personal Project & Intercultural Collaboration Lead to a Well for a Village in Uganda
On this episode I am joined by Nantume and Nkoba, two high school students from Uganda, who share their inspirational story of how they attend school virtually at XLIS...
Tackling SDG Target 6.2 One Toilet at a Time
Did you know that 1.7 billion people in our global society do not have somewhere safe to go to the toilet? My guest, Caity, a 6th grade students from Frankfurt Interna...
ENCORE: Interviewing Local Heroes at HKIS
ENCORE: On this episode we are off to Hong Kong to catch up with a couple of 8th grade podcasters. Chloe and Evelyn are first time podcasters and did an outstanding jo...
Could you give up your Smartphone for a week?
On this episode I meet a documentary filmmaker from Western Academy of Beijing. Iris is currently in her junior year and we’re going to be talking about a documentary ...
ENCORE: Green is (still) Gold
At the end of the 20-21 school year HS students at Hangzhou CIS hosted a Green Is Gold Film Festival. Mandy & Yi-Mei, two of the featured filmmakers, join me on the po...
Constellation Leadership & Dispelling Autism Stereotypes at BCIS in Beijing
At Beijing City International School, Maggie is a student-leader of a high school club called Unlock. The mission of Unlock is to raise awareness and dispel myths and ...
ENCORE: Students Together AgaiNst Discrimination at the International School of Helsinki
Amazing things are happening at the International School of Helsinki. On this episode Diana, Ankita, Erion & Philip, student leaders at ISH, join me to talk about a st...
Let’s Agree to Disagree: A Conversation with Nolan Higdon about Civil Discourse and Critical Media Literacy
In this episode we break from our usual format and I have a conversation with Nolan Higdon. Nolan is an author and university lecturer at Merrill College and the educa...
ENCORE: Nothing About Us Without Us Is For Us - Part 1
In this two-part story, Larry, Itu, Chinwe and Anna join me on the podcast from the International School of Dakar in Senegal. These four student leaders, following sto...
Significant Voices: History Podcasts by 4th Grade Students at SFS
This week on the Empathy to Impact podcast we are unleashing the power of media as 4th grade students from Seoul Foreign School become podcasters themselves and share ...
ENCORE: Storytelling for Social Justice at Irondale High School
Oprah Winfrey said, “Everybody has a story. And there is something to be learned from every experience.” Aaron Henkin and Wendel Patrick fully embrace this with the mo...
Awareness, Advocacy & Action through Student Media at Dulwich College
On this episode I connect with 3 documentary filmmakers from Dulwich College at the Pudong Campus in Shanghai. Phoenix represents a group that focused on SDG 5, Gender...
ENCORE: Reimagining Service Learning at XLIS in Xi’An, China
As we begin a new school year, there is bound to be lots of buzz as students plan CAS, service and personal projects at schools across the globe. I thought this was th...