From guilt at leaving teaching to designing student wellbeing at scale, with Maria Fernanda Puertas | S2E12

A conversation all about what happens when a mingling of interests meets a sudden change in priorities. The moments where you change from being one kind of thing into another, how that happens and how you update your self-understanding along the way.
From guilt at leaving teaching to designing student wellbeing at scale, with Maria Fernanda Puertas | S2E12

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About the Episode

Key Topics

  • What you lose when you stop being a teacher and reconnecting with what you love about education
  • Being in the hotseat as head teacher at the start of the pandemic and coming up with a plan to support students, teachers and parents
  • Student wellbeing and how education systems fit and discard people
  • What teachers making the transition to learning design and operations need to learn and unlearn

Recorded 21 July 2022


Episode Digest

Maria's squiggly career

The Red Thread

Decisive moments

Synthesising for strength

How Maria likes to learn

Reflections on practice


Stuff We Mentioned

Organisations

People

Concepts


Audio Highlights

Episode appetiser - The guilt associated with leaving teaching (26 sec)

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Maria explains learning operations to a 10 year old (32 sec)

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The life changing learning experience Maria would gift someone (59 sec)

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On being in the hot seat at the start of the pandemic (23 sec)

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On being in the hot seat at the start of the pandemic (18 sec)

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About Maria Fernanda Puertas

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