
# Summary:

Join us on this episode for an insightful conversation with 10th grade biology teacher Danielle Hardy, teacher and instructional coach at Freire Charter in Wilmington Delaware. She takes her love for words and background in psychology and neuroscience to build relationships with students that lead them to unlock their full potential. With her team she has piloted a new SEL curriculum in her classes that encourages exploration and development of social emotional skills. From biology vocab to performing poetry Danielle has used her words to influence and encourage youth of the next generation. Tune in as we discuss overcoming the fear of failure in science and more!

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## In This Episode We Cover:

- Nadine and Danielle’s love for SXSW Edu

- Danielle’s experience as a 10th grade biology teacher and instructional coach

- Danielle’s schedule for her classroom with one day a week dedicated to SEL 

- The excitement that her students have with hands on activities! And how Danielle overcame her fear of labs

- Showing vulnerability to students as Danielle’s way to build up trust in the classroom- telling students that she’s a poet!

- Trust also helps Danielle encourage students to overcome their fear of being “wrong”

- Danielle’s experience as a poet allows her to bring a vulnerable, authentic side with her students

- SEL curriculum helps students talk about uncomfortable topics in life- which helps them feel more comfortable partcipating in regular science class and taking learning risks

- Building trust with students is a long, consistent process

- Using literary tools to break down vocabulary in science and encourage independent learning

## Hot Take:
”What I’ve been doing to help students feel more comfortable in science is taking apart vocabulary...We’ve been doing a lot of this is a prefix, this is a suffix, this is what they mean. Let’s figure out what this word means on your own... You’re going to be comfortable with being wrong!... It’s those moments where they know I’m going to challenge them.”

## Links from the Show:
SEL curriculum: __[https://www.tumainidc.org/](https://www.tumainidc.org/)__

Tom McFadden: __[https://rhymewit.com/](https://rhymewit.com/)__

SXSW EDU: __[https://www.sxswedu.com/](https://www.sxswedu.com/)__

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Linkedin: __[https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellethardy](https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellethardy)__

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Danielle Hardy EOTMP Episode 5

Overcoming the Fear of Failure in the Science Classroom with Danielle Hardy | EOTMP Episode 5

# Summary:

Mick Purcell is the Head of School at KC High in Chennai. Originally from the United States, Mick has been a teacher for more than 25 years and taught many subjects including physics, general science, and mathematics. He is widely recognized as an innovator in international education, developing programs in web literacy among others. 

In today’s episode, Mick speaks about the importance of creating effectively-managed, positive social spaces for children to thrive both online and offline, how teachers and educators are evolving today as they become facilitators and support students through their learning journeys not mere explainers of information and finally how educational change makers can enable such positive, social changes for bettering the future of learning.

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## This Show is Hosted by: 
__Inspirit__, the 3D STEM learning platform, revolutionizing virtual science learning everywhere! 

## In This Episode We Cover:

The important role that educators play in the roles of students, to help them navigate internet resources today and sort out the good information from the bad information. 

How developing skills such as research skills, thinking skills, social skills, soft skills are more important for teachers to teach students

How the classroom experience for students is largely a social experience as students love to meet their friends and have more interactive experiences, which are all essential parts of a student’s thought process and growth, all happening within a school even though these are not part of the school curriculum.

Supporting teachers - Mick speaks in-depth about the complexities of a teacher’s job and how important it is to appreciate and provide the necessary support for each teacher, as they play the roles of facilitator, coach, and supportive adult in the classroom; he adopts the TART (Time, Autonomy, Respect & Training) philosophy.

Mick’s take on the future of learning wherein he believes that the best thing educational organizations can do is to guide learners with some wisdom and experience to use study resources effectively, to ask the right questions and to create happy, well-managed, positive spaces for them.

## Hot Takes:

”I have a personal philosophy - TART. Make sure that teachers are given enough time, autonomy, respect, and training. If you make time and give the autonomy and respect and training to help them do their jobs well, teachers will be able to cope better while with dealing and managing students of different age groups and behaviors.*

References Joy Ito the famous Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist - “We should divide Human history into 2 periods - BI (Before Internet) and AI (After Internet)”

”Education is about people. Key point here is that bringing people together is the best thing educational organizations can do. We guide learners with some wisdom and experience to use the resources effectively, ask the right questions, to create and manage communities whether offline or online.”


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