A BLUEPRINT for BELONGING in Your School Community with MORGANE MICHAEL

🔥 How can we create a sense of belonging for every learner?
🔥 How can we make the physical spaces of our schools more welcoming?
🔥 What are 1-2 tangible daily practices that we can use to promote cultures of positivity in our schools?
Join me for this conversation with BC educator MORGANE MICHAEL as she shares her insights on these and other questions.
About This Guest: Morgane is a teacher and mother of two boys in Victoria, Canada. She is also a coach, speaker, and host of the KindSight 101 podcast. She has written two books: From Burnt Out to Fired Up (2021) and Blueprint for Belonging, A: Building a Positive School Culture From the Ground Up (2024).
Connect with Morgane
on Linkedin,
on X @MorganeMichael,
on Instagram @SmallActBigImpact,
on TikTok @Morgane.Michael,
on YouTube at Small Act Big Impact,
and at her website, https://morganemichael.com/.
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In This Conversation:
0:30 - Who is Morgane Michael?
1:54 - Morgane's experience of not speaking English as a student
6:28 - Is belonging actually important in the learning environment?
10:20 - Daily practices that build cultures of positivity in our school
17:17 - How to make our physical spaces in our schools feel welcoming
23:37 - How boundaries contribute to a sense of belonging
27:16 - Morgane's sense of teacher morale across North America today
31:15 - Morgane's coaching services for educators looking to offer more
34:30 - Passions outside of education: kids, working out, and travel
35:23 - A productivity hack: the Pomodoro Technique
35:56 - An edtech tool pick: Canva
36:38 - Book recommendations: Atomic Habits, the Coaching Habit
37:19 - Inspiring educators to follow: Tyler Comeau, Lisa Baylis
38:14 - What Morgane's streaming: The Boys
38:58 - How to connect with Morgane and follow her work online
Mentions: James Clear, Michael Bungay Stanier, Tyler Comeau, Lisa Baylis
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Song Track Credit
Tropic Fuse by French Fuse
GO! by Neffex
*All songs retrieved from the YouTube Audio Library at https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/.

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