We welcome you back for Season 2 of Community Room! As we enter the 2021/2022 school year, we come back with more excellent conversations around community schools and the importance of community! For Episode 1 of Season 2, we have three community school teachers from the Lower Mainland talking about the beginning of the school year, the challenges of teaching during lock-downs, and the different ways they brought community in their schools this past year!


QUOTE:

“As I teach, I project the condition of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.” - Parker J. Palmer, The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life

BIOS:

Kim Baker has been an educator in a Burnaby Community School for 16 years. Kim's passion is building classroom communities where kids are made to feel like a family; safe, loved, and included. Her love of community has kept her at her current school for her entire 16 year career, taking several roles during her time there. Kim believes that a school is the heart of the community.

Georgia Clayton is an unwanted settler from Northern English and Irish background. She has worked with teenagers for the past 15 years in different capacities. From youth work to sexual health educator to now a classroom teacher, she believes that this generation of youth has the capacity to create large scale social change. Regardless of the environment, community collaboration and elevating the youth voice has always been a priority in her work. Her current interests are learning how to skateboard and
training her cat to play fetch.

Satpaul Binng has been teaching K-7 in various roles for the past 23 years. She has worked both in community and non-community schools and has her Masters in Curriculum and Instruction. She has a passion for using the 'lens of story' to develop relationships that help her build strong classroom communities.