Breaking the Paradigm

Breaking the Paradigm is a new media organization that seeks to radically transform education through Montessori and learner-centered pedagogy to create a world that is more humane, equitable, and liberatory for all people. breakingtheparadigm.org

Breaking the Paradigm is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 66 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Unknown Host hosts Breaking the Paradigm, a education show with 66 episodes published.

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  The Power of Possibility: Designing an Inclusive Montessori Environment with Dr. Paige Krabill

  May 24, 202647 minS0

  <p>What is the best way to support students with diverse learning needs?</p><p>It’s the question that almost every educator I know is asking.</p><p>There’s a massive apparatus of intervention and support built around labels, diagnoses, and deficit-based thinking that was designed for conventional classrooms where compliance and uniformity are the goals. It’s referred to as the medical deficit model.</p><p>When that apparatus gets imported into Montessori environments, it doesn’t just fail to help our young people, it actively undermines the very things we know children need: autonomy, competence, and meaningf...

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  The Montessori Method, Continued: An Invitation to Change the World

  May 10, 202639 minS0

  <p>I was honored to deliver the keynote at this year’s Montessori Educators of Alabama conference around their theme of “Better Together.” I wanted to use this time to sit with a question that’s been nagging at me for years: if Montessori education is so revolutionary, why haven’t we achieved the world of peace and justice that Montessori described? Why, nearly a century into this work, are we still so far from the equitable interdependence she believed was possible?</p><p>That question led me back through my own journey: into my own childhood and adolescent experiences, some shock...

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  We're Losing the Tech Conversation Because Students Aren't a Part of It

  Apr 26, 20261h 2mS0

  <p>There’s a quiet truth most schools are avoiding right now: our students are navigating AI, social media, and digital life every single day; and if we’re not in that conversation with them, something else is.</p><p>Probably AI itself.</p><p>That was one of the most clarifying moments from our recent webinar with Dana Anderson, Building a Positive Tech Culture at Your School (and Why It’s Not About AI Bans and Phone Policing). Dana, who comes to this work as a Montessorian with experience across all three levels and who is one of the most t...

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  Letting Go to Move Forward: The Unfinished Work of Montessori with Kathy Leitch

  Apr 5, 202658 minS0

  <p>What if the biggest obstacle in Montessori is moving past our fear?</p><p>Kathy Leitch, executive director of the International Montessori Council, joins Breaking the Paradigm to explore what it really means to carry Montessori forward as a living, experimental method rather than a fixed recipe. With decades of experience in Montessori schools around the world, Kathy makes a case that’s both provocative and deeply generous: Montessori is for every child, even if every school, every classroom, and every guide isn’t yet ready for every child.</p><p>What would change if we stopped treating the albu...

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  From Compliance to Emergence: Rethinking Peace Education and Montessori Teacher Preparation with Tammy Oesting

  Mar 22, 20261 hourS0

  <p>What if peace education has nothing to do with teaching kids to be calm?</p><p>Here’s the provocation from Tammy Oesting in her third Breaking the Paradigm apprearance: Peace education isn’t about mindfulness exercises or conflict resolution scripts. </p><p>It’s not the “kumbaya approach” where we shield children from the world’s hard truths. </p><p>Real peace education creates conditions that produce a new human who has embodied interdependence: who knows in their bones that they are part of a web, not standing above it. That’s systems-level work. That requires us to look at what w...

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