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Send us a textSMSC Speaker Spotlight: Garrett Baker In this episode, we're highlighting one of our featured presenters for the 2025 Sport Movement Skill Conference — Garrett Baker, Skill Acquisition Specialist and Pitching Coach for the New York Mets. Garrett joins us to talk about the current state of skill development in baseball and why he believes coaches must move beyond traditional notions of “perfect mechanics.”We dig into how Garrett blends theory and practice in the bullpen, what makes his learning environments unique, and how his approach helps athletes become more adaptable and attuned to the real problems they face in competition.You'll also hear:Why skill development in baseball needs to move beyond “perfect mechanics”How Garrett builds constraint-based bullpens that sharpen decision-makingCoaching intent and perception: why the why matters more than the howThe value of creating environments where athletes compete and adaptWhy “error” in skill learning is a gift, not something to avoidWhat it looks like to coach with the athlete, not at themGarrett's approach to designing reps that mirror the complexity of real gamesWhat to expect from his session at SMSC 2025 — and why it's relevant across sportsCredits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Send us a textIn this Speaker Spotlight episode, Coach Jav sits down with Dr. Rob Gray—renowned researcher, author, and podcast host—for a timely re-release of their impactful conversation on ecological dynamics, information, and movement learning. Rob is one of the featured speakers at the upcoming 2025 Sport Movement Skill Conference, taking place June 26–27 in St. Paul, MN. As the SMSC returns to its in-person roots, Rob shares a preview of the thinking that's shaped his writing, research, and applied coaching work across sport and skill domains.The episode explores the concepts behind Rob's book Learning to Optimize Movement, as well as deeper takes on specifying information, variability in practice, and the athlete–environment relationship. If you've ever wondered how to make movement learning more meaningful—or want to go beyond drills and deepen your theoretical lens—this conversation is a must.

Send us a textIn this special episode of the Adaptable Athlete Podcast powered by Emergence, Javi welcomes back movement specialist and Emergence co-founder Shawn Myszka for the official preview of the 2025 Sport Movement Skill Conference (SMSC).They break down what to expect at this year's in-person event -including immersive learning sessions, athlete-led demos, roundtable discussions, and a new certification opportunity -all designed to help coaches better understand and apply ecological dynamics in sport. Shawn also shares what it's like coaching elite NFL players, how to identify skill gaps in All-Pro athletes, and why 2025 is the year to return to face-to-face collaboration in the coaching community.

NACDI’s Robert Lilligren is back with Robert Pilot and Haley Cherry. Then, hear updates on SMSC’s new program “IndigeFit Kids”, a new weekly update from Wisconsin’s Governor Tony Evers, and upcoming local events!

Welcome to today's show!..Today, I'm joined by Shawn Myszka!Shawn is the founder of the Sport Movement Skill Conference, which is very relevant for today's topic.  Today we are previewing the 2024 SMSC and telling you why  we are so excited about this year's theme "Show you work"!Mark you calendar for October 4th and 5th and get your tickets here!If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@emergentmvmt.comConference Link Emergence Website Shawn's twitter Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Debra Emerson, CEO of St. Madeleine Sophie's Center (SMSC), talks about the Center's Annual "Haute with Heart" Fashion Show and Luncheon set for August 17 at the San Diego Hilton Bayfront Hotel.  Monies raised from the fashion show and luncheon will support SMSC's nationally recognized innovative programs that benefit and empower individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

With the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community's Understand Native Minnesota campaign ending, so is this podcast. In this final episode, host Rebecca Crooks-Stratton shares highlights from the podcast series and talks about the campaign's successes in Minnesota classrooms. She is also joined by two Native students to reflect on their education experiences and SMSC Chairman Cole Miller to discuss what's next for the tribe. EPISODE RESOURCES Understand Native Minnesota: https://www.understandnativemn.org/ Sign up for email alerts: https://www.understandnativemn.org/get-involved/stay-updated/ A Guide to Reliable Native American-Related Teaching Resources: https://www.understandnativemn.org/publications/ Minnesota Native American Essential Understandings for Educators: https://www.understandnativemn.org/publications/ Minnesota Native News podcast: https://minnesotanativenews.org/ Learn more about Mdewakanton Dakota history and culture at the SMSC's cultural center: https://hocokatati.org/

Pablos: Here's one of the things I think is a critical area of invention that remains unsolved, but it's definitely a part of the future. So if you're using an iPhone anywhere in the world, cultures vary. I've been working with this guy in Venezuela on a project. I text him on WhatsApp and then he replies with a voice memo like every time and so his, culture and worldview is just like talking to the phone and probably because I know Venezuelans do a lot more talking or something. Whereas I never use voice memo. I'm texting, but a lot of that is like, I'm in public around other people and I don't want to disturb them and, disturbing people is considered uncool where I come from, but in Venezuela, like everybody's chattering all the time, probably because they're all Latinos. Talking to your computer will become more and more common. And you can see that some people are more comfortable with it than others. I see it a lot more in people from other countries than I do in Americans. Right now, talking to Siri kind of sucks, and Alexa. These things are kind of stunted because, they're very one shot oriented. If you take your iPhone and start using the voice interface for ChatGPT, wow, it gets pretty exciting. Because now you're having this, two way, audible conversation that builds on itself over time. And if you haven't done that, I think everybody should try it because that will give you a sense of where these things are going. Once you get that going and realize, oh, I can just do this while I'm driving or walking, and I don't have to be staring at my phone. It starts to get compelling. And so it's not hard to imagine being, a few years down the road where ChatGPT is just listening all the time and piping in when it has the answers for you . So that's just laying the groundwork, hopefully all that makes sense. But where I think this goes is that we need to solve one really big problem that remains, which is sub vocal input. Ash: Okay. Pablos: And what that means is, right now, if I'm talking, I don't want to talk to my phone, I don't even want to dictate text messages or do voice memo, because there's people around listening, I don't want them here in my business. We're in this situation where the eavesdropping potential, even if you're not talking about something super secret, it could be private or whatever. I don't want to play a message from you out loud and I want other people hearing things that I haven't screened yet, who knows what you're talking about. So, what sub vocal input would do is give you the ability to just essentially whisper and have your phone pick it up. People around you wouldn't hear you, wouldn't understand you but you would still use the same machinery that you have and we all have the ability to whisper, and and quietly. If you're trying to whisper for someone else to hear you, maybe it gets kind of loud, but if you're just trying to whisper to yourself, it can be super quiet. We know that this should be possible, and we know that because deaf people are able to train themselves to do lip reading pretty well. So a deaf person who's, got nothing, bothering them audibly can sometimes, apply enough focus to the task of learning how to read lips that they can do a really good job of it. So there's enough of a signal in what your phone could see. So you know with Face ID there's a tiny little LiDAR sensor that's doing depth, and it can see your face. It can see the, minute details about your face. That's why it can tell, the difference between your face and a photo of you and your twin brother or sister, whatever. So it might be possible right now. With the hardware that's in an iPhone, even though you probably don't have access to the right APIs for this to work, but maybe in a equivalent Android phone or something, maybe this could be prototyped. Where you could just use that machinery, train a giant, model, just a machine learning model on, lip reading. Ash: Yeah. Pablos: And so you would be able to just look at your phone and whisper, and it would transcribe. Ash: There's a couple of things on this. Three GSM world, before GSM, 2000 or so. So we'll go back in time. One of the big conversations that we would have was, I was a proponent saying that we just don't have enough bandwidth and People are like, "yeah, but we're going to have 3G & 4G & 5G & 6G." And I said, "no, no, you're missing the point." The bandwidth to your device is not the issue, it's between the device and the human. It's your conversation. It's, this is where we're stuck. We're stuck because we type, we could try Dvorak, we could try QWERTY, we can pick the keyboard, we can have sideways keyboards, we can speak to it, but I still think all of these are terrible. Whispering, could be very interesting. There was a MIT headset, Alter Ego. So Alter Ego, if you look at this thing up, it's a mind reading, reading device. Sub vocalization signals through EEG, brain activity. He can actually make it work. Pablos: Well, I've played with some of these things. I have NeuroSky headset emotive, but I think what you have to do with them... Ash: This one you wear. It's bone conducting. It's wild. You just put it on and say, Pablos: Oh, it's bone conducting. So it's picking up speech, it's not EEG. Ash: No, no, no. The bone conducting is how it tells you things back. So it even whispers it back. Like, into your head. Pablos: Oh, but you could just do that with headphones. Ash: No, that's how it whispers back. You think it and then it tells you things. Anyway, it's called alter ego, we'll link to Alter Ego. To me, it goes back to what you're saying, which is, is there a way? Otherwise, we just look like, we're murmuring to ourselves, right? We'll just look completely crazy. Like sometimes I get a little bit annoyed with people on conversations with AirPods. You just have no idea what's going on, right? There's a little hairdryer sticking out of their head, and they're like, just walking around, and we just are fully, we're already like, isolating ourselves and now we're, we're conversing. I think what you're saying though is that the sub vocalization stuff needs to be in a way where it's, Almost so discreet that it is a relationship between you and a listening device, right? It's almost like the pixie on your shoulder. Pablos: Yes. Ash: It's like the little angel devils whatever the animated version was. Pablos: Yeah, and I think there could be other technologies. I don't know if you could fit it in something like an AirPod. Maybe like a Compton backscatter detector, one of these terahertz imagers, like the thing at the airport that you do the HOVA signal to, and then it's you. Without a lot of radiation, you know, those things are low impact. You could do something like that to see the tongue through the side of the mouth. Ash: My belief is closer to the way that you were trying to tackle this problem, which is, hey, it listens in and jumps in. But what if I could prompt it to jump in, right? So for example, let's assume that instead of having to build anything new, it's now just listening to me. Constant in real time. Imagine a natural language parsing system with a, engine underneath. We used to call these things While Aware. This was actually the name of our company from years ago. And While Aware was intercepting SMS messages in real time on the SMSC. And the idea was that, it would detect what the conversation was, but because it knows who you are, it would evoke different things at different moments, right? So let's pick, for example, Bitcoin share price, Bitcoin's falling as a price. And that message was coming to you or that data was somehow coming to you. It might say, do you want to open up, your trading account and you can go sell it. And for me, it might, immediately tell me, do you want to book, tickets to Belize in a non extradition country, because my capital call is too high,. Whatever it is, if I have a margin call, because it knows what's happening. It's contextual, understanding. And I think one of the big things that we're missing in all of these little support things that you allude to that ChatGPT brings to the table is contextual. We fail because It doesn't understand us. Siri doesn't know. Pablos: This is a separate conversation. Fundamentally, you are right. The whole future of AI requires that it know you, it needs to know you, it needs to know every conversation you've had, not only every SMS but text message and email, it needs to have 100 percent of that so it understands you. It knows what you know, it knows what you care about, it sees what you do, it sees what you say, it has to have all that and I want the AI to have all that. We need to architect for that and right now we're not doing that because we're building giant centralized AI's. Ash: That's when you're, different technologies, whether it's the backscatter or it's the, lip reader or the whisper detector. All of those become a lot easier when you have context. I don't know if you remember Google's evolution, 2009, 2010, Google suddenly, not as creepy as Facebook, but its searches were just better, its searches were just better. Why were they better? Oh, you're standing in New York city. So obviously maybe it's contextual to what's around you. Maybe the weather is cold. So Google's original cookie, which they're now getting rid of, was so laden with data. If you could mine that sucker, you won. It knew all of the signals. And I used to call it, signal gathering in terms of the more signal you had, the more accurate you became. And the more you look like sort of a savant. So our AI, like you said, isn't really smart and Siri's terrible because it doesn't know much. It doesn't even know intent. So as humans, why is it that we can speak with somebody with a very heavy accent sometimes? Because we know the context of what's happening and why we got there. It's not just lip reading. It's because when we're with them, we do our own interpretive dance. I think that if you tie the two together, what you just said about, you know, these other little signal things, you could pull it off. Pablos: I assume we're gonna get the latter for free. That's gonna happen. AIs will be stunted until they start to have access to everything and know everything about me and my context in real time. So that's all gonna happen anyway, and there's such momentum around that. So I think we get that for free and even if you didn't, having a conversation with ChatGPT right now will probably convince you that it's, like, good enough that we're going this direction one way or another. Ash: The reason I bring all this up is, can you imagine if, instead of having to whisper, what if all I have to do is have my phone out, and I just say yes or no, or I say more? Go back to my Starship Trooper obsession of, "would you like to know more?" What's interesting is, imagine in your scenario, you're having this sub vocal conversation, but instead of you having to have any conversation, ChatGPT has heard you and it's like, " oh, alter ego, Pablos: No, no, I get it. One of my friends, figured out that you could get through life with only four words, fuck, man, dude, and totally. If you just have those four words, you can get through life because you can express a multitude of things with just those four words. Totally. Ash: Totally. Your response, totally. Funny enough though, right? That may solve some of your problems because you could whisper a little Pablos: Yeah, yeah. Ash: And not have to do long things. Pablos: Yeah. Right. Exactly. No, you're totally right. And that's what you do with your friends. And the closer you are to your friends, like if you're just hanging out with somebody you've known for a long time, you can have a lot of communication with very little actual content. If I watch my daughter and her best friend hanging out, they're incomprehensible because they have like, shortcodes for memes, everything they see or talk about or discuss is related to some other thing that I wasn't part of and like they're foreign objects to me. I think that is kind of what you're describing. Like at some point, Ash: So go back to your Venezuelan, right? If you go back to that conversation and they're sending you a voice note. Now, let's say that voice notes processed and parsed and read by our GPT friend, and it comes back and gives you a summary, five sentence. So you don't even have to look. It just whispers it in your head. Like he wants to know, should he edit the podcast? I don't know, whatever it is. And you could just go back and be like, just hit the yes button, right? I mean, you could go back and say, totally. You could do one of your four words. Pablos: Yeah, totally. No, you got to try it. I tried it. You can go for days without using any other words. But yeah, I think that gets more possible. Like with a human, the more shared experience you have, the more shared context, shared vocabulary, the more concise you can be in your interactions. And so it stands to reason that an AI that knows you really well could get to the point where. All you gotta do is nod or wink and you're done, on a lot of things cause it knows how to set you up to make a quick decision. Ash: If it can formulate the outbound response in long form, and all you have to say is totally... Pablos: Mm hmm, yep. Ash: Then you're good, right? That's usually the problem with these voices, with getting those voices. I've got those too, where people, it is the Latin America thing. They just love, like, I don't know what's going on. It was Brazil too, just, people just go off. And they have a recording. I'm like, you do understand, if I could listen to this, I wouldn't be texting you. That's like, I would pick up the phone and just phone you if I can, if I could have a dialogue, I would have one. When I saw that, I was like, well, can you just tell me like what's in the voice recording? That's what we're looking for. The other thing to think of, and I thought this is where you were going before, you were talking about the sub vocal thing, It's almost like the Babelfish thing, for all the fans of Hitchhiker's Guide. I just had this crazy problem happen, which was, I'd ordered an Uber, and I'm sending information to the Uber driver in English, and the Uber driver is replying in Spanish, but I have a little translate button, but I don't think they had a translate button. And at some point they just simply just said, no hable ingles. I tried to give the directions to my house, finally, I had to run into the street. I sent my daughter out into the street, like someone went out and we're trying to tell them like, go to the yellow house. And I'm like, does anyone remember the word yellow? I realized that I was getting translate and they just didn't speak English. I think that maybe there's this universal input concept. If someone sends you a voice message, it not just transcribes it, but maybe it automatically just dumps it into like concise format. Or to the other person, it reads it to them. So you pick your poison of consumption, like the way you like to consume it, and you just build a proxy in the sky that just It just takes care of all this. There's like a universal proxy, like a little babble bot that sits in the world. And I think you could get pretty far with that. And then you use that to feed ChatGPT. And then you use that to go with the totally man, dude, fuck, right? That's your sequence to that. And then you add your sort of exotic input mechanisms for your sub vocal and everything else. So I could like, you know. Whisper. Pablos: So job one is all the people making AIs need to figure out how to make them mine so that I have my own that I can love and trust and have for life. Job two is they need to make that thing know everything about me, I'm not just a lowest common denominator, I'm me and I need, I need my AI to really know me. Job three is we've got to come up with some clever hardware for doing sub vocal input and it could be something that you wear like a headset that just see through the side of your face and see what's going on in your mouth and your tongue and your embouchure Ash: Well, it could be like a body cam, just clip it on. Pablos: It could be something like that, something that looks up at you. I don't know, it's hard to mount something that sees the front of your face very well, a phone does, though. And even if you had to just aim the phone at your face for it to work. That would be a good start. And I think you could do that today without making any hardware. Ash: Yeah, well, you could put it into your Apple watch. Just hold it up. it's like Dick Tracy. Pablos: There's no camera yet, but next apple Watch will. Ash: Yeah, next Apple will have a little camera, so you just hold that up. It doesn't even have to, you just have, you don't even have to hold it up because if you're using your little radar or LIDAR thing, you just have to have your hand out a little bit. Gesture control on steroids. Pablos: Did you see they put like a gesture control in the new Apple Watch, but it only knows one gesture, which is you pinch your fingers together and it can detect that. I haven't tried it yet. Ash: The other thing I was going to say is I wanted to add what you said about your daughter's thing is that if the AI becomes your buddy, then the total bandwidth between your AI and you will start to decrease. The requirement will decrease because you'll just be able to speak in your own code. You'll be able to be like, yeah, that thing that we worked on last week, dude. Pablos: Mm hmm. Ash: And then it'll just know, Pablos: Exactly. Right. Ash: the other way that it's going to help. So it all starts with that first step, though. It's got to twin you a little bit. Little little scary on the privacy side. Pablos: That's where, some of these, some of these folks working on OpenAI competitors have certainly, gotten onto that notion. Allegedly Apple is trying to figure out how to make the LLM's local, so they run on your device and presumably that's part of the rationale beyond just, justifying you having to buy a faster device and also, make it low latency.

Today I'm talking with Annie Bevan, sustainability collaborator, facilitator, visionary, and changemaker. She's an Impact Icon, CEO of mindful MATERIALS, founder and CEO of SMSC, and global head of sustainability for Superior Essex, but most importantly what I have come to appreciate and love the most is she's a good human being.Her desire and drive to fight for better for those and what she cares about is unmatched. Our conversation gives you a little insight into the woman behind the work. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.Meet the 2022 Impact IconsFollow along with Impact Icons on Instagram and LinkedInImpact Icons is an Imagine a Place Production, presented by OFS, Mortarr, and Ecomedes, Inc.

For today's episode, my guest is Shawn Myszka!!Shawn has been a multi time guest on this podcast, appearing back in episode 53 and episode 38.This time around, Shawn and I discuss his new paper he authored alongside Tyler Yearby and Keith Davids, titled "Reconceptualizing Movement Behavior  in Sport as a Problem-Solving Activity".In addition to that, Shawn and I go down many rabbit holes regarding the topics of skill acquisition and coaching...Enjoy!!If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@emergentmvmt.com.Have you heard, the Sports Movement Skill Conference is BACK!?...Click here for early bird pricing!Looking to learn more about skill acquisition and sport movement?..Visit the Emergence website and take the next step in your coaching career!Episode Resources:Shawn and Tyler's paper SMSC 2023 Registration Shawn's twitter Episode Webpage Credits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.ioCredits: Song- "Starstruck" by Freebeats.io Let's Chat!Twitter: @thecoachjavIG: @thecoachjav

Debra Emerson, CEO of St. Madeleine Sophie's Center (SMSC), chats about the Center's 45th Annual "Haute with Heart" Fashion Show, set for Saturday, August 19 at the Hilton Bayfront Hotel. Proceeds from the event will support SMSC's innovative programs.

In honor of pow wow season, we're revisiting one of the podcast's most popular conversations. Rebecca chats with Rosemma Lafferty, a member of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) in Minnesota. Rosemma dances in and helps plan the SMSC's annual wacipi, or pow wow, a free event that welcomes thousands of people to experience Native dance and culture each August. This episode gives listeners an overview of what they can expect at the SMSC Wacipi and other pow wows, plus tips if you're attending a pow wow for the first time. EPISODE RESOURCES SMSC Wacipi (this year's event is August 18-20, 2023): https://www.smscwacipi.org/ Explore Minnesota article about pow wows in Minnesota: https://www.exploreminnesota.com/article/dance-drums-artistry-combine-minnesotas-native-american-powwows Understand Native Minnesota: https://www.understandnativemn.org/ Wacipi Dance Styles: https://youtu.be/aWVpdHT-dvc History of the Jingle Dress: https://youtu.be/A9RoeJJWKI4

Hear Laura Morris, head of religious studies and citizenship at a secondary school in Manchester, reflect honestly on her school's anti-racist journey over the past two years. In this conversation with NAHT senior equalities officer Natalie Arnett, Laura talks through the challenges faced and the changes the school made. She explains what's having the biggest impact, why she welcomes current higher reporting rates, and what the school needs to address next. Laura is a teacher with 15 years' experience who has additional whole school responsibilities for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development (SMSC) and anti-discrimination. You can read her blog at diverseeducators.co.uk and her Anti-Racist Action Report at missmorrismanc.co.uk.

Welcome to the Athlete Blueprint Podcast!!...For today's episode, I'm joined by Shawn Myszka!Shawn  is the co director of education over at Emergence. Shawn  is also a personal Performance Advisor and Movement Skill Acquisition coach for NFL players and has been doing so since 2008. During that time and up to this point, he has partnered with five NFL All Pro athletes and twelve Pro Bowl team members. Shawn is also a two time guest on this podcast. Way back in Episode 24 when he appeared alongside Tyler Yearby when we discussed their paper Applying an Ecological Approach to Practice Design in American Football.  This particular conversation with Shawn really is all about storytelling . I was always curious to really what the origin story was of the Sport Movement Skill Conference. So for those of you who don't know what the Sport Movement Skill Conference is, it is really the keystone event for me when it comes to my education throughout the year. It really brings alongside theoreticians, practitioners, researchers, those who are practicing the science, and put some alongside those who are practicing the art of coaching, and really blended together unlike any other conference. We get into the origins of the SMSC and touch on the theme of this years conference.   In addition to that, we really get into Sean's own origin story, where he, as always, is open, authentic, transparent, and shares some of his struggles in transitioning from an ecological approach. Obviously, Shawn was one of the early adopters of this approach and it wasn't smooth, it wasn't easy, and I was really grateful that he shared and opened up on some of those trials and tribulations for us here. I think this episode has a ton of practical applications for many coaches. We learn some ups and downs that not just Shawn experience, but all of us experience.  The SMSC takes place November 4th and 5th.  I'll link to the conference and  the previous episode in the show note...Please enjoy!If you like today's episode, leave a review here....If you want to reach me directly, contact me on social media or shoot me @javier@igniteperformance.netEpisode Resources:Link to Sport Movement Skill Conference Emergence Website Shawn's twitter Episode 24 w/ Shawn and Tyler 

Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine – Weekly Radio ShowNative Lights is a weekly, half-hour radio program hosted by Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe members and siblings, Leah Lemm and Cole Premo. Native Lights is a space for people in Native communities around Mni Sota Mkoce -- a.k.a. Minnesota -- to tell their stories about finding their gifts and sharing them with the community.Native Lights – Native Representation at the Great Minnesota Get-TogetherIn this week's show Leah and Cole are live from the Minnesota State Fair with two great guests. We discuss Native representation at the fair and beyond.Our first guest today is Andy Vig! Andy is an enrolled member of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, who is the director of SMSC's community center, called Hoċokata Ti, which opened in 2019. We talked with him about Hoċokata Ti and SMSC's exhibit at the Minnesota State Fair. SMSC is in its second year of being involved at the state fair. Their exhibit included information about the tribe, including their initiatives; Understand Native MN and Native Green. In addition, fairgoers were able to take home a beautiful calendar featuring Dakota seasons and language.We also catch up with Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan (White Earth Band of Ojibwe), who appeared on our first State Fair show back in 2019. We talk with her about Native representation at the fair, and the growing representation in film and TVs, including Lt. Gov's personal favorite Rutherford Falls.  Chi-Miigwech to Andy Vig and Lt. Gov Peggy Flanagan for stopping out for our live show.  We chatted with them live at the Minnesota State Fair on Sunday September 4th 2022.  Native Lights: Where Indigenous Voices Shine is produced by Minnesota Native News and Ampers, Diverse Radio for Minnesota's Communities with support from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage fund. Online at https://minnesotanativenews.org/

On this episode, Rebecca is joined by Rosemma Lafferty, a member of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) in Minnesota. Rosemma dances in and helps plan the SMSC's annual wacipi, or pow wow, a free event that welcomes thousands of people to experience Native dance and culture each August. Rosemma explains what visitors can expect at the SMSC Wacipi, tips for people attending for the first time and how the event helps people learn more about Dakota culture. EPISODE RESOURCES SMSC Wacipi (this year's event is August 19-21, 2022): https://www.smscwacipi.org/ Understand Native Minnesota: https://www.understandnativemn.org/ Wacipi Dance Styles: https://youtu.be/aWVpdHT-dvc History of the Jingle Dress: https://youtu.be/A9RoeJJWKI4

My guest on Episode 12 of Confidence Conversation, the last in this series, is the inspiring Kate Harris who is the Founder and CEO of VotesForSchools. This is a great conversation about confidence as Kate is possibly the most resilient person I know which I think naturally gives you confidence when you feel like you have nothing left in your tank.   We chat about lots of confidence things including visiting the bank manager in flipflops,   and how the foundations of confidence can mean you either have a mansion on those foundations or you have a crumbling bungalow. Kate began her teaching career in 2000 and very quickly found a passion for Citizenship, PSHE, and student voice.  Kate left teaching in 2014 to follow her dream of finding a way to support schools in developing SMSC & British Values, making it engaging to children and young people, and getting students to discuss the biggest issues affecting them today.  Kate's Citizenship teaching days also developed her desire to see young people becoming more involved in democracy and voting. Kate co-founded VotesforSchools which enables any teacher regardless of subject or experience to feel confident to discuss tricky subjects and then vote, VotesforSchools takes this voting data and uses it to inform influential people and groups about what young people think and feel about a variety of political issues.Find out more about the incredible work VotesForSchools does by following them on the channels below:https://www.votesforschools.com/https://twitter.com/votesforschoolshttps://www.instagram.com/votesforschools/https://www.facebook.com/votesforschoolsConnect with Kate:kate@votesforschools.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-harris-767989110/Want to know more about me & Enrichment Coaching then follow the link below to my website. https://www.enrichmentcoaching.co.uk/

A PSHE/SMSC special! Join Mal with special guests: (20) Therese Hoyle discussing structured playtimes and supporting lunchtime supervisors (60) John Rees & I talk about what SMSC is & the joys of being a National SMSC Quality Mark verifier. Tune in! Talk it Out!

MARIE: This week on Minnesota Native News, it's spring and the end of the Covid lockdown. I'm Marie Rock. Producer  Laurie Stern has the story of two very different new productions.Laurie: The first production is a podcast called Understand Native Minnesota with Rebecca Crooks Stratton. Rebecca Crooks Stratton is Secretary Treasurer of the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community, or SMSC.I have to say, I never thought I would host a podcast, but and I think I speak for you know, most tribal leaders and probably all native people, when I say we spend a lot of time educating people about, you know, who we are, and why things are the way they are. And so I think this is just another way for Native people to express you know, themselves and, and be able to hear from modern native people.On the podcast's first episode, that “modern native person” is Wayne Ducheneux, executive director of the Native Governance Center in St. Paul. The Native Governance Center supports tribal governments by helping them become more and more responsive to needs in their community.And, you know, one of the things I fundamentally believe, is, as we as indigenous people return and understand our values, and our wisdom, and we heal, we're going to build the systems that heal the country as all and eventually the world.The podcast isn't always about healing the world. But it is about bringing native stories to light.  It's an outgrowth of SMSC's ambitious Understand Native Minnesota campaign to include native stories in K12 curriculum statewide. Crooks-Stratton says the campaign will resume in-person convenings now that the pandemic lockdown is lifted. You can follow it on social media and listen to the monthly podcast at NativeMNFacts.Another recent production is called The Missouri River Water Walk. It was directed by Dipankar Mukherjee of Pangea World Theater and written by Sharon Day. It documents the 53-day walk from Montana to Missouri; obstacles overcome and  relationships built among the five women who walked the whole way.(play sound)I do it really, you know, to speak to the spirit of the water. You know, that's who we're addressing. When we gather that water. We believe that the water is a living entity. And that, you know, we need to let the water know that they're still human beings who love and care for the water.The play was performed outdoors at Hidden Falls regional park by professional actors and musicians, activists and members of the Ikidowin youth ensemble. For more information visit PangeaWorldTheater.org or – to learn about upcoming water walks, go to Nibiwalk.org.For MNN, I'm Laurie Stern.

Schools in the UK are now required to incorporate Social, Moral, Spiritual and Cultural development into the school day, but how do we do that, and more importantly how do we do it in such a way that it has a real benefit to your children and school?Today my guest is Hayley McDonnell, teacher and SMSC expert. We discuss the massive benefit a well implemented SMSC programme can bring to your children, and some practical advice for school leaders, home educators, parents and teachers.To connect with Hayley head on over to her website at: https://hayleymcdonnell.com

We're delighted to have a legend in the Telecoms industry on the Podcast this week, with Joe Cunningham as our guest.  Joe, along with Larry Quinn and Gilbert Little, co-founded a succession of successful Telecoms companies and sold them on. The companies include, Aldiscon. Apion. Aepona, Accuris, and only sold last week, Ammeon. The experience that people build when working in these companies led them, in turn, to go on and to found dozens of other companies, many of them still with us today. Joe recounts how Aldiscon got into SMS in the very early days and how this was the start of a now $200 Billion Industry.  Funnily, he tells how Aldiscon helped, what turned out to be its later biggest competitor, CMG, build an SMSC in the early days. You can see in this fascinating story how the traits of great Entrepreneurship are exhibited, such as responding to failure with pivots, tenacity, patience and a focus on building great teams and delivering great products. Finally Joe finishes off with his thoughts on where the future opportunities are and he plays out with a beautiful song.  I know you'll enjoy this podcast as much as we did recording it. https://www.linkedin.com/in/josephmcunningham/ By the way, the incidental music in this podcast was written and played by my talented brother, John Flynn Music Credit:  Ennio Morricone,  John Flynn – “Star” --- This Podcast is sponsored by Nettzer – Digital First Selling  - www.nettzer.com  During these times of Covid and falling Telco Sales -   Digital First Selling is the answer to new Customer Acquisition, increasing revenues and cost reduction If you are a Telco, an MVNO, or an eSIM provider we have the ideal Digital First Selling-as-a-Service solution for you. The Nettzer Digital First Selling solution: Enables you to sell and onboard new customers remotely It will integrate with your BSS/ OSS systems and with Salesforce And we meet all regulatory requirements Contact pat.flynn@nettzer.com so that we can understand your issues and provide you with the best solution.    

Join Mr Tilden and Ms Morra, with this week's guest Year 6 student Mary, as we reveal Greenside's Stars of the Week, roundup exciting STAR Day learning, the latest SMSC experience, Crew Days, and more! 

Debra Emerson, CEO of St. Madeleine Sophie's Center (SMSC) San Diego, emphasizes SMSC's goal of educating and empowering individuals with developmental disabilities. Emerson details SMSC's Virtual Morning Glory Brunch Frog Race, which raises funds for the center's garden and aquatic programs.

How do we create safe spaces for women and children? Sardarni Navleen Kaur is the Sikh Community educator at the Central Gurdwara Khalsa Jatha London. She currently teaches SMSC (Spiritual, Moral, Social Cultural Development & and Sikh Studies) worldwide. SMSC aims to do just that. She also runs women's empowerment workshops and mindfulness courses. She coordinates projects at the Children's Gurdwara Project on faith empowerment in London. She is the chair of the Cinq Étoile Dashmesh Academie in Paris running regular leadership development programmes for European Sikh youth and most recently is focusing on her consulting company called Sahara Sisterhood with a special focus on Safeguarding and Mental Health. Support this podcast

Marie: This is Minnesota Native News, I'm Marie Rock. Coming up...Come January, there will be new leadership in the White House with a plan for Tribal Nation relationship...  and Minnesota tribes band together to assist in fighting wildfires out West.Reporter Leah Lemm has these stories…. STORY #1: PE BIDEN-VPE HARRIS ON TRIBAL NATIONSPresident-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris are poised to lead the nation next. During his victory speech, President Elect Biden acknowledged the diversity of supporters that helped elect him. Pres-Elect Biden: “...I am proud of the coalition we put together, the broadest and most diverse in history. Democrats, Republicans and independents. Progressives, moderates and conservatives. Young and old. Urban, suburban and rural. Gay, straight, transgender. White. Latino. Asian. Native American.”In early October, their campaign released their plan for tribal nations.They write that they plan to uphold the U.S.'s trust responsibility, strengthen the Nation-to-Nation relationship between Tribal Nations and the United States, and work to empower tribal sovereignty.The next administration has many concrete items on the to-do list. A few of which are to:appoint Native leaders to high level government positions,defend the Indian Child Welfare Act, and...Invest in Infrastructure and Clean Energy, including reliable high speed internet for Native households and support tribal efforts to shift to clean energy.The full list can be found in the BIDEN-HARRIS PLAN FOR TRIBAL NATIONS.Next up, tribes from Minnesota help fight wildfires out West.STORY #2: BIA FIREFIGHTING CREWReporter: This summer and into fall, wildfires have spread in large parts of the country. Crews were sent to help control the fires, including a crew from tribal communities in MN. They fought the Puzzle fire in South Dakota and the Williams Fork and East Troublesome fires in Colorado.Ferin Davis: We all represented the BIA, but we're pretty much employees of different tribal nations in Minnesota. Reporter: Ferin Davis is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band and is the Lead Environmental Scientist for the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community. They manage approximately 4,500 acres in Scott County, Minnesota, which is just located 30 minutes Southwest of Minneapolis. Ferin was part of the 13-member crew representing the Bureau of Indian Affairs from Minnesota that went and helped fight wildfires.Ferin Davis: There were firefighters from Leech Lake, Fond du Lac, White Earth, Bois Forte and, I believe Mille Lacs and then us in Shakopee... This was kind of cool that the BIA was able to pull us all together and send out the first all BIA represented module since the nineties.Reporter: Ferin points out that part of the relationship between SMSC and the Bureau of Indian Affairs is that their fire fighting crew assists with wildfires, and in turn, the BIA helps with prescribed burn operations in their community.The first fire they were called to was in South Dakota on the Rosebud Reservation on October 3rd.Ferin Davis: And so we were pulled there first because we're a BIA crew and BIA manages that land or helps manage that land. It was 150 acre of fire. When we got there, it was kind of cooling down, but what we did was help really kind of put it to bed. Reporter: Then the crew went to Colorado on the 8th, first to the Williams Fork fire.Ferin Davis: It was getting really windy in where we're at. There are a lot of dead trees, standing, dead trees. So their concern was that these trees can fall on us while we're working. So when conditions get to be that dangerous, sometimes they'll take a step back and say, okay, we're just gonna reset, take the morning off to rehab your tools, get other things organized. We were basically waiting in our trucks, rehabbing our tools and kind of re-positioning for other things. And that's when the East Troublesome Creek fire started. So then that afternoon we were kind of pulled over to that fire because whatever available resources they had, they wanted to respond to that.Reporter: I'm glad to say Ferin Davis reported that the MN BIA crew was safe.Ferin Davis: That's always the end goal is to go home safe.Reporter: For MN Native News, I'm Leah Lemm.

This week I talk with the wonderful Hayley McDonnell who is supporting school leaders with SMSC and Global collaborations and meaningfully connect with others to create positivity and success. We talk about SMSC - which stands for spiritual, moral, social and cultural development. Did you know that all schools in England must show how well their pupils develop in SMSC? I loved talking to Hayley - her passion for her subject is infectious. I also agree wholeheartedly with her mantra 'collaboration, love and community' and how at its core this means if we work together, we will work towards harmony between people and build stronger communities. I am sure you will enjoy this week's episode too! You can find Hayley here: Website Facebook

On this weeks podcast we have a successful entrepreneur of the Telecoms Software industry, Steven Van Zanen of BroadForward in the Netherlands https://www.broadforward.com BroadForward is a Telecoms Signalling company founded by Steven and his colleagues after their experiences of working for many years with the large  SMSC company, CMG. Steven talks about his experience when he managed Innovation in CMG and the challenges you face bringing Innovative products to market, particularly when you are too early. After starting BroadForward,  Steven and his colleagues had a vision for a Framework solution that, while technically innovative, initially presented a marketing problem. This marketing problem that arose in the early days, led them to rethink their positioning and customer messaging and it “became a blessing in disguise“ and led to subsequent success. Stevens story shows how Technically Innovative approaches can face initial market resistance but if you are tenacious, if you listen and if you are smart, you can turn these insights to your advantage. As always, as our guest, Steven nominates a favourite piece of music to play out on. --- The podcast is sponsored by Nettzer, digital onboarding  www.nettzer.com –   We provide digital onboarding and customer digital channel  management solutions to a wide range of verticals, including Mobile Operators MVNOs eSIM providers Financial Institutions Charities Please contact us at www.nettzer.com  or email pat.flynn@nettzer.com and we'd be glad to understand your business requirements and problems. We hope you enjoy the podcast  

Episode 9 of The Curriculum podcast follows up on last week's introduction to SMSC and fundamental British values. This time we focus specific on the ‘cultural' part of SMSC. We look at how Ofsted refers to it, what it means for schools and how school leaders and teachers can build the cultural aspects of SMSC into their curriculum. This is an episode full of tangible ideas and takeaways for schools. If you've been wondering how to make cultural activities part of your everyday teaching, you should find something here. It's about planning, context and giving children opportunity to experience and celebrate as much cultural activity as possible.

Episode 8 of The Curriculum podcast provides an introduction to teaching children's spiritual, moral, social and cultural development (SMSC), and fundamental British values (FBV). We cover what those things mean, their impact on children's learning, and how schools can make sure they cover the requirements set out by Ofsted. Here at Cornerstones, we've been working on SMSC and FBV a lot over the last 12 months. That includes explaining how the Cornerstones Curriculum incorporates SMSC to launching Cornerstones Yoimoji, a new product that helps schools put values at the heart of children's learning.