Stance of Curiosity
Child Psychologists Joelle vanLent and Gillian Boudreau tackle topics related to schooling in our modern times including navigating impossible expectations and the power of curiosity in education, empowering educators to redefine success, overcoming fear and shame and their effects on school communities with open dialogue, and balancing high demands with compassion and understanding.
Podcasting since 2025 • 13 episodes
Stance of Curiosity
Latest Episodes
Common mistakes to avoid and interpersonal tweaks to try when fostering connection with stressed kids
Gillian and Joelle chat about frequent suggestions that they make to school teams to support students who are strugging to cope effectively. They talk about the specific ways that we can approach a stressed person to help assure their nee...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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42:07
Staying Curious and Presuming Competence With Non-Speaking Learners
Gillian offers a version of the stance of curiosity that will guide our approaches with students who are non-speaking. Our culture is so reliant on spoken communication that we can have implicit bias that influences our social behavior to...
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35:24
Let Them Be Special!
In this episode Joelle and Gillian talk about a strategy to support students who are seeking a connection from a teacher in which they have some kind of status or privilege that is atypical. This pattern often comes up among students who ...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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39:06
How do you cope when uncertainty and change become constant?
A liminal experience is a concept related to an "in between" time in which there is both familiarity and disruptive change. Joelle and Gillian talk about the impact of the many significant challenges of public schooling in the past five y...
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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41:56
What if it's not the time to have an emotion?
Gillian and Joelle explore the theme of being humans in helping professions, and especially in schools when it can be important to stay “on” and present as fully regulated when in front of students. When we are experiencing big emotions b...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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42:50
