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The Wayfinder: A NESA Podcast

THE WAYFINDER SEASON 2: A NESA PODCAST

Connecting Our Community.

The Wayfinder is a podcast on learning, leadership, and community. Host and NESA school graduate Abril Soewarso-Rivera engages with thought leaders and partners in international education to discuss high-impact topics in the field. Join us as we bring relevant issues forward and help our wider community connect the dots. Let’s find our way together!!

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The Wayfinder Episode 11: Stretching Our Learning Edges with Jennifer Abrams

The Wayfinder Episode 11: Stretching Our Learning Edges with Jennifer Abrams

What does it mean to be your best adult self at work?

Abril connects with Jennifer Abrams, a communications consultant who supports educators, health care personnel, and others on new employee support, being generationally savvy, effective collaboration skills, having hard conversations, and creating identity-safe workplaces. Their conversation centers the concept of lifelong growth and how this is used as a guiding principle in developmentally-minded organizations like NESA. In practical terms, what does prioritizing adult development look like? How important is it for us to look deeply at ourselves?

Join Abril and Jennifer as they explore what it means to curl up to our learning edges in the workplace – and beyond.

February 6, 2025

 



The Wayfinder Episode 10: Digital Storytelling with LeeAnne Lavender

The Wayfinder Episode 10: Digital Storytelling with LeeAnne Lavender

How can we enable students to take their learning outside the four walls of the classroom?

In our tenth episode, we sit down with LeeAnne Lavender, a storytelling, service learning and global citizenship educator, to discuss purpose-driven pedagogy, multimedia storytelling projects, and what it means to be a learner alongside your students.

LeeAnne will also be leading a 2-day workshop at the upcoming NESA 2025 Educators Training Institute, January 24-25, exploring storytelling strategies for deep learning and community engagement. Learn more about her workshop here!

December 5, 2024

 



The Wayfinder Episode 9: Experience Strategy with David Willows & Suzette Parlevliet

The Wayfinder Episode 9: Experience Strategy with David Willows and Suzette Parlevliet

How do we measure the school experience from every vantage point?

On our first episode of  Season 2, The Wayfinder host Abril Soewarso-Rivera sits down with David Willows and Suzette Parlevliet of [YELLOW CAR] to chat about experience strategy, how we can best communicate a school's mission to prospective students/teachers, and felt experience measurements.

Willows and Parlevliet close the episode with advice for leaders and educators wanting to incorporate experience strategy into their organization's operations.

October 3, 2024

 




Abril Soewarso-Rivera

About the Host

ABRIL SOEWARSO-RIVERA is a Mexican-Indonesian-American audio storyteller, performer, and writer. She first fell in love with radio as a backseat listener to NPR’s This American Life and hosts a podcast of her own, titled Love in Public, which explores the “geography of conversation” through human storytelling. Identifying as a proud TCK, Abril grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area, on the Red Sea, and most recently, spent four years in Vancouver, Canada. She is a NESA school alumna, having graduated from The KAUST School in Saudi Arabia in 2019, before going on to study psychology and international relations at the University of British Columbia. Abril is passionate about community-building, solo travel, and the intersections between art and activism. She is currently based in Valencia, Spain, where she teaches English to K-6 students and produces NESA's podcast, The Wayfinder.


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