The Braemar Life Skills Academy Podcast

The Braemar Life Skills Academy Podcast


Latest Episodes

Anya, Masha and Yammies – How to Find Home in this Place
June 21, 2023

Braemar welcomes students from all over the world to our school in downtown Toronto. We regularly emphasize the diversity of our students backgrounds as an incitement towards mutual engagement and le

BLSA Podcast: Dora Onyekwere and Zoey Wong – Nursing Schools
June 07, 2023

Popular culture often portrays the role of the School Nurse as largely involving the application of band-aids and ice packs to scrapes and bruises, or at most making a call home to see if the student

BLSA Podcast: Garson Karrel – Flow Forward
May 03, 2023

Mr Garson Karrel is a professional fitness trainer and musician who has been responsible for designing and helping to implement a weekly Flow Fitness training program at Braemar College since the au

BLSA Podcast: Dr. Deena Kara Shaffer – Awakened Learning
April 26, 2023

The BLSA podcasts primary objective is to look clearly and honestly at the situation of young learners in todays education climate, and to ask what can be done to improve their personal wellbeing an

BLSA Podcast: Julie Tomé and Leslie McCue – Museum Education
April 19, 2023

When you think field trip, what comes to mind? Where would you go? What will you learn? - Whether youre an educator, a student, or just someone whos spent time in an education system in the past,

BLSA Podcast: Julie LeJeune – The Coldest Night of the Year
April 05, 2023

The Ontario secondary school curriculum demands completion of three criteria for a student to earn a diploma: Complete a required number of Academic credits Demonstrate an adequate capacity for Eng

BLSA Podcast: Special Episode – Black History Month at Braemar
March 29, 2023

As we wrap up a month of seminars, workshops, films, trips and student presentations dedicated to Black Culture and History, its important that we take time to reflect on the motivations, expressions

BLSA Podcast: Annie Chan and Olivia Carter – Learning Another Language
March 22, 2023

Perhaps the most striking thing about living in Toronto is that one is constantly exposed to unfamiliar languages and cultural expressions in almost all public contexts. Whether you are a lifelong Tor

BLSA Podcast: Maria Solakofski – Wild By Nature
March 15, 2023

In recent years there has been a growing call for us to recognize the isolation and disconnection that have become a common part of how we experience modern culture. Thought leaders like Johann Hari h

BLSA Podcast: Chef Shai Mandel – Cooking as a way to express yourself
March 08, 2023

The family was an art ... and the dinner table was the place it found expression. Don DeLillo, Underworld - How do we mark holidays? How do we welcome someone to the neighbourhood? How do we apprec