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Talkin‘ Politics & Religion Without Killin‘ Each Other

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David French | Friends or Enemies? Overcoming Divides with Justice, Kindness, and Humility in a Polarized America 1:15:36

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In this episode, we welcome back David French, columnist for The New York Times , former constitutional attorney, and author of Divided We Fall . We discuss the current state of American democracy, the challenges of political division, and how we can engage in civil discourse despite deep ideological differences. David also shares a personal update on his family and reflects on the profound trials and growth that come with adversity. 📌 What We Discuss: ✔️ How David and his family navigated the challenges of a serious health crisis. ✔️ The rise of political polarization and the factors driving it. ✔️ Why distinguishing between “unwise, unethical, and unlawful” is crucial in analyzing political actions. ✔️ How consuming different perspectives (even opposing ones) helps in understanding political dynamics. ✔️ The role of Christian values in politics and how they are being redefined. ⏳ Episode Highlights 📍 [00:01:00] – David French’s background and his journey from litigation to journalism. 📍 [00:02:30] – Personal update: David shares his wife Nancy’s battle with cancer and their journey as a family. 📍 [00:06:00] – How to navigate personal trials while maintaining faith and resilience. 📍 [00:10:00] – The danger of political paranoia and the pitfalls of extreme polarization. 📍 [00:18:00] – The "friend-enemy" paradigm in American politics and its influence in Christian fundamentalism. 📍 [00:24:00] – Revisiting Divided We Fall : How America’s divisions have devolved since 2020. 📍 [00:40:00] – The categories and differences of unwise, unethical, and unlawful political actions. 📍 [00:55:00] – The balance between justice, kindness, and humility in political engagement. 📍 [01:00:00] – The After Party initiative: A Christian approach to politics focused on values rather than policy. 💬 Featured Quotes 🔹 "You don't know who you truly are until your values are tested." – David French 🔹 "If we focus on the relational, we can have better conversations even across deep differences." – Corey Nathan 🔹 "Justice, kindness, and humility—if you're missing one, you're doing it wrong." – David French 🔹 "The United States has a history of shifting without repenting. We just move on." – David French 📚 Resources Mentioned David French’s Writing: New York Times David’s Book: Divided We Fall The After Party Initiative – More Info Advisory Opinions Podcast (with Sarah Isgur & David French) – Listen Here 📣 Call to Action If you found this conversation insightful, please: ✅ Subscribe to Talkin' Politics & Religion Without Killin' Each Other on your favorite podcast platform. ✅ Leave a review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen: ratethispodcast.com/goodfaithpolitics ✅ Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/politicsandreligion ✅ Watch the full conversation and subscribe on YouTube: youtube.com/@politicsandreligion 🔗 Connect With Us on Social Media @coreysnathan: Bluesky LinkedIn Instagram Threads Facebook Substack David French: 🔗 Twitter | BlueSky | New York Times Our Sponsors Meza Wealth Management: www.mezawealth.com Prolux Autogroup: www.proluxautogroup.com or www.granadahillsairporttransportation.com Let’s keep talking politics and religion—with gentleness and respect. 🎙️💡…

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Odd Socks and Docs is a podcast aimed at anyone working in a
Special Educational Needs & Disabilities setting. Primarily teaching children and young people with severe and complex and profound learning difficulties.
I hope this will be helpful to anyone with an interest in SEND including parents and other professionals in medical and social roles.

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Soup 25:06

15일 전25:06

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How a simple lesson of making soup can be developed into a community project with cross curricular links in reading, maths, social skills, independence skills, real life skills of shopping. In addition providing a great link for parents to work with them at home.

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Assault 1:09:49

21일 전1:09:49

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Unfortunately when living or working with some students with severe learning difficulties with challenging behaviours it is likely that you may get assaulted. In this episode I reflect on this and look at ways to reduce the risk and then look at how recovery can be helped.

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Monet 17:16

28일 전17:16

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How my love for Monet lead to a term of beautiful art work with my mixed ability SEND class. With the added bonus of beautiful displays, cards and gifts not to mention all the other skills and great behaviour.

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Help cards 17:47

5 weeks 전17:47

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A simple bespoke card for students and their supporters, or independent people with SEND to carry. These cards should immediately tell a member of the public or services how best to help when someone is in crisis or has had an accident.

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Tombola 19:01

6 weeks 전19:01

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Another idea for making Maths a fun activity whilst teaching other valuable life skills. Easy to adapt to age appropriate groups and easy to differentiate for individual students.

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Button Box 21:49

7 weeks 전21:49

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An idea for series of maths lessons that can be easily adapted and differentiated. The students have fun and their learning crosses into important areas of the curriculum including literacy, life skills and motor skills.

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What is important? 23:30

15 weeks 전23:30

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The last episode of Series 2! When there just seems to be so many things that need to be done and taught, how do you decide what to prioritise and what is important to the students and parents! Have a wonderful Christmas break and make sure you rest!

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The Great British Bake Off 19:20

16 weeks 전19:20

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How working collaboratively with TA's can produce a fabulous term long project with lots of important learning outcomes beyond baking skills.

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Developing Good Relationships with Parents. 32:54

17 weeks 전32:54

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When you work together with parents you get the best outcomes for their children. They can be an incredible resource and no one knows their child like they do. In this episode I look at developing those relationships.

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Pancakes 31:17

18 weeks 전31:17

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How making pancakes weekly became a highly successful motivating lesson. Involving multi disciplinary work, lots of cross curricular links and real life skills that parents could practise with them at home.

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The Tuck Shop 22:37

19 weeks 전22:37

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Working with a difficult class using a highly motivating carrot! Running a tuck shop had many learning objectives in life skills, social skills, working collaboratively, fine motor skills and maths skills. All the students showed very steady progress. It became a stepping stone to going into the community to shop.…

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Jingle Bells 30:50

20 weeks 전30:50

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The magic and joy of Christmas, following traditions and making them special for your students and their parents. So many learning opportunities to be found in these activities.

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Feel the Beat 19:36

21 weeks 전19:36

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Music is universal in it's appeal, simple percussion instruments are very accessible making drumming a very inclusive activity and a way of teaching new skills and creating great memories.

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Visual Aids 27:50

22 weeks 전27:50

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The importance of using visual aids in SEND settings and having system that is best fit for everyone. Understanding that a visual aid can be anything from the real thing to a rather obscure symbol.

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Foiling around 21:35

23 weeks 전21:35

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A perfect activity for any group, any ability, 1 to 1 or large group, any age! No planning and lots of learning. An activity that is fun, creative and all that is required is some good tin foil!

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Chilled Friday Afternoons 27:47

24 weeks 전27:47

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How a leisurely Arts and Craft lesson can lead to many other teaching opportunities in a lovely calm inclusive environment.

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Awesomely Autistic 1:05:04

25 weeks 전1:05:04

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Sometimes as a teacher one of your students will teach you more than you teach them. this was the case with the unforgettable James. I am honoured to have his mum as a guest in this episode where she gives valuable insights into her world as parent of autistic twins. She reminds us that it is ok to be different and to look for joy. We reflect on some of the most valuable things he learned and some of the more entertaining moments.…

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Managing Stress and Exhaustion 28:31

26 weeks 전28:31

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Teaching and working in classrooms can be very exhausting and stressful. This episode gives a few reminders of how to best help yourself manage this.

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Wonderful Walking 31:48

27 weeks 전31:48

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This episode is about the benefits of walking. Simplicity in its self, inclusive, inexpensive and brilliant for physical and mental health of students and staff.

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Regulation or states of arousal 48:18

28 weeks 전48:18

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A discussion about how the state of arousal or what level of regulation a student has can massively impact their behaviour and learning. some tips on how to manage this.

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Managing challenging behaviour as a small woman 43:05

29 weeks 전43:05

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This episode looks at how to manage challenging, often aggressive behaviour, if you are smaller and less strong than a student in crisis.

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Setting your classroom as a great learning environment 37:40

30 weeks 전37:40

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The first episode of Series 2, welcome back after the summer holiday! In this episode I talk about how to prepare your staff and room to make a great learning environment, laying the foundations for a great school year.

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Talking to a friend and Early Careers Teacher 49:17

36 weeks 전49:17

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In this episode I chat to a friend who came as a volunteer, then became a Dinner Lady, then a Teaching Assistant and then went to university qualifying as a teacher. We chat about her first year as a teacher of the early years in a special needs school. With some helps and tips for both new teachers and managers. This is the last episode in Series 1, I will be back at the end of August. Enjoy your summer break!…

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Inclusion of students with the highest level of support for learning 48:21

37 weeks 전48:21

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This episode follows on from the previous episode and we discuss successful inclusion of the students with the highest need for support.

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Students with the highest level of support due to both medical needs and learning difficulties. 44:40

38 weeks 전44:40

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A rare insight into this group of students from a former member of the school nursing team. It is an uplifting episode and her love and passion for her work really shine through!

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The Little Mouse 23:16

39 weeks 전23:16

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Looking at ways to deal with students bringing in precious things to school that may cause problems.

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Do you need to talk to a manager? 27:52

40 weeks 전27:52

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When problems arise in class that you are struggling to resolve how best to approach a manager - some dos and don'ts!

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Books Glorious Books 20:16

41 weeks 전20:16

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How to make reading engaging, age-appropriate and fun for secondary age students with severe learning difficulties.

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The Benefits of Warm Water Sessions 24:53

42 weeks 전24:53

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If your school has a hydro therapy pool make it a priority to book it as a weekly session. This episode I chat with a young teacher about managing a warm water session and the huge benefits of these very inclusive, joyful sessions.

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Recording Recording Recording 30:24

43 weeks 전30:24

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Recording is an important part of the teacher's job. Here I talk about how to make it workable and how new digital recording programmes designed for mainstream don't really fit special needs and can massively increase the teacher's workload.

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Visiting a cafe. 19:15

44 weeks 전19:15

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Visiting a cafe with a group of SEND students, is brilliant for real life skills, inclusive and enjoyable and can cover many cross curricular targets.

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Taking learning outside of the class room. 16:04

45 weeks 전16:04

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Planning to spend part of every day outside of the class room, how simple activities outside of the class room can give opportunities for learning, assessment and fun. Short periods of time can break up the day and refresh everyone.

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Students in conflict with each other 29:56

46 weeks 전29:56

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Chatting with another teacher about how to manage students who like to fight with each other.

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Nat at Primary School 35:16

47 weeks 전35:16

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Nat's mum talks about his primary school years. Nat has a diagnosis of Down syndrome and Autism and attended both a main stream primary school and a special school. Lots of valuable insights and lovely stories.

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Nat's story 39:51

48 weeks 전39:51

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Nat is a 27 year old young man with Down syndrome, in this episode I chat to his mum about his early years up to school. During this time he was also diagnosed with Autism. I feel it is a very uplifting and joyous story and makes interesting listening to anyone who works with SEND children or knows a SEND child. Personally and professionally I learned so much from parents.…

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Developing your teaching persona 20:58

49 weeks 전20:58

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Some useful tips on developing your game face!

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The Awesome Dinner Ladies 35:17

50 weeks 전35:17

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So many SEND students have issues around food and eating that a good dinner time is vital to the rest of the student's day. This episode explores ways to make dinner time run smoothly and be enjoyable for the dinner ladies. it touches on a multi disciplinary approach to support students.

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The Bacon Butty Project 18:07

51 weeks 전18:07

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This episode looks at how a very successful mini business developed from teaching real life skills. A project that can be done with a full range of SEND students as a group or as individuals. Turning Friday mornings into the students and staff's favourite morning.

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The Joy of Chaos 12:36

52 weeks 전12:36

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12:36

I have experienced so much joy during fairly chaotic moments and this short episode is about making chaos work for you and the the students and creating fun. Students learn when having fun!

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Magic and Heartbreaking Moments. 36:12

1 year 전36:12

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36:12

Teaching and supporting SEND students can be at times a very tough job, it is really important to acknowledge special moments, make memories and celebrate achievements.

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Making the Curriculum work for SEND students 37:49

1 year 전37:49

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"How do I teach National Curriculum Academic Subjects to my SEND students who are not able to read, write or speak?" is a question I am asked so many times! Here are a few ideas that I found worked well whilst addressing the students real need.

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What is Challenging Behaviour? 20:49

1 year 전20:49

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What does this mean and how can that differ from student to student. With some tips and stories on how to manage it.

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Filling 20 minutes 22:11

1 year 전22:11

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When you find yourself alone with an SEND group and need to keep everyone happy and safe activities and tips.

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Working with Teaching Assistants 26:25

1 year 전26:25

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A huge part of a SEND teachers job is managing Teaching Assistants, for which they have very little if any training. This is a chat about how best to do this.

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The Coca Cola Bottle 17:51

1 year 전17:51

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This episode talks about how children and young people can arrive in school already stressed and unable to learn until they have calmed. How to recognise this and how to help them calm down.