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  • The ESL Sessions Presents: En Mi Comunidad - Micah Bellieu, CEO and Teacher Fluency Corp.

    The ESL Sessions Presents: En Mi Comunidad - Micah Bellieu, CEO and Teacher Fluency Corp.
    2025/05/10
    From the developmental years in early education to insitutes of higher learning, teacher and educators help us to understand the world in molding, guiding us and being mentors in aspects of our lives. Concluding this mini series on teachers appreciation week for 2025 I am Joined by Micah Belliou CEO of Fluency corp. We explor her story growing up in Oklahoma, and navivating the education system before the year 2000. Aftwr aving graduted from the University Boston in Massachusetts she guides us in her journey to move abord to mexico and begin teaching Spanish fully imersing herself in the culture and life and overcoming the challanges that come with the languages and communication. Eventually returning to the US and seeing an opportunity to expand on her love of languages, she embarks on the first step in creating Fluency corp, bringin accessible and effective language learning skills to business clients at an enterpise level and further expanding to child education and personal use.
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    54 分
  • The ESL Sessions Presents: En Mi Comunidad- Mr. Ted March, ESL Teacher and Vietnam War Vet.

    The ESL Sessions Presents: En Mi Comunidad- Mr. Ted March, ESL Teacher and Vietnam War Vet.
    2025/05/09
    From the developmental years in early education to insitutes of higher learning, teacher and educators help us to understand the world in molding, guiding us and being mentors in aspects of our lives. In this mini series on teachers appreciation week for 2025 I am joined by my first ESL teacher and one of the educators that inspired me to create this podcast. Born at the end of WW2, growing up in California and Arizona join us as we go through his life being raised in fallon nevada, by a teacher and Sign maker. We explore his life as the only white student in a all black school in north vegas in the 50s, university of Nevada reno in the 60s and his 2 years voluntary service in vietnam. We touch on his late entrance into education and his views on the changes that affected not only me as his student but all of his students life throug the often difficult assimilation via ESL.
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    3 時間 21 分
  • The ESL Sessions Presents: Mrs. Martha Barbosa - Spanish and ESL Teacher

    The ESL Sessions Presents: Mrs. Martha Barbosa - Spanish and ESL Teacher
    2025/05/08
    From the developmental years in early education to insitutes of higher learning, teacher and educators help us to understand the world in molding, guiding us and being mentors in aspects of our lives. In this mini series on teachers appreciation week for 2025 I am joined by one of my own teachers and one of the educators that inspired me to create this podcast. From her early life as a teacher in Colombia to becoming an educator in the United States. We explore her experiences as a Fulbright scholar in the early 90s and how she came to be a professor at the University of Nevada Reno, Fernley Nevada and ultimately ,Hugg highschool in Reno. We remanic on Spanish club, her experiences with her students, the challenges of being an educator for ESL and Spanish lacking resources, and the administration battles she fought for her students. As well as her guidance and mentoring she provided to many of my fellow classmates and international students.
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    52 分
  • The ESL Sessions Presents: En Mi Comunidad - Ms. Haaj, Special Needs Teacher

    The ESL Sessions Presents: En Mi Comunidad - Ms. Haaj, Special Needs Teacher
    2025/05/07
    From the developmental years in early education to insitutes in higher learning, teacher and educators help us to understand the world in molding, guiding us and being mentors in aspects of our lives. In this mini series on teachers appreciation week for 2025 I am joined once again by Haaj a special needs teacher from New York City. We explore here experience as an educator in the changing field of special needs. Focusing more on her job, she gives us some insight on challenges, and advancement in her field of specialty. What inspired her to become a special needs teacher and her role in in such an involved field of teaching profession. Along with learning a little more about her life outside of the class room we delv into her impact on her students, her, thoughts on the education system in the current administration and the importance of unity with other professionals in the educational field.
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    46 分
  • The ESL Sessions Presents: En Mi Comunidad - Mr. Chas Clinton

    The ESL Sessions Presents: En Mi Comunidad - Mr. Chas Clinton
    2025/05/06
    From the developmental years in early education to insitutes in higher learning, teacher and educators help us to understand the world in molding, guiding us and being mentors in aspects of our lives. In this mini series on teachers appreciation week for 2025 I am joined by a fellow Service member, now an educator in the state of Illinois. After 4 years of military service and becoming a public servant he was able to accomplish his goal of becoming a teacher in 2020. Now having taught for 4 years we explore his experience in seeing his first class graduate, his challenges along the way in becoming educator. Facing some Adversity and life changing decisions during his early adult years we discuss his deciaon to join the military, the course changing interaction with a military educators along with his professional and personal achievments as a teacher juggleing life and a career that requires alot of involment. As well as the moments and mentors that inspired him to become a teacher. Music: Next Station (?) Musician: Philip E Morris
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    43 分
  • The ESL Sessions Presents: "En Mi Comunidad - Javier Rojas, @Deported Artist"

    The ESL Sessions Presents: "En Mi Comunidad - Javier Rojas, @Deported Artist"
    2025/04/13
    What happens after your are deported? Who gains moniteeraly and benefits from overreaching laws, punishment and violations of your constitutional rights? And after being forcibly being removed from the united states how do you start all over again, in your country of brith that you have never lived in? In this episodes, i am joined by an individual who has exerienced these violations of his rights, and revocation of his legal status due to the laws, inacted int the state of California. Through his experience with their judicial system, incaceration, and being volunterally forced, into the California inmate fire fighter crew he recounts his experience with ICE air in 2014. After arriving in Mexico working in the outsource world of call center services, he rediscovers his passion for art, and its power to be a driving force for messages of change. From painting small cultural pieces to murals on the US/México border, we explore his journey as not only a deported individual but as an artist and activist... en mi comunidad.
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Ep 12: "Liberty and Justice... for All"

    Ep 12: "Liberty and Justice... for All"
    2025/04/05
    With the actions of the current administration, the rights and liberties of legal citizens, residents and undocumented people are being stript. Who is next? Who will they target after "the criminals" are aprehended? What does your 1st ammendment right mean to you and others? And is being an individuals with thaughts and beliefs, criticism of actions being taken by the current administration counter or hypocritical to the oath of enlistement? You decide on your own, just as I have.
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    21 分
  • The ESL Sessions Presents: Enigma - Haaj "American"

    The ESL Sessions Presents: Enigma - Haaj "American"
    2024/09/30
    In this episode of The ESL Sessions Presents: Enigma I am joined by a Haaj Fellow American Born, raised, and living in the United States. We explore her American experience as a child with origins in Central Asia, her story brings into light a post-9/11 New York, her views and struggles as a member of the LGBTQ community, being a Special Needz teacher, a polyglot, and her international travels. While also giving us her answer to the question of How American can you be before being born in the United States is not enough? And What constitutes and defines a person as an "American"? Music Credit: CO2 by airtone (c) copyright 2014 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. http://dig.ccmixter.org/files/airtone/46780 Music Credit: #storyteller #TheESLsessions #Podcast #Enigma #thisamericamlife #nyc #lgbtq
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    53 分