Grow Your Flow & Glow - Teacher Podcast
Welcome to Grow Your Flow & Glow, a podcast where educator and Assistant Principal Kurt Walker explores the real heartbeat of learning: belonging, self-regulation and those powerful moments when students lose themselves in their work.
Through practical examples, honest reflections and research that actually makes sense in a classroom, Kurt helps teachers understand how to build environments where students feel capable, motivated and deeply connected to their learning.
Simple ideas. Real stories. Better learning. Every episode.
Grow Your Flow & Glow - Teacher Podcast
Latest Episodes
Plot Twist: It's Series 1.5 - Why External Rewards Undermine the Motivation They're Meant to Build — and What Actually Works Instead
In this delayed release episode, Kurt openly talks about that one student going unnoticed and the busy teacher trying to deliver her best within the system. He talks frankly about an uncomfortable teaching experience and student experience, whi...
Plot Twist: It's Series 1.5 - Adding a Layer to the Play - What Twenty Five Years of Watching Children Learn Taught Me About Flow & What the Research Confirms
It starts in a sandpit. A child building something important. A question dropped in like a layer — not an interruption. And flow happening without anyone announcing it. In this episode, Kurt traces the pedagogical move he learned in early child...
Plot Twist: It's Series 1.5 - The Fight to Belong: The why behind the THRIVE framework...
The student who fights you and the student who disappears into silence are doing the same thing. They are both telling you they don't yet belong here fully enough to risk genuine learning. In this episode, Kurt draws on thirty years of observat...
Plot Twist: It's Series 1.5 - What Year 4 Taught Me About Flow
In 2024, I asked thirty Year 4 students what was stopping them from focusing. They didn't mention the work. They didn't mention each other's behaviour. They listed assemblies, Harmony Day, incursions, bell times — and their own friends. Then th...
