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
Behaviour Isn’t the Problem: Flow, Regulation & the Hidden Curriculum
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In this episode of Grow Your Flow & Glow, we look beneath behaviour to the learning conditions that shape it.
Drawing on personal classroom experiences — from performing for connection in a Year 5/6 classroom to leading behaviour conversations as an Assistant Principal — this episode explores how students adapt when learning feels unsafe, confusing, or overwhelming.
We unpack the idea of the hidden curriculum: the unspoken rules about how to start, persist, ask for help, and recover from mistakes that some learners acquire early — and others never do.
Framed through flow theory, self-regulated learning, and aligned with NSW Department of Education priorities around student engagement and wellbeing, this episode invites teachers and leaders to rethink behaviour not as a compliance issue, but as valuable information about what learners need next.
This episode isn’t about excusing behaviour.
It’s about explaining it — so teaching can be more effective, inclusive, and human.
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