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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.
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Seven episodes. Seven conversations about purpose, learning, leadership and the quiet ripple effects teachers create every day. But this episode is different. Behind every classroom door… behind every lesson… behind every leader trying to hold it all together… there are moments where the plates start to wobble. In the Season One Finale of Grow Your Flow & Glow, Kurt pulls back the curtain and reflects on the reality of teaching, leadership and life when the pace of the profession begins t...
After a busy first week back face to face with students and his Stage 3 team, Kurt squeezes out another episode that is filled with a message all teachers need to listen to— Behaviour doesn’t happen in isolation. It moves through classrooms, staffrooms, and systems — often faster than we realise. In this episode, Kurt reflects on a moment early in his career that changed how he understand behaviour, leadership, and learning culture. Not through rules or consequences, but through regulat...
What if the most powerful thing a teacher leaves behind isn’t a lesson — but a sentence? In this episode of Grow Your Flow & Glow, I reflect on how learner identity is shaped long before students realise it’s happening — and how teachers play a far bigger role in that process than we often acknowledge. Through personal stories from school, work, and teaching, I explore how identity forms in micro-moments: a comment on a report, a throwaway remark, or a quiet moment of belief that keeps a ...
What if assessment isn’t neutral — and never has been? In this episode, I unpack how grades, rubrics, and feedback can either build student confidence… or quietly teach kids to fear learning. Through a personal story from my own school years, I explore what happens when students stop asking “What can I learn?” and start asking “How do I not fail?” We’ll look at the shift from grades to goals, how rubrics can act as maps (not verdicts), and what feedback sounds like when it actually fuel...
In this episode of Grow Your Flow & Glow, we move to the practical heart of the work: learning design. Drawing on personal experiences from high school mathematics — where worksheets, worked examples, and “you should already know this” replaced explicit teaching — this episode explores how students become lost in learning when tasks are designed without clear entry points. We unpack why flow doesn’t happen by accident, and how self-regulated learning, cognitive load, and explicit teaching...
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 ...
What if the problem in our classrooms isn’t student motivation — but how learning feels? In this opening episode of Grow Your Flow & Glow, I reflect on my journey as a learner — from struggling with maths in primary school, to failing (and then passing) mathematics as an adult learner at university — and how those experiences sparked my interest in flow, self-regulated learning, and learner wellbeing. Set against the backdrop of NSW curriculum reform, this episode explores an important qu...
Welcome to Grow Your Flow & Glow — a podcast about what really sits beneath great learning. Each episode, I dive into research, real classroom stories, and the hidden curriculum that no one teaches… but every successful learner understands. We’ll explore: how students build self-regulationwhy some tasks create deep, joyful concentrationhow we can design lessons that feel less like “work”and more like “I’ve got this.”You’ll hear honest reflections from my Stage 3 classroom, practical...
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