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In this episode, Sarah and Jackie wander through a grocery store to explore how everyday choices about food connect to family histories, memories, and identities. Join them as they discover how the array of options in grocery aisles mirrors the curriculum design process – making choices about what to include, what to leave out, and why. Tune in to learn how grocery shopping for your eight-year old self or trying something off your usual grocery list can help you reflect on the habits and values that shape your teaching and curriculum decisions.

On this episode, we dive into the world of screendance with Professor Gabri Christa. She shares how her multidisciplinary beginnings as a mover and a filmmaker in Curaçao, as well as her embodied research into her Surinamese roots, helped her find innovative ways to merge her cinematographic and choreographic work. We talk through what it means to take the moving body seriously within the moving image medium, and how both spirituality and technology play important roles in this process.   

The Puppets in Education video series is organized around a set of interviews centered on an exhibit held in the Digital Futures Institute Gallery in 2024–25. The series explores dimensions of puppetry using archival, string, parade, printed, virtual, and artificial puppetry as a way to pose shared questions of education. Across the series, the exhibit designers reflect on our education's relationship with puppets. From dolls and marionettes to classroom practices and television programming, and from animating physical objects to the digital armatures of virtual and artificial systems, puppets have consistently functioned as mediating forms through which gesture, voice, and expression are redirected. Returning to shared lines of inquiry, the series asks: What are we doing when we pick up, move, and speak through an object that is not ourselves? Why does this act so reliably hold our attention? By taking up puppetry as both practice and analytic lens, the exhibit and video series invite reflection on what is educative about puppets—and on what puppets themselves might teach us about education.