Education Incorporated (Edu Inc) Private School

Education Incorporated is a South African private school, and this feed carries the conversations it holds for its own community. Several are evening talks that start with a welcome to parents and students, warm thanks to the guest and a careful list of that guest's credentials. Some go out under the name Fireside Chats. The substance comes from the specialists. Ilanit Gerson, an educational psychologist whose work focuses on anxiety, oppositional behaviour and neurodiversity, explains how anxiety that goes unchecked can turn into depression. She explains OCD by starting from the idea that everyone has a daily load of junk thoughts, and that teenagers have more of them than adults do. Dr. Alicia Porter, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, treats vaping as a harder problem than cigarettes ever were, because so many people see it as harmless. Prof Benjamin Rosman, a professor of machine learning and robotics at Wits, is invited for a much bigger conversation about AI than ChatGPT tips for teachers. The school's presenters do not pretend to be experts. On that AI evening, the presenter admits to being a layperson and asks for shared vocabulary, starting with generative AI, before anything else. The 'Capacity Building' talk with counselling psychologist Candice Yorke ends by calling the whole effort thought leadership: people on the same journey as parents, sharing what they know so families can build their own capacity. It starts with something small, the South African habit of answering a friendly greeting with 'surviving', and asks whether that is negative self-talk. Later it asks schools to be honest about what support they can really offer a child with different learning or emotional needs. Learning support comes up in several recordings. In a studio interview, Gershom Aitchison of Education Incorporated goes through IEB accommodations with Dr. Claire Yorke, an educational psychologist who taught and then moved into remedial work and learning support before training further. She explains the difference between enlarged font and adapted papers. She also points to extra time, given in five-, ten- and fifteen-minute steps, as both the most common accommodation and the most disputed. The Grade 9 subject choices evening with Dr Annie van As is addressed to parents and learners in the room and online, and names the 'wobbles in the stomach' that come with a decision that has long-term consequences. It also tells students with special needs that extra time and tutoring are available at tertiary level, and that they lead to the same qualification. Some recordings end with a production credit to Solid Gold Podcasts. For a parent dealing with exam accommodations or subject choices, those two conversations are the most direct place to start; the rest cover wider ground, including anxiety, vaping and the arrival of AI.