Why Students Learn When They Feel Loved Ft. Kandace Stallings w/Anita Nowak

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Purposeful Empathy with Anita Nowak

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Purposeful Empathy is a Youtube channel dedicated to conversations with people spreading more empathy in the world. Join Anita Nowak, empathy expert, author, award-winning educator, international speaker and certified coach, to learn how like-spirited people around the world are turning up the volume on empathy through purposeful action. Drawing from neuroscience, spirituality, leadership studies, positive psychology and the frontlines of social action, Purposeful Empathy explores the intersection of personal development

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Why Students Learn When They Feel Loved Ft. Kandace Stallings w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy

Purposeful Empathy with Anita Nowak

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2 months ago

Why Students Learn When They Feel Loved Ft. Kandace Stallings w/Anita Nowak - Purposeful Empathy

In a special series devoted to empathy in education with leaders and fellows of Transformative Educational Leadership (TEL), watch this episode to learn how vulnerability and love can transform classrooms into spaces of belonging, healing, and hope.

Kandace Stallings, a faith leader and SEL (social emotional learning) Specialist in Chicago, reflects on the power of mentorship and unconditional support to help students thrive. She also shares how her own lived experiences now guide her commitment to empathic leadership—in classrooms and beyond.

00:00 Preview

01:04 Introduction

01:39 About Kandace Stallings

03:18 Kandace’s backstory

06:48 The role of empathy in education

12:04 Why kids can’t learn in school if they don’t feel loved

16:04 How are Black women educators holding each other up in 2025?

19:11 Kandace’s self-empathy strategies

22:54 Finding strength in vulnerability: The power of safe relationships

26:40 Why Kandace’s faith deepened after a conversation with her mother

29:58 The cycle of empathic leadership: From being mentored to mentoring others

33:01 How to overcome imposter syndrome and lead with confidence