About the Getting Smart Podcast
The Getting Smart Podcast covers trends, innovations and insights in K-12, higher ed, lifelong learning, leadership, investing and more. You can listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you get your podcasts. Every other Friday we publish an episode called “Catching Up” where Nate McClennen and Mason Pashia try to make sense of what’s going on in education, learning and human flourishing. Check it out.
If you’re on Spotify, we have built some great playlists to help you jump into some conversations we’ve been having over the last few years. You can go long on the following topics:
- Student Voice
- Pathways to Postsecondary
- Green Skills & Schools
- Microschools
- What’s Next in Learning
- AI in Education
- Next Generation Leadership
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This podcast highlights developing trends in K-12 education, postsecondary and lifelong learning. Each week, Getting Smart team members interview students, leading authors, experts and practitioners in research, tech, entrepreneurship and leadership to bring listeners innovative and actionable strategies in education leadership.
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Catching Up: Human Connection, AI Hive Minds, and the Skills Gap
AI, durable skills, and portraits of a graduate shape this conversation on future-ready schools, real-world learning, and agency.
Jean-Claude Brizard on the Center for Learner Pathway Innovations
Digital Promise’s new Center for Learner Pathway Innovations advances unbounded pathways, co-created design, and next-gen credentialing.
Town Hall: Experience Matters
In this town hall, Getting Smart’s Mason Pashia and Education Design Lab’s Meghan Raftery discuss the findings of their collaborative report, Experience Matters, which explores how work-based learning experiences can be better designed, documented, and communicated across education and employment. The conversation centers on a shared framework built around three…
Ted Dintersmith on Rethinking Math for a Changing World
Rethink K-12 math: shift from rote skills and calculus to data literacy, statistics, and real-world problem solving in the AI era.
Stephanie Malia Krauss on Helping Kids (and Ourselves) Thrive in a Changing World
Rehumanize school and home with body, mind, heart, and spirit essentials—food, sleep, play, belonging, and purpose.