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.ย 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.ย
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:ย
- Student Voice
- Pathways to Postsecondary
- Green Skills & Schools
- Microschools
- What’s Next in Learning
- AI in Education
- Next Generation Leadership
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Adel DiOrio on Leading Away From Fragmentation and Towards Coherence
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Rebecca Wolfe on the “When” of Transformation
How schools can build bottom-up innovation systems that turn classroom sparks into lasting change for learner success.
Transformation Journey: Lake City Area Schools
Every school that has tried to change and failed has done so for the same reason: the system kept producing exactly the results it was designed to produce, and nobody changed the system. What Lake City Area Schools discovered โ through honest self-examination, disciplined sequencing, and a refusal to mistake…
Stephanie Reisner and Steph Loeck on Make School Work and GPS Education Partners
How work-based learning and youth apprenticeship help students build skills, agency, and career pathways through employer partnerships.
Vriti Saraf on Reimagining the Teacher’s Role for the AI Age
How AI can shift teaching from efficiency to human flourishing through new teacher roles, stronger relationships, and learner-centered design.