# Getting Smart: Building the future of learning for all\.

> Getting Smart explores and implements trends at the cutting edge of powerful and equitable learning experiences\.

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## Pages
- [What We Do](https://www.gettingsmart.com/work-with-us/)
- [Steward Stories](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/steward-stories/)
- [Home](https://www.gettingsmart.com/)
- [Getting Smart Town Halls](https://www.gettingsmart.com/getting-smart-town-halls/)
- [Innovative Schools](https://www.gettingsmart.com/schools/)
- [Learning Design](https://www.gettingsmart.com/system-and-learning-design/)
- [Strategy](https://www.gettingsmart.com/strategy/)
- [Storytelling](https://www.gettingsmart.com/communication-storytelling/)
- [Professional Learning](https://www.gettingsmart.com/professional-learning-community/)
- [Invention Opportunity](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/invention-opportunity/)
- [Advancing AI, Measurement and Assessment System Innovation](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/assessment-in-the-service-of-learning/)
- [Horizon Three Learning](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/h3-learning/)
- [Schools Worth Visiting](https://www.gettingsmart.com/schools-worth-visiting/)
- [New Pathways](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/new-pathways/)
- [Unbundled Learning](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/new-pathways/unbundled-learning/)
- [Credentialed Learning](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/new-pathways/credentialing/)
- [Support \& Guidance](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/new-pathways/support-guidance/)
- [Policies \& Systems](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/new-pathways/policies-systems/)
- [New Learning Models](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/new-pathways/new-learning-models/)
- [Accelerated Pathways](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/new-pathways/accelerated-pathways/)
- [Campaign \& Initiative Development](https://www.gettingsmart.com/campaign-initiative-development/)
- [Difference Making](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/differencemaking/)
- [Green Schools](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/green-schools/)
- [Ed3](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/ed3/)
- [The Future of Work](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/the-future-of-work/)
- [Project\-Based World](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/project-based-world/)
- [Data Science Education](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/data-science-education/)
- [Power of Place](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/power-of-place/)
- [Playlists](https://www.gettingsmart.com/playlists/)
- [School Networks](https://www.gettingsmart.com/series/school-networks/)

## Posts
- [Trends Shaping Education in 2022](https://www.gettingsmart.com/2022/01/11/trends-shaping-education-in-2022/): Tom highlights the trends that are shaping education in 2022\.
- [Real World Learning Case Study: Kansas City Region](https://www.gettingsmart.com/2021/10/26/real-world-learning-case-study-kansas-city-region/): The Real World Learning initiative that mobilized over 75 high schools so that every student graduates with a diploma and authentic learning experience\.
- [Are You Putting Learners First? Here are 8 Ways to Check Yourself](https://www.gettingsmart.com/2021/05/25/are-you-putting-learners-first-here-are-8-ways-to-check-yourself/): Shifting to a learner\-centered design frame of mind is becoming more crucial in order to adapt to learners changing educational needs\. Here are ways to ensure you are putting the learner first\.
- [20 Invention Opportunities in Learning \& Development](https://www.gettingsmart.com/2021/02/11/20-invention-opportunities-in-learning-development/): We have spent the last few months surveying the 20 Invention Opportunities that we believe will positively impact learning and development for years to come\. Check out the new report\. 
- [Steward Stories: CommunityShare Proves That the Community Is the Curriculum](https://www.gettingsmart.com/2026/08/11/steward-stories-communityshare-proves-that-the-community-is-the-curriculum/): What if every community member, from a landscape architect to a university researcher to a sitting senator, could become part of a student's education? CommunityShare has been quietly building that reality since 2015, connecting more than 85,000 students and their educators with community partners across 12 states through a model it calls a human library\. This Steward Stories profile traces the vision, the timeline, and the hard\-won lessons behind one of the most compelling ecosystem intermediaries in the country\. Education leaders who are wrestling with relevance, learner agency, and community trust will find both inspiration and a practical framework here\.

## Events
- [Designing for Learning Differences Changes Everything](https://www.gettingsmart.com/events/designing-for-learning-differences-changes-everything/)
- [Rural Empowerment Conference](https://www.gettingsmart.com/events/rural-empowerment-conference/)
- [NewSchools Summit 2026](https://www.gettingsmart.com/events/newschools-summit-2026/)
- [New Pathways: Arizona](https://www.gettingsmart.com/events/new-pathways-arizona/)
- [Rebooting School: A Superintendent's Guide to a New Operating System](https://www.gettingsmart.com/events/rebooting-school-a-superintendents-guide-to-a-new-operating-system/)

## Locations
- [The Foundry](https://www.gettingsmart.com/locations/the-foundry/)
- [Hilton Bayfront San Diego](https://www.gettingsmart.com/locations/hilton-bayfront-san-diego/)
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- [DoubleTree](https://www.gettingsmart.com/locations/doubletree/)
- [The Center for Global Citizenship](https://www.gettingsmart.com/locations/the-center-for-global-citizenship/)

## Podcast Episodes
- [How Is One University Turning "Dead\-End Jobs" Into Degrees for Aspiring Teachers? \| Joe Ross](https://www.gettingsmart.com/podcast/joe-ross-on/): How Reach University turns jobs into degrees through affordable teacher apprenticeships that strengthen local workforce pipelines\.


- [Tell Story: Tyson Yunkaporta on Deep Time, Creolization, and Education](https://www.gettingsmart.com/podcast/tyson-yunkaporta/): Tyson Yunkaporta explores Indigenous knowledge, relational learning, and how schools can use dialogue to navigate conflict and complexity\.


- [Gersom de Koning on The Relationship Between Theater Education and Gamification](https://www.gettingsmart.com/podcast/gersom-de-koning-on-theater-education-as-transformative-practice/): How theater education builds collaboration, confidence, leadership, and deeper learning through drama, creativity, and performance\.


- [Michael Crawford and Chris Unger on Building Durable Skills ](https://www.gettingsmart.com/podcast/michael-crawford-and-chris-unger-on/): How schools build durable skills through authentic learning, reflection, and real\-world experiences that shape agency and career readiness\.


- [From Invited to Included: Student\-Led Changemaking at the International School of Düsseldorf](https://www.gettingsmart.com/podcast/from-invited-to-included-student-led-changemaking-at-the-international-school-of-dusseldorf/): What does authentic student agency actually look like in practice? On the latest Getting Smart Podcast, Mason Pashia sits down with three Grade 11 students and their educator mentors from the International School of Düsseldorf to unpack how students planned, budgeted, and executed the Changemakers Conference, a 300\-person, three\-day event built around economy, society, nature, and well\-being\. From drafting legally binding speaker contracts to landing a keynote through their own network, these young leaders make a compelling case that the gap between being invited and being included is the most important design problem in education today\.

## Team
- [Shawnee Caruthers](https://www.gettingsmart.com/team/shawnee-caruthers/): Rashawn Caruthers is a longtime educator with a background in marketing, journalism and advertising\. She loves to speak at the intersection of business and education, noting the importance of lifelong learning and CTE\. She also speaks on community building and equity and diversity in learning\.
- [Rebecca Midles](https://www.gettingsmart.com/team/rebecca-midles/): Rebecca Midles is a thought leader transforming systems, learner\-centered instructional frameworks \& design, and social and emotional learning frameworks\. She also can speak to creating a productive and inclusive school and district culture and modern leadership design\.
- [Mason Pashia](https://www.gettingsmart.com/team/mason-pashia/)
- [Caroline Vander Ark](https://www.gettingsmart.com/team/caroline-vander-ark/): Caroline Vander Ark specializes in speaking on community leadership, marketing, social media and storytelling\. Her passion is growing people and enabling them to grow themselves\.
- [Tom Vander Ark](https://www.gettingsmart.com/team/tom-vander-ark/): Tom is a thought leader in the future of work and learning, leadership, impact investing, place\-based education and difference making\. His experience ranges from districts to non\-profits and he has a track record of being ahead of education industry trends for the last 25 years\.

## Schools
- [ASU Prep Digital\+](https://www.gettingsmart.com/school/asu-prep/)
- [Ellemercito Academy](https://www.gettingsmart.com/school/ellemercito-academy/)
- [The Early IT Microschool Powered by the PAST Foundation](https://www.gettingsmart.com/school/past-foundation-early-it/)
- [Issaquah School District Microschool](https://www.gettingsmart.com/school/issaquah-school-district/)
- [Colossal Academy](https://www.gettingsmart.com/school/colossal-academy/)

## White Papers
- [Expanding Access, Value and Experiences Through Credentials](https://www.gettingsmart.com/whitepaper/expanding-access-value-and-experiences-through-credentials/)
- [AI in Education](https://www.gettingsmart.com/whitepaper/artificial-intelligence/): We've been covering the impact of artificial intelligence on education for the last seven years\. Here's what we've found so far\.\.\.
- [Unbundled Learning](https://www.gettingsmart.com/whitepaper/unbundled-learning/): This publication from Getting Smart highlights unbundling and rebundling learning experiences for powerful, community driven learning\.  
- [Support \& Guidance](https://www.gettingsmart.com/whitepaper/support-guidance/): Strong support and guidance systems build purpose, help learners explore careers, build their social capital and skyrockets their potential\. 
- [Green Pathways](https://www.gettingsmart.com/whitepaper/green-pathways/): This publication shows school leaders, learning stakeholders and industry the importance of embedding green pathways in the K12 experience\. 
- [New Pathways Handbook](https://www.gettingsmart.com/whitepaper/new-pathways-handbook/): The New Pathways Handbook is guide for system leaders to get started in implementing new supports for student success\.
- [New Pathways Handbook: The Path to Pathways](https://www.gettingsmart.com/whitepaper/new-pathways-handbook/path/): This final section of the handbook showcases change/progress indicators in the system's journey to pathways with ideas of how to get started\.
- [The Portrait Model](https://www.gettingsmart.com/whitepaper/the-portrait-model-building-coherence-in-school-and-system-redesign/): A “Portrait” framework helps leaders implement a new collective re\-design vision\. This publication highlights the Portrait of a Learner, the Portrait of a System, the Portrait of a Leader, the Portrait of an Educator and a Self\-Portrait\.

## Categories
- [Personalized Learning](https://www.gettingsmart.com/category/personalized-learning/)
- [EdTech](https://www.gettingsmart.com/category/edtech/)
- [Leadership](https://www.gettingsmart.com/category/leadership/)
- [Series](https://www.gettingsmart.com/category/series/)
- [Future of Learning](https://www.gettingsmart.com/category/future-of-learning/)

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