Skip to content
Getting Smart logo Getting Smart logo Getting Smart
  • Blog
  • Podcasts
  • Schools
  • Publications
  • Services
  • Subscribe
  • Contact

What We Do

Advocacy

Grants

Series

Town Halls

Events

Advisory

Services

Partners

Getting Smart Innovation Framework

Speaking & Workshops

 

Blog

Latest Articles

Popular

Write For Us

Playlists

Schools

Library/Publications

Topics

  • Competency-Based Education
  • Early Learning
  • EdPolicy
  • EdTech
  • Ed3
  • Equity & Access
  • Leadership
  • Pathways
  • Personalized Learning
  • Place-Based Education
  • Post-Secondary
  • Project-Based Learning
  • SEL & Mindset
  • STEM & Maker
  • The Future of Tech and Work

Podcast

Leadership

Hayley Spira-Bauer on Revolutionizing Personalized Learning

Nate McClennen
Sep 10, 2025
New Pathways

Catching Up! | School Start Dates, Teacher Shortages, and Identity Formation

Nate McClennen, Mason Pashia
Sep 4, 2025
Learning Design

Dr. Dave Richards on Driving Innovation in Michigan

Rebecca Midles
Sep 3, 2025
New Pathways

Michael Stone & Kristen Burrus on Bridging Learning to Careers

Nate McClennen
Aug 27, 2025
More Episodes

Publications

Recent Releases

The Third Horizon of Learning: Shifting Beyond the Industrial Model

A New Education Architecture: New Goals, Learning Experiences and Signals

Expanding Access, Value and Experiences Through Credentialing

New Pathways Handbook: Getting Started with Pathways (and Career Clusters)

Unfulfilled Promise: The Forty-Year Shift from Print to Digital and Why It Failed to Transform Learning

The Portrait Model: Building Coherence in School and System Redesign

Green Pathways: New Jobs Mean New Skills and New Pathways

Support & Guidance For All New Pathways Journeys

Unbundled: Designing Personalized Pathways for Every Learner

AI in Education

For more, see Publications | Books | Toolkits

Series

Microschools

New learning models, tools, and strategies have made it easier to open small, nimble schooling models.

Horizon Three (H3) Learning

Focused on charting and defining the future-ready education system we need to serve and prepare all learners.

Difference Making

Focusing on how making a difference has emerged as one of the most powerful learning experiences.

New Pathways

This campaign will serve as a road map to the new architecture for American schools. Pathways to citizenship, employment, economic mobility, and a purpose-driven life.

Innovative Schools

We share stories that highlight best practices, lessons learned and next-gen teaching practice.

Green Schools

The climate crisis is the most complex challenge mankind has ever faced. We’re covering what edleaders and educators can do about it. 

 

View more series…

About

About Getting Smart

Getting Smart Collective

Team

Authors

Impact Update

Subscribe

Contact

  • Latest
  • Popular
  • Personalized Learning
  • Place Based Education
  • EdTech
  • Leadership
  • Future of Learning
  • Project-Based Learning
  • Post-Secondary
  • SEL & Mindset
  • Ed Policy
  • Personalized Learning
  • Place Based Education
  • EdTech
  • Leadership
  • Future of Learning
  • Project-Based Learning
  • Post-Secondary
  • SEL & Mindset
  • Ed Policy
Jamie Merisotis
Future of Learning

Jamie Merisotis on Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines

Getting Smart Staff
Oct 21, 2020

This week, Tom is sitting down with the president and CEO of Lumina Foundation, Jamie Merisotis to discuss his new book, Human Work.

Imaginable Futures
Leadership

Amy Klement on Equity and Imaginable Futures

Getting Smart Staff
Oct 14, 2020

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom is speaking with Amy Klement, Managing Partner of Imaginable Futures on equity and change.

Joanne McEachen
Leadership

Joanne McEachen on Contributive Learning

Getting Smart Staff
Oct 7, 2020

Joanne McEachen is joining the podcast this week to have a conversation with Tom about her newest book, The Depthvale Detectives, and the Great Education Crisis.

Future of Work

Ed Hess on Adapting to the Speed of Change

Getting Smart Staff
Sep 30, 2020

Tom Vander Ark is joined by Ed Hess to talk hyper-learning — one of the new demands of the 21st-Century workforce.

Shauntel Garvey
EdTech

Shauntel Garvey on EdTech Impact Investing

Getting Smart Staff
Sep 23, 2020

On this week's episode of the Getting Smart podcast, Tom sits down with Shauntel Garvey to discuss impact investing and edtech.

epsorts and learning
EdTech

Mike Sepso on Esports and STEM Pathways

Getting Smart Staff
Sep 18, 2020

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom talks with Mike Sepso about how esports is interconnected with STEM and learning.

Social Capital
Podcasts

Podcast: Julia Freeland Fisher and Mahnaz Charania on Social Relationships and Networks

Getting Smart Staff
Sep 16, 2020

On this podcast, Tom, Julia, and Dr. Mahnaz discuss the four-dimensional framework for measuring students’ social capital.

Dr. Helene Gayle courtesy of the Chicago Tribune
Leadership

Dr. Helene Gayle on Our Moment in Time

Getting Smart Staff
Sep 11, 2020

Today’s podcast episode is featuring Dr. Helene Gayle, the CEO of the Chicago Community Trust, one of the nation’s leading community foundations.

Gary Funk and Haley Richardson
Place Based Education

Gary Funk & Haley Richardson On Rural Teachers and Rural Schools

Getting Smart Staff
Sep 9, 2020

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom sits down with Gary Funk and Haley Richardson to talk about an innovative rural school network.

Michael Fullan
Future of Learning

Michael Fullan on Leading in a Culture of Change

Getting Smart Staff
Sep 2, 2020

In today's podcast, the Getting Smart team brings you an episode on leading in a culture of change with Michael Fullan.

Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 37
  • 38
  • 39
  • …
  • 64
Next

Sign up for our newsletter

An edu-innovation and getting smart exploration.

Loading

Smart Update

Sign up to receive our weekly innovations in learning email newsletter:

Info

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Use
  • Write For Us
  • Authors

About

  • Getting Smart Collective
  • Our Grants
  • Our Team
  • Our Impact
Getting Smart logo

© 2025 GettingSmart.com

New Here?

Strategy Interest Form

Give us a bit of information about who you are, what you’re working on, and we’ll be in touch soon.
Loading

Public Microschool Playbook

Stay informed on public microschools, get support on implementation, ask us a question… we’ll be in touch!

Loading

Download The Case Study

Please submit the following information and you will be given a link to download our free case study: Sustaining and Growing Microschools.
Loading

Nominate an Innovative School

Enter an email.
For more information about any of these shifts, check out our New Horizon Design Principles.
BeginningPilotingImplementing
From Fixed Standards to Competency-Based Mastery
Beginning
Piloting
Implementing
From One-Size-Fits-All to Adaptive Learning
Beginning
Piloting
Implementing
From Prescribed Knowledge to Innovation & Inquiry
Beginning
Piloting
Implementing
From Subjects as Silos to Transdisciplinary, Real-World Learning
Beginning
Piloting
Implementing
From Schools as Self-Contained to Schools as Embedded in Communities
Beginning
Piloting
Implementing
From Standardized Testing to Meaningful Assessment
Beginning
Piloting
Implementing
From Institutional Ownership of Student Data to Student-Controlled Learning Wallets
Beginning
Piloting
Implementing
Loading

Nominate a School, Program or Community

Loading

What if?

Enter your email to get our weekly What If? questions sent to directly to your inbox!
Loading

Smart Update

Enter the information below to get signed up for our weekly Smart Update newsletter below so you don’t miss any learning innovations. The more information, the more we will be able to personalize your email!
Which conference, event, session, etc.
Loading

What is PBE (Spanish)

Please submit the following information and you will be given a link to download our free guide: What is Place-Based Education and Why Does it Matter?
Loading

Designing Microschools Download

Please submit the following information and you will be given a link to download our free guide: Designing Microschools: Why Launching Small Learning Environments Is a Big Idea
Loading

Download Quick Start Guide to Implementing Place-Based Education

Please submit the following information and you will be given a link to download our free guide: Quick Start Guide to Implementing Place-Based Education.
Loading

Download Quick Start Guide to Place-Based Professional Learning

Please submit the following information and you will be given a link to download our free guide: Quick Start Guide to Place-Based Professional Learning.
Loading

Download What is Place-Based Education and Why Does it Matter?

Please submit the following information and you will be given a link to download our free guide: What is Place-Based Education and Why Does it Matter?
Loading

Download 20 Invention Opportunities in Learning & Development

Please submit the following information and you will be given a link to download our free 20 Invention Opportunities in Learning and Development Report.
Loading