Place Based Education
Personalized Learning
How Teachers and Leaders Can Promote Personalized Learning
Personalized learning is the future of education. In the latest episode of the podcast, Tom shares five important attributes, five tips on learning environments and how teachers and leaders can help promote personalized learning.
Podcasts
Project-Based Learning Connects Real World With Deep Impact
In a special throwback episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, we feature student stories about their experiences with project-based learning (PBL), an interview with a PBL STEM teacher and interviews with education leaders Bob Lenz and John Larmer of Buck Institute for Education about PBL and the impact PBL has on student achievement.
Leadership
Randy Ziegenfuss on Teacher Leadership and Student-Centered Learning
In this episode, Tom chats with Randy Ziegenfuss about his journey as an educator, his time at Salisbury and his podcast, "Shift Your Paradigm."
Future of Learning
Teaching Design Thinking to Hack School and Prep for Complexity
In this episode of the podcast, Tom chats with Sam Seidel about design thinking and how it can slow down and discover the true root of the problem in education.
Place Based Education
Giving the Gift of Place
In this episode Tom & Emily take you on a virtual field trip to Murie Ranch, in the Grand Teton National Park, to talk about place-based education with Christen Girard and Nate McClennen
Podcasts
Design as an Act of Service
A look at designing as a service with Rie Nørregaard of SYPartners, why design and design thinking is becoming more important and how she's helping clients imagine better futures and design as a tool for good.
Podcasts
David Conley on Next Generation Assessment
In the latest Getting Smart podcast, Dr. David Conley, a professor in the college of education at the University of Oregon, discusses his new book and offers 10 principles for better assessment—and a vision for how assessment can be integrated into learning.
Podcasts
Why Youth Need Social Capital and How Schools Can Help
In the latest Getting Smart podcast, Christensen Institute's Director of Education Julie Freeland Fisher sits down with Tom to discuss social capital, disruptive innovation, and her new book, Who You Know: Unlocking Innovations That Expand Students’ Networks.
Podcasts
Apple Exec on Rewiring Education
Former Apple VP of Education, John Couch, on why he’s enthusiastic about project-based and challenge-based learning and the future of learning technology, why design is such a critical concept for education, and his new book Rewiring Education.
Leadership
Listening to Kids and Designing from Scratch for Timeless Learning
After 32 years as an Albemarle County educator, Pam Moran sat down with Tom Vander Ark to reflect on her career and discuss her latest book.