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Equity & Access

Don Haddad on Creating a Responsive School System

Tom Vander Ark
Jul 9, 2025
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Nate McClennen
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Dustin Hensley and Elizabethton High Schoool Graduates on Real-World Learning in Rural Tennessee

Tom Vander Ark
Jun 27, 2025
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Paul Herdman on What Looking at the Rest of the World Teaches Us About Pathways

Tom Vander Ark
Jun 25, 2025
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The Portrait Model: Building Coherence in School and System Redesign

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

 

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Equity & Access

Podcast: Tom Rooney and Scott Rowe: Buildings are Closed, Learning Goes On!

Getting Smart Staff
Mar 27, 2020

In a special bonus episode, we talked with Tom Rooney and Scott Rowe about the transition to remote learning amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

Podcasts

Podcast: Anant Agarwal on Extended Access to Education

Getting Smart Staff
Mar 25, 2020

Today on the podcast, Tom Vander Ark is speaking with Anant Agarwal, the founder and CEO of edX and Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

Equity & Access

Podcast: Rachel Wigglesworth on Learning at Home

Getting Smart Staff
Mar 18, 2020

More than 36 million of about 50 million US students are learning remotely during the Coronavirus outbreak. But learning at home comes with challenges.

Place Based Education

Podcast: Emily Liebtag and Nate McClennen on the Power of Place

Getting Smart Staff
Mar 11, 2020

On this week's podcast, Tom Vander Ark, Dr. Emily Liebtag, and Nate McClennon discuss their newly published book, The Power of Place: Authentic Learning Through Place-Based Education.

Place Based Education

Podcast: Ed Hidalgo on Introducing Youth to The World of Work

Getting Smart Staff
Mar 4, 2020

In today's episode and Part Two of a series, Tom Vander Ark is continuing the conversation about starting career education early with Ed Hidalgo and Dr. David Bluestein.

Podcasts

Podcast: David Blustein on Working in America

Getting Smart Staff
Feb 26, 2020

In this week’s episode, Tom Vander Ark is talking with Dr. David Blustein, a Professor of Counseling Psychology at Boston College and the author of The Importance of Work in an Age of Uncertainty.

Future of Learning

Podcast: Rebecca Amis on Taking Student-Centered Learning Global

Getting Smart Staff
Feb 19, 2020

The Getting Smart team talks about student-centered learning with Rebecca Amis the co-founder of MUSE School in Calabasas, California.

Future of Learning

Podcast: Patricia Deklotz on High School Transformation

Getting Smart Staff
Feb 12, 2020

Superintendent Patricia DeKlotz, a nationally recognized leader in personalized and competency-based learning, talks about smart suburban school redesign.

EdTech

Podcast: Larry Berger on EdTech Past and Future

Getting Smart Staff
Feb 5, 2020

On this week's podcast, the Getting Smart team is talking about the past and future of edtech with Larry Berger, CEO of Amplify.

Future of Learning

Podcast: Beth Anderson on Learner Differences

Getting Smart Staff
Jan 29, 2020

Beth Anderson shares her thoughts on learner differences. She leads the Hill Learning Center, a K–12 non-profit based in Durham, North Carolina.

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