Getting Smart Podcast | Why Language Learning Matters: Parent and Student Voices
Parent and student perspectives are often left out of education conversations, so in this episode of the podcast, we capture ideas and insights around language learning from several members of these two important education stakeholders.
Getting Smart Podcast | High Quality Professional Development at Eagle Rock
In this podcast, we hear from Michael Soguero, Director of Professional Development at Eagle Rock, about his organization's strategy for leading high-quality learning experiences for teachers.
Getting Smart Podcast | Competency-Based Blended Language Learning
Language teacher Jennie Taranovich shares more about her success after shifting to a personalized and competency-based classroom environment that helps individual students meet their respective academic goals.
Getting Smart Podcast | It’s Time to Update Your Graduate Profile – Here’s How
Ken Kay, CEO of EdLeader21, shares more about the "Profile of a Graduate" campaign, created to help districts, parents, students and community leaders to envision the essential competencies for a successful graduate in their community.
Getting Smart Podcast | Language Learning Opens Doors to Opportunity in Work and Life
Dr. Lisa Frumkes, Senior Director of Language Learning Products at Rosetta Stone, shares how learning a language at any age can be fruitful, providing opportunities for life and career experiences that you never imagined.
Getting Smart Podcast | Making the City the Text at High Tech High
In this podcast episode, High Tech High leaders Larry Rosenstock, Jeff Robin and Kaleb Rashad share musings about student projects, starting new schools, hiring teachers and why the city the school is located in is so important.
Getting Smart Podcast | Global Competency in Kentucky
Jim Detwiler, Boone County School District’s Assistant Superintendent, shares how they designed their global competency program and exactly why it is such a priority for this diverse region of Kentucky.
Getting Smart Podcast | HigherEd Reinvented: Minerva Goes Global
Minerva founder and CEO Ben Nelson discusses this unique college's innovative undergraduate program that combines four years of world travel with interdisciplinary study to prepare its students for success in the global future.
Getting Smart Podcast | Acton Academy: Building a Student-Centered School…And Global Network
In this episode of the podcast, Acton Academy co-founder Jeff Sandefer shares more with Tom Vander Ark about this student-centered K-12 private school where students are tasked with "finding a calling to change the world."
Getting Smart Podcast | On Opening New Schools
Paul Castro, Director of School Performance for Houston A+ UP, discusses the challenges and rewards of innovating outside the box when creating a new school, and what that means for families, teachers and students.