Getting Smart Podcast | Deeper Learning Conference 2016
In this podcast, we feature voices from the 2016 Deeper Learning conference discussing the impact educators can have on students' lives with deeper learning.
Getting Smart Podcast | Principals Supporting Teachers as Curriculum Designers
In this podcast, R.L. Stevenson Elementary principal Michael Corneau shares how he helped his teachers help students by designing curriculum using Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC), eventually turning his school into an "LDC school."
Getting Smart Podcast | Schools Can (and Should) Measure Noncognitive Skills
In this podcast, Megan and Cat speak with expert Jonathan Martin about the importance of schools measuring students' noncognitive skills, and answer some of the FAQs around the benefits of doing so for schools and students.
Getting Smart Podcast | Leading Personalized Learning: State Policy Advice & Successes
In this podcast, we chat with Utah Preparing Students Today for a Rewarding Tomorrow (UPSTART) champion Senator Howard Stephenson, about his successful leadership on state policy for personalized learning.
Getting Smart Podcast | Dr. Daniel Siegel on the Teenage Mind
Dr. Dan Siegel of Mindsight Institute discusses the importance of promoting strong relationships in the learning process while working with young students, focusing efforts on growing their Social-Emotional and Academic Development (SEAD).
Getting Smart Podcast | Teach to One: Inventing the Future of Math Learning
In 2007, Joel Rose conceived an idea for an innovative, blended way to teach middle school math. Today, it has spread to over 40 schools reaching 13,000 students. Here, Tom talks to Joel about the program and where it's headed.
Getting Smart Podcast | Partnerships Propel Readiness Results with a Focus on Equity
College Spark senior program officer Heather Gingrich and Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, discuss the importance of helping today's students become college, career and life ready, and how a partnership approach to this goal is really the best option.
Getting Smart Podcast | Rob Mancabelli on Using Data to Make Better Decisions
In this episode of the podcast, Rob Mancabelli, Co-founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Strategy Officer at BrightBytes, discusses the importance of providing educators with the right data for better decision making.
Getting Smart Podcast | Summit Olympus is Placing Learning in Students’ Hands
Greg Ponikvar and Alex Horowitz of Summit Olympus in Tacoma, Washington, share more about their school's personalized learning program designed to empower students to drive their own learning and prepare them for college and career success.
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.