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Voices of Small Schools Podcast: Sustainability

Jordan Luster, Victoria Andrews
May 28, 2025
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Town Hall: State Education R&D

Tom Vander Ark
May 22, 2025
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Jamie Merisotis on Human Work in the Age of AI

Tom Vander Ark
May 21, 2025
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Michael Fullan and Kaleb Rashad on Leading in a Culture of Change

Tom Vander Ark
May 14, 2025
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Unfulfilled Promise: The Forty-Year Shift from Print to Digital and Why It Failed to Transform Learning

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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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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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Getting Smart Podcast | McGraw’s Stephen Laster on the Path Forward for EdTech

Tom Vander Ark
Jan 6, 2017

McGraw-Hill Education is a leader in adaptive learning. In this podcast, Stephen Laster, Chief Digital Officer at McGraw, discusses the "Platform Revolution" in technology and his predictions for what's next in EdTech.

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Getting Smart Podcast | Two EdLeaders on Global, High-Quality PBL

Bonnie Lathram
Dec 22, 2016

In this episode of the podcast, Rody Boonchouy and Brandon Wiley from the Buck Institute for Education discuss the importance of global, high-quality PBL in the future of education.

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Getting Smart Podcast | Project Based Engineering at Olin College

Getting Smart Staff
Dec 15, 2016

In this episode of the Getting Smart podcast, Tom and Bonnie discuss how project-based learning is more important than ever for students to succeed and share an interview with Olin College of Engineering students who experience project-based engineering.

Equity & Access

Getting Smart Podcast | The Voices of Tomorrow’s Leaders

Catherine Wedgwood
Dec 9, 2016

Student leaders at this year's iNACOL's Symposium shared how they reimagined and personalized their own educations to overcome many challenges in their lives and succeed in school.

Leadership

Getting Smart Podcast | Big Picture Learning in the Real World

Bonnie Lathram
Dec 7, 2016

Andrew Frishman, co-executive director of Big Picture Learning, chats with Tom in this episode of our podcast about what educating "one student at a time" means in real terms in schools across the United States.

Future of Learning

Getting Smart Podcast | Experiencing Place-Based Education at Teton Science Schools

Carri Schneider
Nov 28, 2016

I had the opportunity to spend two days in the beautiful Teton Mountain range experiencing my own place-based learning at Teton Science Schools. Join me on this "audio field trip" for your own place-based experience.

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Getting Smart Podcast | Building 21st Century Skills

Getting Smart Staff
Nov 22, 2016

David Ross, the new CEO of the Partnership for 21st Century Learning, sat down with Bonnie Lathram to talk about the current golden age of project-based learning and how it connects to the importance of social and emotional learning.

Future of Learning

Getting Smart Podcast | Attacking the Global Skills Gap

Tom Vander Ark
Nov 17, 2016

Mona Mourshed discusses how the Generation social initiative she leads is closing the global youth unemployment gap by placing disconnected young adults in jobs and giving them the skills and support they need for continued success.

Leadership

Getting Smart Podcast | Good Work at University Academy

Getting Smart Staff
Nov 11, 2016

University Academy is a K-12 charter school, located in Kansas City, Missouri, that we think is one of the best college prep schools in the country. In this podcast, we chat with school leadership on what makes this school so successful and unique.

Personalized Learning

Getting Smart Podcast | Dr. Daniel Siegel on the Teenage Mind

Mary Ryerse
Nov 7, 2016

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).

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