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Equity & Access
Supporting English Learners in K-12 Classrooms
In this podcast, Dr. Bernadette Musetti shares benefits of bilingualism, programs or innovations in education that move emerging bilingual students forward and common myths or misconceptions about teaching emerging bilinguals and English learners.
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Place Based Education
Getting Smart Podcast | Improving Learner Experience: Agency, Community, Challenge
Nate McClennen of Teton Science Schools and Neva Geisler of student-led One Stone school take you on a walking tour of downtown Boise while discussing place-based education, learner experience and the power of community connections.
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Getting Smart Podcast | Opt for Dignity: Teach Children to Value Themselves and Others
Timothy Shriver, nephew of John F. Kennedy and chair of the Special Olympics, discusses his part in helping define social and emotional learning and his dream of launching a dignity revolution for all.
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Future of Learning
Design Thinking and Its Impact on Education Innovation
Have you heard of design thinking? Are you using it in the classroom? Emily and Adam from the Getting Smart team dive into the topic to share what it is, how it can improve practice and how educators can rethink how they facilitate learning.
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Competency-Based Education
Michael Fullan Sees Global Momentum for Deep Learning
Michael Fullan is Canada’s gift to education. For half a century and with 45 books to his credit, Fullan has been the world’s most persistent and persuasive advocate for powerful learning experiences. Listen in to hear a conversation between Tom and Fullan about the potential for better high school credentials and how the assessment system is changing.
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Personalized Learning
Talking Learner Experience at the Zoo
In this episode of the podcast, Tom Vander Ark talks learner experience with leaders from Washington state. He focuses on three small community connected, experiential schools in Tacoma, WA. One of which can be found in a zoo.
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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.
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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.
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School’s Out: Engaging Family and the Community
In this episode of the Getting Smart podcast, Tom interviews two of the authors of Education Reimagined "Schools Out" paper, Amy Anderson and Scott Van Beck. Listen in as they about family participation in learner advocate networks, flexibility within the learner’s day, the expanded role the community could play in offering learning opportunities for students, how teachers and community members could shift into the role of learning designers, and much more.
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Competency-Based Education
Scaling Competency-Based Education: Equity-Focused Strategies for Policy and Practice
By: Tom Vander Ark and Mary Ryerse. This week's episode of the Getting Smart Podcast features an in-depth look at the equity imperative behind competency-based education, current barriers to CBE, and five key points to move the field toward CBE for all.
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