TED talks are so valuable because of the ideas they share across the world. When Patti Dobrolowski drew me standing on a TEDx platform, it sparked a goal in me: to stand on a TED stage.

Fast forward a bit to the big idea that became my TED talk. 

I’ve done a lot to amplify my voice around changing our schools. That’s why this podcast exists in the first place! And after more than a year of working on my big idea, Changing My Mind to Change Our Schools is officially recorded and on its way to TED.

We all have big ideas, and we can all speak them to the world. Some through TED, others through podcasts, and still others through a community of people who want to hear our message.

Listen in to today’s episode to hear where my own TED talk came from and who was pivotal in it getting recorded.

 

Jump in the Conversation:

[1:40] What is a TED Talk?

[3:28] Why I did a TED Talk

[4:20] Changing My Mind to Change Our Schools

[5:33] Flashbacks of memorization

[6:22] TED is a labor of love

[7:28] Learning through the Education Evolution podcast guests

[9:16] My big TED idea

[11:45] Acknowledgments

  Links and Resources:

• Edmonds School District Youth TEDx 

• Episode 59: Pulling Together to Change Schools--but Keep What’s Working

• Episode 56: Getting to the Brainy Business of School Change with Melina Palmer

• Episode 61: Examining Polarity Thinking with Lindsay Y. Burr

• TEDx Everett

• Episode 2: Inviting Imagination and Our Agilities into Teen Goal Setting with Patti Dobrowolski

• Cherry Street Films

• Email Maureen

• The Education Evolution

• Facebook: Follow Education Evolution

• Twitter: Follow Education Evolution

• LinkedIn: Follow Education Evolution

• EdActive Collective

• Maureen’s book: Creating Micro-Schools for Colorful Mismatched Kids

• Micro-school feature on Good Morning America

• The Micro-School Coalition

• Facebook: The Micro-School Coalition

• LEADPrep