Matt Coleman, CEO at Inflexion, Claire Brown, National Director of AVID Australia at Victoria University in Melbourne, and Vanessa Wilkins, Founder of Future School Lab and Expert-in-Residence at Harvard Innovation Lab, talk about the need to focus on WHO our students are, the development of their identity, and reframing the paradigm of schooling. Now there’s a line-up! Grounded in years of experience reframing what we could and should be doing.

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Vanessa Wilkins
Claire Brown
Matt Coleman

We have a BRAVE conversation with Thabiti Brown, Head of School of the Codman Academy Charter Public School in Boston, and Juma Crawford, CEO of the Oakland Fund for Public Innovation, about race, equity, the purpose of school, and what is still needed post-pandemic in our society to give every youth the opportunity to thrive.  A powerful conversation that raised the ongoing challenges of race in our schools, communities, business, and society.  Powerful! If you listen and agree, let us know! Or if you have a different point of view, please ... let us know as well.

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Thabiti Brown
Juma Crawford

Like our co-host Jim, Kyle was at High Tech High and learned a lot being there.  But then had the opportunity to start something new in Beijing and now lives in Hong Kong where he is active in support of teachers face-to-face and virtually, through a newsletter, and a great recent book!  As he says: "My purpose for being in education is simple: Save the planet by creating more globally, socially and emotionally aware citizens.  It's the imperative for our generation."  He goes on to say: "I am about action. The WHY for changing education is well established. We now need the HOW. Our current factory model is not producing the informed, critical thinking, inquisitive, curious problem-solvers our world so desperately needs."  Learn more on his two websites: www.kylewagner.net and transformschool.com. His YouTube Channel. And check out his book, The Power of Simple. A valuable educator doing what he can to support others to do what they can!

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Kyle Wagner

We need more equitable schooling.  And we need to transform education so that youth can flourish.  What is the purpose of school? If it is youth flourishing, what should be our metrics? And what should we be looking at in the environment surrounding our youth that supports their flourishing and full potential? Brandi Kenner and Erin Raab talk about their work in the Choice-filled Lives Network as well as the many other endeavors they have been part of and continue to engage in.  See here: choicefilledlives.org and the 100 Days of Conversations about School project. We are asking the wrong questions in the current schooling ecosystem. The question is: How do we create communities that contribute to the full potential and well-being of our youth!

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Brandi Kenner
Erin Raab

Sandeep and Kiran share their stories and their passion for changing how we support youth around their heart, love, making a better world, and relationships. And then Chris asks : For someone listening to this, what can THEY do?
Sandeep Dutt is author of The Good School, founder of Learning Forward India and the Learning Forward podcast, Ambassador of hundred.org, Chairman of the Bhadrajun Artisans Trust,  entrepreneur, and mountaineer doing what he can to create "happy schools" for a better world.  Kiran Sethi is the founder of the Riverside School in India which has, over the last 20 years, become a  beacon of possibilities when you focus on students and empower them to make a difference in the world, which has subsequently created a global movement called Design for Change.     

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Kiran Sethi
Sandeep Dutt

We talk with Melissa Mouton and Keith Hayes of 5280 High School in Denver and Tony Simmons and Joey Cienian of High School for the Recording Arts in St. Paul (MN) about how they engage youth in meaningful projects and offer them the kinds of personal supports that support them to be successful.

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Joey Cienian
Melissa Mouton
Keith Hayes
Tony Simmons

Jim and Chris connected by way of an email from Jim who was intrigued by Chris' article in GettingSmart.com about "The Superhero Schools of Philadelphia."  After a few conversations, Chris asked Jim if he would like to join him in a second season of A Revolution in Education podcasts.  Jumping in, they decided they would reach out to those around the country and the world who have committed themselves to making a difference in the possibilities of youth through education, with a focus on their stories of revolutionary work.
In this podcast, Jim and Chris talk about the need to connect and join arms in this effort.  There are many working hard to create opportunity for youth, but many of us continue to work independently of one another.  What happens if we link arms in our efforts to create opportunities for youth and inspire others to do the same?
We "tease" the focus of this season in this conversation.

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Chris Unger
Jim McCue