Digical Education

Digical Education

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Digical Education episodes

  • "Horace Mann Had It All Wrong:" Conversation with Corey DeAngelis
    I came across Corey DeAngelis' work on Twitter @DeAngelisCorey, and quickly have enjoyed reading his articles and research. Corey wrote a report for Cato Institute entitled "The Highly Positive Effects of Vouchers," which led to a pretty interesting Twitter battle with public school traditionalists. This drew my attention to Corey's emerging research and led to this conversation on School Choice.
    https://www.cato.org/blog/highly-positive-impacts-vouchers
    Corey A. DeAngelis is a Policy Analyst at the Cato Center for Educational Freedom. He is also a Policy Advisor and Contributing Editor for the Heartland Institute. His research focuses on the effects of educational choice programs on student achievement and non-academic outcomes such as criminal activity, political and economic freedom, schooling supply, and fiscal impacts.
    27 min
  • “Horace Mann Had It All Wrong:” Conversation with Corey DeAngelis

    I came across Corey DeAngelis' work on Twitter @DeAngelisCorey, and quickly have enjoyed reading his articles and research. Corey wrote a report for Cato Institute entitled "The Highly Positive Effects of Vouchers," which led to a pretty interesting Twitter battle with public school traditionalists. This drew my attention to Corey's emerging research and led to this conversation on School Choice.


    https://www.cato.org/blog/highly-positive-impacts-vouchers


    Corey A. DeAngelis is a Policy Analyst at the Cato Center for Educational Freedom. He is also a Policy Advisor and Contributing Editor for the Heartland Institute. His research focuses on the effects of educational choice programs on student achievement and non-academic outcomes such as criminal activity, political and economic freedom, schooling supply, and fiscal impacts.

    27 min
  • Innovation & Transformation: Conversation with Revolution Prep's Jake Neuberg
    In this podcast, I get to talk with Jake Neuberg who co- founded Revolution Prep in 2002 with a vision of transforming education. I wanted to know about his interest in transforming education and student learning from a non-school perspective.
    Likewise, I wanted to ask Jake about innovation as he took Revolution Prep through a complete overhaul and became an online provider of tutoring, test prep, and student engagement.
    Check out Revolution Prep at www.revolutionprep.com.
    18 min
  • Innovation & Transformation: Conversation with Revolution Prep’s Jake Neuberg

    In this podcast, I get to talk with Jake Neuberg who co- founded Revolution Prep in 2002 with a vision of transforming education. I wanted to know about his interest in transforming education and student learning from a non-school perspective.


    Likewise, I wanted to ask Jake about innovation as he took Revolution Prep through a complete overhaul and became an online provider of tutoring, test prep, and student engagement.


    Check out Revolution Prep at www.revolutionprep.com.


     

    18 min
  • School Security & Student Empowerment: Conversation with Paul Timm
    In this episode I had a conversation with Paul Timm who is Vice President at Facility Engineering Associates and a School Security expert. This conversation was recorded a week ago, and unfortunately continues to be pertinent to our work in schools creating physically and emotionally safe environments.
    For more information on Paul and FEA: www.feapc.com
    13 min
  • Future Ready Schools: Conversation with Bill Latham
    In this podcast I had a conversation with Bill Latham of MeTEOR Education (www.meteoreducation.com) where we shares that innovation and transformation usually come from pain, and if you take the conversation all the way to the end he talks about the "Future Ready School" that is described in the book Humanizing the Education Machine co-authored with Rex Miller.
    22 min
  • Your Board's a Bad Board, and It's Probably Your Fault: Conversation with Chuck Evans
    I had the opportunity to have another conversation with Chuck Evans of Better Schools about his work with school boards, heads of schools, and his recent stint as an interim head of school. I’ve written many times about the lack of stability in leadership and the consternation that heads of schools consistently discuss when describing their relationship with their boards. In this podcast I explore some of Chuck’s thoughts based upon his recent year as an interim school leader.
    19 min
  • Your Board’s a Bad Board, and It’s Probably Your Fault: Conversation with Chuck Evans

    I had the opportunity to have another conversation with Chuck Evans of Better Schools about his work with school boards, heads of schools, and his recent stint as an interim head of school. I’ve written many times about the lack of stability in leadership and the consternation that heads of schools consistently discuss when describing their relationship with their boards. In this podcast I explore some of Chuck’s thoughts based upon his recent year as an interim school leader.

    19 min
  • Deeper Learning, Authentic Audiences, and the Bike Path Project with Steven Levy
    In this conversation I had the opportunity to talk with my friend and fellow CACE Fellow, Steven Levy who was recognized as the Massachusetts State Teacher of the Year (1993), honored by the Disney American Teacher Awards as the national Outstanding General Elementary Teacher (1995), was the recipient of the Joe Oakey Award for his national impact on project-based learning, and received the John F. Kennedy Prize for the teaching of history.
    Mr. Levy and his fourth grade students were designated “Conservation Heroes” by the National Park Service for their study of the effects of a local bike path on the environment and the community. Steven has written various articles for educational journals, and the book, Starting From Scratch (Heinemann, 1996), details some of the projects and students he has worked with in his elementary classrooms.
    To learn more about the Bike Path Project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ITvWuXlX68
    Deeper Learning Conference hosted by the Steven and Joanna Levy: http://www.newcovschool.org/news/event-summer-workshop/
    27 min
  • School Safety & Building Culture: Conversation with Mark Hamstra
    School safety and security have been at the forefront of our minds because of the recent tragedy in Parkland, FL, and personally I’ve been in this profession long enough to remember the days prior to Columbine. It seems as if the conversation around safety and security have taken a different tone, and this is why I was glad to read the Chicago Sun-Times Op-Ed by my friend Mark Hamstra, Dedicated teachers — not gun-toting teachers — key to safety in Chicago schools.
    I truly appreciate Mark’s comments as he works in Chicago, and how he has used his experience as a soldier in Afghanistan in thinking about his work in building relationships of trust. In this podcast you’ll hear me ask Mark about a few quotes from his article and for him to share a bit more about how the schools in the Noble Network try to create a healthy, safe, and strong school culture where students are known.
    My first question was in regards to his statement:
    Real school security can’t be established at the point of a gun. It grows from dedicated teachers providing great instruction in a safe and supportive environment, where every student knows there is at least one adult who knows them well and cares deeply about them. Such an environment encourages students to share troubling information, whether it involves their own lives or those of their classmates.
    Likewise, I asked him to share more about how to build a school culture that reflects his statement about building relationships of trust:
    The truth is that any school, including those I support, could be the next target. But we stand a greater chance of preventing more tragedies by building school cultures that are founded on trust among teachers and students. That’s not as quick or visible as arming teachers. There is no “silver bullet” to secure our schools, but the answer surely is not more bullets in the classroom.
    Bio: Mark Hamstra is director of Student Culture & Support at Noble Network of Charter Schools, Head Football Coach at Bulls Prep Academy, and a Major in the Illinois Army National Guard. Mark is a graduate of Wheaton College where he was the captain of the football team, and he holds a Masters in Management and Leadership from University of Texas, El Paso.
    14 min

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