Dismissed with Jeremy Williams

JT McCormick is the President and CEO of Scribe Media. Scribe Media was voted by Entrepreneur as the #1 Top Company Culture in 2018.

Scribe Media Culture Bible - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1cqXRwrk1fYuFTglAR3lpu94egZDfXN_M12qVX_t1ev8/edit

We discuss JT's company culture at Scribe. We dive deep into the principles that guide Scribe on a daily basis. Also, we briefly discuss the state of education and how to apply some of the Scribe culture document and principles in a non-profit or school organization.

Check out JT on LinkedIn at:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jtmccormick/

I spoke with Christine Nasserghodsi as part of a multi-episode focus on Project Based Learning.

Christine has worked with international companies, schools, and government agencies in the United States, Europe, India, Africa, and the United Arab Emirates to develop high-impact leadership, learning, and organizational transformation programs. Christine is the co-founder of Mirai, a strategic innovation consultancy, and a doctoral candidate at the University of Pennsylvania in organizational learning with a focus on leadership for innovation.

In her previous roles as the Vice President for the TELLAL Institute (GEMS Education) and Head of Innovation Strategy for GEMS Education, Christine was responsible for leading professional learning and development, educational research, and strategic partnerships for schools and corporate entities across the UAE. In this capacity, Christine developed Creating Communities of Innovation, a project run with Harvard University’s Project Zero focused on transforming schools through pedagogical, technological, and leadership innovation.

Christine served as the TELLAL Chair for the Learning Innovations Laboratory at Harvard University, was a Harvard University Project Zero Classroom faculty member, and is a member of the advisory board for the Dubai Silicon Oasis Authority and GEMS FirstPoint School. She is also the board chair at Wellington International School. Christine writes on innovation, education, technology, and entrepreneurship for Forbes and the Huffington Post and is a regular contributor to Edutopia and on Dubai Eye.

Learn more about Christine:

www.twitter.com/cnasserghodsi

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christine-nasserghodsi-57bb7037/

Eric Nelson is a former Social Studies Teacher who created a fantasy football-like platform related to current events and politics. We discuss his educator to CEO story, do a stock watch, and talk OBJ to CLE.

Find out more about Eric at:

www.fanschool.org

www.twitter.com/fangeopolitics

Mr. Olli Pekka-Heinonen is the Director General for the National Education Agency of Finland.

We discuss:

- Finnish definition of student success?

- Is the Finnish education system scalable?

- Could it be applied to the UAE?

- Are the Finnish results possible in a more diverse/larger society?

You can find Olli Pekka-Heinonen on twitter at www.twitter.com/Heino1Olli

Robert Jones is the creator of GentStyle, a youtube channel aimed at promoting men's fashion without breaking the bank. Robert is an alum from Don Wettrick's Open Source Learning and Innovation class.

We discuss:

- Don's fashion style

- Finding your purpose and passion

- Men's fashion advice

This week I spoke with Ted Dintersmith.

Ted Dintersmith is one of America's leaders in innovation, entrepreneurship, and education.

Ted's professional experience includes two decades in venture capital, including being ranked by Business 2.0 as the top-performing U.S. venture capitalist for 1995-1999. He served on the Board of the National Venture Capital Association, chairing its Public Policy Committee. From 1981 to 1987, he ran a business at Analog Devices that helped enable the digital revolution. In the public sector, he was a staff analyst in 1976-78 for the U.S. House of Representatives, and was appointed in 2012 by President Obama to represent the U.S. at the United Nations General Assembly. Ted earned a Ph.D. in Engineering from Stanford University and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary, with High Honors in Physics and English.

Ted has become one of America's leading advocates for education policies that foster creativity, innovation, motivation, and purpose. He knows what skills are valuable in a world of innovation, and how we can transform our schools to prepare kids for their futures. His contributions span film, books, philanthropy, and the hard work of going all across America. He's funded and executive produced acclaimed education documentaries, including Most Likely To Succeed, (Sundance, AFI, and Tribeca). With co-author Tony Wagner, he wrote Most Likely To Succeed: Preparing Our Kids for the Innovation Era. During the 2015/16 school year, he went to all fifty U.S. states, meeting with governors, legislators, educators, parents, and students, and encouraging communities to work collectively to re-imagine school and its purpose. Learn more about his work from his website or by following him on Twitter at www.twitter.com/dintersmith.

Ted speaks frequently at major events and conferences, delivering a vision of what our schools could - and need to - be. Drawing on inspiring examples garnered during his fifty-state tour, he can articulate the conditions required to let our students, teachers, and schools race forward. Recent keynotes include state superintendent meetings in Virginia and North Dakota, the annual meeting of the Coalition for Access (several hundred top college admissions officers), the annual Jobs for America's Graduates conference, and a plenary session of the Finnish parliament. In addition to his keynotes, Ted is often asked to also screen his film and lead a post-film discussion.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Ted Fujimoto.

Ted Fujimoto is an entrepreneur and expert in leadership development and organizational redesign. At age 18, Ted founded his first company that designed and implemented logistics, customer relationship management and financial systems for large company clients.

At the time in 1992, his biggest challenge was finding qualified people to hire to help grow the company thus igniting the co-development and co-creation of Napa New Technology High School, which opened in 1996. The school conducted all learning through project-based learning, modeled after the project management protocols used by his company combined with a focus on creating a culture and team agreement of trust, respect and responsibility.

Shortly thereafter, he sold his first company and became an equity partner in a consulting firm that had a 35+ year track record of redesigning the customer retail network experience for eleven automotive and hospitality brands worldwide. The magic in the firm’s methodology was how organizations can systematically create, replicate and sustain a completely different culture by changing the mindset of team members and changing the motivational drivers from extrinsic to intrinsic. This experience helped him provide guidance for the launch and expansion of the organization that evolved into the New Tech Network and the growth of Big Picture Learning that currently have over 400 schools using their whole-school designs between them.

Ted then oversaw the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Carnegie Foundation grants for a Sacramento region education and workforce development intermediary organization working to redesign schools and later advised and helped design programs for over a dozen state charter school associations to provide better support to improve charter school quality.

For the past 12 years, Ted Fujimoto has been president of Landmark Consulting Group that helps clients redesign their organization and scale innovations, and develop strategic alliances. The firm works with and at times holds equity in game changing clients that span across education, entertainment, music, technology and real estate. He serves on the board of the California Credit Union, a $3 billion credit union which recently completed the largest merger of equals in credit union history. Ted is the co-founder and co-chair of the Right to Succeed Foundation, a non-profit organization dedicated to transforming at least 6,000 public schools into “American Dream Schools” within the next 10 years using replicable deeper learning whole-school designs like New Tech Network and Big Picture Learning.

Learn more about Ted at twitter.com/tedfujimoto

I talk with Manor Hall International School teacher Ms. Ada Salazar who has been a learner and educator in Mexico, USA, and the UAE. In this episode, Ada shares her story for how she indirectly ended up finding her purpose of teaching through a very unique set of circumstances.

Learn more about Ada on her instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/adasalazar1000/

I'm joined by podcast host Shane Lawrence of the Ed Podcast. The Ed Podcast focuses on conversations about teaching life.

Shane and I discuss:

- Impact of PD

- Media Narrative of Teachers

- EdCamps

- Microcredentialing PD

- Educational Mercenaries/Stability of the teaching profession

- Shane's "happy place" teaching Film Studies

- Parenting and our hopes for our children in school

- Jingle All the Way

DisruptEd TV Presents Dismissed with special guest Don Wettrick. Don is one of the leaders in entrepreneurial education in the United States. We talk about his class, foundation, and how he gets students to be doers and put themselves out there. Also, I talk about how we get our entrepreneurship program better through learning from what Don is doing.

I mention my interview on Don's podcast. Here's the link:

https://soundcloud.com/don-wettrick/jeremy-williams-lets-blockchain-education