Do School Better

Doris talks to David Peden, Chair of the Entrepreneurship Leadership program at Battle Ground Academy, a K12 independent school near Nashville, TN.

Doris Korda and Alison Tanker share updates including what listeners can anticipate in Season 3 and news about their new organization, Wildfire Education.

Doris and Alison talk about the final look at a semester course and how important the reflection on the entire experience is to the learning of the students.

Doris and Alison talk about what happens in this class when students are working on real problems and they're paralyzed because they don't know what to do next.

Doris talks to Terry Chou, a middle school science teacher from a public school in California who attended our first workshop. Listen to what Terry has discovered about teaching innovation and collaboration.

Doris and Alison talk about these final projects where students create their own businesses and will face huge academic challenges in the process.

Doris and Alison talk about what students presented today as their solutions to their second business challenge and why the learning has been transformative.

Learn how the feedback we give in this course goes far beyond a letter grade.

We're a week and a half in to students' second business challenge. And at this point in the course, things get really, really complicated. And in this episode, we share a lot of our strategies in helping guide students through a very challenging, creative problem-solving process.

Doris and Alison talk about what is happening in this class when the students come out of their first day of their second business challenge and are faced with a problem that is significantly more sophisticated and complicated and challenging than what they faced in the first part of the class.