Getting Smart Podcast

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is brought to you by our recent publication Green Pathways, and makes the case for why ALL pathways need sustainability and green embedded. Find out more here. On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Mason Pashia is joined by Shiva Rajbhandari, a current freshman at UNC Chapel Hill and avid climate and education activist who is, to date, the first student on a school board in the state of Idaho.

Links:

• School Board Activist Shiva Rajbhandari

• Idaho Climate Justice League

• The Sierra Club

• Green New Deal for Public Schools Act

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Victoria Andrews is joined by Producer Mickey Breeze, the 10-time Beat Battle Champion of the Twin Cities. He is also a former teacher for the "Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project." and a DJ for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Twins. He's a proud alumni of the High School for Recording Arts in St. Paul, MN.

We're also joined by Dr. H. Bernard Hall an Assistant Professor of Urban Teacher Education at Drexel University in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum. His teaching and research interests include urban teacher education and development, social justice-oriented approaches to secondary English education, hip-hop pedagogy, anti-Black educational policy and practice, and critical qualitative research.

Links:

• Mickey Breeze

• H. Bernard Hall

• HipHopEd Conference

• IG: Mickey. Breeze

On this episode of Getting Smart Podcast Victoria Andrews discusses student entrepreneurship with an awesome group from Frisco ISD. Tommy Thompson teaches Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Finance Classes, as well as the DECA sponsor in Frisco ISD. Before teaching he worked in the corporate world for 18 years, started his own business, and served as an industry volunteer in the INCubatoredu program at Centennial High School which he now teaches.

We're also joined by two students: Rupa Kumaran, the founder of Infiniti Board, a Board Game for Neurodiverse individuals and Esha Bandi, the founder of MyCourseWay, a company that digitizes a school's entire course catalog.

Links:

• Business Incubator

• Uncharted Learning

• Tommy Thompson

• Frisco ISD

• MyCourseWay

• MyCourseWay Website

• Getting Smart Podcast on Uncharted Learning

• Frisco ISD Business Incubator

• Infiniti Board Game

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is part of a new short monthly series where Mason Pashia is joined by Dr. Jason Cummins, a previous guest and a friend of the podcast, to speak with indigenous leaders and academics to discuss how indigenous ways of knowing and leading can, and should, shape the education system.

In this episode, they are joined by Dr. Susan Faircloth to discuss the relationship between education and sovereignty, the National Indian Education Study, identity and home, and indigenous leadership.

Awaachiáookaate', or Jason Cummins Ed.D is an enrolled member of the Apsaalooke Nation, and recently served as the Deputy Director for the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities, Office of the Secretary. Previously, he was the principal at Crow Agency Public School. As an Indigenous scholar and school leader he has innovatively worked to lead schools towards authentically serving Native American students PreK-12 and their communities by implementing culturally sustaining, trauma-informed, and restorative approaches.

Dr. Susan Faircloth, the former director of the School of Education at Colorado State University. An enrolled member of the Coharie Tribe of North Carolina, she focuses her research on Indigenous education; education of culturally and linguistically diverse students with special educational needs; and moral and ethical dimensions of school leadership.

Faircloth has published widely in such journals as Educational Administration Quarterly, Harvard Educational Review, The Journal of Special Education Leadership, International Studies in Educational Administration, Values and Ethics in Educational Administration, Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education, Rural Special Education Quarterly, and Journal of Disability Policy Studies. She has also authored, co-authored, edited and contributed chapters to several books on topics related to Indigenous education.

Links:

• Q&A about the National Indian Education Study

• Susan Faircloth

• Scholarship List

• Dr. John Tippeconnic III

• Indian Education for All Act

• National Indian Education Study - Setting the Context

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by our friend Dr. Chris Unger, a Teaching Professor in the Graduate Programs in Education including the Doctor of Education program and author of the great new book A Revolution in Education: Scaling Agency & Opportunity for All.

Links:

• Viva La Revolucion Blog Post

• Amazon Link

• Season 1: https://arevolutionineducation.buzzsprout.com

• Season 2: https://arevolutionineducation2.buzzsprout.com

• Season 3: https://arevolutionineducation3.buzzsprout.com

• LinkedIn

• Difference Making at the Heart of Learning

• One Stone

• Living in Beta

• Design 39

• Iowa Big

• NAF

• Palisades High School

• Charlotte Lab School

• High Tech High

• Tacoma Public Schools

• Purdue Polytechnic

• Purdue Polytechnic Podcast - THIS… is the Revolution Podcast

• Purdue Polytechnic - Getting Smart Podcast

• Northern Cass School District

• Project Leo

On this Getting Smart Town Hall, we took a look at our latest publication, Support & Guidance For All New Pathways Journeys and spoke with practitioners and policy experts to get an overview of the current state of advisory models in U.S. schools. Together, we highlighted some exemplars in the space and discuss how support, guidance and advisory systems are critical parts of building New Pathways that serve all learners. Be sure to check out some of the links that were shared in the deck and the chat at the button below:

• Watch Recording

• View Links

• View Recap Blog

How might we design new school models to better serve all young people? What are the skills, and jobs of tomorrow? IFTF's Foresight Essentials course is great for those looking to build something new or trying to innovate within their current role.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by Sharhonda Bossier, CEO of Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC) and Carmita Semaan, Founder of the Surge Institute.

EdLoC "supports talented leaders of color in education and related fields to thrive as disruptive and innovative agents of change."

The Surge Institute is "the preeminent pipeline addressing the dearth of leadership of color at decision-making tables. Surge educates, empowers and energizes leaders of color who will create transformative change in the communities they serve."

Links:

• Sharhonda Bossier

• Carmita Semaan

• EdLoC

• Surge

• Bridgespan Fellows

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Bob Schwartz to talk about pathways to opportunity and the role of college, specifically community colleges. Bob's new book is America's Hidden Economic Engines: How Community Colleges Can Drive Shared Prosperity, which argues that community colleges need to be in the center of any national education and skills strategy.

"At their best, community colleges are the most nimble, flexible, market-oriented institutions in our higher education system, working closely with employers to meet regional labor market demands."

Links:

• America's Hidden Economic Engines: How Community Colleges Can Drive Shared Prosperity

• Review of America's Hidden Economic Engines

• Bob Schwartz Bio

• "Gold Standard: The Swiss Vocational Education and Training System"

• Gallup Poll

• Work-based learning GPS report

• Northeastern's Co-Op Model

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Ben Wildavsky to discuss his new book The Career Arts: Answering Big Questions About College and Career. This book makes the case for building career success through broad education, targeted skills, and social capital.

Ben is also a visiting scholar at UVA and hosts the Higher Ed Spotlight podcast.

Links:

• Amazon Link

• LinkedIn

• New Pathways

• Brookings Institution

• Higher Ed Spotlight Podcast

• Ryan Craig on Apprenticeships

• LinkedIn Study

• Climb Hire

• Point Loma Nazarene University

• Link Support and Guidance Publication

• Michelle Weise on Long Life Learning

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is part of a new short monthly series where Mason Pashia is joined by Dr. Jason Cummins, a previous guest and a friend of the podcast, to speak with indigenous leaders and academics to discuss how indigenous ways of knowing and leading can, and should, shape the education system.

Awaachiáookaate', or Jason Cummins Ed.D is an enrolled member of the Apsaalooke Nation, and recently served as the Deputy Director for the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities, Office of the Secretary. Previously, he was the principal at Crow Agency Public School. As an Indigenous scholar and school leader he has innovatively worked to lead schools towards authentically serving Native American students PreK-12 and their communities by implementing culturally sustaining, trauma-informed, and restorative approaches.

Dr. Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn is a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Apache, Nez Perce, Umatilla and Assiniboine and is currently the Professor and Department Chair at the College of Education at Oklahoma University. At the time of this recording was a professor at UW Tacoma.

Prior to her time in Washington, Dr. Minthorn served as Coordinator of Native American Affairs at Oklahoma State University and an adjunct faculty at Pawnee Nation College. Preceding that, as an academic advisor at Comanche Nation College, which is Oklahoma's first tribal college. Dr. Minthorn also co-founded Gamma Delta Pi, American Indian Sisterhood and RAIN (Retaining American Indians Now) as an undergraduate at the University of Oklahoma. As an academic professional, she co-founded ONASHE (the Oklahoma Native American Students in Higher Education) Conference.

Links:

• Dr. Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn

• Unsettling Settler Colonialism

• Since Time Immemorial

• Sweeney Winchief

• Paolo Friere

• Dr. Michael Yellow Bird

• Connie Mcloud

• Native Student Challenges

• Indigenizing the Academy