Getting Smart Podcast

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Nate McClennen is joined by Morgan Camu, Head of Programs at Outschool.org and Justin Dent, founding Executive Director of Outschool.org. This non-profit branch of outschool.com is working to ensure not only access to all of outschool.com's resources to those who are racially or economically marginalized - but is also thinking about how to support this unbundled ecosystem as a whole.

Links:

• Outschool.org

• Outschool.com

• Previous Podcast with Outschool founder Amir Nathoo

• Morgan Camu LinkedIn

• Justin Dent LinkedIn

• Engaged Detroit

• Outbridge

• Heritage Homeschoolers

• Epic Homeschool Network

Are you interested in attending one of the field's largest gatherings of K-12 education innovators? The Aurora Institute Symposium 2023 promises community, lessons about education innovation from the field, and the latest research and policy to support education transformation. Find out more here.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Nalukai program director Aaron Schorn and a high school student Sherry Jiang from Kealakehe high school.

The Nalukai Academy Startup Camp is a ten-day intensive entrepreneurship, technology, and design camp for high school students The camp covers a multitude of different subject areas with real-world applications, such as management, digital storytelling, design thinking, and large-scale digital projects. Campers at Nalukai are driven, clever, and innovative.

Nalukai focuses:

• Digital storytelling – branding & marketing, content creation, web design

• Leadership – project management, collaboration, team dynamics

• Entrepreneurship – networking, investor pitches, business plan development

• Design thinking – prototyping, mind-mapping, iteration

• Technology – coding, web development, digital business tools

Links:

• Nalukai Summer Agenda

• Nalukai

• Nalukai Blog

• Aarons and Trinity Asing Podcast

• Paul Graham Essay

• Difference Making at the Heart of Learning

• Real World Learning

• Kwaku Aning

• Uncharted Learning - Margarita Geleske

• Notre Dame de Sion Podcast Episode

• The Knowledge Society

• Instagram hinaea.hi

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Nate McClennen is joined by Thanasi Dilos, Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer at Civics Unplugged. Thanasi has been an explorer with Nat Geo, a Venture Fellow and is also the Co-Founder and Founding Champion of DreamDAO - and he is 20 years old.

Links:

• LinkedIn

• Civics Unplugged

• Dream DAO

• Personal Site

• MIT Talk

• Design it For Us

• Sneha Revanur

• Encode Justice

• VELA Education Fund

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, Tom Vander Ark is joined again by Navid Nathoo, a former guest on the podcast. Navid joined us a few years ago to discuss The Knowledge Society, (TKS), one of the most revolutionary problem-based high school supplements that we've seen. This time we're also joined by two TKS Learners, Theodore and Rachel. The group joins us from a sustainability summit in Switzerland.

Theodore is a 15 year old that is focused on solutions to the climate crisis. This has led him to work on climate tech projects in the lithium-ion battery space: working with a PH.D. student on her project of using ultra micro electrodes to increase the ionic conductivity of lithium-ion batteries at University of Quebec (UQAM) battery research labs.

Rachel is a 16-year-old activator at The Knowledge Society (TKS), with a deep interest in CRISPR and crop improvement. She is passionate about leveraging agritech to improve agricultural productivity in developing countries.

Links:

• Student Episode

• Foremer Episode with Navid

• TKS

• Future Class

• Villars Institute

Are you interested in attending one of the field's largest gatherings of K-12 education innovators? The Aurora Institute Symposium 2023 promises community, lessons about education innovation from the field, and the latest research and policy to support education transformation. Find out more here.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Kelly Smith, CEO and Founder of Prenda and author of the great new book A Fire to be Kindled: How a Generation of Empowered Learners Can Lead Meaningful Lives and Move Humanity Forward.

Links:

• A Fire to be Kindled Description

• Prenda

• Kelly Smith Linkedin

• Amazon Link

• KindlED Podcast episode about the book

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, Tom Vander Ark is joined by repeat guest Jamie Merisotis, CEO of Lumina Foundation, a foundation committed to making opportunities for learning beyond high school available to all. We spoke with Jamie in 2020 right after the publication of Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines.

Links:

• Lumina Foundation

• Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines

• Diverse Teams Smart Tools Blog

• National Council for Workforce Education

On the recent Getting Smart Town Hall, we were joined by NGLC to discuss their recent report focused on what comes after a school district adopts a Portrait of a Graduate. We also featured two of the educators highlighted in the report, not to mention countless others in our audience who are doing important work on the subject.

These districts have been hard at work on aligning to their Portrait and ensuring that it is a living, breathing document and they had great ideas for how to keep revisiting, revising and ensuring that it is relevant to all stakeholders.

Links:

• Mentions in Chat

• Recap Blog

Are you interested in attending one of the field's largest gatherings of K-12 education innovators? The Aurora Institute Symposium 2023 promises community, lessons about education innovation from the field, and the latest research and policy to support education transformation. Find out more here.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Nate McClennen is joined by Amit Sevak, the CEO of ETS, the largest private educational assessment organization in the world and Tim Knowles, the 10th president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Both Amit and Tim are long-term education leaders and entrepreneurs who have focused their careers on creating better opportunities for more people through education.

Together, they have formed a new partnership to rethink assessment and measurement.

Links:

• ETS

• ETS Team Page

• Carnegie Foundation

• Timothy Knowles

• Press Release about Partnership

• Mastery Transcript Consortium

Are you interested in attending one of the field's largest gatherings of K-12 education innovators? The Aurora Institute Symposium 2023 promises community, lessons about education innovation from the field, and the latest research and policy to support education transformation. Find out more here.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Nate McClennen is joined by Amit Sevak, the CEO of ETS, the largest private educational assessment organization in the world and Tim Knowles, the 10th president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Both Amit and Tim are long-term education leaders and entrepreneurs who have focused their careers on creating better opportunities for more people through education.

Together, they have formed a new partnership to rethink assessment and measurement.

Links:

• ETS

• ETS Team Page

• Carnegie Foundation

• Timothy Knowles

• Press Release about Partnership

• Mastery Transcript Consortium

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by a high school student Sabrina Zhang. We are also joined by Jack Prater, one of Sabrina's teachers at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California. They recently collaborated as a mentor/mentee team in The Earth Prize competition, a $200k global competition for students to create solutions to climate-related challenges.

Links:

• Interview with Jack

• Agrivision

• The Earth Prize

• Polytechnic Institute

• Sabrina's Blog