Getting Smart Podcast

We hosted a town hall event called Raise the Bar: Policy Shaping Pathways. We were lucky to be joined by two policy gurus: Dr. Amy Loyd, Assistant Secretary at the Department of Education and Julie Lammers, Senior Vice President, Advocacy and Corporate Social Responsibility at American Student Assistance (ASA). Together, we discussed how recent policies will drive school change through intentionally building and designing pathways toward student success. One of these policies is Raise the Bar: Lead the World, a recent initiative from Secretary Cardona which will focus on:

1. Creating Pathways for Global Engagements

2. Ensure every student has a pathway to college and careers

3. Provide every student a pathway to multilingualism

You can find the links from the chat here.

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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, New Pathways Senior Fellow Trace Pickering is joined by Al O'Bannon. Al is the Executive Director of the LBA Foundation in Cedar Rapids, Iowa and is a Certified School Counseling Leadership Specialist, recognized by the American School Counseling Association. Al has over 20 years of experience with non-profit organizations.

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the Walton Foundation, the New Pathways campaign will question education's status quo and propose new methods of giving students a chance to experience success in what's next.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by Dr. Dennis Johnston, Senior Director and Chief Research Officer at AVID, a resource for professional development, feedback and continued knowledge sharing.

Links:

• LinkedIn

• AVID

• Link to White Paper

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, New Pathways Senior Fellow Trace Pickering is joined by David Weinberg, a teacher, principal, curriculum director, assistant superintendent, and a founder of EPIC North HS in New York City. He now spends his time working to help schools become more innovative and restorative.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by Josh Fryday,California's Chief Service Officer within the Office of Governor Gavin Newsom to lead service, volunteer, and civic engagement efforts throughout California.

Links:

• Josh Fryday

• California Volunteers

• College Corps

• Climate Action Corps

• Mission: Joy

• On To Greener Pathways: The Future of Work Has New Opportunities for Students

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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Justin Aglio, the Executive Director of the Readiness Institute at Penn State University. Previously, Justin was a district leader in Montour School District, one of the first districts to pilot the AI+Ethics middle-grade curriculum.

Links:

• Justin Aglio LinkedIn

• Montour School District

• Readiness Institute at Penn State University.

• Mark Cuban Foundation AI Bootcamp

• Penn State

• AI Ethics - Media Lab

• Unbundled Learning

• Instagram Readiness Institute

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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by Jenee Henry Wood, a Partner at Transcend Education and David Nitkin, also a Partner at Transcend.

David and Jenee recently worked on an initiative called Conversations with Kids, a research project and culminating paper that analyzed data from 20,000+ students who participated in Transcend's Leaps Student Voice Survey and focus groups. Tons of outstanding themes were identified as a result.

Links

• Conversations with Kids Initiative

• Survey Tool

• Conversation Guide

• Jenee Henry Wood LinkedIn

• David Nitkin LinkedIn

• Northern Cass School District

• Transcend Education

On the 2023 edition of our annual "What's next in learning?" Getting Smart Town Hall, we dug into some of the core drivers impacting learning today: the Pandemic Response, New Pathways and AI Everywhere. We then broke these categories down further into trends that we are seeing that are likely to have a big impact on the education ecosystem in 2023.

See the links that we mentioned here.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, we're sharing a recent conversation between Tom Vander Ark and Louka Parry. Together they discuss the mission of school, credentials and records, generative AI, shifting towards regenerative models of learning and much more.

Louka Parry is CEO of The Learning Future, a company committed to transforming learning structures, systems and societies so that we better empower individuals to develop the key human capabilities that matter most now and into the future. Louka is also the host of The Learning Future Podcast, which we recommend you check out for more conversations about the future of learning.

Links:

• About Louka
• The Learning Future Podcast
• Salzburg Global Seminar
• Thomas Homer-Dixon on Commanding Hope and the Nature of Complexity Podcast
• Tim Klein and Belle Liang on How to Navigate Life
• Difference Making at the Heart of Learning
• Learning Creates Australia
• Da Vinci Schools
• Learning Economy Foundation
• Sam Seidel and Olatunde Sobomehin on the Creative Hustle and Blazing Your Own Path

Schools are supposed to prepare young people for the opportunities ahead of them, but oftentimes the opportunities move faster than the school systems. In the last few years some of the world's leading countries have made massive commitments to sustainability. Legislation like the Inflation Reduction Act has promised millions of new jobs in sustainability and, currently, our lack of labor force is a huge bottleneck in being able to meet the demands of these urgent legislative wins. What can schools do to create greener education to employment pathways and prepare younger generations for the jobs ahead?

Michelle Blanchet from Educator's Lab and Mason Pashia from Getting Smart recently hosted a roundtable discussion to help spotlight where we are now and where we need to get to.

The panelists on this event were:

1. Thomas Riggle, Denver Public Schools

2. Tish Tablan, Generation180

3. Shonique Banks, Philadelphia Energy

4. Jordan Crolly, Philadephia School District