Getting Smart Podcast

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is supported by LME Global's Learning Blueprint. Find out more at lme.global/smart.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom is joined by Tanya Sheckley, author of the new book Rebel Educator: Create Classrooms Where Impact and Imagination Meet.

Tanya Sheckley is the Founder and President of UP Academy – a progressive elementary lab school in San Mateo, California. UP Academy is reinventing education by customizing learning for each student, integrating project-based learning throughout its curriculum, and supporting students with disabilities to attend school alongside able-bodied students in mixed-age classrooms.

Links:

• Tanya Sheckley
• Rebel Educator Podcast
• Rebel Educator

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by David McRaney, author of the new book How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion and the host of the You Are Not So Smart Podcast.

Links:

• About You Are Not So Smart
• You Are Not So Smart Podcast
• How Minds Change
• How Minds Change Discussion Guide
• Clash by Caravan Palace
• James Burke
• Jay Van Bavel
• The dress debate
• SURFPAD
• Genetic Epistemology by Jean Piaget

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by author and instructional specialist Miriam Plotinsky to discuss her new book Teach More, Hover Less.

Miriam is a strong advocate for student-centered learning, she provides coaching and professional development for teachers and administrators. Plotinsky is widely published in Education Week, Edutopia, ASCD Express, The Teaching Channel, EdSurge, K–12 Talk, and Education World. She is also a National Board Certified Teacher with additional certification in administration and supervision.

Links:

• Author website
• Teach More, Hover Less
• List of articles by Miriam
• Miriam Plotinsky Twitter
• Catlin Tucker - Take Learning Sideways
• Rachel Portman - Chocolat Soundtrack

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, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Mike Magee, the president of Minerva University. Previously, Mike spent time largely in edpolicy at Rhode Island School of Design, Rhode Island Mayoral Academies, and Chiefs for Change.

Minerva University is a 10 year old independent, non-profit, accredited institution of higher education. It was formed in partnership with a venture-backed startup called the Minerva Project and incubated at Keck Graduate Institute.

Links:

• Mike Magee About
• Mike Magee Twitter
• Minerva University
• Minerva Project
• Ben Nelson
• Forum Platform
• Minerva University Sustainability Minor
• Seabound Carbon Capture
• Master of Science in Decision Analysis

Some of Mike's Favorite Poems:

• Emily Dickinson - I dwell in Possibility
• Gwendolyn Brooks - Boy Breaking Glass

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.

The recent Getting Smart Town Hall focused on Education 3.0 (ed3), aka how Web3 will likely empower a new generation of learning. We were joined by founder of K20Education, Vriti Saraf as well as Mike Peck, Vriti's co-founder of ed3DAO. This event covered how the web has evolved and how that has similarly mapped onto the education model.

NOTES:

• NEW Unbundled Publication
• View Full Recap
• Links From the Town Hall
• What Can Decentralized Organizations Accomplish in Education?
• Three Ways Web3 Will Change Education For Good

There are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations in the United States today, nearly three million people, but their stories have largely been omitted from the nation's history.

On this episode of UnTextbooked, producer Gavin Scott interviews acclaimed historian and activist, Professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and takes a look at U.S. History through the lens of Indigenous Peoples and unpacks what we've been missing as a nation without their perspective.

BOOK: An Indigenous People's History of the United States

GUEST: Professor Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

PRODUCER: Gavin Scott

MUSIC: Silas Bohen and Coleman Hamilton

PRODUCTION: Pod People - Hannah Pedersen, Danielle Roth, Shaneez Tyndall, and Michael Aquino.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Chris McNutt and Nick Covington, two leaders of the Human Restoration Project, an initiative aimed at transforming school systems towards human-centered policies that promote well-being and powerful learning.

Links:

• Chris McNutt
• Nick Covington
• Human Restoration Project Podcast
• 100 Days of Conversation Podcast
• Human Restoration Project Conference
• Human Restoration Project PD
• UN Sustainable Development Goals
• Difference Making | Getting Smart

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, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Don Haddad, the Superintendent at St. Vrain Valley Schools and Dr. Jackie Kapushion, the Deputy Superintendent.

Together, they discuss the various pathways initiatives of St. Vrain Valley Schools, the role of a superintendent and how to scale innovation.

Links:

• Don Haddad LinkedIn
• St. Vrain Valley Schools
• Jackie Kapushion Twitter
• Jackie Kapushion LinkedIn
• P-Teach
• P-Tech
• Career Elevation and Technology Center
• Bill Ritter Getting Smart Podcast
• Next-Gen Career Prep at St. Vrain Innovation Center

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is supported by LME Global's Learning Blueprint. Find out more at lme.global/smart.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Alex Budak, a UC Berkeley Haas faculty member and now the author of a new book called Becoming a Changemaker: An Actionable, Inclusive Guide to Leading Positive Change at Any Level.

Links:

• Alex Budak LinkedIn
• Alex Budak Website
• Becoming a Changemaker (Amazon)
• Difference Making
• Bryan Stevenson
• Changemaker Index
• Sam McCracken
• N7 Shoe
• Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
• ACEs

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by a group of guests to discuss the promise of science fairs and why science deep dives should be part of every learner's experience. In 2020 we spoke with Maya Ajmera, CEO of the Society for Science and host of the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair (ISEF) and Regeneron Science Talent Search. Our three guests for this podcast are:

Priscilla Lumbreras is a science teacher in Granbury ISD and an alumni of the Society's Advocate Program as well as a STEM Research Grantee.

Anika Puri is a grad of Horace Greeley High School in Chappaqua, New York and a freshman at MIT. She is also the recent winner of the Peggy Scripps Award for Science Communication at Regeneron ISEF.

Laalitya Acharya is a Regeneron Science Talent Search and ISEF alumni, a student at Columbia and an intern at Regeneron.

Links:

• Regeneron Science Talent Search

• Horace Greeley High School

• The Nereid Project

• MozAIrt

• Maya Ajmera

• Society for Science

• Granbury ISD