Getting Smart Podcast

Jeff Sandefer, co-founder of Austin-based Acton Academy, shares more with Tom Vander Ark about this K-12 student-centered private school where adults rarely make an appearance in the classroom, and students are tasked with "finding a calling to change the world."

Paul Castro, Director of School Performance for Houston A+ UP, discusses the challenges and rewards of innovating outside the box when creating a new school, and what that can mean for families, teachers and students.

Gordon Jones, Dean of Boise State University’s College of Innovation and Design, discusses how the college focuses on incubating the most innovative and exciting ideas in higher education today.

Greg Ponikvar and Alex Horowitz of Summit Olympus in Tacoma, Washington, share more about their school's personalized learning program for ninth and tenth graders designed to empower them to drive their own learning and prepare them for college and career success.

Ginger Noyes, Quest Early College High School principal, discusses how the Early College system works and how their students are performing in both high school and college. Four Quest students also share why they love attending this school and compare their current experience to attending a traditional high school.

Denver Public Schools Superintendent Tom Boasberg; Board Members Barbara O’Brien and Happy Haynes; and KIPP Colorado Executive Director Kimberlee share why DPS continues to lead when it comes to providing school choice for students and families.

Rob Mancabelli, Co-founder, Chairman of the Board & Chief Strategy Officer at BrightBytes, chats with Tom Vander Ark about providing educators with the right data when they’re making important decisions that can boost student achievement.

In this episode of the podcast, we share the voices of several education leaders at the 2016 iNACOL Symposium on why they attend this annual event and their most exciting takeaways.

Matt Candler, CEO and founder of 4.0 Schools, shares segments from his recent Community Summit keynote as well as Tom's personal interview with him afterward on the #FutureofSchool.

College Spark senior program officer Heather Gingrich and Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, discuss the importance of helping today's students become college, career and life ready, and how a partnership approach to this goal is really the best option.