Getting Smart Podcast

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.

Sandy Speicher, partner and managing director of education at IDEO, chats with Tom around what design thinking is and why it’s so important for teachers and education leaders right now.

Sangeet Paul Choudary, founder of Platformation Labs and the author of Platform Scale and Platform Revolution, joins Tom Vander Ark on the podcast to discuss what platforms are and what their future looks like in education.

The second podcast in our Place-Based Education campaign shares the perspectives of the teachers, leaders and learners at Teton Science Schools, with advice on how to implement PBE in the classroom, school, campus and community.

David Young, CEO of Participate, sits down with Tom Vander Ark to discuss the importance of developing global competencies, providing quality teacher professional development and dual language learning for today's students. We challenge you to join us in creating a #SmartPlanet. Be a globally connected educator and invite others to join too. Sign up at https://www.participate.com/ to access FREE online resources and join in the conversation with other globally aware educators.

High-quality project-based learning is not easy to implement, so the Getting Smart team is supporting a coalition of over 100 organizations and people to create guidelines to help educators do so. At a recent steering committee meeting, we asked ten EdLeaders about the benefits of project-based learning and the challenges to more high-quality PBL at scale, and share their thoughts in this podcast.