Learning Forward

Episode #58: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Lakshya Datta, an entrepreneur, writer and podcaster. He is the founder of Launchora, a storytelling platform and narrative podcast company, home to 200,000 storytellers and six podcasts. He is the host of the Jaipur Literature Festival podcast, Jaipur Bytes. Before setting up Launchora, Datta was a lecturer at San Diego State University. As for his previous full-time gigs, he taught finance and valuation at San Diego State University for a while. Before that, he even worked at a couple of M&A Advisory firms in San Diego. In 10 years, he has written over 60 works of fiction, and about 80 works of nonfiction. Most of those are published on Launchora and the ones that aren't are probably going to come out soon in different formats. Lakshya hosted Sandeep's first-ever podcast! There is talk about peer learning and in lighter vein about the guru in each one of us. The master story-teller in this special show for the new year talks about curiosity, how as thinking species humans have a never-ending quest for taking learning forward. He even risks to tell you what might happen in 2021.

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Recording of an interesting Insta Live session with Dipali Patwa, Group Head of Brand & Community, Fabindia, Board of Directors, Organic India USA along and Sandeep Dutt, Chairman of the Board that runs The Fabindia School, Author, Entrepreneur, Mountaineer as they talk about “School, where passion meets education.”  They share their views on the launch of his new book – ‘My Good School’, education at the grass-root level, and the work Sandeep has done with The Fabindia school with a focus on building professional learning communities at schools. The conversation brings to life real-world learning, how parents must work to help their children experience the joy of learning; why happy teachers are the real change-makers and why we must be learners for life!

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Episode#57: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Nicholas J. Martino, Country Lead and Ambassador Hundred, an impact-driven educational consultant and curriculum architect. After teaching anthropology and leading global learning expeditions for a decade, Nick now works to implement higher-level educational change as founder of the Authentic Learning Lab and NJM Global Consulting. Nick has worked to design the Changemaker Curriculum at THINK Global School & BIT School (Mexico City) while consulting with various global schools and non-profit organisations. In 2009, he was awarded the title of Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction. In 2011, he was recognised as Washington Post Teacher of the Year and Virginia's Stafford County Teacher of the Year. Nicholas shares his story that spans from India to Australia, to Europe and across the world. His focus is on helping teacher training and opening doors to help give a great learning experience with phenomena based learning. 

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Episode #56: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Colman Ho, Country Lead and Ambassador for Hundred, a serial entrepreneur, specialises in sales and marketing with experience in media & advertising, travel & hospitality, education & entertainment, eCommerce & IT industries across three continents. In his career, continuous learning is in the core of his works. His passion for inclusion, empathy and endurance directed him to a job that includes merging impactful innovation with education. Colman is currently a partner of investment advisories from Europe and Asia, helping edtech, deeptech and travel tech to grow globally via strategic partnership, investment and marketing. He is also a mentor of HK Science and Technology Park, advisor of companies in China, Switzerland, Singapore and Hong Kong in communication, wellness and co-working sectors. His organisation is trying to bring together tech companies from all over the to help solve the challenges we face to tackle our day-to-day learning challenges. Colman works to understand people and learn something new every day; he believes that better intellectual skills will help anticipate the future; for this, we need to listen, see and solve the pain points.

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Episode #55: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Juan Manuel Pico, an International business executive with 29 years of professional experience in Business Development and Corporate Public Relations in Fortune 500 Tech companies. During the last 10 years, he has been devoted to Educational Projects in low-income public schools in Latin America, closing the digital skill gap through World-class EdTech platforms. In 2016, he co-founded Education Soul, a private company that has impacted more than 20,000 children, leveraged by Artificial Intelligence engines. He holds a B.S. in Business from Los Andes University in Colombia, and an Executive MBA from Boston University. Currently, he serves as HundrED Ambassador and Country Lead. Find out how he uses AI to bridge the digital divide and deliver a personalized learning experience in Columbia.

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Episode #54: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Luciana Pölönen, a multifaceted professional with over 10 years of experience in the fields of education, innovation, and social entrepreneurship. She has spent her 20s in Finland where she got her Master of Arts at the University of Helsinki, majoring in Literature and Education, minor in Gender Studies, Early Childhood Education, and Multicultural Competencies. She had the opportunity to co-found a cooperative for service design and participated in several social entrepreneurial ventures. She currently serves as the Head of Service Design at the national level for Escola Concept schools in Brazil. Luciana believes in equity in education through strategic design. Country Lead and HundrED Ambassador, she shares with us her experience and what goes into the making of an Educator. Luciana talks about her experience with Early Childhood Education, the need to understand gender in early years and how we need to respect the childhood of the child, without undue focus on preparing the child for life.

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Episode #53: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Derek Bartels Hundred Ambassador of the year 2021, Australia Country Lead and currently the Director of Innovation & Technology for the Lutheran Education Queensland district of schools in Australia. He has connected, promoted and been involved with HundrED since early 2017. Over the last 34 years, he has held a variety of local, state and national positions within a variety of Education Systems and Sectors. Derek’s current focus includes enabling educational leaders and teachers across schools to transform their culture and practice to enact contemporary learning transformation so that all learners are highly engaged, relevant and happy in today’s world. He believes this is possible when leveraging and developing a systemic culture across schools which is highly collaborative, agile and cohesive. Find out how we can bring learning to life for children, rich and relevant teaching, adults need to model and work as teams. Use failure to celebrate learning, stand and deliver is dead, experiential learning is the way ahead.

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Episode#52: Sandeep Dutt on a conversation with Meline Grigoryan, an Armenian based education researcher and trainer. She is the Manager of Education Programs at Children of Armenia Fund, Yerevan (COAF) a non-profit organization seeking to advance rural communities by improving education, healthcare, economic development, and village life. With 12 years of experience in education and research, Meline believes that education should be fulfilled with positive and motivational aspects. Meline has gained her experience in the education field being a teacher, teacher trainer, program manager, author and more. She has pursued her Bachelor’s philology and pedagogy, Masters in Public Administration and PhD in Inclusive education Management from Brusov State University (Yerevan). With her skills in Strategic Planning, Higher Education, Languages, Marketing Communications and Inclusive education, she is working to give wings to teachers, as she feels they need to be flexible and be ready to bring about change. With a tradition of well-being and happiness, communities can overcome any challenge.  As Hundred Ambassador, she is a changemaker and a very compassionate person, working to make the world a better place for the generations to come.

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Episode #51: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Edoardo Montenegro, a Hundred Ambassador and Country Lead. Edoardo has a strong passion for learning and a deep love for community, change and communication management. He developed his professional skills working for the banking industry in Italy, where he learned to plan and execute communication projects in marketing and HR. Once he understood the impact innovation has on companies and society, he gave space to his entrepreneurial vocation. He co-founded Betwyll, an ed-tech startup that fosters reading through social networking, working with more than 600 schools and universities worldwide. All this led him to Northern Europe, where he learned to work both as a tech entrepreneur and an ecosystem builder.

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Episode #50: Sandeep Dutt in conversation with Denise Glyn Borders, the President - CEO of Learning Forward. She has served as president of SRI Education, where she led three centres – Learning and Development, Technology and Learning, and Education Policy. Previously, Borders was senior vice president and director of the U.S. Education and Workforce Development Group at FHI 360, a global human development organization with an evidence-based research approach. Earlier, Borders was a senior vice president at AED (formerly the Academy for Educational Development), where she oversaw U.S. program operations in education, early childhood development, research and evaluation, and education policy and practice. She also served as president and CEO of The McKenzie Group. She served as associate director of the Office of Research, Evaluation, Assessment, and Professional Development for the Department of Defense Education Activity. She was also chief of Educational Accountability and Assistant Superintendent for Baltimore City Public Schools and a National/Federal Government Evaluation Consultant at CTB/McGraw-Hill Publishing. In addition, Borders has been a curriculum specialist, teacher supervisor, classroom teacher, and university lecturer. Borders currently serves on the Board of Trustees for Teachers College, Columbia University, and for AdvancED. Borders shares how year 50 at Learning Forward is special and what the organisation is doing to revise the Standards Of Professional Learning after almost 25 years. The vision of the Standards is to serve the foundation of Learning Foward, what it stands for and the fourth revision will focus on educator practice and student results. Professional Learning is the prime vehicle to embody the success of educators, in the current times, the new digital skills and technology will really make all the difference. With 45 of experience, from a teacher to the CEO of The Professional Learning Association, there is no one better than Denise Glyn Borders for our show number 50.

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