Learning Unboxed

Rich Rosen is the Founder of Indigo Systems, an organization founded to mobilize practicing engineers to use systems analysis and design skills to address education problems in their local community.

At the heart of Rich’s work is the idea of “engineers helping educators,” and today we discuss the role of both engineers and organizational partnerships in our efforts to reimagine, rethink, and redesign the educational system.

We unbox:

• How Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future catalyzed Rich’s shift from healthcare to education
• Creating partnerships between education and businesses – and why it’s necessary
• “A good idea doesn’t spread just because it’s a good idea.”
• The built-in systems of constraints endemic to our schools
• Changing the landscape of education through a focus on STEM
• Finding the best and highest use of an organization, beyond money
• Bringing the concept of R&D to education
• Best practices for business-education partnerships that allow for creativity and create opportunity

Resources:

• Learn more at http://indigo-strategies.org/
• Connect with Rich on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rich-rosen-07825151/
• Read a summary: Rising Above the Gathering Storm, Revisited: Rapidly Approaching Category 5

Learning Unboxed is produced in part by Crate Media

Recorded by Eric French at WOSU Studios in Columbus, Ohio

Today we have two wonderful guests, Marcy Raymond and Jack McClintock, joining us to talk about creating startups with a meaningful impact on the world of education.

Marcy is serial school starter and a STEM education specialist with the Education Services Center of Central Ohio. She is a founder of Metro Early College High School (MECHS), which is Ohio’s very first STEM school and a platform for innovation in school design that many schools across the nation are now based on.

Jack is one of the first students to attend and graduate Metro, after which he received a bachelor’s from OSU’s Fisher College of Business and founded G&P Productions.

We unbox:

• The massive undertaking of starting a new school, especially one with such an innovative design philosophy
• Why doing school differently is a “moral imperative”
• The goal of The Metro School, and all of the schools that have followed its model
• The uphill battle of STEM education
• Why Jack took the risk and jumped in as a founding student of Metro
• Partnering with OSU, the Battelle Memorial Institute, and the Educational Council to start MECHS
• Battelle’s “opportunity gap”
• Why the school is, by design, for all kids – not just “the smart kids”
• The conversation around starting similar schools in other communities
• Why students are more engaged at MECHS
• The habits they teach at MECHS to help students be persistent in any environment
• Looking to the future, what do the next iterations of STEM schools look like?
• The poem that Marcy read on the first day of school, “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”
• Education is dynamic and it cannot be standardized – and as a society, we have to figure out how to effectively provide that to everyone

Resources:

• Learn more at https://www.themetroschool.org/
• The Metro School on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Metro-Early-College-High-School-171761588940/
• The Metro School on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MetroHS
• Check out https://www.gpproductions.tv
• Connect with Jack on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jack-mcclintock-8991592b/
• Read: “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”

Learning Unboxed is produced in part by Crate Media

Recorded by Eric French at WOSU Studios in Columbus, Ohio

We hear, frequently, that the global education system is broken, and as a result, we spend billions of dollar trying to fix it. But the K-12 system isn’t actually broken at all – it’s working exactly as it was designed, 100 years ago, and it’s obsolete.

So in Learning Unboxed, we will have a conversation about teaching, learning, and the future of work; we will reimagine, rethink, and redesign our educational system. And we invite you to join us.

Your host on this journey is Annalies Corbin – the Founder, President, CEO, & Chief Goddess of the PAST Foundation – and we will be joined by experts, innovators, and entrepreneurs who are wrestling with this conversation, and who have a whole set of creative designs and solutions.

Resources:

• Learn more at https://www.pastfoundation.org
• Connect with Annalies: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

Learning Unboxed is produced by Podcast Masters