Raising Problem Solvers

Deana Creiss, Former Director of ImprovBoston's National Touring Company and currently Sr. Organizational Development Specialist at Perkins School for the Blind, joins the podcast to discuss why learning the improv mechanism of "yes, and" is such a critical skill for problem solvers to learn, and easy ways to incorporate improv into the school day.

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Matthew Rascoff, Vice Provost for Digital Education at Stanford University, talks about the positive learnings from the pandemic's emergency remote learning experiment, the boundary being broken between in-school and after-school learning, and the future of digital education.

Dr. Eugenia Cheng, mathematician, educator, author of How to Bake Pi, public speaker, columnist, concert pianist, artist, Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Honorary Visiting Fellow at City, University of London, talks about simplifying and destigmatizing advanced math and restoring the deeper beauty of math to the next generation of students.

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Richard Rusczyk, Founder and CEO at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), joins the podcast to talk about how the existing academic gap in our classrooms turned into a chasm after the pandemic year and how Art of Problem Solving families are navigating this new reality.

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