Remaking Tomorrow

Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, joins Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski to reflect on the work of the Alliance and describe what has been most effective in procuring resources for learning landscapes in communities across the U.S.

Young learners explore their world through play. It was Fred Rogers who said, “for children, play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” Listen to guests on past episodes of Remaking Tomorrow discuss the importance of play and learning for young people especially when done alongside trusted adults.

Josh Reppun, Global Community Director for What School Could Be and host of the What School Could Be podcast, joins Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski to reflect on changes through his career in education and highlights practices across the world that hearken to time-tested methods of learning where people learn by doing.

Paula Kerger, CEO of PBS joins Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski to talk about the ways educational broadcast media has changed over the years and what PBS is doing now for learners using many different media technology.

John B. King, Jr. joins Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski to talk about the importance of educators in his life. Through his own experiences as a teacher, administrator, the 10th US Secretary of Education under Barack Obama, and the 15th Chancellor of the State University of New York, John describes his hopes for a new generation of learners across the US.

Diego Arambula, vice president of Educational Transformation at Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching joins Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski to talk about the history of the Carnegie unit in education design and the reform that needs to happen for systems making a better tomorrow for learners.

Michael Preston, executive director of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop joins Gregg Behr and Ryan Rydzewski to talk about the ways the center is looking to draw together researchers and young people to co-design new and beneficial media experiences.

Ann Chavez, president of LEAP Innovations joins Gregg Behr to talk about the ways educators are newly equipped for providing holistic, tailored learning experiences for their students.

Kapono Ciotti of PEAK Schools Distinction and author of The Landscape Model of Learning joins Gregg Behr to talk about changing the metaphor by which learning can be seen for the benefit of preparing young people for a new and ever changing world.

Anne Brown, president and CEO of the Cook Center for Human Connection, joins Gregg Behr to talk about the work the Cook Center is doing to connect young people, parents and caregivers to mental health resources through schools.