Kat Pastor, 2016 School Counselor of the year from Flagstaff, Arizona, joins ours hosts in the studio for an insightful discussion on #RedForEd teacher walkouts and education challenges faced by rural students. Your dose of daily positivity is provided by our weekly moments of hope!

On this week’s special episode, our hosts are joined by Janel Young from the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education to honor one of the best days of the year: College Signing Day. The conversation around the day’s history and the importance of this celebration is bound to brighten your day. As always, we close with our moments of hope.

This week, we talk to Barbara Duffield, Executive Director of SchoolHouse Connection and Stefanie Cruz, Vice President of Marketing and Digital Strategy at America’s Promise, about Education Leads Home, a national campaign building a stronger future for homeless students. An insightful conversation on homelessness in education followed by our moments of hope!

We are back on the road with a whole episode talking about technology and design in education. Helping us talk through the issues and solutions are Richard Culatta, CEO of the International Society for Technology in Education and Karen Cator, CEO of Digital Promise. Join us for moments of hope, stories from the Department of ED, and more!

This week, author and education advocate, Ted Dintersmith, shares insights from visiting schools across all 50 states in his new book What School Could Be with our hosts. As always, join us for our moments of hope!

This week, Stephanie and Eric debrief on Eric's recent experience on a service trip to Puerto Rico. We get to hear all about his trip to restore an elementary school - six months after Hurricane Maria - where he interviews Arne Duncan, Former Secretary of Education and two local third graders. Join us for an inspiring episode!

This week we tackle the most pressing civil rights challenges in our nation’s schools with Catherine Lhamon, Chair of U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and Former Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education. Tune in as we talk about inequity, restorative justice, Title IX rollbacks, and as always, don’t miss out on our moments of hope.

In our first-ever field segment, Eric Waldo hits SXSW Education and interviews education innovators from around the country. But before that, the hosts unpack and react to Secretary Betsy Devos’s 60 Minutes interview.

Join us this week as we examine the Obama Administration’s biggest challenges and accomplishments regarding American Indian affairs and the issues that face the education of Native American children and students, today. This week, we have a special host filling in for Eric Waldo: Don Yu, Director of the Better Make Room initiative and former Chief Transformation Officer at the Bureau of Indian Education. As always, stick around for our moments of hope.

On this episode, we talk about the Parkland students engaging, organizing, and leading a movement. How is this moment different than Sandy Hook or other school shootings? Also, we’re joined by Angie Jerabek, Founder and Executive Director of the BARR Center, as she talks about how schools can improve student performance through building better relationships.