In this episode, we’re speaking with William Zhou, co-founder and CEO of Chalk, an education technology company whose integrated planning and analytics platform for curriculum and instruction that utilizes real-time data to help schools improve their processes — and support better student results — now. William and his co-founder created Chalk while they were university students, as a step toward…Read more

In this episode, we’re speaking with Marc Porter Magee about his recent publication in a new initiative from FutureED and 50CAN focused on advocacy. Marc is the founder and CEO of 50CAN, the 50 State Campaign for Achievement Now. Over the past eight years, Marc has led 50CAN to more than 100 policy victories through advocacy campaigns in more than…Read more

In this episode, we’re speaking with Keara Mascareñz.  Keara is a co-author of The NEW Team Habits: A Guide to the New School Rules, a book based on her work with hundreds of schools and districts about how to achieve school goals through teamwork and innovation. Keara is the creator of the New School Rules toolkit, works with Education Elements as…Read more

In this episode, we’re speaking with Armand Doucet, about his new book, Teaching Life: Our Calling, Our Choices, Our Challenges.  Teaching Life brings the voices of teachers into the global conversation about educational reform to offer a how-to for implementing into classrooms design thinking, technology integration and a holistic education based on competencies, social-emotional learning and the literacies.  Armand is one of the…Read more

In this episode, we are speaking with Juliana Finegan, about her recent “Problem of Practice” series on teacher onboarding in innovative learning environments. Juliana is a managing partner at The Learning Accelerator, a nonprofit that advocates equitable education through the use of data and technology in order to implement personalized and blended education strategies at scale. A proponent for personalized learning,…Read more

In this episode, we are speaking with Dr. Cathi Fuhrman, Dustin Brackbill and Dr. Corey Hall, school librarians and leaders in the Pennsylvania School Librarians Association (PSLA). We’ll be discussing the recently developed Guidelines for PA School Library Programs and how they integrate with the new National School Library Standards Framework from the American Association of School Libraries (AASL).  Dr.…Read more