Who Needs School?

Capital One Senior Banker and Vice President Joshua Hunt and I discuss the implications of the hidden history of the Tulsa Race Massacre, his own family's story as part of the great migration of Black Americans out of the South, and how schools can address issues of race in the classroom.

Adria Renke is the President of Brophy College Prep in Phoenix, Arizona, and has decades of experience in education. We have a wide ranging conversation about the importance of curiosity, organization and confidence in a young person's educational journey.

Adria also has a interesting perspective on worldwide diversity and the role our schools can play in forming citizens of the world. And finally, we talk about the importance of belonging to a people and of learning a moral code in the educational experience. 

A quick editor's note. I mentioned two books in this podcast:

The first is Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson. And the second is How to Win in a Winner-Take-All World by Neil Irwin.

Paul is the co-author of Charting a New Course: Reinventing High School Classes for the new Millennium. A long time English teacher and editor of St. Ignatius's Alumni magazine, Genesis magazine, Paul created a course that he team taught called Nature/Nexus. He discusses his evolution from classroom teacher to guide.

Jim shares how he turned a library into an innovation commons at Brophy Prep in Phoenix, how he's formalized innovation in the curriculum at Creighton Prep in Omaha as the head of school, and how formation is as important as education in secondary education.

The Catholic order of priests known as the Jesuits have been renown educators worldwide for over 450 years. What is their secret to success? Fr. Reese discusses cura personalis or "care for the whole person" at the center of a Jesuit education.

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After decades of building a leadership consulting business, Jeff Snipes is creating the Millennium Way through the start up middle school, The Millennium School in San Francisco. Started in 2016, the Millennium School strives to form students' minds, bodies and souls in a wholistic experience meant to prepare thoughtful leaders.

As a San Francisco Bay Area Design Thinking expert, Dr. Sam Yen shares his thoughts on how schools might use design thinking to teach deep critical thinking and inspire students to tackle today's most pressing issues and opportunities.

Conversations about the future of education.