Getting Smart Podcast | The Voices of Tomorrow’s Leaders
Student leaders at this year's iNACOL's Symposium shared how they reimagined and personalized their own educations to overcome many challenges in their lives and succeed in school. The post Getting...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Project Based Engineering at Olin College
In this episode of the Getting Smart podcast, Tom and Bonnie discuss how project-based learning is more important than ever for students to succeed and share an interview with Olin College of...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Two EdLeaders on Global, High-Quality PBL
In this episode of the podcast, Rody Boonchouy and Brandon Wiley from the Buck Institute for Education discuss the importance of global, high-quality PBL in the future of education. The post Getting...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | McGraw’s Stephen Laster on the Path Forward for EdTech
McGraw-Hill Education is a leader in adaptive learning. In this podcast, Stephen Laster, Chief Digital Officer at McGraw, discusses the "Platform Revolution" in technology and his predictions for...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Special Ed Teacher to White House Tech Advisor
In this podcast, Tom chats with Seth Andrew, who shares insights gained in his journey from teaching special education, to founding an ambitious school network serving 5000 students, to becoming a...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Teach to One: Inventing the Future of Math Learning
In 2007, Joel Rose conceived an idea for an innovative, blended way to teach middle school math. Today, it has spread to over 40 schools reaching 13,000 students. Here, Tom talks to Joel about the...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Zoran Popovic on Accelerated Learning with Smart Tools
In this episode of the podcast, Zoran Popovic, Director of the Center for Game Science at the University of Washington, chats about computer science, gaming, virtual reality and how we can help today's...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Google’s Jaime Casap on Inequity and Inquiry
Jaime Casap, Chief Education Evangelist at Google, shares more about inquiry-based learning, technology in education, bridging the digital divide and how a boy who grew up on welfare in Hell's Kitchen...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | District 51 On Building a Performance-Based Education...
In this episode of the podcast, Superintendent Steve Schultz and Executive Director of Performance-Based Systems Rebecca Midles share more on Mesa County Valley School District 51's efforts to shift to...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Mississippi District Personalizes Learning for...
In this episode of the podcast, we chat with Dr. Philip Hickman, Superintendent of the Columbus Municipal School District in rural Mississippi, about how Columbus is proof that personalized learning...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | 10 Leaders on High Quality PBL: Doing it Well at Scale
At a recent High-Quality PBL steering committee meeting, we had the chance to ask ten EdLeaders to share their thoughts for this podcast around the benefits of project-based learning and the challenges...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Participate’s David Young on Building Global...
David Young, CEO of Participate, sits down with Tom Vander Ark to discuss the importance of developing global competencies, providing quality teacher professional development and dual language learning...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Implementing Place-Based Education
The second podcast in our Place-Based Education campaign shares the perspectives of the teachers, leaders and learners at Teton Science Schools, with advice on how to implement PBE in your classroom,...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | How the Platform Revolution is Changing Life and...
Sangeet Paul Choudary, founder of Platformation Labs and the author of Platform Scale and Platform Revolution, joins us on the podcast to discuss what platforms are and what their future could look...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Partnerships Propel Readiness Results with a Focus on...
College Spark senior program officer Heather Gingrich and Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, discuss the importance of helping today's students become college, career and life...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Matt Candler on the #FutureofSchool
In this podcast, we share segments from a recent 4.0 Schools Community Summit keynote by CEO and founder Matt Candler, as well as his thoughts on the #FutureofSchool. The post Getting Smart Podcast |...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | The Voices of the iNACOL Symposium
In this episode of the podcast, we share the voices of several education leaders at the 2016 iNACOL Symposium on why they attend this annual event and their most exciting takeaways. The post Getting...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Rob Mancabelli on Using Data to Make Better Decisions
In this episode of the podcast, Rob Mancabelli, Co-founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Strategy Officer at BrightBytes, discusses the importance of providing educators with the right data for...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | Denver Public School System Exemplifies A Healthy...
In this podcast, Denver Public Schools education leaders share why their school system continues to lead when it comes to providing school choice for students and families. The post Getting Smart...
View ArticleGetting Smart Podcast | A Successful Quest For An Early College Solution
The principal and students of Quest Early College High School discuss how the Early College system works, the differences between attending Quest versus attending traditional high school and what they...
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