Interviews

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Effective Leadership

In this episode, Dr. White discusses the challenges of being a leader, the importance of education for underserved communities, how competition improves school performance and gives insight into teacher shortages.

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The Deployment Age of EdTech, with Amit Patel

In this episode, we talk about how the education technology infrastructure investments years ago create the conditions for the EdTech boom today.

The World of Education

Return on Education: access, costs, outcomes and leverage, with Deborah Quazzo

In this episode, we look at EdTech trends post-pandemic, glean a couple of key takeaways from the latest ASU+GSV summit, speculate on the race to the first $100B EdTech company, and, most importantly, talk about Return on Education and what a ROE school would look like.

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The opportunity of last-mile job training

In this episode, we talk about how people's focus is shifting from the inputs to the output of education, how personalization is a misplaced idea, and how to successfully invest in job-training for young people.

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Where games end and social learning begins, with Mercedes Bent

In this episode, we explore how EdTech is shifting and giving more power to parents and students. We look at social learning and gaming, which together offer a lot of promise for the future of education.

The World of Education

Decentralized Schools, with Rebecca Kaden

In this episode, we talk about how new technology can decentralize many aspects of what school is today, so that the learning experience can really feel individual for each student.

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The Unique EdTech Business Models Coming Out of Europe

In this episode, we talk about the evolving EdTech landscape in Europe as well as the unique attributes of rising European education companies.

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🔎 Really Understand Who You Are Serving, with Jinal Jhaveri

In this episode, we talk about Jinal's lessons growing Schoolmint, how he channeled the tailwinds of the school choice movements, and what his experience can offer for schools today.

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Will the Consumerization of Education Continue?

In this episode, Jennifer and I talk about how student engagement is an outcome of strong pedagogy. We then describe a new generation of global education companies that are partnering with school districts.

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Why The Teacher's Job Should Be Unbundled

Build something kids will love and then figure out how to accomplish academic objectives within this highly motivated kind of environment. I like that as a first principle of building a new school.

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From Transferring Knowledge to Transforming Students, with Andrew Barry, Founder of Curious Lion

In this episode, we learn how everyone can design online learning experiences to repeatably effect transformations in their students' lives. Then we try to sketch out a future of what happens when more and more teachers can generate these transformations, what a world that will be!

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🧭 Roadmap Club, a Feedback Loop All Schools Should Have

In this episode, we catch up after our first chat 2 years ago. Then the school was just starting, now there is an innovative yet mature high school operating entirely online. It is the first digital-native high school I have studied closely, so I wanted to dig into their entire operating system.

Engaging Your Community

420 Learning Guides Coach Learners Towards Mastery, with Kelly Smith, CEO at Prenda

Our guest today is Kelly Smith. He is the founder and CEO of Prenda schools, a network of microschools that is spreading like wildfire across state lines, bringing project-based learning and mastery-based education to a neighborhood near you.

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The Tutoring Rocketship Investing in Quality, Affordability & Convenience

In this episode, we talk about the origin story of GoStudent, Felix's views on what makes a learning experience successful, his tips on operating a growing educational institutions, and his regional and global plans to consolidate the fragmented tutoring market.

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Full-stack, deep learning that feels like an emoji shower 🎉🎉

A coach appears as the governor of Wisconsin, a task force is put on a major water problem. Is it a classroom or a Hollywood set? Kids get clues and reports. Curiosity and motivation kick in. They launch a PR campaign, a budget...oh, and hit all their learning goals as well.

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Learning Re-Imagined For The Web, with Ryan Delk

In this episode, we discuss Ryan's ambitious plans for the future of Primer, how parents are equally important to kids in the learning equation, why observing the "user-experience" is so important, why not stratifying by age creates some sort of magic and much more.

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Product-Teacher-Family Fit, With Brian Tobal, CEO SchoolHouse

"The founding principle is that the teacher's attention is the most valuable piece in the educational brew or ecosystem. If you really want to have a high quality educational experience, you'd increase the amount of teacher attention that each child is receiving." - Brian Tobal

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Thrive Book Review: Promise and Deliver

It has become popular to sneer at our education system’s factory model. We call for the death of schools in favor of Airbnb-like learning communities.

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Making Education Free for Students, with Trevor McKendrick

Our guest today is Trevor McKendrick, Chief of Staff at Lambda School, where students graduate and get the job because they got the skills - and it’s free until they get a job paying over $50K.

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Out of the Textbook and Into the Flow, with Joel Rose

In education, the obvious place to cut your teeth is as a teacher. Joel Rose knows the classroom well.

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The Real Way Technology Will Impact Our Classrooms, with Matt Greenfield

From where do contemporary, resilient changes begin - from a top-down mandate, or from a bottom-up, tech-driven evolution?

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How to Join the Education Revolution, with Clark Aldrich

Our guest today, Clark Aldrich, is on the frontline of the learning revolution. He is the author of five books and is known for award-winning projects building custom “Short Sims” using a methodology he has pioneered.

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How to Access the “Three Buckets of Money,” with Michele Timmons

Having connected her clients to over $200 million in grants through the work done by her company - EnvisionEdPlus, Michele Timmons is the right person to go to for an in-depth look at the funding panorama. She is passionate about helping schools support young people to thrive in school and beyond.

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Four Steps to Sustainably Engage Foundations, with Yossi Prager

AVI CHAI has invested over $300 million to benefit Jewish education through a wide variety of programs.

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How a Twelve-Year-Old Student Won a $180K Grant, with Sohne Van Selus

Sohne and Andrew discuss the ways that a school can design and define it’s “brand,” and get the whole community in-sync and talking about it so that “cascading” results will follow.