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Episode 95: Shaping Future Citizens Through Dialogue With Mia Charity Available November 3, 2026 What’s the difference between deliberation and debate? And how can teaching students to practice deliberation help them form valuable civic and life skills? That’s the work Mia Charity leads through the Close Up Foundation, and which she describes in conversation with host Debra Wilson on this episode...

Episode 94: A Member View on AI in Schools With Brent Kaneft of Wilson Hall School Available October 27, 2026 In this Member View EDU episode, host Andi Gabrick sits down with Brent Kaneft, Head of School at Wilson Hall in South Carolina, to get his thoughts on how AI is impacting schools, and how Brent approaches his headship in an era of rapidly evolving technologies. Guest: Brent Kaneft Resourc...

Episode 93: Educational Design in the Age of AI With Carl Hendrick Available October 20, 2026 “I think the big rupture that's happened in education recently is AI.” That’s how Carl Hendrick begins his conversation with host Debra Wilson, identifying a clear dividing line between the educators who approach AI as “this is the end of the world,” and those who see the potential for its use. Coming...

Episode 92: Reducing Harm in a Digital World With Dr. Barry Davis and Laura Tierney Available October 13, 2026 As technology advances at an unprecedented pace, school leaders have to make rapid decisions about how to manage the risks and opportunities in real time. What can we learn from the history of public health prevention strategies about proactive risk management, and how can we help kids co...

Episode 91: The Digital Delusion With Jared Cooney Horvath Available October 6, 2026 “Our children are less cognitively capable than we were at their age.” This startling premise begins Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath’s book, The Digital Delusion, and is the starting point for his conversation with New View EDU host Debra Wilson. From there, they delve into the neuroscience behind the claim, and how an e...

Episode 90: The Future of Digital Literacy With Yvette Renteria of Common Sense Media Available May 5, 2026 So much of our focus as educators has begun to turn towards the digital space. How we can leverage technology and innovation to improve educational outcomes, but also how to keep students safe and thriving in a fast-paced digital world, are overwhelming and sometimes seemingly contradictory...

Episode 89: Lessons from Retiring Heads With Joan Hill and Russell Shaw Available April 28, 2026 School leadership has always been a dynamic, evolving role, but never more so than in the past several years. As everything about education and the surrounding landscape changes rapidly, the role of a head of school requires more flexibility, tolerance for ambiguity, and innovation than ever before. On...

Episode 88: Navigating Disruption through Collaboration With Chad Tew Available April 21, 2026 It’s no secret that independent schools face ongoing challenges, from enrollment to governance to changing norms and social pressures. The schools that continue to thrive are generally the ones that adapt and innovate without losing their sense of tradition and identity. But that’s certainly easier said...

Episode 87: Making How Matter With Julie Williamson Available April 14, 2026 Leadership sometimes feels like a lonely job with lots of competing tasks, but few clear guideposts. Even with the most meticulous planning, we often know conceptually what needs to happen, but falter in articulating how all the pieces will come together. Author, strategist, and consultant/coach Julie Williamson joins hos...

Episode 86: Exploring Community Collaborations With Guybe Slangen and Jennifer Cherney Available April 7, 2026 As independent schools strive to ever expand their impact on their communities and the world, what creative models exist to help them achieve their public purpose? On this episode of New View EDU, host Morva McDonald invites Guybe Slangen of Horizons National to speak about the innovative...

Episode 85: Securing Legacy Through Endowment With George Suttles Available March 31, 2026 In a time of constant uncertainty, planning for the future of a school community can feel like a never-ending game of whack-a-mole. Big picture strategy and mission dominate our aspirations, but it’s the day-to-day tactical decisions that carry immediate weight. George Suttles of the Commonfund Institute joi...

Episode 84: Good Conflict with Amanda Ripley and Hélène Biandudi Hofer Available March 24, 2026 Is conflict always something to be avoided? Amanda Ripley and Hélène Biandudi Hofer, journalists and trained conflict mediators, are on a mission to answer that question, and to help shift both narratives and practices around how we recognize and engage with conflict in our everyday lives. They sit down...

Episode 83: Mattering LIVE Episode With Jennifer Wallace Available January 22, 2026 What if we could unlock the secret to a life of deep connection and purpose? That’s the premise of Jennifer Wallace’s new book, Mattering. In this special live edition of New View EDU, recorded on January 15, 2026, Jennifer shares everything she has learned about the importance of mattering with NAIS President Debr...

Episode 82: The New Dream Schools With Jeff Selingo Available November 18, 2025 What is a “Dream School?” Almost since the college admissions process began, students have had ideas about where they dream they’ll end up after high school, and increasingly, those “dream schools” have existed on a very short list of what we think of as prestigious, name-brand institutions. But what if we’re wrong abo...

Episode 81: How AI Changes Everything and Nothing With Peter Nilsson Available November 11, 2025 Right now, it may feel as though AI has changed everything about education. It has, says Peter Nilsson – but it has also changed nothing. That’s the paradox at the core of his forthcoming co-authored book, Irreplaceable: How AI Changes Everything and Nothing about Teaching and Learning. He sits down wi...

In this episode from NAIS podcast Member Voices, Jackie Wolking speaks with Autumn Adkins Graves, head of St. Anne's-Belfield School (VA). In their conversation, Graves shares the importance of curiosity in the age of artificial intelligence, and how her school created a portrait of a graduate with a futurist lens. She also talks about change management and how we affirm what's working well to mov...

Episode 80: The Future of Inclusion With Kenji Yoshino Available October 28, 2025 In this time of rapidly evolving law and opinion around terms like diversity, equity, and inclusion, what is the work of school leaders who believe in building stronger, more connected, more inclusive communities? Legal scholar and author Kenji Yoshino is the author of a forthcoming book called How Equality Wins: A N...

Episode 79: The Disengaged Teen With Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop Available October 21, 2025 Why do so many students seem to lose their love of learning when they reach adolescence? Is there something about the way we approach school for this age group that leads to greater disengagement and apathy? And how can we change our systems, and the ways we relate to teens both in and out of school...

Episode 78: The Power of Transcendent Thinking With Mary Helen Immordino-Yang Available October 14, 2025 “What does it mean to be a self-actualizing, fully integrated, socially contextualized human being in this new world order? And how would we design opportunities…to help a young person develop not just what they know now, but to potentiate in ways that change who they could become?” Neuroscient...

Episode 77: Dignity-Affirming Leadership in Schools With Jason Craige Harris Available October 7, 2025 At a time when conflict and polarization feel like an unrelenting fact of life, how can we build stronger, kinder school communities where everyone feels seen, known, and valued? That’s one of the pervasive questions facing school leaders right now, and one that Jason Craige Harris is ready to he...

Episode 76: The Promise, Possibility, and Power of Adolescence With George Abalekpor and Eleanor Daugherty Available September 30, 2025 As educators, we are always focused on ways to help our students thrive as they move through the K-12 experience and beyond. But often, we inadvertently frame adolescence as a period characterized by problems and challenges, rather than a developmental moment that...

Episode 75: The Future of Smart Available May 13, 2025 Are we, as educators, trying to create the best human versions of AI…or the best humans? That’s a central question Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen asks when she thinks about the future of education. Drawing upon her bestselling book, The Future of Smart, she joins host Debra Wilson for a discussion about human-centered liberatory education, what school...

Episode 74: Improving Access Through Innovation Available May 6, 2025 How do we measure learning? It’s a question that plagues educators, as a rapidly changing landscape keeps us scrambling to catch up with evolving technologies, ever-expanding content, and the need to blend real-world experiences with tried and true curriculum. For over 100 years, part of our answer to the problem of measurement...

Episode 73: Empowering Variable Learners Available April 29, 2025 Educators understand that not all learners need the same things to thrive. But it’s not always easy to discover what each student truly needs to help them learn and grow to their greatest potential. That’s why Nancy Weinstein created Mindprint Learning, a company devoted to zeroing in on each student’s specific learning needs, so pa...

Episode 72: Thriving Through Happiness Available April 22, 2025 What does happiness have to do with achieving excellence and success? Do happy students learn more deeply and go on to more fulfilling careers and lives? Most educators understand the intrinsic connection between emotional well-being and deep learning, but “happiness” doesn’t tend to show up on our classroom rubrics. Dan Lerner, autho...