Deep Dives

Our guest this week is Tony Benoit, Benjamin Franklin Institute for Technology's President. The Career Pathways Working Group focused specifically on giving students access to CTE experiences through internships and opportunities like the one that BFIT offers, and there is much that the district can leverage from what has already been a successful dual enrollment partnership with BFIT. The questio...

In our last podcast, we learned about the work that’s being done by Manny Allen and his team to re-engage students by helping them find purpose in their education. This week we are joined by Tommy Welch, the Academic Superintendent who oversees the schools and programs that are set up to operationalize Manny’s message. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Manny Allen was a Boston Public Schools drop out because of life circumstances that forced him to de-prioritize a school system that didn’t serve him as a youth. Today, with a high school degree, a college degree, and an MBA, Manny runs the BPS Re-engagement Center, which he helped found ten years ago. Manny joins us to talk about being a marginalized youth in Boston, the brilliant and effective w...

In the final installment of our series about MassCore, Jill Shah interviews Orin Gutlerner about the challenges of scaling rigorous and engaging curriculum and teaching practices. They dissect a report called “The Opportunity Myth,” which attempts to answer the question of whether K-12 schools are fulfilling the fundamental promise that if students put in the effort and succeed with their work, th...

In part 2 of Understanding MassCore, Jill talks with Paul Reville, a key architect and advocate for MassCore, about topics that are key to understanding the intentions and context for this policy, such as: The role of globalization and the standards movement in the crafting of the MassCore policy; How and why the state viewed it through a lens of educational equity; Why it was a recommended—rather...

In the spirit of enrichment and connectivity, we offer this three part series on the topic of MassCore. Part 1 features a blog post: Understanding MassCore, and a podcast that looks at the current context of graduation requirements in BPS High Schools. Stay tuned for parts two and three that will be released over the next two Wednesdays in podcast form, and include a fascinating discussion with Pa...

In this episode we share with you a live event, recorded at our offices. We invited a team from Boston Public Schools, local funders, non profit leaders, and elected officials to come together and discuss how we can use recent reports that were written as tools for taking action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices