Getting Smart Podcast

Thank you to BetterHelp for sponsoring this episode. Speak with an affordable, licensed therapist at your convenience and save 10% on your first month at BetterHelp.com/GettingSmart . On this episode of EduCatered we're joined by Heidi Alexander, Founding Principal at ASU Preparatory Academy - Pilgrim Rest Elementary. We love getting to work alongside ASU Prep in a number of ways and are always bl...

We recently recorded a Getting Smart Town Hall that is all about poetry. Over the course of the conversation we discuss why we use poetry to kick-off events, what poetry means to the Getting Smart Team, what poetry means to our audience, what are new methods of teaching poetry and much more.  In this event, we used the following poems:  Poetry by Pablo Neruda The Way it Is by William Stafford 20 l...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Erin Jones ,  educator, leader, athlete and author of the great book Bridges to Heal US: Stories and Strategies for Racial Healing.   Let's listen in as Erin reads us an original poem and they discuss athletic leadership, community conversations, the problem with establishing norms and much more.    Links: Linkedin Twitter B...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Nate McClennen is joined by Maggie Favretti and Benjamin Freud , authors, consultants and advocates for the environment, for people and for a more sustainable future. At Getting Smart, we are thinking a lot about Green Schools - sustainable and equitable and inclusive future. Maggie is founder of DesignEd 4 Resilience and is currently working on a new b...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by Difference Making . On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Rebecca Midles is joined by Zoe Weil, co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education, and a pioneer in the comprehensive humane education movement. She is also the author of the book The World Becomes What We Teach: Educating a Generation of Solutionaries , as...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by Getting Smart Services .  On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Steve Katsouros, f ounder and CEO of the Come To Believe Network , an inclusive and accessible college model.  The network was inspired by the success of Arrupe College of Loyola University Chicago which has been recognized as a national model...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by Shannon Buerk, the Founder & CEO of engage2learn . Engage2learn is a platform that grows high-performance cultures in public schools to sustain local visions of learning for students. With 28 years of K-12 experience, Shannon has partnered with 225 school districts–impacting 2.3 million public education students to date.

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by Smart Sprints. Find out more here. On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Shawnee Caruthers is joined by co-founders of Symphony Workforce , Todd Smith and John Batcher . Symphony Workforce is a gamified solution for career discovery and talent acquisition.  Let's listen in as they discuss connecting students to their community, what...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by our upcoming Smart Sprint, Bring Your Portrait of a Graduate to Life. You can register here. On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by the one and only Chris Emdin, founder of HipHopEd where he is the colleague of our former guest Timothy Jones . Chris was also the Multicultural Educator of the Year award...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by our upcoming Smart Sprint, Bring Your Portrait of a Graduate to Life. You can register here. This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a recording of a recent Getting Smart Townhall — New Pathways: Every learner on a personalized path to opportunity. This event kicked off our latest campaign which will serve as a road map to the new arch...

We are thrilled to bring you a new podcast from Getting Smart called EduCatered: A Podcast That's Catered to Educators. Subscribe here ! On this episode of EduCatered we're joined by Elizabeth Herbert, the Social Studies Department Chair at Gateway STEM high school in St. Louis Public Schools . Elizabeth spent some time teaching in Costa Rica and Nicagaragua and you'll likely find her obsessing ov...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by engage2learn . Contact them today! On this episode, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Harriette Thurber Rasmussen and Dr. Mohammed (Mo) Raei, co-editors of the new book Adaptive Leadership in a Global Economy: Perspectives for Application and Scholarship .  Dr. Rasmussen is an organizational development coach and an assistant clinical profess...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined ( again ) by Dr. Fernande Raine , the Founder of The History Co:Lab , social entrepreneur and Russia scholar. She also leads The Learning Collaborative , an organization that works to change the way we teach and collaborate around history. LINKS:  The History Co:Lab Dr. Fernande Raine On Using History and Museums to Incubate Cha...

On this special episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Mark Schneider live at SXSW EDU. Mark is the Director of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES),  Department of Education. Prior to joining IES, he served as vice president and an Institute Fellow at American Institutes for Research (AIR) and President of College Measures . In 2013, the Chronicle of Higher Educati...

On this special episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers hosts a live conversation at SXSW EDU with Kenny Rodrequez , Superintendent of Grandview C-4 School District and Paul McCorkle , Associate Executive Director of Cornerstones of Care .   Listen in to hear them discuss essential skills, connecting to communities, economic mobility and much more.    Links: Kenny Rodrequez Paul Mc...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Nate McClennen is joined by Jennifer Seydel and David Sobel , co-authors of the new book Trailblazers for Whole School Sustainability . Jenny is the Executive Director of the Green Schools National Network and has decades of experience in the classroom and building new green schools around the world.  David is an avid writer and speaker on outdoor educa...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles is joined by Mike Ruyle , a former educator, a recognized voice in trauma-informed care and the recent author of the book The School Wellness Wheel: A Framework Addressing Trauma, Culture and Mastery to Raise Student Achievement.  We are also joined by co-author Dr. Jason Cummins, who is a Crow tribal member and principal from the Crow r...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Nate McClennen is joined by Aaron Schorn, Head of Growth & Community at Unrulr . He is also a Getting Smart Columnist.  They are also joined by Trinity Asing, the founder of Mauka Market - the world's first regenerative marketplace.  Aaron supported Trinity's journey at Nalukai , a youth leadership and entrepreneurship program in Hawai'i. We're thrilled...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by one of his favorite podcast hosts… Baratunde Thurston, host of the How to Citizen podcast. Baratunde is an Emmy-nominated host, author of the New York Times bestseller How To Be Black , and creator/host of How To Citizen with Baratunde which Apple named one of its favorite podcasts of 2020. He's also a founding partner of the...

We are thrilled to bring you a new podcast from Getting Smart called EduCatered: A Podcast That's Catered to Educators.  Subscribe here ! At Getting Smart, food, education, and innovation are at the heart of our recipe. This podcast mixes it all together to get to know teachers that are doing the work and making a difference.  We start with the appetizer: what makes these educators unique. Then to...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Joseph South ( @southjoseph ), Chief Learning Officer at ISTE. Joseph formerly served as the Director of the Office of Educational Technology at the U.S. Department of Education.  Let's listen in as Tom and Joseph discuss the importance of expertise and providing students with the chance to do work that matters to them and th...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Caroline Hill, a Washington DC based education entrepreneur and founder of 228 Accelerator . Caroline also is the creator of the equityXdesign framework , a way of building on design thinking and other design processes to ensure human-centered and equitable practices.  Let's listen in as Tom and Caroline discuss the importanc...

On this episode of the podcast, we are running a recent Getting Smart Town Hall recording all about unbundling and re-bundling learning experiences. The conversation covered schools and programs that are reframing learning to credential, credit, and count programs and experiences outside of the traditional pathways in order to better meet the increasing variety of school choice, increasing demand...

This episode of the podcast is brought to you by the Smart Update , our weekly newsletter. Sign up today. On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Rebecca Midles is joined by a superstar lineup of design thought leaders to discuss liberatory design .  Victor Cary, Senior Director at the National Equity Project (formerly known as the Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools) has worked in educa...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Rebecca Midles is joined by Jenna Mancini Rufo, co-author of Reimagining Special Education: Using Inclusion as a Framework to Build Equity and Support All Students alongside Julie Causton. Jenna is the CEO of empowerED , an education consulting firm specializing in inclusion, special education, and equity.  In addition to being a special education teac...