Getting Smart Podcast

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 Rachael Fenner, a Reading Specialist and Teacher at Carr Lane , a Visual and Performing Arts Middle school in St. Louis . Rachael is fond of walking her dog Mocha, reading young adult fiction and you know our favorite...

You're listening to the Getting Smart Podcast. I'm Nate McClennen and today I'm joined by Taylor Shead , the CEO of STEMuli . STEMuli is a Dallas-based company that is building technology skills for the workforce in order to build a diverse talent pipeline. They are also the first educational metaverse that has been integrated into public school in the U.S.. Recently, STEMuli was awarded the Trans...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by GettingSmart.com where we recently ran a related post called So You Designed a Profile of a Graduate, Now What? On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Ken Kay, founder of Partnership for 21st Century Skills, leading advocate of the 4C's and its successor EdLeader 21 , and co-author of Redefining Student Suc...

You're listening to the Getting Smart Podcast. On today's episode we are sharing a recording of a recent town hall event called What's Next in Learning: 2022, which was led by the Getting Smart Team. Over the course of the conversation we spotlight inspiring audience members, share tons of leading examples and drop links to some of our favorite resources. You can find those links here . We hope yo...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom is joined by Stig Leschly, Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School where he teaches entrepreneurship. Stig is a practicing entrepreneur, and is currently the CEO and Founder of College101, an issue advocacy organization focused on US higher education. Let's listen in as they discuss what can be done to fix higher education, maximizing advocacy a...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is brought to you by the upcoming Smart Sprint , which kicks off January 24th. On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Getting Smart's Educator in Residence Deion Jordan is joined by a few very special guests from Crosstown High in Memphis, TN — Ava, Dallas, and Vera. They are all seniors at Crosstown High school. For the past four years, these stude...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by the spring cohort of Education Reimagined's Learning Lab Orientation. You can register now !   On this episode, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Gilda Barabino, the President of the Olin College for Engineering. Dr. Barabino is also the Professor of Biomedical and Chemical Engineering at Olin. She is the president-elect of AAAS, the American...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by What If. On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Rhonda Broussard, founder of Beloved Community , veteran educator, student of the world and author of the upcoming book One Good Question .  Let's listen in as they discuss agency, education in 2030, equity audits and much more. 

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by Smart Sprints. We recently hosted a Getting Smart Town Hall alongside Green Schools National Network to spotlight some of their recent work on establishing a GreenPrint, a framework and philosophy for building an ecosystem of sustainability minded schools and learners.  Check out the full show notes here . Learn more about the GreenPrint.  ...

This episode is sponsored by our upcoming Smart Sprint. Find out more here.   On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Greg Toppo and Jim Tracy, co-authors of the new book, Running with Robots: The American High School's Third Century . Greg Toppo is a journalist who has covered education for more than twenty years. He is also the author of The Game Believes in You...

On this episode of the EduCatered podcast, we're joined by Rachelle Dené Poth , a Spanish and STEAM educator who lives in Pennsylvania. She is also a Getting Smart Columnist and active conference goer, tweeter and the first person to jump into a new tech solution.  Shawnee chats with Rachelle about a range of topics, ranging from the importance of being involved to apple pie. She also expresses gr...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Nate McClennen is joined by Brent Maddin , Executive Director of Next Education Workforce at Arizona State University. Brent leads a team that is collaborating with P-12 practitioners and higher-ed faculty to help design the roles of current educators, expand who enters the education workforce, and rethink how we develop and credential these educators. ...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Annie Murphy Paul author of the new book The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain.  For the past decade, Annie has been a leading brain science writer on The Brilliant Blog.  Let's listen in as Tom and Annie discuss the importance of the body in using the mind, how this can be better applied in schools and...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Kiko Suarez, VP of Higher Education and Workforce Development at Territorium , a global edtech company connecting learners with recommended jobs. Territorium recently launched its AI-powered Comprehensive Learner Record (CLR) , into the U.S. to break down the barriers between universities and employers. Let's listen in as To...

This episode of the podcast is a re-publishing of our recent Getting Smart Town Hall we are celebrating the one year bookiversary of Difference Making at the Heart of Learning by Tom Vander Ark and Emily Liebtag. We talked with our live audience about purpose-based learning, getting communities involved and how this ties into the idea of a global citizen. You can find links to the resources mentio...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Clifton Taulbert , an acclaimed author, speaker and entrepreneur. His life story, Once Upon a Time When We Were Colored became a critically acclaimed 1996 movie and one of his books was sent to Nelson Mandela as a gift for his release from prison in 1990.  His most recent book, The Invitation , was chosen by the Architect of...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Christine Ricci and Leo Morton, two business leaders from Kansas City who recently met with Tom at a Kauffman Foundation-sponsored real-world learning event.  For the last five years, Christine served as CEO of Phone Medic, also known as UbreakIfix , an electronics repair chain. She has had twenty years of executive leadershi...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Mason Pashia is joined by a very special guest — Luke Harris. Luke is a Junior at Horace Mann high school and has described himself as " enjoying  taking things apart and not quite getting them back together."  For the past two years, he has been developing a design engineering curriculum for kids, created to teach real-world entrepreneurial and engine...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Carla Marschall , co-author of the new book Worldwise Learning: A Teacher's Guide to Shaping a Just, Sustainable Future , which is a guide focused on supporting K-8 learners in gaining a better understanding of how to be global citizens. Carla has held leadership roles in international schools in Switzerland, Germany, Hong K...

We are thrilled to bring you a new podcast from Getting Smart called EduCatered: A Podcast That's Catered to Educators. It'll be on its own podcast feed soon! 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 kick off the podcast series with Ululani (Ulu) S...

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is sponsored by the Getting Smart newsletter: Smart Update.  On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Robert Simmons III . Robert is a scholar and activist on diversity, equity and inclusion. Robert serves as a Scholar in Residence and a Scholar of Antiracist of Antiracist Praxis in the School of Education at American Unive...

Be sure to sign up for our Smart Update  newsletter to get a weekly round up of what's innovative in learning.  On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Nate McClennen is joined by Kim Alexander and Alton Frailey from Collegiate Edu Nation (CEN).  Kim is the CEO of Collegiate Edu Nation and has spent most of his career at Roscoe Independent School District where he served as superintendent fro...

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom is joined by Daniel Pianko and Nasir Qadree. Daniel is the co-founder and managing director of Achieve Partners , an investment fund harnessing digital transformation to build new models for learning and new pathways to good jobs. He also hosts the Better Money, Better World podcast .  Nasir Qadree is the Founder and Managing Partner at Zeal Capita...

Getting Smart recently hosted a monthly town hall event called Ask Away: A Getting Smart AMA (Ask Me Anything). We invited the audience to ask us questions about leadership and the future of learning and we did our best to answer them. We recorded the session and you can listen to it now.  You can register for our next town hall on Difference Making here . 

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Getting Smart team members Mason Pashia and Shawnee Caruthers are joined by Timothy Jones, a long-time educator, coach, mentor and someone who lives and breathes hip hop. Timothy is the Chief Visionary Officer at #HipHopEd, a digitally-birthed organization with a sprawling membership of brilliant educators and passionate advocates that know just how pow...