Shape of Tomorrow

Our final episode here for the Summer Series, part 8! This episode delves into the role of a leader as a facilitator, highlighting how effective facilitation can spark productive dialogue, ignite team creativity, and lead to actionable outcomes. Discover practical strategies to improve your facilitation skills, helping you steer discussions while ensuring all voices in your organization are heard.

Part 7 of our Summer Series focuses on Change Management. In today's ever-changing landscape, the ability to manage change is a critical skill that every leader must possess. This episode delves into the comprehensive world of Change Management and highlights the five essential levers that every leader should master.

Hello GarageCast listeners! Welcome to Part 6 of our summer series that has focused on essential leadership skills school leaders need for driving innovation. In this episode, explore the key principles behind collaborative leadership, a model that emphasizes empowerment, team decision-making, and a shared sense of responsibility. Learn how this approach can revolutionize the dynamics of your team...

In Part 5 of our summer series, we look at how leaders drive innovation in their teams within schools. This episode focuses on nurturing an environment that embraces new technologies and innovative methods, and how leaders can stay ahead of the curve in a rapidly evolving digital landscape. We explore both Design Thinking and the Systematic Inventive Thinking method as two possible frameworks for...

Welcome to Part 4 of our 8 part summer series. As we navigate an era of data proliferation, understanding how to extract meaningful insights from data becomes a crucial leadership skill. This episode unpacks the concept of data-driven decision making, showcasing how leaders in education can utilize data to inform strategic choices, enhance operations, and enrich the educational process.

Why do our communication skills have to change? Dive into the role communication plays in leadership, and learn effective strategies to improve your communication skills. Understand how clear, transparent dialogue can foster trust, engagement, and a sense of community in your organization as we enter into times of exponential change.

In our second part of our summer series focused on innovation and becoming a modern leader, change is the only constant. This episode discusses the importance of agility in leadership roles and provides actionable strategies for leaders to foster a culture of adaptability and resilience in their teams and at their schools.

In Part 1 of our summer series, learn how to develop a compelling, forward-thinking vision for your organization. This episode guides you through the essentials of visioning and strategic planning, underlining the importance of looking into the future and preparing your education institution for the changes to come.

In this week’s episode we conclude Season 1 officially. We look at how Bloom’s Taxonomy could evolve to fit today’s world for students, we explore how Generative AI will impact women in the workforce and lastly we talk about a powerful new tool for the every day educator or school leader to use for analyzing data. While this is our final official episode for this academic year we will have 8 excit...

In today’s episode, we talk about some reflections I have from a recent AI debate I attended. We will also look at the skill of reinvention as being important for innovation. Lastly we will look at a good use case for AI in education as a tutor.

In Episode 33 we talk about a number of AI related items, including a great guest speaker we recently had at the school and a new video generating tool I’ve been experimenting with. We will also talk about student engagement and the results of a recent survey that was conducted in the US.

Hello listening community! Thanks so much for joining me this week. There’s a special announcement and welcome in this week’s episode. We also highlight our unique student business accelerator program for our Junior School students. As well we talk about a new device Apple introduced in the area of augmented reality, we explore AI regulation and it’s considerations, and lastly we talk about the Br...

In this week’s episode we explore innovation in relation to a wonderful book I’ve read called Think Bigger: How To Innovate and how it relates to schools. As well, I’ll chat about the possible AR Headset that we might see from Apple next week and how such a device could augment the student learning experience.

Thanks for joining on milestone episode number 30! We have a fun show for you today with some discussion on our innovative debate initiative, including hearing from four students who were our finalists, chatting with Karrie Weinstock, Head, Centre for Strategic Leadership and her reflections on the Re:Solved debate initiative and finally we get caught up on some new updates regarding generative AI...

Happy Friday GarageCast listeners! In this week’s episode I explore a good book on the topic of women in Science Technology Engineering and Math. As well we talk about skills for students to become effective learners. I share some thoughts on a recent movie I watched about the rise and fall of Blackberry and lastly we look at a new collaboration tool from Microsoft.

In todays episode we are fortunate to have Branksome Hall educator Grace Nolan sharing some thoughts on an innovative debate experience. We also talk about how organizational culture can make or break strategy. Lastly hear about some new thoughts on AI and a new tool for writing.

Today’s episode focuses on leadership and a different paradigm that’s needed to ensure we have leadership that can address the needs of our fast changing world. As well, this week we look at a really great tech tool for collaboration called Miro.

Todays’s GarageCast talks about our most recent Noodle Pitch Competition that took place April 26, where student led companies in our accelerator program pitched to investors. Secondly we have some exploration of ongoing emerging thoughts, tools and experiences in Artificial Intelligence.

This week’s episode I explore the nature of “failure” and how we shift the narrative on that. We dip into the digital mailbag and hear from some listeners. Lastly we have a tech tool tip of the week that helps you to find things you’ve seen before.

In today’s episode we unpack whether having coding as a skill we teach to young learners is important within the “AI-age” we see emerging. I also take some time to talk about a recent article and to highlight a powerful tool that lets you ask questions of your PDF documents.

In today’s episode I explore the importance of an arts education for students to become their authentic selves and be able to develop an innovator’s mindset. Plus I share a few interesting web browser extensions that tap into ChatGPT.

Welcome to Episode 22 of The GarageCast, where we talk about the importance of creating a culture of innovation. As well in segment 2 we explore two educator focused AI tools that are good examples of how specialized new use cases and unique user interfaces are emerging as extensions of Large Language Models.

Happy Friday everyone. Here is episode 21, where I delve into how search has really changed for me. As well, I reflect on AI and our youngest learners. Lastly, we will chat about the culture of busyness that is all around us at work.

Hello dear listeners. Welcome to Episode 20 where I share some thoughts about the benefits of digital portfolios for students and educators. As well, segment 2 focuses briefly on latest developments in AI applications.

In this special episode of The GarageCast, I have five Grade 9 students reflect on their wind turbine interdisciplinary unit (IDU) and their learning throughout the week. In addition to designing and building wind turbines, they also learned how to create a podcast and collaborated to develop run sheets, and scripts, record audio, edit the audio and develop music. This podcast is an engaging showc...