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Derek Wenmoth and Annette Thompson on The Agency Playbook

Getting Smart Staff — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:15:00 +0000

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Nate McClennen is joined by Derek Wenmoth, Founder of Futuremakers, teacher, principal, distance educator and educational policy adviser in New Zealand and internationally. He’s also joined by Annette Thompson, Chief Executive Officer at Inquire Innovation and, previously, an elementary school teacher and principal for 37 years. She was named Arkansas Elementary Principal of the Year and an NAESP National Distinguished Principal in 2017. Together, Derek and Annette were two of the four co-authors of Agency By Design, a new playbook supported by the Aurora Institute, Future Makers and the New England Association of Schools and Colleges.

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America’s Promise Alliance on Collective Action and Field Building

Getting Smart Staff — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 10:15:00 +0000

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Mason Pashia is joined by two individuals from America’s Promise Alliance (APA), an organization that weaves people and organizations together for a positive impact. Mike O’Brien, CEO of America’s Promise Alliance, and Parvathi (Parv) Santhosh -Kumar their VP of Community Impact.

Together, they talk about the importance of field building, how uniquely bi-partisan and longstanding organizations like APA can drive change through radical collaboration, what they learned from a 180-organization listening tour across the U.S. and much more.

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Michael Matsuda on Over a Decade of Educating For Purposeful Life

Getting Smart Staff — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 10:15:00 +0000

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the Walton Family Foundation, the New Pathways campaign will question education’s status quo and propose new methods of giving students a chance to experience success in what’s next.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast we’re joined by Superintendent Michael Matsuda. Superintendent Matsuda has served in his role at Anaheim Union High School District for a decade and is also the author of the great new book: Educating for Purposeful Life: A New Conception of Schooling for the 21st Century.

The mission of the Anaheim Union High School District is to prepare high school graduates who possess a clear sense of purpose and the capacity to achieve their goals … talk about a pathways vision. The Career Preparedness Systems Framework is a great framework for helping to map AUHSD’s vision onto real students day in and day out.

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Town Hall Recap: Apprenticeships for Tech and Teaching

Getting Smart Staff — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:15:00 +0000

On this Getting Smart Town Hall, we took a look at apprenticeship pathways and tried to answer some of the following questions: What does a modern apprenticeship system look like? How might we set up the necessary systems to create earn-and-learn opportunities in technology and teaching pathways? What policies and enabling conditions are paving the way for apprenticeships?

We were joined by Erin Mote from InnovateEDU and Maureen Tracey Mooney from the Department of Education who spoke about the growing national movement for teacher apprenticeships. Later, we were also joined by Ryan Craig, author of Apprentice Nation as well as Chip Linehan, of Building 21 and Launchpad who discussed tech pathways for secondary students. Our presenters shared great slides overviewing the critical and integrated apprenticeship work that is rolling out across the nation.

As Ryan Craig said in his opening remarks: “And it’s not only a skills gap… we’re increasingly seeing something called an experience gap where jobs that used to be entry-level are asking for 3, 6, 12 months worth of experience.” Apprenticeships can help fill this gap with connected and intentional work-based learning experiences.

National agreements and policies are helping to make these apprenticeship pathways more feasible, desirable and effective. New Guidelines established by AACTE National Center for Grow Your Own and Deans for Impact establish that apprentices must be paid at a rate based on a starting teacher salary which is at least equivalent to the pay rate for paraprofessionals. This is groundbreaking agreement from our partners in labor in Higher Ed and through school district partners.

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Alex Red Corn on How School Leaders Can Be Culturally Responsive to Indigenous Youth

Getting Smart Staff — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 10:15:00 +0000

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is part of a new short monthly series where Mason Pashia is joined by Dr. Jason Cummins, a previous guest and a friend of the podcast, to speak with indigenous leaders and academics to discuss how indigenous ways of knowing and leading can, and should, shape the education system.

We are joined by Alex Red Corn, Ed.D, a citizen of Osage Nation, where he is a member of the Tsi.zhu.wah.shtah.geh (Gentle Sky/Peacekeeper) clan. At Kansas State University, he is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership, Coordinator of Indigenous Partnerships, CoChair of the Indigenous Faculty and Staff Alliance, Executive Director of the Kansas Association for Native American Education (KANAE) and Program Coordinator for the Indigenous Educational Leadership Graduate

Awaachiáookaate’, or Jason Cummins Ed.D is an enrolled member of the Apsaalooke Nation, and recently served as the Deputy Director for the White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities, Office of the Secretary. Previously, he was the principal at Crow Agency Public School. As an Indigenous scholar and school leader he has innovatively worked to lead schools towards authentically serving Native American students PreK-12 and their communities by implementing culturally sustaining, trauma-informed, and restorative approaches.

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A Walk in My Shoes Documentary
Alex Red Corn Bio
The Rural Educator
Journal of American Indian Education
Indigenous Steam (Analise and Megan Bang)
Osage Ribbon Work
Lanny Real Bird
Liberating Sovereign Potential

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Jean Eddy on Crisis-Proofing Today’s Learners

Getting Smart Staff — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:15:00 +0000

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Jean Eddy, CEO of American Student Assistance (ASA) and author of Crisis-Proofing Today’s Learners: Reimagining Career Education to Prepare Kids for Tomorrow’s World.

“There is a revolution ahead that is centered on transforming the way we create and deliver educational experiences to kids. Those experiences can and will include self-discovery and career exploration, and will be focused on their individual needs, goals, and passions,” said Jean Eddy. “Success will be measured on the competency kids have built in their skills, on the progress that they feel they’ve made in reaching their goals, and on the confidence they feel when making decisions about what comes next.”

In Jean’s book, she highlights a set of questions that high school students should be able to answer when they graduate, including:

What am I good at?
What would I like to become better at?
What motivates me? How do I work best?
What can I see myself doing when I’m older and what, specifically, do I
need to do to make that happen?
What skills will I need to reach my goals?
What do I want to build in my life?
What difference do I want to make in the world?
Where can my skills and contributions fit into existing structures, or do I want to build a new structure?
What kind of life and living can I have in the areas I want to pursue?

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Taniya Mishra and Amanda Stent on Pathways to Artificial Intelligence

Getting Smart Staff — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 10:15:00 +0000

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Amanda Stent, director of the Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence, and Dr Taniya Mishra, founder and CEO of SureStart. Administered by Colby’s Davis Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Halloran Lab for Entrepreneurship, the summer-long SureStart curriculum at Colby evolved from a longtime friendship between the two guests.

The Davis Institute for AI facilitates interdisciplinary, human-centered scholarship using rich datasets with real-world consequences and prepares students for a future where AI is transforming industries, careers, and modes of discovery, creativity, and scholarship.

A new generation of ethical AI designers spent eight weeks at Colby this summer for a start-up boot camp called SureStart. In addition to nine rising sophomores from Colby, the program attracted four students from partner school Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, the nation’s first degree-granting historically black college or university. The program aimed to teach students with an interest in AI skills to develop a well-researched and market-ready product that solves a real-world problem with a convenient and cost-effective solution. Students also had the opportunity to work with SureStart mentors including partners from organizations such as Alethea, Lockheed Martin, and Bloomberg Second Measure.

This episode highlights the programs and connections that got this initiative started.

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Shiva Rajbhandari on Hope, Green New Deal for Schools and Youth Civic Action

Getting Smart Staff — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 10:15:00 +0000

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is brought to you by our recent publication Green Pathways, and makes the case for why ALL pathways need sustainability and green embedded. Find out more here.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Mason Pashia is joined by Shiva Rajbhandari, a current freshman at UNC Chapel Hill and avid climate and education activist who is, to date, the first student on a school board in the state of Idaho.

We’re releasing this episode near the beginning of COP28, an international gathering of national leaders who are setting goals, discussing science and trying to make a collective movement toward net zero emissions to avoid worsening the climate crisis. This conversation with Shiva highlights the myriad ways youth are helping raise awareness of climate-related issues, what school taught them to do and how to organize large groups of people to come together for a common cause.

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Mickey Breeze and H. Bernard Hall on Hip Hop As a Lifestyle

Getting Smart Staff — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 10:15:00 +0000

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Victoria Andrews is joined by Producer Mickey Breeze, the 10-time Beat Battle Champion of the Twin Cities. He is also a former teacher for the “Twin Cities Mobile Jazz Project.” and a DJ for the Minnesota Timberwolves and Twins. He’s a proud alumni of the High School for Recording Arts in St. Paul, MN.

We’re also joined by Dr. H. Bernard Hall an Assistant Professor of Urban Teacher Education at Drexel University in the Department of Teaching, Learning, and Curriculum. His teaching and research interests include urban teacher education and development, social justice-oriented approaches to secondary English education, hip-hop pedagogy, anti-Black educational policy and practice, and critical qualitative research.

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Frisco ISD on Student Entrepreneurship and INCubatoredu

Getting Smart Staff — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 10:15:00 +0000

On this episode of Getting Smart Podcast Victoria Andrews discusses student entrepreneurship with an awesome group from Frisco ISD. Tommy Thompson teaches Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Finance Classes, as well as the DECA sponsor in Frisco ISD. Before teaching he worked in the corporate world for 18 years, started his own business, and served as an industry volunteer in the INCubatoredu program at Centennial High School which he now teaches.

We’re also joined by two students: Rupa Kumaran, the founder of Infiniti Board, a Board Game for Neurodiverse individuals and Esha Bandi, the founder of MyCourseWay, a company that digitizes a school’s entire course catalog.

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