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This season includes extraordinary educators moving the needle in education – creating learner-centered, community-embedded, agency-oriented learning opportunities for youth, ranging from superintendents, individuals spotlighting the need and possibilities, and those in the trenches doing the work. Amazing stories, inspirational ventures, and practical wisdom, all rolled into one.
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Kerry McDonald is, quite simply, a powerhouse in the world of school choice, alternative schooling, innovation and entrepreneurship in education – a voice that bemoans the outcomes of government compulsory schooling. This may sound harsh, but it’s a reality. And without alternatives, educators, parents, and learners have to look to starting, building, and accessing their own learning opportunities. Her diligent pursuit of such stories has provided us with a wellspring of exa...
The Canopy Project, stewarded by Transcend Education and the Center on Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), is a collaborative effort to identify and share information about innovative schools and learning environments that put student-centered, equitable practices at the center of their efforts. Educators and organizations from across the country with a focus on creating far more progressive and learner-centered school designs nominate schools from across the country for practices they...
Transcend Education was founded by Jeff Wetzler and Aylon Samouha in 2015 to support school communities in creating and spreading extraordinary, equitable learning environments. Now partnering with over 200 schools in 50+ districts, serving nearly 500,000 students in 30 states, they are partnering with educators across the country in their efforts to transform themselves. They do this through their community-based design process, utilizing resources and providing models that help school...
In 2018, Chris McNutt and Nick Covington, two teachers in Ohio, decided to join forces to bring to light the need to transform education in keeping with far more progressive and human-centered systems of learning, resulting in The Human Restoration Project. Starting first with a blog and podcast series, since then Chris and Nick have expanded their efforts to include work with school systems across the country, host an annual summer conference, curate an amazing website with a plethora ...
Wow! In this episode, I invited my good friend Jeff Petty, former Principal of the Highline Big Picture School and catalyst for several Big Picture Schools throughout the Northwest, to invite someone he respected for his own work in starting learner-centered schools. That person was Javier Guzman, who started his own Big Picture School in NYC and subsequently the New Village Girls Academy in Los Angeles, and has since been helping schools and districts pursue better learning ...
On this episode I am joined by Bobbie Macdonald, Senior Partner for Ecosystem Growth & Advancement at Education Reimagined, Scott Bess, founding Head of School of Purdue Polytechnic High School, and Keeanna Warren, CEO and founding Principal of Purdue Polytechnic High School North Campus to discuss what it will take for us to move the revolution forward in our public school ecosystem. Education Reimagined is partnering with several communities across the country in support of their ...
VLACS, the Virtual Learning Academy Charter School, is the only fully state-funded online charter school in New Hampshire, serving over 13,000+ students. It offers online courses, project-based courses, career-focused learning programs, internships, and a myriad of other learning options. But unlike a typical “course” as you might know them in typical school, students engaging in these courses are taking them individually with the personal assistance and support of a teacher worki...
Both Devin Vodicka and Katie Martin already have a storied history in doing what they can to reimagine what teaching, learning, and schooling can look like, in a variety of positions and contexts. Devin is former Superintendent of the Vista Unified Schools and author of Learner-Centered Leadership. Katie is a former classroom educator who has since taken on a number of leadership positions and subsequently written two incredibly valuable books distilling what she has learned, Lear...
Nine years ago, Cory Steiner became Superintendent of the Northern Cass School District, a school system K-12 of 700 students, 25 minutes northwest of Fargo, North Dakota, and brought with him a question: How can we be a world class education system. Rallying and engaging the educators, families, and students, they have been forging a new district design. Fully competency-based, attending to the voice and experience of their learners, engaging their families, and continuousl...
In this 2nd episode of Season 3 of the A Revolution in Education podcast, Chris talks with Ethan Wiechmann and Nate Clayberg who, with no advanced notice, were asked to get the Cedar Falls CAPS program up and running within six weeks. Listen to the hilarious adventure as they get it up and running and how they did so – including the story of Ethan going to a regular coffee shop for the first time!The CAPS (Center for Advanced Professional Studies) network now boasts 100+ programs across...
In this 1st episode of Season 3 of A Revolution in Education podcast, we talk with Rob Riordan, co-founder of High Tech High and esteemed President Emeritus of the High Tech High Graduate School of Education (GSE), and Kaleb Rashad, Interim Chief Executive Officer of High Tech High, on the need to create new models of education that value the experience of youth as learners and the need to pursue new communities of equity. They speak to the necessity of shining a light on the shor...
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