Episode 5: What can YOU do?

07/05/20 • 60 min

If we are going to make a dent in our education system today and both imagine and pursue new possibilities for our youth and the adults who serve them, then we each have to ask ourselves: What can I do? Three educators offer their thoughts on how each of us can assist, support, and be a part of the education revolution as a classroom, school, and district leader.

Mike Poore, Superintendent of the Little Rock (AR) Public Schools
Nicole Allard, Interim Executive Director of Innovation & Educational Excellence at Vista (CA) Unified School District
Saskia Op den Bosch, Transcend Education and co-founder of Rev-X
Alexa Sorden, Founding Principal of Concourse Village Elementary School in the Bronx, which was awarded the National 2018 Blue Ribbon school for Exemplary Performance, and recipient of the 2017 Ryan Award for being a transformational school principal serving urban, low-income, minority students
Ethan Wiechmann, Director of Cedar Falls CAPS
Hadley Ferguson, co-founder and Executive Director of Edcamp Foundation

Mike Poore, Superintendent of the Little Rock (AR) Public Schools
Nicole Allard, Interim Executive Director of Innovation & Educational Excellence at Vista (CA) Unified School District
Saskia Op den Bosch, Transcend Education and co-founder of Rev-X
Alexa Sorden, Founding Principal of Concourse Village Elementary School in the Bronx, which was awarded the National 2018 Blue Ribbon school for Exemplary Performance, and recipient of the 2017 Ryan Award for being a transformational school principal serving urban, low-income, minority students
Ethan Wiechmann, Director of Cedar Falls CAPS
Hadley Ferguson, co-founder and Executive Director of Edcamp Foundation

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Episode 6: Relationships and Networks for Transformation

There has been a very strong press for networks as catalyzers, incubators, and supports to engender the development of new schools, transformation of schools, and agents of change in our educational ecosystem. Come hear three leading educational leaders talk about the power of networks in driving and supporting educational opportunity and visions for educators and communities around the world.

Tom Vander Ark, co-founder of Getting Smart
Joanne McEachen, CEO/Founder of The Learner First
Justin Aglio is currently the Director of Academic Achievement and District Innovation at Montour School District and a frequent columnist for several educational blogs on innovation in schools and school systems

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Episode 4: How Can we Pursue New Designs?

The old model of schools with the focus on content delivery and skills not attentive to or directly connected to the interests, passions, and context of youth needs to go. But how can we pursue new designs of teaching, learning, and schooling that far better engages our youth and affords them the capacity to pursue the lives they want?

Jeff Petty, Regional Director of Big Picture Learning and Founder and Director of the Puget Sound Consortium for School Innovation
Alexis Gwin-Miller, Executive Director of Momentum Edge Coaching and Consulting Agency and former Principal of Crosstown High School
Jenn Charlot, Transcend Education and co-founder of Rev-X
Sonya Wrisley, who helped to develop and was the first Principal at Design39 in San Diego