Episode 8: The Impact of Creative Space

05/03/21 • 51 min

We LOVE this episode because it is so AMAZING what Abhijit Sinha has been able to create (see Project DEFY: Design Education for Yourself). His story itself is amazing. He was taking the typical path, school to career, and realized he was much happier creating and making amazing things, so left the typical path and started a new one. And began to create spaces where community members could do the same. Sandeep Dutt, social entrepreneur, author of My Good School, Learning Forward podcaster, and HundrED ambassador, adds his thoughts. And our very good friend, Cath Fraise, founder of 100 Roads and Workspace Education, adds to the fun. Hear how Abhijit has created self-directed, community-driven spaces of “creating, making, and doing,” where the community is creating their own learning and making their own solutions.
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Abhijit Sinha Sandeep Dutt
Catherine Fraise

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Matt Coleman, CEO at Inflexion, Claire Brown, National Director of AVID Australia at Victoria University in Melbourne, and Vanessa Wilkins, Founder of Future School Lab and Expert-in-Residence at Harvard Innovation Lab, talk about the need to focus on WHO our students are, the development of their identity, and reframing the paradigm of schooling. Now there’s a line-up! Grounded in years of experience reframing what we could and should be doing.
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Episode 9: The Distribution of Opportunity and Resources

James Harris & Dirk Tillotson preaching it from the heart of Oakland. They both have views of what is not working in our system of education through YEARS of experience. James, from his schooling in Oakland to his being President of the Oakland Unified School District and now zealot for all things education for youth in Oakland. Dirk Tillotson, a brother in arms, Founder and Executive Director of Great School Choices, who has devoted his life to improving schools for poor Black and Hispanic youth in Oakland, New York City, and beyond. They talk about school funding, public investment in lower-income communities, and how federal money is and could be spent for youth and communities. They dig right in. They see hope – but it will take a continued press from everyone to do the right thing.
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