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What Can School Learn From After-school?

A conversation about why more engaging learning tends to happen in electives and extracurriculars than during "core classes", and how what we can learn from these "peripheral" classes, teams, and clubs.
What Can School Learn From After-school?

Don Berwick on Improvement as Learning

Stacey Caillier interviews Don Berwick, one of the world's foremost authorities on improvement
Don Berwick on Improvement as Learning

Preparing students to Understand, Discuss, and Dismantle Racism

Alec and Jean talk to Ayo Magwood about the importance of explicitly teaching the history of race in America...
Preparing students to Understand, Discuss, and Dismantle Racism

“We’re about ALL kids, and ALL kids being successful”

In this Guest Episode from the Educated Guess podcast, Rodrigo Arancibia and Cesar Fernandez interview Escondido Principal Adriana Lepe-Ramirez about how she came to education, and how she and her staff are transforming the whole school culture.
“We’re about ALL kids, and ALL kids being successful”

Rachel Angeles “Making Sense of This”

Brent speaks with Rachel Angeles about synthesizing everything around us and co-creating ...
Rachel Angeles “Making Sense of This”

Banishing Awkward Silence from Breakout Rooms

Alec talks to 7th grade math and science teacher Kat Wu about how the kids in her team ...
Banishing Awkward Silence from Breakout Rooms

Shane Duenow on parallel prototyping & Padlet

Maker teacher Shane Duenow about how he uses software to facilitate student drafting.
Shane Duenow on parallel prototyping & Padlet

If it doesn’t work for teachers, it doesn’t work

Alec talks to Dr. Simon Breakspear about how he developed his “Teaching Sprints” program, and the intellectual journey that got him there.
If it doesn’t work for teachers, it doesn’t work

“Nobody dresses like that here”

Jean and Alec talk to artist, community activist, entrepreneur and Dean of High Tech High Chula Vista
“Nobody dresses like that here”

Spreadsheets vs. Inequality in New York City Schools

In this episode, Alec talks to Nikki Giunta, Chief of Staff at New Visions for Public Schools in New York City, about how they used a 270-column spreadsheet (and later, a “data portal”) to combat the sometimes-bizarre administrative problems that were preventing kids from graduating.
Spreadsheets vs. Inequality in New York City Schools
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