If you read this blog, you already know that my colleague, Lynn Fuini-Hetten, regularly carve out time in our weekly schedules to support our own learning through podcasting. Specifically, two podcasts: TLTalkRadio and Shift Your Paradigm. Between the two podcasts, we were able to record well over 50 episodes this past school year (even during a global pandemic), producing content consistently on a weekly basis.
While we hope that there is an audience for this work, looking at it selfishly, we have learned a great deal from various thought leaders in the education field that have influenced our thinking around our passions: learner-centered education, strategic foresight and learner-centered leadership.
We even began sharing our findings in a series of longer form articles originally published as part of Education Reimagined’s magazine Voyager.
- What does learner-centered leadership look like? (Part 1)
- What does learner-centered leadership look like? (Part 2)
- What does learner-centered leadership look like? (Part 3)
- Putting learner-centered lessons into practice (Part 4)
Here are some of the episodes from 2019-20 that have impacted our thinking most:
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Shift Your Paradigm
- Episode 50 – Rise Up Community School – What can we learn about supporting learners who are not successful in the traditional high school model of learning?
- Episode 51 – Dual School – What can we learn about supporting learning in after school/supplemental learning programs?
- Episodes 54, 55 – These two episodes focus on our own school-within-a-school at our middle school
- Episode 56 – Interview with Mithl Pujar – How can we amplify learner-voice?
- Episode 58 – Voyager School – What are the core values reflected in your learning environment, and how do those values support learner-centered transformation?
- Episode 59 – Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) – What are your school’s or district’s core values, and how do they support your transformation to a learner-centered environment?
- Episode 61 – Exploration High School – What might be if you built a learning environment from scratch in your community?
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TLTalkRadio
- Season 6: Episode 2 – Invent to Learn – Interview with Sylvia Martinez – How might you use Invent to Learn to encourage making, tinkering, and engineering in your learning environment?
- Season 6: Episode 6 – Faster Than 20 – Interview with Eugene Eric Kim – How might you use the resources on Faster than 20 to develop your team?
- Season 6: Episode 8 – Thrive: How Schools Will Win the Education Revolution – Interview with Grant Lichtman – How will you lead to make your school irresistible?
- Season 6: Episode 9 – What the World Needs from Education – Interview with Marc Prensky – How will you connect your learners to real-world impact projects to best prepare them for an ever-changing world?
- Season 6: Episode 12 – Moving to a Finite Earth Economy––Crew Manual – Interview with David Houle – Wat plan of action will you develop to ensure your young learners live and thrive on a sustainable earth?
- Season 6: Episode 19 – Science of Advocacy – Interview with Marc Porter Magee – How might you use the lessons discussed today to enhance your advocacy efforts?
- Season 6: Episode 22 – Interview with Gary Stager – After today’s conversation, how optimistic are you for the future of progressive education?
- Season 6: Episode 26 – EduProtocols – Interview with Jon Corippo and Marlena Hebern – How might you use EduProtocols to engage your learners?
- Season 6: Episode 27 – Measuring Human Return – Interview Joanne McEachen and Matthew Kane – In what ways has our conversation today piqued your curiosity around learner-centered education and/or contributive learning?
- Season 6: Episode 28 – Helen Lee Bouygues – Reboot Foundation and Critical Thinking – What have you learned about the importance of critical thinking and how we can better create critical thinking opportunities for our learners?
- Season 6: Episode 32 – The QUESTion Project with Gerard Senehi – How might you provide more avenues for questioning and learning from your students in your class or school?
- Season 6: Episode 33 – Tom Vander Ark on Place-Based Education – How might place-based education act as an accelerant for your school transformation efforts?
- Season 6: Episode 34 – Interview with Cale Birk – PCL 2.0 – How might the ideas in PLC 2.0 elevate your work around school change?
- Season 6: Episode 36 – Whole: What Teachers Need to Help Students Thrive – Interview with Kevin Baird – What actions can you take to better support your teachers to do the complex challenge of educating today’s learners?
- Season 6: Episode 37 – Outdoor Learning – Interview with Adam Aronson, Founding Lead Teacher at Chelsea Opportunity Academy – How might your school or district benefit from taking learners beyond the classroom walls?
- Season 6: Episode 38 – Interview with Armand Doucet – Thinking about Pedagogy in a Pandemic – How might you use ideas in today’s conversation to reflect on your transition to distance learning?
- Season 6: Episode 39 – Pursuing Greatness – Interview with Bryan Goodwin, Pete Hall & Alisa Simeral – How can you create the conditions for teachers to take charge of their professional growth?
- Season 6: Episode 40 – Teach the Future – Interview with Peter Bishop and Katie King – How might teaching the future to young learners support your work of school transformation?
- Season 6: Episode 41 – A conversation with Amir Nathoo, Co-Founder and CEO of Outschool – How might online learning support your beliefs about powerful learning?
What content are you consuming – articles, books, podcasts, etc. – to feed your passion for learning, and how do they inspire your work?
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