Do School Better

Doris speaks with Janez Gorenc, an English teacher from Gimnazija Novo mesto in Slovenia. Janez shares his journey to teach entrepreneurship so that his students develop practical, essential skills a…

Doris speaks with Ben Leslie Bole, environmental science educator at Athenian School in Danville, California. He discusses how his student's work on a water retention project led to collaborative ski…

Doris speaks with Alethea Tyner Paradis, history professor at Santa Barbara City College and Director / CEO of Peace Works Travel, a socially conscious study abroad program where students learn throu…

Doris speaks with Jay Scheurle, Head of School and Entrepreneurship teacher at Miami Valley School. Jay describes how he modeled this method of teaching and learning for his school by implementing a …

Can a group of independent schools get colleges to accept a new kind of transcript without grades? In this episode, Doris speaks with Scott Looney, Founder of the Mastery Transcript Consortium and He…

Doris speaks with Kesha Conway, Program Director at Ashtabula Leadership County. She describes her course where students gained skills in collaboration and problem solving by working on a real busine…

Doris speaks with Anna Delia. She is the Middle School Asst. Director and Science Teacher at Hawken School, a K12 independent school in Cleveland, Ohio. Anna shares how her middle school science stud…

Doris talks to Anne Love of Concordia International School in Shanghai, China. Anne is the High School Academic Innovation Coordinator as well as a teacher of science and social entrepreneurship at h…

Doris talks to David Peden, Chair of the Entrepreneurship Leadership program at Battle Ground Academy, a K12 independent school near Nashville, TN.

Doris Korda and Alison Tanker share updates including what listeners can anticipate in Season 3 and news about their new organization, Wildfire Education.

Doris and Alison talk about the final look at a semester course and how important the reflection on the entire experience is to the learning of the students.

Doris and Alison talk about what happens in this class when students are working on real problems and they're paralyzed because they don't know what to do next.

Doris talks to Terry Chou, a middle school science teacher from a public school in California who attended our first workshop. Listen to what Terry has discovered about teaching innovation and collab…

Doris and Alison talk about what students presented today as their solutions to their second business challenge and why the learning has been transformative.

Learn how the feedback we give in this course goes far beyond a letter grade.

We're a week and a half in to students' second business challenge. And at this point in the course, things get really, really complicated. And in this episode, we share a lot of our strategies in hel…

Doris and Alison talk about what is happening in this class when the students come out of their first day of their second business challenge and are faced with a problem that is significantly more so…