Getting Smart Podcast
This podcast has over 500 episodes highlighting developing trends in K-12 education, postsecondary and lifelong learning. Each week, Getting Smart team members interview students, leading authors, experts and practitioners in research, tech, entrepreneurship and leadership to bring listeners innovative and actionable strategies in education leadership.
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- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 35 minutes
- Episodes
- 516
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Jenee Henry Wood and David Nitkin on Conversations with Kids
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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by Jenee Henry Wood, a Partner at Transcend Education and David …
Getting Smart Town Hall: What’s next in learning?
On the 2023 edition of our annual “What’s next in learning?” Getting Smart Town Hall, we dug into some of the core drivers impacting learning today: the Pandemic Response, New Pathways and AI Everywh…
In Conversation: Louka Parry and Tom Vander Ark
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, we’re sharing a recent conversation between Tom Vander Ark and Louka Parry. Together they discuss the mission of school, credentials and records, generat…
A Greener Future of Work: Meeting the Demand for Sustainability Pathways
Schools are supposed to prepare young people for the opportunities ahead of them, but oftentimes the opportunities move faster than the school systems. In the last few years some of the world’s leadi…
Dr. Julie Evans on Free Agent Learning
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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Nate McClennen is joined by Dr. Julie Evans, …
Students from Notre Dame de Sion on Global Impact and Being Solutionaries
This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the W…
Kelly Niccolls and Abby Benedetto on Assessment as a Revelation Framework
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Rebecca Midles is joined by two dear friends and peers: Kelly Niccolls and Abby Benedetto. Kelly Niccolls is formerly a Getting Smart colleague and now le…
Sam Seidel and Olatunde Sobomehin on the Creative Hustle and Blazing Your Own Path
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by repeat podcast guest Sam Seidel Director of K12 Strategy + Research at the Stanford d.school, the Hasso Plattner Institute of…
Barbara Kurshan and Kathy Hurley on InnovateHers
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Barbara “Bobbi” Kurshan and Kathy Hurley the co-authors of the new book InnovateHERs: Why Purpose Driven Entrepreneurial…
Town Hall Recap: Badging & Credentialing
This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the W…
EduCatered: Season Finale
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Ellen Perconti on The Practice of Contributive Learning
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by Dr. Ellen Perconti, Superintendent at Goldendale School District. Dr. Ellen Perconti is an experienced education superintenden…
Stephanie Taylor on Teletherapy and How Schools Should Approach Mental Health
This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the W…
Dr. Paul LeBlanc on How We Can Fix Our Social Systems
This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the W…
Tanya Sheckley on Rebel Educators
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On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom is joined by Tanya She…
David McRaney on How Minds Change
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Tom Vander Ark is joined by David McRaney, author of the new book How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion and the hos…
Miriam Plotinsky on Empowering Student Agency
On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by author and instructional specialist Miriam Plotinsky to discuss her new book Teach More, Hover Less.
Miriam is a strong ad…
Mike Magee on The Innovation of Minerva University
This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the W…
Ed3: A Getting Smart Town Hall
This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is a part of our New Pathways campaign. In partnership with American Student Assistance® (ASA), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Stand Together and the W…