upskilled
Join education expert Amy Baron of Convergent Learning as she talks with leaders in education and industry about innovative ideas and solutions that catalyze positive change in education. Amy and her guests explore best practices and applications for schools, businesses, and other organizations in the learning ecosystem, highlighting products and perspectives that have a meaningful impact on learning, workforce training, and the student experience.
- Update frequency
- every 29 days
- Average duration
- 18 minutes
- Episodes
- 16
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
16. Solving the Guidance Gap: College and Career Counseling
GUEST: JON CARSON, CEO, COLLEGE GUIDANCE NETWORK. Public high school counselors are overwhelmed, with caseloads of up to 700 students in the most extreme cases. At the same time, the college and car…
15. Life Currencies for the Learning Economy
GUEST: STEPHANIE MALIA KRAUSS, AUTHOR, Making It: What Today's Kids Need for Tomorrow's World. Today's young people have had a childhood defined by "a relentless rotation" of economic stress and oth…
14. Building Community with a Virtual Campus
GUEST: CARRIE PURCELL, CEO, TECH-ADAPTIKA The pandemic has been a catalyst for change in higher education, forcing us to look at how little the brick-and-mortar experience has evolved over time. As t…
13. Bringing Data to Action with an Early Literacy Screener
GUEST: CARLA SMALL, CEO, EARLYBIRD EDUCATION. Research shows that 70% of children who were not reading on grade level in first grade continue to not be reading on grade level in eighth grade. Catchin…
12. Experiential Learning, Experiential Hiring: A Win-Win
GUEST: JORDAN LEVY, FOUNDER, CAPSOURCE. Many students complete undergraduate and graduate degree programs without experiencing a career path or a company culture to determine whether it is right for …
11. Upskilling with Strategic Enterprise Education
GUEST: MICHELLE WESTFORT, CHIEF UNIVERSITY OFFICER, INSTRIDE. When corporate leaders map the skills they need on their teams and provide pathways for employees and potential employees to cultivate th…
10. Enabling New Americans in the Workforce
GUEST: KATIE NIELSON, PHD, CEO, VOXY ENGEN. By 2024, as baby boomers reach retirement age, 97% of net workforce growth will come from immigrants and their children. Join Amy and her guest Katie Niels…
9. Affirming Emergent Bilinguals in the K12 Classroom
GUEST: KRISTIE SHELLEY, CO-CREATOR, ROSETTA STONE ENGLISH. Over 10% of America's school children speak a language other than English at home. In states like California and Texas, that number is close…
8. Maximizing Engagement With Remote Gen Z Learners
GUESTS: KELVIN BENTLEY, LEARNING STRATEGIST AND NIKKI NAVTA, ENTREPRENEUR. Between social media and gaming, Gen Z learners are always one click away from distraction. In an era of remote learning, ho…
7. Culturally Responsive Content for Equity and Engagement
GUEST: BEAU MCCOY, FOUNDER, SOLCADEMY. As COVID-19 exacerbates issues of equity and access in K12 education, how can teachers and schools respond? One approach is to find compelling virtual content t…
6. COVID Learning Loss: How Adaptive Technology Can Help
GUEST: LYNELLE MORGENTHALER, VP, LEARNING DESIGN, EDMENTUM. Students are returning to school this fall having achieved less than the typical learning gains for the past academic year. Amy and her gue…
5. COVID-19 and a Shift Toward Agile Talent Development
GUEST: JEANINE DELAY, AVP, GLOBAL TALENT, SUN LIFE. With COVID-19, all eyes are on safety and security—at the individual level, in our work lives, and in our public institutions. How does a financial…
4. Higher Education and the Public Good, Engines for Community and Economic Development
GUEST: JIM WOODELL, PHD, CONSULTANT. Higher education institutions contribute to community and economic development through a wide array of activities—talent and workforce development, innovation and…
3. Closing the Workforce Development Gap: Northeastern’s Co-op Program
GUEST: MICHELLE SCHLESINGER ZAFF, ASSOCIATE COOP FACULTY, NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY. According to a study by Lumina Foundation and Gallup, “96% of Chief Academic Officers believe that their students ar…
2. Creating a Culture of Learning at Boston Children's Hospital
GUEST: DAN SCHWARTZ, DIRECTOR, EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY, BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL. Dan talks with Amy about the challenges of designing learning experiences that map to the diverse needs of medical pro…
1. Introducing upskilled with Amy Baron
Education technology leader and podcast host Amy Baron talks about her background in education and industry, and the reasons that led her to create upskilled: solutions in the learning universe.