Jan 30, 2019
In today’s episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Emily Liebtag is joined by Danish Kurani, a learning space architect and professor at Stanford and Harvard University. He’s also the Director of Kurani.us, a company that uses deep research on education and architecture to create spaces that improve learning outcomes....
Jan 23, 2019
In this week’s episode, Tom is joined by Tim Taylor. Tim is the Cofounder and President of America Succeeds, a national network of business organizations working to improve and modernize the education system. Prior to launching America Succeeds, he served as the founding President of Colorado Succeeds. Both Colorado...
Jan 16, 2019
The Getting Smart team has learned a lot about opening successful, new schools in communities that need them but they’re still learning about transforming inherited factory-model schools into design studios — and it definitely provides many challenges.
To make things better, it’s necessary to name and frame the...
Jan 9, 2019
Today’s episode is
all about competency-based education and professional
development.
Professional development in education is notoriously bad.
BloomBoard was co-founded by Jason Lange in 2010 to try to fix the
problem by powering the micro-credential revolution. The team
behind BloomBoard are dedicated to empowering...
Jan 2, 2019
Today, the Getting
Smart team is throwing it back to an interview they did at High
Tech High in San Diego back in 2017. While there, they got the
chance to chat with HTH leaders, Larry Rosenstock, Jeff Robbins,
and Kalem Rashad — who all have such a contagious passion for their
students.
In today’s interview, they...