What Students Want
85 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsThis podcast is an exploration of what students, young and old, are really looking for. Why do we learn avidly in some environments but are bored in others? What is an immersive learning experience and how do we generate more of them, for our children, our colleagues and ourselves? Learning science has many secrets that are very useful to unlock. As the world
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S3E1 - Effective Leadership with Dr. Brenton White
November 01, 2022 14:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBOur guest today is Dr. Brenton White. Dr. White is the Superintendent/ CEO of A+ Charter Schools, INC. He has more than 23 years of experience in education, serving the last five years as a superintendent. In this episode, Dr. White discusses the challenges of being a leader, the importance of education for underserved communities, how competition improves school performance and gives insight into teacher shortages. Quotes: “When people say, “Oh, you can't color trees purple.” the one...
S2E17. The Deployment Age of EdTech, with Amit Patel from Owl Ventures
December 03, 2021 16:00 - 41 minutes - 28.8 MBOur guest today is Amit Patel. Amit is is a Managing Partner at Owl Ventures, a venture capital fund that invests in the world's leading education technology companies such as Byju, dreambox, Newsela, Quizzlet, and more: https://owlvc.com/portfolio.html In this episode, we talk about how the education technology infrastructure investments years ago create the conditions for the EdTech boom today, we talk about a new cohort of learning-science-based startups and much more. Listen and take n...
S2E16. Return on Education: access, costs, outcomes and leverage, with Deborah Quazzo from GSV
November 12, 2021 14:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBOur guest today is Deborah Quazzo, the cofounder and managing partner of GSV Ventures, one of the earliest and more prestigious venture funds investing in the entire spectrum of education from PreK to Gray including companies that we all use daily such as Coursera, Classdojo, Clever, Quizziz and many more. Deborah is also the cofounder of the annual annual ASU+GSV Summit which attracts over 5000 visitors each year, now 13 years in, and is where the major education trends are revealed each ye...
S2E15. Last-Mile Job Training for Students, with Daniel Pianko
November 10, 2021 13:00 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBOur guest today is Daniel Pianko. Daniel is a Managing Director at Achieve and University Ventures. He has a long experience adviser and innovator in student finance, medical education, and postsecondary education. In this episode, we talk about how people's focus is shifting from the inputs to the output of education, how personalization is a misplaced idea, and how to successfully invest in job-training for young people. In our discussion, we cover: 02:06 - How people are increasingly f...
S2E14. Where games end and social learning begins, with Mercedes Bent
October 26, 2021 15:00 - 28 minutes - 19.9 MBOur guest today is Mercedes Bent, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mercedes is focused on education and consumer early stage investing. Previously she was working in VR and a General Manager at General Assembly. In this episode, we explore how EdTech is shifting and giving more power to parents and students. We look at social learning and gaming, which together offer a lot of promise for the future of education. Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion: (links) Mercedes'...
Decentralized Schools, with Rebecca Kaden
October 16, 2021 11:00 - 37 minutes - 26.1 MBOur guest today is Rebecca Kaden. Rebecca is a Managing Partner at Union Square Ventures. She has a particular interest in education and an extremely deep understanding of the evolving EdTech landscape. Rebecca began her career as a journalist and prior to USV was a General Partner at Maveron, a consumer focused early stage fund. In this episode, we talk about how new technology can decentralize many aspects of what school is today, so that the learning experience can really feel individual...
The Unique EdTech Business Models Coming Out of Europe, with Benoit Wirz
October 04, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MBOur guest today is Benoit Wirz, a partner at Brighteye Ventures, the leading European EdTech venture firm. In this episode, we talk about the evolving EdTech landscape in Europe as well as the unique attributes of rising European education companies. Here are some resources mentioned in our discussion: Citibank study citing the Edtech Opportunity Gap - https://www.citifirst.com.hk/home/upload/citi_research/eduAXO97.pdf YouSchool - http://youschool.fr Klassroom - https://klassroom.fr Br...
🔎 Really Understand Who You Are Serving, with Jinal Jhaveri
September 24, 2021 09:00 - 38 minutes - 26.6 MBOur guest today is Jinal Jhaveri. Jinal is the co-founder and Chairman of Schoolmint, a venture partner at Runa Capital and also co-founder and CEO at enable.us. In this episode, we talk about Jinal's lessons growing Schoolmint, how he channeled the tailwinds of the school choice movements, and what his experience can offer for schools today. Listen and take note of Jinal's obsessive focus on the Customer, continuously trying to delight and really understand who you are serving. Here are...
S2E11. Will the Consumerization of Education Continue? With Jennifer Carolan
September 07, 2021 10:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBSummary Our guest today is Jennifer Carolan. Jennifer started her career as a classroom teacher in a Chicago district. She then moved to California to attend Stanford, and there got inspired to use her teaching experience in support od tech founders. So she joined NewSchools Venture Fund where she learned the craft of VC, while also co-creating and teaching a course at Stanford. After that, Jennifer co-founded Reach Capital, with a first fund in 2000, a second fund in 2018 and a third fund ...
S2E10. Why the teacher's job should be unbundled, with John Danner
August 14, 2021 16:00 - 45 minutes - 31 MBOur guest today is John Danner. John is an investor in Edtech and the Future of Work. During the last 3 years he has participated in investments that have impacted many learner lives, like Lambda School or Outschool. Before being an investor, John started Netgravity, an internet advertising firm that went public and was sold to Doubleclick now Google. Then he did a U-turn and became a teacher in a school district. After that, he built a school and started Rocketship Education, a charter scho...
S2E9. From Transferring Knowledge to Transforming Students, with Andrew Barry, Founder of Curious Lion
July 26, 2021 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.5 MBOur guest today is Andrew Barry. Andrew started off at KPMG where he built out their training, then he created Curious Lion where he and his team help the likes of Pinterest and many other companies to create corporate training programs. I first met Andrew when we were both taking an online writing course called Write of Passage, and I have been eager to talk about learning online ever since. In this episode, we learn how everyone can design online learning experiences to repeatably effect...
S2E8 Roadmap Club, a Feedback Loop All Schools Should Have, with Indra Sofian, Cofounder at Sora Schools
June 21, 2021 12:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBOur guest today is Indra Sofian, the cofounder fo Sora School, an online project-based-learning high school. In this episode, we catch up after our first chat 2 years ago. Then the school was just starting, now there is an innovative yet mature high school operating entirely online. It is the first digital-native high school I have studied closely, so I wanted to dig into their entire operating system. We discussed how they motive learners, how they structure their academic standards, how st...
S2E7. How To Keep Standards Way Up Because Students Deserve It
June 01, 2021 17:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBOur guest today is Cam Stottler. He is the Executive Director of North Lakes Academy Charter School, a K-12 tuition free school located in Forest Lake, MN. The school has been in operation for over 20 years, implementing an educational program that is challenging, developmentally appropriate, and catering to the needs and passions of their students. Given the small class sizes, each student receives personalized attention from teachers and the school feels like a big family. In this episod...
S2E6. 420 Learning Guides Coach Learners Towards Mastery, with Kelly Smith, CEO Prenda Schools
May 05, 2021 13:00 - 42 minutes - 29.2 MBIn this episode, we catch up on the last 2 years since our first podcast interview in August 2019. We talk about how Prenda uses a unique learning model with a mix of blended learning, PBL and inquiry-based learning to increase confidence and curiosity. We see how they enhance grit and perseverance, helping learners to stick with their problems longer, as Albert Einstein would say. Some interesting highlights from our discussion: The focus is on helping the child choose to be a learner. Nu...
S2E5. The Tutoring Rocketship Investing €70M in Quality, Affordability & Convenience
April 23, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBOur guest today is Felix Ohswald. He is the CEO of GoStudent, an online tutoring company that just raised 70 million euros and is growing like a rocketship in Europe. In this episode, we talk about the origin story of GoStudent, Felix's views on what makes a learning experience successful, his tips on operating a growing educational institutions, and his regional and global plans to consolidate the fragmented tutoring market. 05:24 - Felix and his team made a hard turn from a model that was...
S2E4. Full-stack, deep learning that feels like an emoji shower 🎉🎉
April 14, 2021 12:00 - 59 minutes - 41 MBSummary Our guest today is Victoria Ransom, the CEO at Prisma. Victoria is a serial entrepreneur from New Zealand, having sold her last company to Google and is currently living in the U S with her partner and co-founder Alain Chuard. We are going to talk about their newest venture Prisma, a full-time virtual program (with a physical component) for middle school learners. Prisma is a full-stack connected learning network that is rethinking school from first principles. Listen and take note...
S2E3. Learning Re-Imagined For The Web, with Ryan Delk CEO at Primer
March 26, 2021 10:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBSummary Our guest today is Ryan Delk, the co-founder and CEO at Primer. Ryan spent the last decade building tech companies at Square, Gumroad and Omni. He has now co-founded Primer to free the next generation of kids to be more ambitious, more creative, and to think for themselves, starting with homeschool. In this episode, we discuss Ryan's ambitious plans for the future of Primer, how parents are equally important to kids in the learning equation, why observing the "user-experience" is s...
S2E2. A Human-centered operating system, with Kelly Davis
March 04, 2021 13:00 - 34 minutes - 23.9 MBOur guest today is Kelly from Galileo XP. Kelly and her co-founder Vlad redesigned school from scratch. Galileo a global online school soon to have access to physical spaces as well. Listen and take note of how Kelly and the Galileo team transitions students into self-directed learning, inject learning experiences with passion and provide a 10-star experience for everyone that joins. Quotes: 9:35 - We have students as young as eight and even some seven year olds that are actually facilita...
S2E1. Product-Teacher-Family Fit with Brian Tobal, CEO of SchoolHouse
February 24, 2021 11:00 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBSummary: Our guest today is Brian Tobal. Brian used to be a teacher at the Harlem Children's Zone, then worked as a researcher, and then he spent the last few years building lots of educational software, and curriculum for schools, universities and businesses. Now, Brian has started SchoolHouse with his co-founder, to have parents get together and create microschools or learning pods in their own homes or in flexible spaces. In this episode, Brian and I discuss what it takes for an educati...
56. Thrive Book Review: Promise and Deliver
February 20, 2020 11:00 - 45 minutes - 31.1 MBIt has become popular to sneer at our education system’s factory model. We call for the death of schools in favor of Airbnb-like learning communities. Our SAT/ACT testing culture, our boring direct-instruction content-dumping, our mental health issues - these are easy targets. But schools can thrive, and many are doing so. Only the job of the school, and the teacher, needs to change. To accompany our recent interview, I wanted to write a short book review of Thrive: How Schools Will Win ...
55. Making Education Free for Students, with Trevor McKendrick
January 23, 2020 10:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBOur guest today is Trevor McKendrick, Chief of Staff at Lambda School, where students graduate and get the job because they got the skills - and it’s free until they get a job paying over $50K. In this podcast, Trevor goes to the heart of “the customer experience” and details how everything they do is framed in light of reducing the risk and elevating the satisfaction of the customer - their students. Education is transforming, whether we are ready or not. With a steady eye on mastery-based...
54. Out of the Textbook and Into the Flow, with Joel Rose
January 16, 2020 09:00 - 33 minutes - 22.9 MBIn education, the obvious place to cut your teeth is as a teacher. Joel Rose knows the classroom well. He began as a 5th-grade teacher in Houston before moving into a variety of leadership roles in education. Joel is a respected commentator on education through his published articles and as a speaker at conferences. He is currently spearheading the nonprofit “New Classrooms,” which reimagines classrooms through the creation of new and different learning models. In our interview, Joel Rose ...
53. The Real Way Technology Will Impact Our Classrooms, with Matt Greenfield
January 09, 2020 08:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBFrom where do contemporary, resilient changes begin - from a top-down mandate, or from a bottom-up, tech-driven evolution? Today’s guest, Matt Greenfield, is an investor in entrepreneurial companies that drive transformative social outcomes through the power of using technology in education. He sifts through fascinating trends and prophetic scenarios as we discuss everything from the Common Core to cloud-based platforms, bullying to virtual reality, and pedagogy to washing machines. If you...
52. How to Join the Education Revolution, with Clark Aldrich
December 12, 2019 09:00 - 48 minutes - 33.5 MBIf you had to pick your moniker, being called a 'guru' by Fortune Magazine and a 'maverick' by CNN would not be a bad place to start. Our guest today, Clark Aldrich, is on the frontline of the learning revolution. He is the author of five books and is known for award-winning projects building custom “Short Sims” using a methodology he has pioneered. Clark’s work pedigree uniquely positions him to take on the role of education technology thought leader, and it is from this position that he jo...
51. How to Access the “Three Buckets of Money,” with Michele Timmons
December 05, 2019 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.4 MBSummary: Having connected her clients to over $200 million in grants through the work done by her company - EnvisionEdPlus, Michele Timmons is the right person to go to for an in-depth look at the funding panorama. She is passionate about helping schools support young people to thrive in school and beyond. Today, she walks us through the “Three Buckets of Money” available, the trends in funding, how to think strategically about approaching funders, how to build partnerships in the communi...
50. Four Steps to Sustainably Engage Foundations, with Yossi Prager
November 21, 2019 11:00 - 32 minutes - 22.5 MBAVI CHAI has invested over $300 million to benefit Jewish education through a wide variety of programs. As Executive Director of the North Ameria branch of AVI CHAI, Yossi Prager brings to the table a wealth of insight into philanthropy and wide-ranging experience with education. A graduate of Yeshiva College and Yale Law School, Yossi serves on the boards of communal and public policy organizations. He is a noted speaker, writer, and editor. Sharing with us how foundations view their role ...
49. How a Twelve-Year-Old Student Won a $180K Grant, with Sohne Van Selus
November 14, 2019 07:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MB“All of that student-directed theory is great, but how does it play out in real life?” you might ask. What if we told you that a 12-year-old boy decided that his school needed a playground upgrade, polled the students and the community to determine needs, gathered support for his project, wrote a grant proposal, and scored a $180K grant from Great Outdoors Colorado? This is the story that Sohne Van Selus, principal at North Arvada Middle School, shares with us as we explore the reality of ...
48. How to Get Your Whole Community to Resonate with Your School, with Jethro Jones
November 07, 2019 09:00 - 33 minutes - 22.7 MBDid you ever sit at your desk, engaged in a daytime fantasy in which all of the stakeholders in your school were cheering you on, passing along their positive experience to others, and looking for ways to more deeply engage with the education community centered around your school? It doesn’t have to be a dream… Jethro Jones, a school principal for nine years, and host of the Transformative Principal Podcasts intends to impact 100 million kids by 2027 by improving their educational experienc...
47. Plug a Fun Online Learning Platform into Your School's Offering, with Amir Nathoo
October 31, 2019 10:00 - 43 minutes - 29.6 MBOutschool is a community marketplace of live online classes for K-12. Today, we have the great pleasure of hearing from Amir Nathoo - one of the founding partners of Outschool. As an innovative learning platform that is social, interactive, and online, Outschool is uniquely positioned to meet the exploding need for learner-directed education. In fact, Outschool has currently reached nearly 40,000 families and 57,000 learners with 10,000 classes. The endless possibilities for new partnership...
46. Accelerating Innovation, with Sujata Bhatt and Anirban Bhattacharyya
October 24, 2019 08:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBChange is daunting. Change to entrenched systems and institutions can feel impossible. Even thinking about where to begin can be exhausting. For schools that are interested in remaining healthy and relevant in the 21st-century, Transcend brings resources, experience, energy, optimism, and support to the design process. We are joined today by Sujata Bhatt and Anirban Bhattacharyya from Transcend - a national nonprofit dedicated to accelerating innovation in the core design of “school.” They h...
45. The Charter School Movement Looks Ahead, with Nina Rees
October 17, 2019 07:00 - 27 minutes - 19.2 MBNina Rees is the president and chief executive officer of the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. After working for more than 20 years in Washington, D.C., including at Knowledge Universe, the U.S. Department of Education, and working as a deputy assistant for domestic policy to Vice President Dick Cheney, she needs no introduction in the education sector. She is passionate about the ultimate goal of charter schools to provide options for families who want an innovative public scho...
44. School AND… Learning Outside of School, with Amy Anderson
October 10, 2019 07:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBAfter a few years of incubating the idea inside the Denver-based Donnell-Kay Foundation, ReSchool launched as a non-profit in 2018. Their goal is to create an entirely new state public education system in Colorado. Working directly with parents and learners, they try to help families create learning experiences inside and outside of school. Amy Anderson is the Director of ReSchool Colorado. Today, she talks with us about the innovative ideas happening at ReSchool. You will enjoy hearing abou...
43. Trial and Error is Your Friend - Not Your Enemy, with Tony Wagner
October 03, 2019 08:00 - 32 minutes - 22.1 MBWe typically highlight a few of the most interesting quotes from the podcast - by which we seek to tempt you to listen. Tony Wagner is the kind of guest who makes us want to dangle the entire transcript in front of our audience. Everything he says deserves to be a featured quote. As one of the most cutting edge thinkers in innovation and leadership, and a globally recognized voice in education, Tony Wagner is a Senior Research Fellow at the Learning Policy Institute. He comes to us after t...
42. Education Through a Serendipity Vehicle, with David Perell
September 26, 2019 06:00 - 57 minutes - 39.4 MBDavid Perell is a bright, curious mind, dancing around important concepts with a global tribe. We hope that a lot of our 21st-century students will turn out just like him. His weekly podcast offers interviews with some of the most interesting people in the world. His blog is the voice of our society’s pioneers, laboring to come to terms with the impact of technology on our ideas. And his writing course - Write of Passage, shows us a new way to share our thoughts. Teachers and students fuse i...
41. Positioning an Internship as an Actual Job Changes the Game, with Conor Heaton
September 19, 2019 05:00 - 30 minutes - 21.3 MBConor Heaton guides expansion strategy for the Cristo Rey Network as their Director of School Growth. A former trial attorney in Chicago, Conor is an expert on the legal side of feasibility studies and what it takes to launch a school. It is his passion for helping young people, however, that speaks most clearly when he shares his experiences with us. The Cristo Rey concept is based on a work/study program for high school students; they attend classes four days per week and work in a local ...
40. Find a School Design and Replicate It, with Ted Fujimoto
September 12, 2019 09:00 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBIn this episode, Ted Fujimoto, President of Landmark Consulting Group, entrepreneur, and expert in leadership development and organizational redesign, leads us to understand how to scale a school design with “fidelity.” The goal is always to achieve world-class performance. He explains the ways that system replication is not the same thing as “cloning.” Everything Ted does is built on the pillars of trust, respect, and responsibility, and whether you are launching a school, or redesigning a...
39. How We Explain it Really Matters, with Liz Willen
September 05, 2019 11:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBWhen you want the box seat view of what’s happening across-the-board in American education, you ask Liz Willen, Editor-in-chief at the Hechinger Report. She takes the gloves off for our Enrollhand interview and punches education “jargon” in the jaw, throws a strong right hook at funding cuts in the arts, and gives a head-butt to “innovative” rollouts that fail to garner support or create optimism. Join us as we listen to Hechinger's Liz Willen for a bare-knuckled round of educational enligh...
38. Launching 80 Schools in 8 Months, with Kelly Smith
August 29, 2019 12:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBWhat do you get when an MIT physics graduate volunteers at the public library computer lab to tinker with a few kids building cool games, websites, and apps? He suddenly decides - with no background in education - to start a school, and a neighborhood micro-school called “Prenda School” is born. Eight months later, Prenda Schools are spreading like wildfire across the US - with 80 launched so far. Join us to learn about the explosion of an education vision based on the outrageous idea that...
37. The Wild, Wild West of School Marketing, with Caylee Migliorini
August 22, 2019 05:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBHas the wild, wild west ever really been tamed? We consider this and other burning questions like: Is A/B Testing actually misleading? with our guest - Caylee Migliorini. Caylee has a rich career history in the education management industry. She joins us today to share her experience and expertise in marketing for school enrollment. She is currently the Senior Managing Director of Creative Services and Student Acquisition at BASIS.ed. Caylee offers valuable insights as we think about school ...
36. Creating a Culture of Innovation, with Keara Mascarenaz
August 15, 2019 07:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBKeara Mascarenaz joined us for an explosive jaunt through innovation in education. We visited destinations such as: personalized paths for students, differentiated teaching, strong relationships vs. screen time, student ownership and choice, self-management, competency-based education, collaboration, social-emotional learning, building trust, inclusion and the value of diverse voices, making clear decisions, the right “size” of change to target, and operating systems for schools. Yes - all o...
35. Beyond the Warm, Fuzzy Feeling of Philanthropy, with Mandy Pearce
August 08, 2019 07:00 - 28 minutes - 19.6 MBOur guest today is Many Pearce. She brings over two decades of fundraising experience to the conversation and generously shares her knowledge of the funding landscape. Mandy knows how to simplify a complex topic, and offers a long-range view of the changes happening in the grant writing world. In this episode, her dynamic teaching style brings so much infectious enthusiasm to the discussion that every listener will feel empowered to go out and find a grant for their program - even if they ...
34. Have You Heard of Sora Schools?, with Indra Sofian
August 01, 2019 06:00 - 40 minutes - 27.7 MBIndra Sofian offered us an inside look at the founding and launch of a progressive, student-directed high school known as Sora Schools. He walked us through the launch process from inspiration through formulation and iteration and ended with a glance towards his dreams for the future. As a co-founder at Elevate Media, an Atlanta-based content-driven digital agency that provides marketing strategy, consulting, and content production services for businesses, Indra might seem to be an unlikely...
33. The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Funding Charter Schools, with Terry Ryan
July 25, 2019 10:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBTerry Ryan knows education from every angle. He is the CEO of BLUUM - a non-profit organization working to develop leaders and support innovative schools in Idaho. Terry has a lot to say about charter schools, philanthropic funding, how to create a community of practice, and the ways that charters and districts might put aside their differences and capitalize on the strengths of each arm of education. He talks fast, but we wish we could hear even more of the wisdom that Terry has accumulate...
32. Catching the Wave of Education’s Future, with Catherine Fraise
July 18, 2019 13:00 - 36 minutes - 25.2 MBCatherine Fraise is passionate about creating educational spaces and environments within which children can innovatively realize their potential. She has a vision for changing education and is making it happen at her 32,000 square foot facility in Connecticut. As the Founder and Executive Director at Workspace, Catherine takes us down an exciting trail of discovery as we learn how families are choosing and creating education in a way that benefits their children. From online classes to Mak...
31. Connecting 1 Million Students by Next Year, with Erick Roa
July 11, 2019 13:00 - 33 minutes - 22.8 MBSocial-emotional learning is a hot topic. Today, Erick Roa shares with us about his contribution at Empatico and The Kind Foundation. Erick serves as Head of Partnerships at Empatico. He takes us through the grant application and award process as he has experienced it, and gives advice for schools that might be interested in the grant process. Erick shares with us about how students can develop social-emotional skills through the free Empatico software platform. Listen and take note of how...
30. Authentic School Brands, with John LaPerch
July 04, 2019 05:00 - 30 minutes - 21.2 MBJohn LaPerch is a funny guy with an in-depth knowledge of marketing. He is Director of Online Marketing & Social Media Content Creator. We didn’t have a set agenda for our conversation about school growth and marketing, but our casual discussion ended up covering everything from digital word-of-mouth to how schools should embrace authenticity. John takes us through the process of how he moves schools from a communication model to a marketing model, and from glossy, print magazines to email a...
29. Maker-Centered Learning Grows Your School, with Jim Tiffin
June 27, 2019 08:00 - 34 minutes - 23.4 MBOur guest today is Jim Tiffin. He infuses excitement into everything he does, and his enthusiasm will infect you in this podcast. Jim is the Director of Media/Maker Programs for Mount Vernon Presbyterian School in Atlanta, Georgia. He knows how to make learning personal and authentic, how to engage teachers in the process, and how to connect parents and kids with “possibility thinking.” In this episode, Jim shares about Media/Maker Programs - what they are, how they reposition learning in s...
28. K12 Foundation Officers as Connectors with Jackie Coleman
June 20, 2019 08:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBIn this episode, we dive deeper into the exploration of how school funding works. This is important for anyone looking to grow their school, but also matters if you are simply interested in the future of education, wonder how education will evolve, or would like to know how the funders are thinking. Our guest today is Jackie Coleman. She is Senior Education Investments Officer at Hartford Foundation for Public Giving. We talk about the different types of foundations, how to approach founda...
27. Patterns That Emerge After 1K School Visits, with Anthony Kim
June 13, 2019 05:00 - 37 minutes - 17 MBOur guest today is Anthony Kim, Founder and CEO of Education Elements. Anthony built virtual schools before anyone had heard of such a thing. He has worked with over 1000 schools and school districts on projects ranging from the adoption of personalized learning to project management and leadership capacity. Anthony works with a focus on seeking to achieve better student outcomes, higher student engagement, and increased teacher satisfaction. He is the co-author of The New School Rules, and...
#AskEnrollhand - “Is texting a good method for connecting with prospective parents?”
June 11, 2019 10:00 - 4 minutes - 2.13 MBIn this episode we answer a question by Marisa from Tipton, IN: “Is texting a good method for connecting with prospective parents?” Where to learn more about Enrollhand: Website: www.enrollhand.com Our webinar: https://webinar-replay.enrollhand.com Our free Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/schoolgrowth/