Relationship Mapping: A Getting Smart Town Hall

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Shawnee Caruthers and Tom Vander Ark discuss a recent set of school visits in Dallas, Texas. These schools do an incredible job of showcasing dual enrollment, pathway management, business partnerships and building culture in their schools. 

These schools create radical new pathways to economic mobility and cultures of possibility.

Links:

• BigThought

• The Future of Learning with Dr. Pamela Moran, Byron Sanders and Dr. Ed Hess

• Remake Learning

• Dallas County Promise

• Economic Mobility High: The New End Game for America’s High Schools

• 60x30TX Initiative

• Molina B Tech

• Adamson P Tech

• IDEA 

• Career Institutes

• St. Vrain Valley Schools

• Dr. Don Haddad and Dr. Jackie Kapushion on St. Vrain Schools and Innovation Centers

• San Diego School Visits Blog

• Fort Osage

• Cajon Valley 

• Phoenix Chamber of Commerce

• CAPS Network | Building and Growing Community Partnerships

• Paul Quinn College

• Oppti

• Skillsline

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Mason is joined by repeat guest Aaron Schorn of Unrulr and two new guests for the Getting Smart Podcast, Kwaku Aning, Director of the Center of Innovation and Entrepreneurial Thinking at the San Diego Jewish Academy and Mike Yates, The Reinvention Lab at Teach for America. 

Links:

• Kwaku Aning LinkedIn

• Aaron Schorn LinkedIn

• Mike Yates LinkedIn

• San Diego Jewish Academy

• Reinvention Lab at Teach for America

• Designing Your Life

• MSCHF

• Hallcraft School Studio

• Unrulr

• Shoelace Learning

• Julia Dexter

• Changing the Subject

• d.school

• Scott Center for Entrepreneurship

• Bill Summers - Cañon City High School 

• Capstone Consortium

• Big Picture Learning

• EyeCandy

• Previous episode with Aaron Schorn

• Lauryn Hill - Sister Act 2 Performance

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers is joined by New Pathways Senior Fellow Timothy Jones to discuss one of our New Pathways Design Principles: Purposeful. When designing pathways, they must “help learners identify strengths and interests and match them with possible futures. With a growing sense of purpose, learners spot opportunities and develop an entrepreneurial mindset.”  

Links:

• New Pathways

• View All Design Principles Episodes

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee is joined by New Pathways Senior Fellow Timothy Jones to discuss one of our New Pathways Design Principles: Curated. 

When designing pathways, they must be “meaningful sequences of learning experiences linked to opportunity. The result in experiencing success in what’s next: real work experience, college credit, and industry-recognized credentials.”

Links:

• New Pathways

• View All Design Principles Episodes

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee is joined by New Pathways Senior Fellow Timothy Jones to discuss one of our New Pathways Design Principles: Intentional. 

When designing pathways, ensure that they are “co-authored experiences and journeys with personalized and localized guidance and support.”  

Links:

• New Pathways

• View All Design Principles Episodes

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee is joined by New Pathways Senior Fellow Timothy Jones to discuss one of our New Pathways Design Principles: Equitable. 

When designing pathways, they must “provide equitable accessible, meaningful accommodation and support the development of social capital needed to access opportunity.

Links:

• New Pathways

• View All Design Principles Episodes

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Shawnee Caruthers is joined by Michael Gonzalez, Executive Director of Rural Schools Innovation Zone, a first-of-its-kind partnership made up of five school districts and five institutions of higher education in South Texas that, like our New Pathways campaign, help students find success in what’s next. 

Links:

• Rural Schools Innovation Zone

• Michael Gonzalez LinkedIn

• Progressive Policy Institute

Join your community March 4-7 in Austin, Texas for SXSW EDU 2024 to help create a new tomorrow for learners everywhere! Go to sxswedu.com/attend/ to learn more.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Tom Vander Ark is joined by Lydia Logan, Vice President, Global Education and Workforce Development, Corporate Social Responsibility at IBM. 

Together, Lydia and Tom talk about the credentialing landscape, the rise of green skills and how IBM is bridging those worlds with SkillsBuilds.

Links: 

• Lydia Logan

• Press Release

• IBM SkillsBuild

• IBM Commits to Train 2 Million in Artificial Intelligence in Three Years, with a Focus on Underrepresented Communities (Sept) 

• IBM Commits to Skill 30 Million People Globally by 2030 (oct) 

• Justina Nixon-Saintil on Corporate Social Responsibility and the Rise of P-TECH

Join your community March 4-7 in Austin, Texas for SXSW EDU 2024 to help create a new tomorrow for learners everywhere! Go to sxswedu.com/attend/ to learn more.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Mason Pashia is joined by Josh Schachter, Founder of CommunityShare and long-time storyteller of environment and community. CommunityShare is a platform that connects young people to local opportunities and mentors to grow their networks. Their website prompts visitors to “Imagine your community as a human library.”

Links:

• Josh Schachter LinkedIn

• CommunityShare

• Praising Dark Places by Yusef Komunyakaa

• Learning Justice Project

• Josh Schachter Photography

• Creative Narrations

This episode is an overview of a recent contribution to a publication from the Hoover Institute written by Tom Vander Ark. This publication takes a look at the shift from print to digital in light of the 40th anniversary of A Nation At Risk. This era marked a shift from information scarcity to abundance, a shift from searching to sorting. It changed what, how, and where people learn, and not always for the better. In American schools, the shift to digital learning was gradual, uneven, often chaotic, expensive, and, while there was observed improvement in engagement, largely ineffective at boosting traditional outcomes. 

The shift to digital learning was marked by four phases: computers in the back of the room, introduction of the World Wide Web, the rise of blended learning, and remote learning. The rise of generative AI in 2022 marks a new era of human-computer interaction.  

Links:

1. View Publication
2.  A Nation at Risk +40 | A Review of Progress in US Public Education
3. AI for Education Publication
4. Amanda Bickerstaff on AI for Education
5. Bodo Hoenen on Generative AI for Curriculum
6. Charles Fadel on Education and Competencies for the Age of AI