Digical Education

Disrupting School Rituals with Eric Demeulenaere

Happy 2023, and I think this is a great conversation to kick-off the New Year and 2nd Semester of school. Dr. Erik Demeulenaere of Clark University wrote a journal article that intrigued me called Disrupting School Rituals based on a class he co-taught with two other local teachers in Worcester, MA. 
I hope this encourages you as you think about this in your classroom and schools and how it might help you reimagine the good (but messy) work that can happen in those spaces.

ChatGPT, Learning, and Flourishing with Ben Bajarin

Ben Bajarin is a great friend, a parent, and a great chef who introduced me to ChatGPT a couple weeks ago. In this conversation I wanted Ben's thoughts on this transformative technology and how we might reframe our thinking about how to best use and steward this technology.
Ben has been with Creative Strategies, inc since 2000. He covers consumer technology, personal computing devices, semiconductors, investments, and business strategy. His research has focused on the relationship between humans and technology, seeking to understand what drives their behavior with products and services. He joined Creative Strategies after spending time at Cypress Semiconductor and then founding two startups in the late ’90s.
He serves on several Industry Analyst advisory councils for leading technology companies. He maintains active engagement with Silicon Valley venture capitalists and startups. He has also given lectures at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Berkley’s Haas School of Business, and Harvard Business School. He actively advises investment banks like UBS, JP Morgan, and Morgan Stanley on core industry topics, investment thesis on all the large-cap tech companies.
His industry expertise has been referenced in the media by sites like Reuters, Financial Times, NYTimes, Wall St. Journal, Bloomberg, and more. He has published columns for Fast Company, Techcrunch, TIME, and MIT Technology Review.

Future Ready: CHCA and Beyond with Dean Nicholas

This Future Ready conversation is with Dean Nicholas who is Head of School at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy.

Future Ready and the Snowball Effect of Innovation with Stephen Carter

Stephen Carter is Director of Entrepreneurship at Cincinnati Hills Christian Academy in Ohio that was part of the Future Ready book/research.

Green Schools and Sustainability with Bill Sterrett

Bill Sterrett serves as Department Chair and Professor of Educational Leadership in Baylor University’s School of Education. Before joining Baylor in 2022, Sterrett served as Associate Dean and Professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. Prior to Sterrett’s 12-year tenure at UNCW, he was a principal and teacher in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Some resources mentioned in the podcast:
Bill Sterrett's Baylor Faculty page (with additional resources and links): https://soefaculty.baylor.edu/william_sterrett/ 
Sterrett et al (2022): https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1349031.pdf 
Sterrett & Imig (2015): http://www.jsedimensions.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Sterrett-Imig-JSE-Nov-2015-Hope-Issue-PDF.pdf 
Sterrett, Imig, & Moore (2014): https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Deborah-Moore-3/publication/281834859_US_Department_of_Education_Green_Ribbon_Schools_Leadership_Insights_and_Implications/links/55fa6f1d08aeba1d9f322eb6/US-Department-of-Education-Green-Ribbon-Schools-Leadership-Insights-and-Implications.pdf 

Stories in Becoming More Human with Kathleen Peercy

Kathleen Peercy shares her story of moving from the classroom, to a specialist role, and now to an instructional coach and how it has shaped her love for students, colleagues, and our profession.

Future Ready with Joel Gaines of The City School

Joel Gaines is the Head of School at The City School in Philadelphia.

Future Ready: The Joy of Hope with Jon Eckert

Jon shares the joy we experienced at Hope Academy and other lessons from the research.
Check out his new podcast Just Schools.

Civic Hospitality Project with David Smith

David Smith led the Civic Hospitality project, and he invited me to be part of the project team. In this podcast conversation I get to ask him how he got interested in a pedagogy of hospitality, how the fit with the Civics classroom, and some of his reflections on this project.
Learn more: https://civichospitality.com/

Future Ready: What’s the Why? with Lynn Swaner

Lynn Swaner who was a primary researcher and author for this project shares some of the background of this project, some ways to use the book, and questions to ask throughout the journey.