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The Getting Smart Podcast covers topics in K-12, HigherEd and lifelong learning. Episodes cover developments in research, technology, entrepreneurs, methods and more to bring listeners some...

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Why Entrepreneurship Is for Everyone | Live at the Uncharted Learning Summit

Live from the Uncharted Learning Summit in Chicago, Victoria Andrews and Shawnee Caruthers reflect on a community built around one big idea:...

27:31Oct 2, 2026

They're Rethinking High School | Transformation Journey: Bostonia Global

A K-8 district isn't supposed to have a high school. Bostonia Global built one anyway, and rethought what high school could look like in the...

31:53Sep 29, 2026

What $600 Million Buys You in School Redesign | Mike Posthumus

A school in Singapore just spent over $600 million reimagining what a classroom should be, and it's not what you'd expect. Mike Posthumus, l...

39:32Sep 25, 2026

Why Being a Principal Has Become Impossible | Lindsay Whorton

The job of "principal" has quietly become impossible, one person expected to coach every teacher, be the expert in every subject, set the vi...

46:06Sep 23, 2026

Khan Academy's founder on AI: "Hope isn't a strategy" | Sal Khan

Will AI upend education as we know it, or just get absorbed into the systems we already have? In this episode, host Nate McClennen talks wit...

51:46Sep 16, 2026

Are schools collecting too much data? | Dr. Kelly Page

Digital badges and credentials promise to finally show what a learner actually knows. Dr. Kelly Page says that promise has a dark side nobod...

45:46Sep 9, 2026

Catching Up: Meta's Billion-Dollar Payout, AI Search Bias, and Fixing Student Voice

In this episode of Catching Up, Nate McClennen and Mason Pashia get into what happens after a $2.5 billion settlement lands, and whether "fu...

57:32Sep 4, 2026

Janice K. Jackson Ran Chicago Public Schools. Here's What She'd Change. | Janice K. Jackson

Public education is facing a moment it hasn't seen in decades: shrinking enrollment, an explosion of school choice options, and real questio...

32:35Sep 2, 2026

The $1,700 School Tax Credit Public Schools Should Be Talking About | Antonio Parés

A new federal tax credit is launching in January 2027 that could bring real money into public schools, and most districts don't even know it...

50:45Aug 26, 2026

Are We Designing Schools for Systems or for People? | Jane Shore

Dr. Jane Shore is an education researcher, school co-founder, and author of "People-Based Learning: The Future of Learning is Human" (Routle...

32:28Aug 19, 2026

Why 'Why Am I Learning This?' Is the Most Important Question in Education | Edson Barton

In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, host Mason Pashia sits down with Edson Barton, CEO and co-founder of YouScience, to explore wh...

49:01Aug 14, 2026

Catching Up: Job Cliff, Enrollment Drop, and the Hidden Crisis No One Is Talking About?

In this episode of Catching Up, Nate McClennen and Mason Pashia tackle three of the most urgent tensions in modern education. They explore a...

49:29Aug 12, 2026

How Can Districts Turn Jobs Into Degrees to Build Stronger Teacher Pipelines? | Joe Ross

Reach University is rethinking higher education with a simple but powerful idea: turn jobs into degrees. In this conversation, Joe Ross shar...

31:33Aug 5, 2026

Tell Story: Tyson Yunkaporta on Deep Time, Creolization, and Education

In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Mason Pashia and Jason Cummins sit down with Tyson Yunkaporta for a thought-provoking conversa...

38:13Jul 29, 2026

How are theatre education and gamification related? | Gersom de Koning

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Mason Pashia sits down with Gersom de Koning to explore theater education as a transformative...

52:14Jul 22, 2026

Transformation Journey: Liberty Public Schools

In this episode of The Getting Smart Podcast with Liberty Public Schools, Rebecca Midles introduces how Liberty Public Schools, located just...

27:10Jul 15, 2026

How can Empathy Interviews Change Education for the Better? | Chris McNutt

In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Mason Pashia talks with Chris McNutt of Human Restoration Project about how empathy interviews...

48:58Jul 1, 2026

What If Every Graduate Left With a Plan? | Dr. Whitney Oakley

In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Shawnee Caruthers sits down with Dr. Whitney Oakley, superintendent of Guilford County Schools...

28:47Jun 24, 2026

How Can Classrooms Teach Democracy? | Dr. Douglas Yacek

Outline (0:00) Introduction & Ancient Grains (6:45) Teaching Across Contexts (11:39) The Stimulation Gap (17:36) The Hook, Pitch, Awakening...

47:35Jun 17, 2026

What Do Parents Really Want? | Keri Rodrigues

In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, Mason Pashia sits down with Keri Rodrigues, founder and president of the National Parents Unio...

39:54Jun 10, 2026