Anjel and sam met 20 years ago as student and teacher. This co-keynote about deeper learning, hip hop culture, design thinking + community will amplify over two decades of learning together and leave you ready to do the work as you return to your context.
Stacey Caillier talked to Network for College Success’s Adelric “Del” McCain and Sarah Howard about how Chicago Public schools increased their “on track to graduate” rates from 61% to 89% in ten years. The secret? “Fix the system, not the kids”
Sixth Grade DJs DJ Dice and DJ Rose play their favorite clips for Alec, and give advice on running a youth radio show along with one of their teachers, Alex Owens.
Alec talks to Jean Kluver and Jeff Robin, co-authors of Changing the Subject: Twenty Years of Projects at High Tech High, about how they wrote the book, what they learned from it, and how they hope schools will use it.
Doctoral candidates in Western Carolina University Education Leadership Program need to design and run actual school improvement projects in order to get their degrees. Here’s what happened when four of them asked “how can we make sure principals are better prepared when they start their jobs?”
This episode is recorded live from the 2022 Deeper Learning conference with David TC Ellis, who as a rapper is known for his work with Prince, and as an educator is the founder of High School for Recording Arts in St. Paul Minnesota.
Ron Berger interviews three educators of color about their strategies for making their schools into genuinely anti-racist spaces, and the challenges they’ve faced.
This is a recording of the DL2022 opening keynote, in which four educators from around the country told stories of deeper learning from their own lives.
Stacey Caillier talks to Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford about what Improvement Science looks like when equity and liberation are embedded in the PROCESS, not just the hoped-for result.
When her work for the Gates Foundation brought her to Beijing, Yinuo Li couldn’t find a school she was excited to send her kids to, so she founded one.
Wagner Marseille didn’t like school much when he was a kid. When he became a superintendent, he decided to try something a little different, by creating project-based program within a 130-year-old public high school.
Alec and his former student, Dany Francis, talk about his most ambitious and stressful project, a live-action simulation of the process of escaping Syria…
Stacey Caillier interviews Eva Mejia, Chief Program & Strategy Officer at Big Picture Learning, about why for her, “improvement” and “equity” are inseparable