From fostering collaboration and curiosity to creating equitable spaces that support every learner, this conversation will inspire fresh ideas for reimagining education and empowering student ownership.

Liger Academy's students will share their chainsaw tree project which has spanned nearly eight years and involved 50+ students

🎤 ✏️ Welcome to our 2024/2025 Elevating Teacher Voice discussion series, hosted by Jan Iwase. At this gathering, Jan's guest will be Dan Fisher.

Join us for the first Eye on Student Protagonism event of 2025 as the students at Green School Bali, Indonesia, showcase three Capstone projects that contribute to the community.

🎤 Join us for this very special Big Think moment on YouTube LIVE when Most Likely to Succeed Executive Producer, Ted Dintersmith, and Director, Greg Whiteley pull back the curtain and share stories about the crazy-amazing, two-year process of film production at High Tech High.

Examine the ways we often see the future as a rigid and singular concept rather than the multiple possible futures before us, the crucial need to think much, much bigger about what could come next, and how we all have more personal agency than we realize.

In this virtual gathering TAG member, Jimmy McCue and his Open Way colleague, Ben Owens (and their friends) will present the impact of open design on student joy. 

This Getting Smart Town Hall will kick off 2025 with an exhilarating journey through cutting-edge technologies, shifts in governance, the revitalization of urban centers, new mindsets and dispositions for leaders and educators, and unprecedented opportunities for students to engage in meaningful experiences both inside and outside the classroom.

At this gathering, Jan's guest will be Mid-Pacific Institute's, Mark Hines. ⏰

Join us for a special virtual session: "ʻAha Kūkā with Amanda Bickerstaff, who will answer school leaders' questions about AI. 

In this virtual gathering two TAG members, Andrew Culberson and Robert Landau, will talk about a remarkable initiative unfolding in New Brunswick, Canada, called "microcourses."

Our Motley Crew Discussion Group sessions in the Fall of 2024 are going to focus on the PBS limited series, A Brief History of the Future. The title of the 5th episode is "Together."

Join us for the latest Eye on Student Protagonism, where student ingenuity takes center stage! This session highlights three inspiring projects tackling real-world challenges

🎤 Join a Getting Smart Town Hall on November 21 at Noon PT as facilitator and lead author of a recent credentialing report, Nate McClennen is joined by Leigh Anne Taylor Knight of The DeBruce Foundation, Julie Lammers of ASA, and Ian Zhu of SchoolJoy, to lead a thoughtful discussion on rethinking credentialing.

Our Motley Crew Discussion Group sessions in the Fall of 2024 are going to focus on the PBS limited series, A Brief History of the Future. The title of the 4th episode is "Human."

Join us for a compelling conversation with Yunus Peer, founder of Teachers Across Borders South Africa (TABSA), and Brad Uy, longtime TABSA volunteer.

At this gathering, Jan's guest will be Robert Landau, a tireless WSCB advocate who spent decades as a leader in international education, and who has some very strong opinions about where education writ large needs to go. 🐬

🎤 THE WSCB GLOBAL COMMUNITY IS EXCITED TO SUPPORT GETTING SMART BY LISTING THIS TOWN HALL IN OUR ONLINE COMMUNITY AND AT OUR EVENTS WEBSITE: From Getting Smart: The world is changing and schools must be resilient and anticipate the needs and skills of the workforce and help their young people reach their full potential.

Join us for a special virtual session: "ʻAha Kūkā with Dr. Cory Steiner on Authentic Assessment." Dr. Steiner will share his innovative approach to authentic assessment and discuss how he has transformed education in his district.

Are chronically misbehaving students simply chronically bored? Together we’ll reconsider what misbehavior really signals and how we can better respond to the unmet needs of students

Our Motley Crew Discussion Group sessions in the Fall of 2024 are going to focus on the PBS limited series, A Brief History of the Future. The title of the 3rd episode is "Once Upon a Time."

Join us for our next Big Think event featuring renowned educator Arnie Langberg, a trailblazer in alternative education and school reform.

Have you been wanting to do something with AI, but just aren’t sure where to start?? 

This is for you! It’s never been easier to learn AI with your students. Just press play.

What School Could Be and Ruckus Makers is so excited to announce the launch of d’Skills Expedition AI! 

At this gathering, Jan's guest will be Peter DeWitt (Ed.D), the founder and CEO of the Instructional Leadership Collective.

🎤 Jennifer D. Klein will host this session where young rebels from d'Skills demonstrate how they have been turbocharged by AI to create a better world through real-world learning.

PRE-WORK REQUESTED! Our Motley Crew Discussion Group sessions in the Fall of 2024 are going to focus on the PBS limited series, A Brief History of the Future.

🌈 Join Mel Ching and Josh Reppun as they screen, focus group style, a new film titled Teaching in Teams, by acclaimed filmmaker, Charles Haine.

At this gathering, Jan's guest will be Kansas City's and Real World Learning's and Kauffman Foundation's Sarah Renfrow, who was recently featured on the WSCB Podcast. 🦋

Join us for an inspiring conversation with Herb Lee, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pacific American Foundation (PAF), and Jake Galloway, coach and learning experience designer for education and non-profit leaders, as we explore the themes of reconnection and healing at the intersection of innovative education.