"We are all building something together." This week Kim Ondrik joins the podcast to share her journey through the education system, starting with her time as a student and continuing through her disruptive founding of Mill Bay Nature School on Vancouver Island.

For more than 50 years, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has worked to advance education for all. Today's guest, Kent McGuire shares insights on the role philanthropy plays in education, and how proper investment can be a powerful tool for transformation.

"We can all be designers..." In this episode Victor Cary and Susie Wise stop by to talk about how design, equity, and systemic change can intersect and help bring about transformation in our schools.

"If we can admit all kids are not the same, why are we still trying to drive them through the same factory system of education?" This week Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen stops by to share her thoughts on centering humanity and relationships at all levels of our school systems.

"We need to let everyone be humans before they have to be teachers and students." Andy Calkins and Dr. Carlos Beato share their thoughts on how to make schools more collaborative and supportive, and introduce us to their work as part of the Next Generation Learning Challenges organization.

Wrapping up our short series on the student perspective, we have the privilege of talking with three high school students from New York City, who are part of the Next Generation Politics podcast team.

In keeping with our student perspective theme, this week's episode features two alums from the Big Picture Learning Schools community. They will talk about the eye-opening, student-centric experience of attending a BPL high school, and how that has changed their lives and career paths.

Our first of three consecutive episodes focusing on the student perspective. To kick things off, three students from Prince George, British Colombia join us to talk about the District Student Advisory Council (DSAC) that strives to bring student voices to the highest levels of education conversations in the province.

"I have a low tolerance for things feeling mediocre." In our latest episode John Watkins and Jessica Forbes share how self-doubt can be a powerful tool for changing the way we teach and ultimately the way we support our classrooms.

Ever wonder how Rod and Jal met? Why they decided to start a podcast? Or where the name "Free Range Humans" comes from? Well, in this special episode you will hear answers to those questions and a whole lot more as we flip the script on our traditional hosts.

"Why are we doing what we are doing?" This week Shelley Moore visits to talk about the importance of inclusion in schools, and how getting down to the "why" should be the starting point when designing an experience that is best for all students.

"If all you are pushing are the numbers, people will come up with crazy ways to make the numbers, but it's not necessarily going to achieve the results you want." Professor Jody Hoffer Gittell shares insights about what a humane approach to organizational culture looks like, and how schools can build a culture of shared goals, shared knowledge, and mutual respect.

"Anger without hope is pretty destructive. Anger with hope can be powerfully constructive." This week, Marshall Ganz stops by to tell us how the education system can take a page from the social movement and community organizing playbook when it comes to seeking transformational change.

Greg Behr stops by to share how the "Remake Learning" playbook and a "catalytic organizing" of numerous community stakeholders, has helped transform the city of Pittsburgh to "Kidsburgh."

"If you want to care for the children, you have to care for the adults in the system as well." With mental health in schools becoming a growing concern, Kimberly Schonert-Reichl stops by to share her expertise and talk about how COVID is shining a light on the issue.

In this passionate episode, Jeff Duncan-Andrade stops by to talk about what he perceives as a "crisis of courage," and how we should be seizing the current moment in education to break new ground instead of retreating back to "normal."

Does our co-host, Jal Mehta have any original ideas, or did he learn everything from his mother? Louise Mehta stops by to answer that question and many more in this special episode of Free Range Humans.

"There is greatness in all schools. We just need to find ways to connect those people and ideas so the greatness can be more pervasive." Judy Halbert and Linda Kaser stop by to discuss the power of building networks when seeking to reform education systems.

"The global learning transformation agenda is picking up steam." Tony Mackay joins Rod and Jal to discuss why he thinks this will be one of the most decisive decades for educational change.

"Leaders should run schools as if there own children were in the classrooms." Alisa Berger and Devon Larosa stop by to talk about the importance of care, compassion and empathy in post-COVID school systems.

The "quest" for transformative education. Andy Hargreaves visits to talk about the importance of student engagement when it comes to transforming teaching and learning.

"Is data actually preventing us from making transformative change in education systems?" In this week's episode Jamila Dugan and Shane Safir stop by and talk about the many different kinds of data we need to consider when trying to make schools better learning environments.

“We don’t want kids to just be successful in the world. We want kids to change the world.” Michael Fullan stops by to share his thoughts on how education needs to shift in order to empower students to be the best versions of themselves.

"Why are we trying to get back to "normal” if normal was broken?" In this week's episode Neema Avashia and Jen Ploeger stop by to talk about how the pandemic has created a disruptive moment in education, and how we should use it as an opportunity to improve the system as a whole.

"I don't think anyone wants to be defined by their weaknesses." Ron Berger joins the guys to share his perspective on education post-COVID, and what strategies we should be using to better identify our kids' strengths and motivate them to succeed.