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refreshED is a podcast for those bold enough to radically rethink how we teach, learn and achieve.
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Voices For Change: Favorite Moments
This episode features our favorite moments from interviews by 7th grade podcasters from Polaris Charter Academy. You will hear from an alderman, a school clerk, a police officer, a Polaris alum and a community artist as they answer questions on topics ranging from discrimination to creating lasting change in our communities.
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Voices for Change: Polaris 7th Grade Podcasters
This year, refreshED has had the fortunate chance to work with 50 seventh graders at Polaris Charter Academy, an Expeditionary Learning school on Chicago's west side. As part of a special initiative called Voices for Change, they have been making podcast episodes about how they can create change in their communities. Students interviewed alderman, protesters in Baltimore, as well as other student leaders. We are SO INSPIRED by these bright and reflective young leaders.
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Harvard's Graduate School Of Ed: Sarah
The final installment of refreshED's three-part interview series that goes inside Harvard's Graduate School of Education. Advanced doctoral candidate, Sarah Fine, speaks to her journey researching deeper learning which took her to an upwards of 30 schools across the country over the past couple of years.
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Harvard's Graduate School Of Ed: Christina
Part two of a three-part interview series that goes inside Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Christina Fissori talks about how growing up homeschooled shapes the way she thinks about teaching and learning. Christina completed the School Leadership Program last year and is now finishing up her residency at a school in northwest Chicago.
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Harvard's Graduate School of Ed: Cornelius
Part one of a three part interview series that goes inside Harvard's Graduate School of Education (HGSE). Cornelius Lee has taught children of service members in Germany and Hawaii, worked with special needs students in Texas, was a founding teacher for a charter school in Chicago and now works in the oldest public elementary school in America! In this episode, Cornelius talks about the start of his transition from teacher to school leader during his first year in HGSE.
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Democratic ED with Dana Bennis
Dana Bennis joins refreshED for our third episode to talk about his work with Institute for Democratic Education in America (IDEA for short). In this interview we learn about democratic education and a new project called The Learning Breakthrough Series in which teams of educators, youth and policy makers from 10 distinct communities come together to create meaningful change in today's educational climate.
Customer Reviews
A breath of fresh air for the ed reform well
I thoroughly enjoy this podcast! It explores many of the questions and concerns that are pertinent to the current educational landscape. I love how the hosts include the voices of internal and external stakeholders within the field of education. RefreshED helps listeners explore multiple purposes of schooling, examine different practices, and hear various perspectives of 21st century learning.