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Reimagining Leadership: The UC Berkeley Changemaker Story (featuring Alex Budak)
Our first guest of the season is Alex Budak, faculty member at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, social entrepreneur, and author of Becoming a Changemaker. Together, we dive into what it actually takes to spark...
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Nurturing Communities of Trust: The Little Things that Make Schools Great
Welcome to Season 3 of the Edvolution Podcast! In this episode we kick off the new season with an authentic, unscripted conversation around a visual concept Laurence recently created: Learning Communities of...
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Rethinking Education in a Changing World (featuring Simon Lightman)
For our last episode of the season, we are reflecting on where education needs to go next.
In this thought-provoking conversation, we sit down with educator, writer, and public philosopher of education Simon Lightman...
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Student Agency, Trust & Regenerative Learning (featuring Dr. Benjamin Freud)
What happens when schools move beyond student voice and create genuine opportunities for students to shape decisions, policies, and learning?
In this episode, we speak with Dr. Benjamin Freud, Head of Upper School and...
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Positive Persistance: Purposeful Action with Young Learners (featuring Heather Semon and Daniel Shrewsbury)
In this episode, we sit down with Heather Semon and Daniel Shrewsbury from the International School of Paris to explore how sustainability, service learning, and student voice can transform school culture.
Heather and...
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Purposeful Practice: Leadership & Learning in International Schools (featuring Teresa Tung)
In this episode, we sit down with Teresa Tung, Director of Curricular Programs at Hong Kong International School, for a thoughtful conversation about purpose, systems thinking, sustainability, and what it truly means...
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Global Service with Integrity: Accountability in Travel Experiences (featuring Mike Lee)
In this episode, we sit down with Michael Lee, founder and director of the Centre for Global Citizenship Studies (CGCS), to explore how service learning can move beyond good intentions toward meaningful, measurable...
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Learning Through Tension: Why Struggle Matters in Education (featuring Dr. Jay Goodman)
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Jay Goodman, consultant with Goodman Learning Partners, to explore what it really takes to implement problem-based learning (PBL) in schools.
From his early days teaching in...
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Learning That Transfers: Bridging Classrooms and the "Real World" (featuring Julie Stern)
This episode explores a big question: how do we prepare young people for a future we can’t predict?
We’re joined by bestselling author and education consultant Julie Stern, whose work focuses on helping educators and...
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Teaching for Humanity in Uncertain Times (featuring Cathryn Berger Kaye)
Today’s episode is a little different.
As we sat down to record, our team here in the UAE had been navigating difficult days in the region. Like many people around the world, we found ourselves feeling reflective,...
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Making Field Trips Meaningful: Curriculum, Connection and Student Voice
This episode was supposed to be short… but once we started talking about field trips, we couldn’t stop.
After Mel returned from a field trip, we decided to pivot and unpack a big question: What makes a field trip...
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From Passion to Practice: Building Systems for Sustainability in Schools (Featuring Clare Garey)
In this episode, we’re joined by Claire Gary, founder of Sustainability at School, for a timely and grounded conversation about what it truly means for schools to “get serious” about sustainability.
Claire shares her...
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