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91 | Cultivating a Grass-Roots Approach to Conservation with Curt Collier & Lucy Crespo
Today, Curt Collier and Lucy Crespo talk about how they’re combating environmental and socio-cultural barriers to getting kids outdoors,...
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90 | Merging Arts, Science and Math at The Alabama School of Fine Arts with Tim Mitchell
With 85-95% scholarship rates for college — compared to the national average of 15% — it’s clear that their diverse student body is...
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89 | Democratizing Philanthropy with Imran Nuri & Shannon McCalmont
His subscription-based program, which costs $1 a week, donated just over $30,000 to 52 different non-profits last year. By breaking down...
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88 | Empowering Parents as Co Educators with Sabrina Walters and Lori Trent from Upper Arlington Cit
Learning through seeing, thinking, and wondering is the educational utopia we’re striving to achieve, and thanks to teachers like Sabrina...
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87 | Parks as Classrooms: Place-Based Learning & Real-World Connections | with Julianne Geleyns
And today, Julianne Geleynse from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is going to teach us about the Parks as Classrooms program,...
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Mentorship in Action: The Two Way Street
One of the many great benefits of working at the PAST Foundation is that I have the great privilege of living in the Venn diagram of...
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86 | Peerro, Inclusion, & The Future of Employment | with Rachel Angel
Employment is a big conversation these days, for both those seeking employment and those seeking to hire, and the issues involved are...
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85 | Work, Play, Learn, Grow: The Yellowstone Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) | with Mike Coonan
Mike Coonan with Yellowstone Yellowstone Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) on location in Yellowstone National Park, US. Back in episode 81,...
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84 | OnRamp: Helping Students Think About Solving Problems in a New Way | with OSU Students
And today, we’re going to talk to three students who either have participated in or are currently participating in OnRamp: Drew Mayerson,...
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83 | What Does a School Board Do & What Does It Mean to be a School Board Member? | with Lori T
Today we’re covering a topic that we’ve never actually talked about on the program before: What do school boards do? Why would someone...
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82 | Progressive Learning & Project Zero: Making Learning Visible | with Mara Krechevsky &
Our guests are Mara Krechevsky, a senior researcher from Project Zero, and Dr. Fred Burton, who has spent 44 years as an educator in...
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The Classic Eggdrop Experiment with an Applied STEM Twist
An Egg Drop, 3D Printing and the #FutureOfLearningAn Egg Drop, 3D Printing and the #FutureOfLearning In August of 2020 ,in the midst of...
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81 | Expedition Yellowstone: Science Education in the People’s Classroom | with Beth Taylor
Our guest is Beth Taylor, the Youth Education Program Manager at Yellowstone National Park. One of the park’s hallmark programs is...
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#ProjectMartian: Chapter 5 War Of The Worlds, Water, and Wonder
Potatoes, onions, squash, growing in #zerodirt #ProjectMartian beds. By Jim Bruner This Spring and Summer have been one of the greatest...
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PAST & KIPP Columbus: A Journey of Outdoor Experiential Learning
By Jessa Goldner As part of an on-going partnership with KIPP Columbus, a community school located in Columbus, OH, the PAST Student...
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80 | 16 Strong: Normalizing Conversations About Mental Health & Mental Illness | with Samantha
Our collective unwillingness to have conversations around things like mental health, familial mental illness, and addiction is really...
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#ProjectMartian: Chapter 4 – Two Gardens, Two Worlds
One of the 21 trips with Biomass from Mezzacello to PAST Innovation Labs By early spring of 2020 #ProjectMartian was in full pivot. The...
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79 | Online Opportunities to Learn From Indigenous American Voices, Cultures, & Perspectives |
2020 has brought a lot of challenges. But at the same time, it’s brought a lot of opportunities to access educational resources from all...
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#ProjectMartian: Chapter 3 – The Weight of the World is Dirt or the #Zerodirt #ZeroWaste Beds
By Jim Bruner Shelter in Place (SIP) orders were not an impediment to continuing the work that the PAST Foundation had committed to as we...
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78 | #ProjectMartian: Farming on Mars, Food Scarcity, & Urban Sustainability | with Jim Bruner
This is the question that we wanted to answer when we started #ProjectMartian. Inspired by our previous SOIL Lab Project and a forced...
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