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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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77 | Internships, Manufacturing, & The Future of Work | with Rosemary Coates & Ryan Edward
When the PAST Foundation travels around the country to talk to policymakers, colleges, universities, and trade schools, there’s one topic...
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76 | Teaching Teachers in 2020: Inside Ohio University’s STEM+ for All Program | with Mary Schneider
Today we’re talking to a few of the people who participated in one of The Ohio University’s most unique teaching programs: the STEM+ for...
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75 | Global Competencies for K-12: Agency, Entrepreneurialism, Altruism, Advocacy, Citizenship, Deep
Karen Yager’s dream started three years ago when she was watching the 9th and 10th grade students at Knox Grammar School in New South...
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Special Edition: Ensuring Personal Connections with Your Students During a Global Pandemic | with Al
Alyssa Reder, PAST’s “Baroness of Balance” working with students out in the community. Prior to the impacts of COVID-19 on teaching and...
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#ProjectMartian: Chapter 1 – Preparing for Launch
The Sultan of Systems (AKA as Jim Bruner) working with I Know I can Summer Camp Students to set the initial growing beds at PAST...
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Special Edition: Thinking About Teaching and Communication in a Virtual Environment | with Ashley Pr
Ashley Price PAST’s Khalesi of Curiosity exploring Virtual Learning in Minecraft covering fractions. There has been so much angst about...
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