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035 | Teaching Engineering, Creativity, & Having Fun | with Armando Henriquez & Dean Alkir
Joining us today Are Armando Henriquez and Dean Alkire, who are going to talk about the role of university student clubs working with...
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034 | Engineering Creativity Through Music | with Bill Manchester
We are once again on the road, this time in Bexley, Ohio! We had the opportunity to meet Bill Manchester, a 16th year music teacher at...
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033 | Combining Empathy and Technology for a Solid Foundation | with Evelyn Van Til
Evelyn Van Til has her fingers in oh so many pies: she’s a cultural architect, she works in apprenticeships as a consultant at Apprenti,...
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032 | Leading Education Initiatives in Healthcare and Technology | with Grady Burrows
Grady Burrows is the Director of Health IT Talent at a nonprofit called BioEnterprise. They act as an accelerator for the biomedical...
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031 | Creative STEM-Based Summer Programs & the Challenges Educators Face | with Laura Bloch &#
The Innovation Lab is the PAST Foundation’s “test kitchen,” of sorts where we brainstorm the creation of summer STEM experiences for the...
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030 | Teaching Through Your Passion to Create Passionate Students | with Kelly Preheim
Joining us today is Kelly Preheim, a kindergarten teacher in Armour, South Dakota. Kelly is a wonderfully creative teacher who found a...
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029 | Talent Crisis & Career Opportunities: Inspiring the Next Generation of Agricultural Enthu
When people talk about education, they rarely talk about agricultural education — but there are infinite possibilities for careers that...
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028 | Getting Your Feet Wet with Marine Sciences: A Creative & Transformative Education Program
We’re back on the road. This time, we are in the beautiful, bustling city of Cape Town, South Africa – and we have an incredibly special...
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027 | Van Gogh Museum: Creating Engaging & Tactile Learning Experiences Through Play | with Ren
René Van Blerk is the Senior Educator and Senior Curator of Education and Interpretation at the Van Gogh Museum. In that role, he helped...
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026 | The Role of Museums in Cultivating Creativity | with Cindy Foley
Today, we are continuing our conversation about the critically important role of the arts in communities and education. To guide us...
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025 | Infusing Art Into Education to Make Learning Fun & Cooperative | with Amanda Schaeffer &#
Today, we have a wonderful teacher and a student joining us today, Amanda Schaeffer and Neel Mawalkar. Amanda is an art teacher out of...
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Global Sustainability Program 2019: Tobago Island
Blog Contributed By Dr. Sheli O. Smith This year the OSU course on Global Sustainability turned its focus to the Island of Tobago in the...
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024 | GROOVE U: How an Innovative Post-Secondary Music Industry Career Program is Impacting the K-12
Today, we’re going to be talking about music and the role of arts, music, and technology in education – and we’re going to be doing that...
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Press Release July 10, 2019
LIFT, Detroit UPrep To Roll Out New Advanced Manufacturing Curriculum Next School Year. Students will utilize new LIFT Learning Lab for...
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023 | Getting Out of the Classroom & Into the Field | with Sheli Smith & Pam Hayes
We are joined by awesome guests who know a thing or two (or ten) about what happens when you take your kids out of the classroom, out of...
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022 | Clackamas Middle College: Dare to Step Out to Meet the Needs of Your Kids | with Brian Sien
Today, we are continuing our tour of early access programs that help children transition into post-secondary, often blurring the lines of...
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021 | STEMcoding: Reimaging STEM Education | with Chris Orban & Richelle Teeling-Smith
Today we’re excited to introduce you to a new program called STEMcoding, which is an effort to reimagine STEM courses with computer...
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020 | The Highs & Lows of Creating Transformative Educational Programs like Middle College | wi
This week, we are wrapping up our tour of the Alaska Middle College program with an on-location conversation at the Mat-Su Middle...
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019 | What’s Middle College Like? A Student & Teacher’s Perspective | with John Robertson &
In the last episode, we sat down with four of the innovative educators and administrators behind the Alaska Middle College program to...
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018 | Middle College: A Win-Win-Win for Students, Communities, & Schools | with Claudia Lampman
Today we are going to learn what Middle College programs are, why they’re so effective at improving student outcomes, and what...
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