Selects: Reinventing K12 Education (S4E2)

This Selects episode was originally published on June 21, 2022 --- Original Show Notes --- Clarin Collins, Sean Leahy, Robin Lake, and Brent Maddin come together to discuss the current landscape of challenges facing public education. The worldwide pandemic opened many eyes to the current struggles teachers face and encouraged many institutions to change their education models, one such example being the NEXT Education Workforce. Through discussion we are guided along the possibilities of where public education can lead, as well as the current challenges that many school districts are facing. In this episode you can learn about the work that is being done through the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College and the Next Education Workforce, as well as the Center on Reinventing Public Education. (3:15) - Brent Maddin talks about his role and explains the mission and work of the NEXT Education workforce. (5:38) - Robin talks about the Center on Reinventing Public Education and how the Center became affiliated with ASU and MLFTC (8:54) - The panel explores the new opportunities stemming from the partnership between MLFTC & CRPE. (15:25) - We discuss the seriousness of the current challenges facing the public education system (21:32) - We discuss how the pandemic affected school districts’ attitude towards working with the NEXT Education workforce? (27:00) - The panel discusses the optimistic opportunities for positive change in the education structure (32:50) - Futures projection - we get Brent and Robin’s take on where they see public education going in the next 30 years (37:40) - We ask the question “How would someone from 30 years in the past react to our current education situation?” (41:35) - Pushing the boundaries - we ask our guests “Where do you see public education going in the next 100 years?” (48:00) - We get some great ideas on resources and other elements of our guests work at NEW and CRPE (links below in the show notes) About our Guests: Brent Maddin | Next Education Workforce | @bmaddin Robin Lake | Center on Reinventing Public Education | @RbnLake CRPE’s Pandemic Learning Report Pandemic Pods & Crisis Learning The Learning Futures Podcast is produced at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University. The Executive Producer is Dr. Sean Leahy, the show is produced by Dr. Clarin Collins and Karina Muñoz Baltazar, with technical production provided by Jacob Snider.