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The Curiosity Files
by Moonshot
Building capacity to ask meaningful questions in service to children.Join us for conversation with an array of big picture thinkers in the field of education and beyond, to activate a transformative future for thinking and learning.
Episodes
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File #18: James Lang on Distraction
How might we learn to intentionally cultivate attention? How does the reciprocal nature of attention contribute to the experience of belonging? How can modular planning for classroom experiences contribute to increased achievement and optimal challenge? Dr. James Lang, author of the recently...
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File #14: Ryan Burke, Founding and Senior Partner, Leadership + Design, on Fear
How might we manage fear as it percolates in the classroom? How does fear-setting help us use the emotion as a doorway? Why do people in schools struggle to communicate bad news? Ryan Burke, Founding and Senior Partner at Leadership + Design, helps us grapple with this strong emotion in an era...
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File #12: Christian Talbot and the Basecamp Team on Expeditionaries
How do we make room in a crowded curriculum for the passions and interests of our students? How might we reframe our roles to advance student voice and agency? How can the hero's journey frame the arc of a classroom exploration? How might we front-load a learning experience to build anticipation...
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File #11: E. Gordon Gee, President, West Virginia University, on Purpose and Possibility
What possibilities does the current existential moment in higher ed offer? Why is culture-building paramount to talent to ensure our schools are places of purpose? Why is uniformity the enemy of success in school structures? America's university president, E. Gordon Gee, joins us to reflect on…
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File #10: Carla Silver, Executive Director, Leadership + Design, Task, Maintenance and Group Life
How do you give everyone in the group a sense of agency and ownership while keeping the team focused on a common goal? How do I manage a group when my emotions feel unmanageable at the moment? How do we create and maintain a group culture which encourages members to assume good intent and shared...
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File #9: Andrea Saveri, Making the Future Actionable
What is strategic foresight and how does it help schools create resilient ecosystems ready for a VUCA world? How might we optimize human and machine contributions to design distinctive experiences for students and for teachers? How might we lengthen the now in education to create a more…
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File #8: Eric Hudson, Global Online Academy, Getting Clear About Purpose
"Schools should be designed for learners instead of learners needing to re-design themselves for schools." What is competency based education and why is it a valuable framework for schools? What does content have to do with competencies? Why is belonging key to learning? Global Online Academy's...
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File #7: Dr. Suniya Luthar on Resilience
“Our job as parents is to help our children feel unconditionally loved so their self-esteem doesn’t rest on the splendor of their accomplishments.” Dr. Suniya Luthar How might we build resilience in children? How might we contribute to a world filled with resilient caregivers to care for them?…
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File #6: Rev. Dan Heischman, Executive Director, National Association of Episcopal Schools on Faith
How does a faith informed education promote inclusion? Why is talking about faith at school so hard? How does learning about the faith of others deepen understanding of ourselves? The Rev. Dan Heischman, Executive Director of the National Association of Episcopal Schools, talks with us about…
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File #5: Dr. Natalie Nixon, Figure 8 Thinking, on Creativity
How do you toggle between wonder and rigor? Why are ambiguous days built for creativity? What is innovation churn and how does it impact organizations? Dr. Natalie Nixon invites teachers to take the "creativity leap," the title of her new book, The Creativity Leap: Unleash Curiosity…
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File #4: Robert Greene, Cedar & Burwell, on Belonging
"You aren't teaching a classroom of 20, you are teaching 20 classrooms of ONE." How does your learning facilitation practice engender belonging? Why must we prepare students for their future instead of our past? How do we develop greater understanding between and among one another? Robert Greene...
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File #3: Glenn Whitman, Center for Transformative Teaching and Learning, on Motivation
What insights can Mind Brain Education give us about the motivation of students (and teachers)? How did the shift to distance learning impact motivation? How might the "action research" of teachers best impact post-COVID classroom planning? Glenn Whitman, Director of the Center for Transformative...
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File #2: Marc Frankel, Triangle Associates, Educational Trends + COVID
What's keeping school people awake post-COVID? What do we want to carry with us from remote learning? How might we increase the agility in our organizations? Marc Frankel talks through data trends already on the radar of independent schools, complicated by COVID-19. He encourages us to think of...
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File #1: Stephanie Rogen, Greenwich Leadership Partners, on Assessment
How might we invite students into conversation around assessment? How do we move to assessment FOR learning and assessment AS learning instead of assessment OF learning? What if our work in schools was UN-disciplinary? What does assessment of our distance learning shifts look like? Co-creating a...
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Building capacity to ask meaningful questions in service to children.Join us for conversation with an array of big picture thinkers in the field of education and beyond, to activate a transformative future for thinking and learning.
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Building capacity to ask meaningful questions in service to children.Join us for conversation with an array of big picture thinkers in the field of education and beyond, to activate a transformative future for thinking and learning.
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