All Episodes

Reed Hastings on What It Will Take for AI to be Different from Other Edtech

The AI Startup Aiming to Help All Students Find their ELA Mojo

How AI Can Help Educators—and High Schoolers—Tutor Students So They Learn to Read

The Company Trying to Build the AI Operating System for Education

Behind the Reinvention of Summit Public Schools with AI

The AI Behind Flourish Microschools

The AI Behind Alpha School

The Impact of AI Optimization on the Use of Time, Space, and Resources in Schools

Reflections on Whether AI is Actually Changing Schools—and Where

DeepMind’s Learnings in Developing an AI Tutor

AI in K–12: Feedback, Curiosity, and the New Frontier of Teaching

What Does AI Readiness Mean

Netflix’s Reed Hastings on the Impact of AI on Schools

What AI in Healthcare Can Teach Us About Its Impact on Education

From Education to Anthropic: What Impact Will AI Have?

Class Disrupted Returns with More Questions About AI

Artificial Intelligence in Human Learning: Risks, Opportunities, and What’s Next

Processing AI in Education Out Loud

The Premortem on AI in Education with Rebecca Winthrop

The Challenges AI Poses for Learning How to Write

Needed: Real Experiences, Real People

How AI Could Lead to a Massive Productivity Boost in Education

Why AI Doesn’t Think Like Us

Democratizing Access to Expertise: AI in Education

Our ‘Biases’ About AI

We’re Back—with Job Moves

What the Science Shows a Mentorship Mindset Can Do for Student Motivation

Concerning Trends in Philanthropy for Education Reform

Tackling All That K12 Schools Try to Do: The Solutions (Part 2)

Tackling All That K12 Schools Try to Do: The Challenges (Part 1)

In Conversation on College: Weighing in on Two Investors’ Diagnoses and Proposals for Higher Ed Part II

In Conversation on College: Weighing in on Two Investors’ Diagnoses and Proposals for Higher Ed Part I

Changing the Equation: How to Make Math Class More Meaningful

Providing a Human-Centered, Self-Actualizing Education to Every Student

The Future of DEI: A Humanity-, Freedom-, and Dreams-Based Approach

Beyond ‘College or Bust’: Apprenticeship as a Postsecondary Path to Opportunity

2023 in Review: AI, New Assessments, “The American Dream,” and More

How America’s Oldest Nonprofit Aims to Drive the Future of Education

A Student’s View on the Challenges and Possibilities of AI in Education

Does America have a new definition of success?

Back in Conversation: New Beginnings on Class Disrupted

Season 4, Episode 18: Anxiety, Fear, and the Importance of Listening

Season 4, Episode 17: Learning in Public

Season 4, Episode 16: Is Legislation the Best Way to Finish the ‘Reading Wars’?

Season 4, Episode 15: How Hardening Schools Could Harm Students

Season 4, Episode 14: How to Design a College Alternative

Season 4, Episode 13: Reflections, Insights, and Lessons Learned from Leading Summit

Season 4, Episode 12: It’s Time We Talked Money

Season 4, Episode 11: Scaling the New, Sunsetting the Old

Season 4, Episode 10: Education Reflections from Trips to Sierra Leone, Liberia, and India

Season 4, Episode 9: Shake Up in the Assessment Market

Season 4, Episode 8: Why Failure and ‘Pivoting’ Is Hard in Education

Season 4, Episode 7: Beneath the AI Hype

Season 4, Episode 6: How Do You Staff Innovation?

Season 4, Episode 5: Why Aren’t There More Innovative Schools?

Season 4, Episode 4: Which Pilots Should My School Try?

Season 4, Episode 3: Is There a Teacher Shortage? It Depends

Season 4, Episode 2: What Does a Real Pilot Look Like in a School?

Season 4, Episode 1: The Disruptive Journey Ahead

Season 3, Episode 20: Does banning things actually keep children safe in schools?

Season 3, Episode 19: Are older students fixed in their abilities?

Season 3, Episode 18: Revisiting the promise and potential of charter schools 30 years later

Season 3, Episode 17: Never Forget: Lessons America’s education debates can learn from Germany

Season 3, Episode 16: Rethinking college for all

Season 3, Episode 15: Meritocracy and selective college admissions

Season 3, Episode 14: Exam schools and meritocracy

Season 3, Episode 13: Meritocracy and education

Season 3, Episode 12: Is there a teacher exodus or not? Digging into the dispute

Season 3, Episode 11: What is driving parent frustration with schools?

Season 3, Episode 10: The unworkable burden on schools

Season 3, Episode 9: As 2022 dawns, the state of Covid and schools

Season 3, Episode 8: Three wishes for 2022

Season 3, Episode 7: Why is there more physical violence than usual in schools this year?

Season 3, Episode 6: Who are America’s teachers?

Season 3, Episode 5: Where are students learning this year?

Season 3, Episode 4: Standards and curriculum aren’t the same – and that matters

Season 3, Episode 3: Who decides what gets taught

Season 3, Episode 2: What schools should teach

Season 3, Episode 1: What’s on a school leader’s back-to-school shopping list in the time of COVID?

Season 3 Preview: COVID’s still here, so class is still disrupted

Season 2, Episode 21: A plea for nuance

Season 2, Episode 20: Are you exhausted yet?

Season 2, Episode 19: Shifting mindset to upend grade levels

Season 2, Episode 18: Behind the federal dollars flowing to schools

Season 2, Episode 17: The politics of COVID and schools

Season 2, Episode 16: Transcending today’s schools through design

Season 2, Episode 15: Who’s driving the narrative anyway?

Season 2, Episode 14: What schools must do before the fall

Season 2, Episode 13: Testing, learning loss, and the CDC guidance on reopening schools

Season 2, Episode 12: Learning pods for low-income learners

Season 2, Episode 11: Reopening debate reprised

Season 2, Episode 10: The hybrid learning insanity

Season 2, Episode 9: Modeling grace and understanding

Season 2, Episode 8: Teachers’ unions and reopening schools

Season 2, Episode 7: Turn on your video cameras!

Season 2, Episode 6: Who will replace Betsy DeVos?

Season 2, Episode 5: The reopening question

Season 2, Episode 4: Should there be in-person sports when schools are remote?

Season 2, Episode 3: The Fires Burning Behind the SAT and Patriotic Education

Season 2, Episode 2: Will Pandemic Pods Disrupt Schools?

Season 2, Episode 1: Welcome Back