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The Future of Smart, a project of Grantmakers for Education, explores ideas at the intersection of education, equity, and philanthropy that point us towards a radical re-envisioning of our education system. We’ll hear from those working at the edge of what’s possible and explore what it means to support transformative change for young people and their communities. We can’t move our education system forward until we see what’s been holding us back. We have to recognize our assumptions, and ou ...
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Student-Centered Assessment with Temple Lovelace and Susan Lyons
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In the final episode of Season 2, we are joined by Dr. Temple Lovelace, executive director of Assessment for Good, and Dr. Susan Lyons, co-founder and executive director of Women in Measurement. They are colleagues and leaders in the field of educational measurement, challenging fundamental assumptions that underpin how our dominant education syste…
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Doing Philanthropy Differently with Jamie Allison
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In this episode of the Future of Smart podcast, host Ulcca Joshi Hansen speaks with Jamie Allison, executive director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, which collaborates with partners whose work provides access and opportunity, building a more equitable community in the Bay Area. Their conversation explores the ideological shifts that have led th…
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Expanding Definitions of Success, Equity and Innovation with Mia Howard
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In this week’s episode, Ulcca speaks with Mia Howard, managing partner and leader of Innovative Schools at NewSchools Venture Fund. Mia and Ulcca explore the work being done by a new generation of school leaders who are dedicated to building more human-centered programs that embrace expanded definitions of success, equity and innovation. Learn abou…
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Innovation as Human-Centered Design with Jenny Curtin
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Ulcca and Jenny Curtin, Director of Education at the Barr Foundation, explore the innovative approaches and human-centered design principles that are transforming education. Gain insights into how these efforts are ensuring that every student not only completes their high school journey successfully but also becomes an active and engaged member of …
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Reimagining Student Outcomes with Laurie Gagnon
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In this episode, Ulcca Joshi Hansen interviews Laurie Gagnon, Program Director for CompetencyWorks at the Aurora Institute. They discuss competency-based approaches to education that organize learning around demonstrated skills and knowledge rather than lockstep grade-level standards. Gagnon explains how competency models better account for individ…
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Neurodiversity and a System for All Minds with Dr. Temple Grandin
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This week’s guest is world-renowned animal rights advocate and autism spokesperson, Dr. Temple Grandin. Having spent her career exercising her skills in service of humane animal treatment in the livestock industry, Dr. Grandin is becoming increasingly engaged in educating communities about the need to recognize and support diverse kinds of minds wi…
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Join us for a special conversation between civil rights icon Dr. Bernard Lafayette, Jr., and LaShawn Routé Chatmon, executive director of the National Equity Project. In this intimate chat held prior to their 2023 EdFunders conference plenary session, they explore lessons from America’s civil rights movement and their relevance at a moment when man…
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In this episode of the Future of Smart podcast, host Ulcca Joshi Hansen speaks with Christina Engel and Tiffany Johnson of Magic Cabinet, a philanthropic organization that seeks to shift power dynamics in philanthropy by championing community-driven grantmaking. Engel and Johnson explain how Magic Cabinet centers community voice, builds trust, and …
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Intergenerational Work with Student Parents to Enable Postsecondary Success with Nicole Lynn Lewis
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In this thought-provoking episode of the Future of Smart podcast, guest Nicole Lynn Lewis, founder of Generation Hope, shares her personal journey from being a pregnant teenager to a college graduate and a change-maker. She discusses the societal biases and stereotypes that often limit the potential of teen and student parents, particularly within …
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Using Tech to Create More Human-Centered Support Systems with Alexandra Bernadotte
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In this episode of the Future of Smart podcast, host Ulcca Joshi Hansen interviews Alexandra Bernadotte, founder of Beyond 12, a tech-enabled nonprofit that supports students in navigating the complex higher education ecosystem. Bernadotte shares her own experiences as a first-generation college student and discusses how Beyond 12 leverages technol…
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Something Old Becomes New with Bill Milliken
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We launch Season 2 in conversation with Bill Milliken, founder of Communities in Schools, and author of “The Last Dropout: A Model for Creating Educational Equity.” Public schools failed to meet Bill’s needs as a young person and a learner, instilling in him a sense of worthlessness. An adult volunteer who wouldn’t give up on him enabled him to bel…
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Meet Nicole Rodriguez Leach, EdFunders' New Executive Director
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This conversation between Nicole Rodriguez Leach and podcast host Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen, chief program officer, explores the personal and career paths that led Nicole to her new position, her insights into education philanthropy, what to look forward to at the conference, and more. Learn More about Grantmakers for Education: Click here If you are …
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Social Change and Personal Perspectives in Philanthropy with Dr. Gislaine Ngounou
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We don’t often equate “leadership” with the words: rest, reflect, heal, and dream. Dr. Gislaine Ngounou does. Join us for a conversation that covers the gamut from how her personal identity informs her commitment and approach to educational transformation; generational perspectives on social change; the limits of philanthropy; and – perhaps most im…
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“Look for the helpers” - this reminder is one of the many gifts offered to us by the children’s television personality Mister Rogers. Fred Rogers believed that a vision of peace is not just the absence of war or conflict; it requires building new ways of being grounded in love and compassion. He invited children and their adults to consider that th…
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Our guest today is Kenji Treanor, Vice President of Strategy, Partnerships at the Stuart Foundation and a leader deeply deeply committed to building contexts in which young people can thrive. Kenji shares with us his personal journey into philanthropy, his thoughts on human flourishing, the role of philanthropy as an enabler rather than a driver of…
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Recorded during this year's Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference, Elizabeth (Liz) Thompson of The CAFE Group and The 1954 Project moderates a panel of Black leaders, Jamyle Cannon, Sharif El-Mekki and Saamra Mekuria-Grillo, who share the dreams they hold for the future and the essential role philanthropy must play in making their vision a re…
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Igniting Hope for the Future of Education
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A plenary discussion moderated by Ulcca Joshi Hansen during the Grantmakers for Education Annual Conference with Pamela Cantor of Turnaround for Children, Bob Hughes of Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and James Shelton, former deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, will draw on their vast experience in educational equity to share the…
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Revolutionizing the Honors College by Centering the Values of Living, Learning and Community.
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How colleges and universities evaluate applicants and how they structure the post-secondary learning experience tethers K-12 to many practices that work against the shift to more human-centered approaches. In this episode we’re going to learn about how one post-secondary program is working to revolutionize the idea of the "honors college.” The Hono…
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Healthy Contexts for Youth Development with Karen Pittman
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In setting up schools as the heart of our education system we privileged a specific kind of learning - academic learning. We also privileged formal learning over the kinds of informal learning that most of us engage in every day. Human development is sparked by experiences and relationships that can and should exist an all parts of our communities …
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The Misunderstood Years: The Hidden Promise of Adolescent Learning
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Adolescence is a historically misunderstood and maligned period of human development. Dr. Mary Helen Immodino-Yang shares findings from her research of adolescents that demonstrate the enormous opportunity we have during this stage of life to change the trajectory of young people’s lives. Not only can the right sets of experiences mitigate the impa…
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Applying Ecological Design Principles to Rebuild Education Post-COVID
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What can we learn about design principles from schools and districts that pivoted more successfully during the COVID pandemic? In what ways do these design principles help us better respond to the holistic needs of young people, educators and communities? Hear insights Andy Calkins and Nicole Allard from the "What Made Them So Prepared Project," a …
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The Future of Work and Digitalization with Jaime Casap
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Ulcca is joined by Google's former Chief Education Evangelist, Jaime Casap. Jaime discusses his vision for how technology will continue to impact education and how funders can help students prepare for their future working alongside technology. If you are new to this podcast, we suggest listening to episodes 2-4 to build a foundation for the concep…
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Transforming Local Ecosystems Through Radical Partnership
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In today’s episode, Ulcca speaks with Deanna James, president of the St. Croix Foundation for Community Development, about the foundation's approach to transforming local ecosystems through radical partnership and grantmaking on the island of St. Croix. Relevant Links Philanthropy and Race in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Deanna James, 2020 Cracking the…
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Serving Students and Communities Through Participatory Action Research with Dr. Michelle Fine
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EdFunder’s Chief Program Officer Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen speaks with Dr. Michelle Fine, CUNY graduate professor. They explore the topic of democratizing data and evidence. What does it look like when we step outside our typical worldview to design and engage in the process of research differently? Relevant Links: The Public Science Project at the Gr…
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Using Science to Imagine a New Purpose and Design for Education with Dr. Pamela Cantor
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EdFunders' Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen will speak with Dr. Pamela Cantor, founder and senior science advisor for Turnaround for Children, about new research into youth and adolescent development and what that means for creating learning contexts that truly support and nurture the whole child. Funders have a critical role in supporting educators to devel…
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Today’s episode is an invitation to consider how mainstream western definitions of learning and education are really just relics. When we use these terms, and when we design – or redesign - schools and curricula, we’re often using templates that were invented back in the 1500s in Europe. Before this period most societies viewed the world as a livin…
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Today’s episode invites us to explore the conceptions of our brains that dominate so much of our thinking about learning and education. In her research, Annie has found that western culture is extremely brain bound, which means that we overvalue the role of thinking in our own experience. We think of the brain as a computer, a tool. As we’ll learn …
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Disruption is difficult, but it is also an opportunity to move forward in new ways. The Future of Smart podcast is an opportunity for us to think in new ways about the challenges that we've been attempting to address in education. To go forward, we need to start by going back. Our education system is the way it is as the result of specific historic…
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Ulcca Joshi Hansen hosts The Future of Smart, a project of Grantmakers for Education, that explores ideas at the intersection of education, equity, and philanthropy that point us towards a radical re-envisioning of our education system. We’ll hear from those working at the edge of what’s possible and explore what it means to support transformative …
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