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Tom Vander Ark @tvanderark

Education advisor

Joined March 2009
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Keri Rodrigues on Parent Power gettingsmart.com/podcast/ker… @Getting_Smart

Keri Rodrigues on Parent Power

Keri Rodrigues of National Parents Union on parent voice, school trust, report cards, safety, AI readiness, and family engagement.

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Defining Your Philosophy of Education for the AI Age gettingsmart.com/2026/06/09/… @Getting_Smart @DavidPBLRoss

Defining Your Philosophy of Education for the AI Age

How a “context audit” with ChatGPT can help educators align AI tools with their teaching philosophy, pedagogy, and classroom goals.

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The Conditions That Make Durable Skills Real: How Schools and Systems Build for Agency, Identity, and Vision gettingsmart.com/2026/06/02/… @Getting_Smart

The Conditions That Make Durable Skills Real: How Schools and Systems Build for Agency, Identity,...

How schools build durable skills through authentic work, reflection, relationships, and learner-centered design.

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Liza Garonzik on Teaching Conversation gettingsmart.com/podcast/liz… @Getting_Smart @GaronzikLiza

Liza Garonzik on Teaching Conversation

How schools can teach and assess conversation, durable skills, and authentic interaction in an AI-driven world.

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Roadtrip Nation Students on Finding Passion gettingsmart.com/podcast/roa… @Getting_Smart @RoadtripNation

Roadtrip Nation Students on Finding Passion

Two Roadtrip Nation learners share how exploring interests, uncertainty, and nonlinear career paths can lead to purpose-driven futures.

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The Conditions That Make Durable Skills Real: How Schools and Systems Build for Agency, Identity, and Vision gettingsmart.com/2026/06/02/… @Getting_Smart @AmericaSucceeds

The Conditions That Make Durable Skills Real: How Schools and Systems Build for Agency, Identity,...

How schools build durable skills through authentic work, reflection, relationships, and learner-centered design.

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Learning Together podcast: @DavidDimmett meets with Marston Middle School (San Diego, CA) for a conversation about @PLTWorg Gateway classes open.spotify.com/episode/5aK…
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Roadtrip Nation Students on Finding Passion gettingsmart.com/podcast/roa… @RoadtripNation @Getting_Smart

Roadtrip Nation Students on Finding Passion

Two Roadtrip Nation learners share how exploring interests, uncertainty, and nonlinear career paths can lead to purpose-driven futures.

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The Tools Are Getting Better. But are we using them to Rethink Schooling? arevolutionineducation.subst…

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The Formulaic Trap: Why AI Finds Your Assignments Easy gettingsmart.com/2026/05/21/… @Getting_Smart @DavidPBLRoss

The Formulaic Trap: Why AI Finds Your Assignments Easy

AI exposes formulaic assignments by completing them easily, pushing educators to design more human, contextual, inquiry-rich learning.

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Adel DiOrio on Leading Away From Fragmentation and Towards Coherence gettingsmart.com/podcast/ade… @Getting_Smart

Adel DiOrio on Leading Away From Fragmentation and Towards Coherence

Explore Getting Smart podcasts featuring conversations with educators, innovators, and leaders reimagining learning for the future. New episodes weekly.

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The Ozempic Problem: The Generative AI Norms Forming in Silence, and How Youth and Adults Can Shape Them gettingsmart.com/2026/05/12/… @Getting_Smart

The Ozempic Problem: The Generative AI Norms Forming in Silence, and How Youth and Adults Can Shape...

Insights, ideas, and analysis from Getting Smart on the future of learning, education innovation, and what's possible for students and schools.

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Changing Work Flow of Schools gettingsmart.com/2026/05/11/… @Getting_Smart @DavidPBLRoss

Changing Work Flow of Schools

AI in schools won’t matter until school workflow changes—shifting from fixed instruction to adaptive, personalized learning systems.

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Transformation Journey: Lake City Area Schools gettingsmart.com/podcast/tra… @Getting_Smart

Transformation Journey: Lake City Area Schools

Explore the journey of Lake City Area Schools and their courageous transformation to redefine educational success.

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Stephanie Reisner and Stephanie (Short) Loeck from @GPSEdPartners talk about their #newbook Make School Work: Solving the American Youth Employment Crisis Through Work-Based Learning. gettingsmart.com/podcast/ste… @Getting_Smart

Stephanie Reisner and Steph Loeck on Make School Work and GPS Education Partners

How work-based learning and youth apprenticeship help students build skills, agency, and career pathways through employer partnerships.

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ChatGPT Futures: recognizing 26 students and young builders using AI in thoughtful, ambitious, and deeply human ways edunewsletter.openai.com/p/i… @leahbel
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What If the Rules About How Teachers Work Together Were Also Just Made Up? gettingsmart.com/2026/05/05/… @Getting_Smart

What If the Rules About How Teachers Work Together Were Also Just Made Up?

Bay Area schools are redesigning teacher collaboration to personalize learning, strengthen instruction, and improve educator sustainability.

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Portfolios from @unrulr youtube.com/watch?v=1GEVHq23…

Welcome to Unrulr Portfolios

Introducing Unrulr Portfolios — a new way for students to organize,...

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Vriti Saraf on Reimagining the Teacher's Role for the AI Age gettingsmart.com/podcast/vri… @Getting_Smart @VritiSaraf

Vriti Saraf on Reimagining the Teacher's Role for the AI Age

How AI can shift teaching from efficiency to human flourishing through new teacher roles, stronger relationships, and learner-centered design.

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How Toxic Mindsets Stop Learners from Realizing Their Potential gettingsmart.com/2026/05/04/… @Getting_Smart @TylerThigpen

Access without Action: How Toxic Mindsets Stop Learners from Realizing Their Potential

How fixed mindsets and shame block math progress, even when support exists, and what educators can do to turn access into action.

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