Ranked in the top 100 podcasts by National School Choice this show presents compelling conversations around innovative online and blended learning. Hear from all stakeholder voices in education―students, teachers, parents, policy influencers, and entrepreneurs―in a variety of segment types. From featured interviews presenting industry leaders’ insights to students’ and parents’ personal reflections on the impact of flexible learning options, fast-paced Q&A sessions with teachers, and commentary on emerging trends, diverse voices will highlight the power and promise of innovative, equitable education.
Future of School is an education intermediary organization mobilizing change in American K-12 education. It brings together organizations, businesses and concerned citizens who can offer additional resources and funding for moving education forward.
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Students Speak: Rhegan McCall on Advocating Student Choice Within Schools (S3E8)
by EdCircuit Staff
2 mins readRhegan McCall, a high school sophomore in Colorado, is today’s guest. Rhegan attends a private Jesuit school in which she enrolled just days before the start of high school, largely due to challenges her prior school was facing as a result of the pandemic.
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Students Speak: Courtney Stevens on the Benefits of a Flexible Schedule (S3E7)
by EdCircuit Staff
2 mins readWhen students speak, the education world must stop and listen. Welcome to the “Students Speak” series on Future of School: The Podcast, presented in partnership with National School Choice Week.
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Students Speak: Oam Patel on the Online Learning Perspective Shift (S3E6)
by EdCircuit Staff
2 mins readOam Patel is a graduate of Mountain Home High School in Mountain Home, Idaho, a small rural town, and a first-year student at Harvard University. In ninth grade, he learned about the variety of courses that were available online.
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Students Speak: Anna Maria Iaramboykov on Self-Directed Online Enrichment (S3E5)
by EdCircuit Staff
2 mins readWhen students speak, the education world must stop and listen. Welcome to the “Students Speak” series on Future of School: The Podcast, presented in partnership with National School Choice Week. Anna Maria Iaramboykov, a graduate of Radnor High School in Pennsylvania and second-year international college student.
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Students Speak: Sahil Pontula on Online Learning vs. Crisis Schooling (S3E4)
by EdCircuit Staff
2 mins readSahil observed the difference in this “crisis schooling,” when schools weren’t yet prepared to take certain courses online, in contrast with the online courses he’d taken for many years.
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Students Speak: Jazy Manoukian on Personalized Hybrid Learning (S3E3)
by EdCircuit Staff
2 mins read“By making everybody learn the exact same way, I think you’re really disadvantaging a lot of students,” Jazy says, when asked about the risks when schools don’t provide students with choices in their learning. This goes both for the students who want to accelerate and those who need to slow their pace a little bit …