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Hosted by Everyone Graduates Center · education · EN-US
A podcast hosted by Robert Balfanz, director of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins School of Education.
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Booking probability
28%
Guest openness
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Signup to Generate a PitchDesigning Education is hosted by Everyone Graduates Center. The show has published 35 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Turning School Data into Real-Time Student Support" (15 April 2026, 45 minutes), "Designing Career Pathways for All Students with PREP-KC" (4 February 2026, 39 minutes), and "Strengthening Schools Through Community Collaboration" (29 October 2025, 31 minutes).
Designing Education publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 30 minutes across 35 episodes.
Booking probability for Designing Education is 28%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Designing Education requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Designing Education's contact route on record: public web form.
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Everyone Graduates Center hosts Designing Education, an education podcast with 35 episodes published.
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Episode #6
In Season 4, Episode 6 of the Designing Education Podcast , Dr. Robert Balfanz speaks with Dr. J.T. Stark, Data Analytics Coordinator for the Washoe County School District in Nevada, about how schools can move from...
Episode #5
We’re excited to share our new episode of Design Education , featuring an engaging conversation between Dr. Robert Balfanz and Doug Elmer, Vice President of PREP-KC, a Missouri-based nonprofit expanding access to...
Episode #4
In this episode, James Ellout, Vice President of Community Impact at United Way of Northeast Florida joins Dr. Robert Balfanz to talk about how community organizations can partner with schools to increase student...
Episode #3
Girls in our nation’s urban areas—and in communities across the county—face significant challenges on the path to academic achievement and adult success. That’s why the work of Girls Inc. of Chicago is so inspiring...
Episode #2
What does it really take to help all students plan for what’s next after high school? In this episode of Designing Education, Dr. Robert Balfanz speaks with Andy Schmitz, senior managing director of system impact at...
Episode #1
Season 4 of the Designing Education Podcast kicks off with Shawn Morris, Executive Director of the Mark Armijo Academy located in the South Valley of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This episode explores how the Mark Armijo...
Episode #8
In the season finale of Designing Education and our yearlong exploration of student success systems, we sit down with Paolo DeMaria, president and CEO of the National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE), to...
Episode #7
In episode seven of Designing Education , Tim Knowles, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching , joins Dr. Robert Balfanz for a thought-provoking discussion about the evolving role of...
Episode #6
In episode six, we welcome Jenny Scala, Managing Director at the American Institutes for Research . Jenny shares insights into how student success systems can help schools break down silos in student support, making it...
Episode #5
In this episode, we welcome Taylor McCabe-Juhnke, Executive Director of the Rural Schools Collaborative , to discuss the work they are doing to bring student success systems to rural schools across the nation. With one...
Episode #4
In this special episode of Designing Education , we're thrilled to welcome Krys Payne as our guest host. Krys is the Executive Director of the UChicago Network for College Success (NCS) and brings nearly 30 years of...
Episode #3
In the third episode of season three, Tara Madden, Chief Program Officer of Talent Development Secondary , joins Dr. Robert Balfanz to discuss the four essential components of a student success system: a focus on...
Episode #2
In the second episode of season three, Patricia Balana, Managing Director of the GRAD Partnership , joins Dr. Robert Balfanz to discuss how and why nine organizations came together to form the GRAD Partnership. The...
Episode #1
In the first episode of our third season, Dr. Saashya Rodrigo, Principal Researcher from the National Center for Learning Disabilities (NCLD), joins Dr. Balfanz to discuss the work NCLD is doing to ensure that students...
Episode #0
Season three of Designing Education , a podcast hosted by Robert Balfanz, director of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, is about to begin! This season’s series will focus on exploring student...
Episode #8
In Season 2, Episode 8, Sofia Russo, Principal of High School for Media and Communications located in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City joins Robert Balfanz for a conversation about what is possible...
Episode #7
In Season 2, episode 7 Graham Wood, Director of the Office of Graduate Success, at the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce joins Robert Balfanz for a conversation about how high school graduation requirements and...
Episode #6
Celebrating its one-year anniversary, the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS), a partnership between the U.S. Department of Education, AmeriCorps, and the Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduates Center, was...
Episode #5
In this episode, Robert Balfanz continues the conversation with New Hampshire’s Extended Learning Opportunity Network ’s Kerrie Alley-Violette and Sean Peschel, two on-the-ground educators working to make “learning...
Episode #4
When teams of educators, students, and community members across the nation work to redesign high schools, one thing that repeatedly stands in the way is the school schedule and the need to meet seat time requirements...
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Director of the Office of Graduate Success, Ohio Department of Education and Workforce
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
High School for Media and Communications
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