This podcast has over 500 episodes highlighting developing trends in K-12 education, postsecondary and lifelong learning. Each week, Getting Smart team members interview students, leading authors, experts and practitioners in research, tech, entrepreneurship and leadership to bring listeners innovative and actionable strategies in education leadership. Be sure to also check out GettingSmart.com to stay on the cutting edge of innovations in learning.
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Signup to Generate a PitchThis podcast has over 500 episodes highlighting developing trends in K-12 education, postsecondary and lifelong learning. Each week, Getting Smart team members interview students, leading authors, experts and practitioners in research, tech, entrepreneurship and leadership to bring listeners innovative and actionable strategies in education leadership.
Recent episodes include "Jobs, Housing and Schools Worth Coming Home To in Native Communities | Joshua Arce" (30 October 2026, 44 minutes), "Why School Leaders of Color Are Also Civil Rights Leaders | Jay Artis-Wright" (28 October 2026, 28 minutes), and "What Students Want Principals to Know | The MAPS Media Institute" (23 October 2026, 46 minutes).
Getting Smart Podcast publishes roughly a few times a week, with episodes averaging 42 minutes.
Booking probability for Getting Smart Podcast is 38%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Getting Smart Podcast requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Getting Smart Podcast's contact route on record: verified email.
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How can schools and communities build opportunity worth coming home to? Joshua Arce, president and CEO of Partnership With Native Americans (PWNA), joins Mason Pashia and Jason Cummins to talk about how showing up...
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What does freedom in education look like for Black and Brown families? Victoria Andrews talks with Jay Artis-Wright, CEO of Freedom to Choose Schools, about school choice, school leadership and communities shaping their...
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What do students want principals to know about feeling heard, and feeling safe enough to fail and try again? Mason Pashia talks with Clare Ann Harff, executive director of MAPS Media Institute, and MAPS students Mikaela...
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Ten years ago, a small team asked a wild question: could you actually pay people to learn? That question sent them around the world, and eventually to building the infrastructure behind digital credentials used by...
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What actually sticks with students twenty years after high school? Andrew Frishman, co-executive director of Big Picture Learning and host of the new podcast The Advisory, joins Mason Pashia to talk about reconnecting...
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Can AI make math class more social? Britte Haugan Cheng (MenloEDU) and Ann Edwards (WestEd) of the AIMS Collaboratory join Nate McClennen to talk about how developers, researchers, teachers, and students build math...
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Letter grades get a lot of the blame when schools try to change how they assess learning. Two of the editors of a new book on competency-based education explain what they've seen up close. Nate McClennen and Rebecca...
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Live from the Uncharted Learning Summit in Chicago, Victoria Andrews and Shawnee Caruthers reflect on a community built around one big idea: entrepreneurship is for everyone. Through conversations with alumni, teachers...
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A K-8 district isn't supposed to have a high school. Bostonia Global built one anyway, and rethought what high school could look like in the process. In this episode, Rebecca Midles talks with Nerel Winter (CEO of...
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A school in Singapore just spent over $600 million reimagining what a classroom should be, and it's not what you'd expect. Mike Posthumus, learning design principal at Fielding International, walks through how Singapore...
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The job of "principal" has quietly become impossible, one person expected to coach every teacher, be the expert in every subject, set the vision, and be present in the community, all at once. In this episode, host Nate...
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Will AI upend education as we know it, or just get absorbed into the systems we already have? In this episode, host Nate McClennen talks with Sal Khan, founder and CEO of Khan Academy, about where AI is actually headed...
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Digital badges and credentials promise to finally show what a learner actually knows. Dr. Kelly Page says that promise has a dark side nobody's talking about. In this episode, host Mason Pashia talks with Dr. Kelly...
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In this episode of Catching Up, Nate McClennen and Mason Pashia get into what happens after a $2.5 billion settlement lands, and whether "fund real life" is actually a better answer than another wave of mental health...
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Public education is facing a moment it hasn't seen in decades: shrinking enrollment, an explosion of school choice options, and real questions about who should even be in charge of a district's decisions. In this...
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A new federal tax credit is launching in January 2027 that could bring real money into public schools, and most districts don't even know it exists yet. In this episode, host Nate McClennen talks with Antonio Parés...
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Dr. Jane Shore is an education researcher, school co-founder, and author of "People-Based Learning: The Future of Learning is Human" (Routledge, 2026). She joins host Rebecca Midles to talk about her three-part...
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In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, host Mason Pashia sits down with Edson Barton, CEO and co-founder of YouScience, to explore what it truly means to build a credentialing system that delivers value to...
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In this episode of Catching Up, Nate McClennen and Mason Pashia tackle three of the most urgent tensions in modern education. They explore a landmark Penn study revealing that while AI can streamline lesson planning, it...
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Reach University is rethinking higher education with a simple but powerful idea: turn jobs into degrees. In this conversation, Joe Ross shares how apprenticeship degrees can help districts grow their own teachers by...
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founding member, managing director, author, The Holdsworth Center
Member of the Australian Professional Association for Transgender Health, Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank
Practice Squad member and Manager for the ISU Women's basketball team, Forney ISD
former Principal of Sydney Missionary and Bible College, Arizona House of Representatives
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