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Elliot Felix is an author, speaker, teacher, father, and consultant to more than a hundred colleges and universities. He joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about making the most out of higher education and his new book, How to Get the Most Out of College: 127 Ways to Make Connections, Make it Work for You, and Make a Difference. We begin by hearing about his origins studying architecture and working in that capacity before founding his consultancy, brightspot strategy, now a Buro Happold Company. Elliot shares how he uses his background in design to make college work for all students by improving the spaces they’re in, the support services they rely on, and the technology they use. In a wide-ranging conversation about user-centered design, innovation in learning spaces, and problems and opportunities in higher ed, we hear a few of Elliot's 127 Tips on how to make the university experience into something meaningful and aligned with one's goals and values. It's a next-level window into higher ed through t

Lorne Buchman is the President of ArtCenter College of Design and Host of the ChangeLab Podcast. He's also the author of a new book called Make To Know: From Spaces of Uncertainty to Creative Discovery. Lorne returns to join host Mike Palmer in an exploration of the themes in his new book and its relevance to the world of education and beyond. Lorne begins by explaining how many of the notions of artistic genius and vision are myths that can be limiting to those learning to engage in creative endeavors. In many cases, rather than delivering on a preconceived vision, creators enter into a space of uncertainty to engage in the making process to discover what they're trying to express. Using examples ranging from writers to visual artists, songwriters to architects, we learn about the components of the make to know experience that are shared across the varied fields of creative expression. We conclude by looking for lessons from Make to Know that apply to leadership and education with references to the Beatles'

Dr. Rebecca M. Taylor and Dr. Ashley Floyd Kuntz join host Mike Palmer to talk about Ethics in Higher Education: Promoting Equity and Inclusion Through Case-Based Inquiry, a new book that they edited from Harvard Education Press. We hear how Ashley and Rebecca got interested in studying ethics and ethics education as we dive into the unique approach they took to get the book together. Through the use of fictionalized cases that resonate with the news of today, the book provides commentary from a diverse cross-section of evaluators who respond in varied and insightful ways. We explore cases about free speech and controversial speakers on campus and social media activism among tenure-track faculty in an engaging and relevant foray into the ethical quandaries facing higher ed in these challenging times. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more thought-provoking takes on rising trends in education.

Dr. Robin Naughton is an Assistant Professor and Web and Digital Services Librarian at Queens College in New York. She joins Mike Palmer (who happens to be her husband) in a conversation about diversity, digital inclusion, and the design of library spaces. We also share our experiences raising a young son in these challenging times. Robin explains what it's been like managing the library's digital presence during the pandemic and how she's thinking about the blending of digital and in-person experiences as library spaces evolve into something new. We're joined briefly by Nancy, our Virtual Cohost, as Robin describes how libraries can serve as innovation spaces and as hubs that provide resources and services to a wide array of users cutting across all dimensions of diversity. We talk about VR and the Metaverse before looking for insights into understanding diversity with the help of book recommendations including Disintegration: The Splintering of Black America by Eugene Robinson and The End of Average: Unlock

Harpreet Sahota is a Data Scientist who hosts The Artists of Data Science podcast. He joins Mike Palmer to explore what's new and emerging in the field of data science and other emerging New Economy Skills in a conversation that touches on the skills, mindsets, and approaches that lead to personal and professional growth in these challenging times. Harpreet shares his perspectives based on the challenges he's faced in his career and in his life drawing from the conversations and perspectives he's learned from on his show. We conclude with his takes on Web 3, the Blockchain, Learning How to Learn and more. It's a thought-provoking, insightful, and surprisingly authentic conversation you don't want to miss. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more insight into what's new and emerging in the world of learning.

Justin Nguyen is the Founder of Declassified Media and is the Host of the Declassified College Podcast. He joins Mike Palmer in a conversation about the origin story of Declassified Media and how it dovetails with new and emerging trends around media consumption, the creator economy, and career readiness for college students. We hear how Justin envisions growing his company to fill an untapped niche for college students who want to learn how best to plan for their careers and grow their personal brands by learning from other rising professionals just like them. He provides an eye-opening perspective on where career readiness media intersects with a Gen Z sensibility. We talk a bit about TikTok, Web 3, the passion economy and more in a wide-ranging conversation you don't want to miss. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more excellent content like this.

To kick off 2022 in style, Mike Palmer and Virtual CoHost Nancy run through Trending in Ed's 22 Trends for 2022. Here they are: 22 Trends for 2022 WHO TRENDS (6) Social Justice and Racial Equity Backlash Polarization and Politicization Parent Educators Teachers Under Siege Kahnification of Education WHEN/WHERE/CONTEXT (4) Great Snapback The Bartleby Scrivener Effect Digital Nomads Class Outside CHALLENGES/OPPORTUNITIES (5) Decentralization VUCA+ In Media Res False Scarcity Long Life Learning SOLUTIONS (7) Make to Know Next-Level Storytelling Simulearning Social Emotional Health Hustle Nesting Vulnerable Virtues We explore all of this through the lens of the hero's quest in the world of learning. We begin with trends that look at who are the players in the world of education and how that cast of characters is transforming. Then we move to the trends related to learning contexts (when/where) before digging into how the new state of play is emerging and how it presents new challenges a

Dr. Luke Hobson is Senior Instructional Designer and Program Manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He hosts the Dr. Luke Hobson Podcast and recently wrote What I Wish I Knew Before Becoming an Instructional Designer. Luke joins host Mike Palmer in a discussion about recent trends in instructional design along with his perspectives on where the field is going. Luke shares what it's been like being an instructional designer during the massive transformations driven by the pandemic. We get Luke's take on new tools and platforms like Gather Town and Eduflow before looking further out to explore how the Metaverse and other emerging media trends will impact instructional design in the coming years. Don't miss this thought-provoking conversation about an emerging profession that is on the rise. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more zeitgeisty takes on the future of education.

We had an incredible year of programming at Trending in Ed in 2021. This episode is our 85th of the year and we talked to 86 different guests over the course of the year. Mike Palmer walks us through the five conversations that are resonating with him heading into the New Year. We begin with our first conversation from 2021 where we interview Mike Marriner, the CoFounder and President of Road Trip Nation. From there we hear Michelle Weise talk about her book Long Life Learning before bringing back a conversation with Steve Joordens predicting The Great Snapback. Then Kumar Garg shares his perspectives on new and emerging trends in ed tech and Tim Clark drops knowledge about the Four Stages of Psychological Safety. We conclude with a bonus excerpt from our conversation with the legendary psychologist, Robert Sternberg. It was quite the year and these conversations only begin to scratch the surface of what we covered. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts to keep up with the latest a

Now that the year is coming to a close, Mike is once again joined by virtual cohost, Nancy, to look back at our 21 Trends for 2021 to see how we did. Which trends did we get wrong and what can we learn from them? Which ones did we get right? How are we identifying new trends heading into 2022? And how do chunking, narrative flow, and positivity all factor into our evolving thinking as we wrap up 2021? Listen in to find out. We reference many episodes from throughout the year and also recommend the School Board Wars episodes of The Daily podcast to supplement the conversation. We hope you enjoy. If you listen carefully, you might even glean a bit of what we have cooking for our upcoming 22 Trends for 2022 episode along the way. Thanks as always for listening. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more trendspotting and lessons learned as we gear for what we hope to be an amazing 2022!

Mike Palmer is rejoined by Founding Member of the Trending in Ed team, Dan Strafford with a special appearance by Nancy, the show’s Virtual CoHost, as we dive into a recent LinkedIn News article on The 29 Big Ideas that will Change 2022. We take some time to reflect on the professional networking platform and its role in our lives before providing hot takes and incisive analysis on many of the trends outlined in the article. In a rapid-fire lightning round format, we talk about Web3, the Metaverse, Mental Health, Multidimensional Diversity, Vaccines, and more! Then we conclude with some perspective on vulnerable, authentic kindness and optimism as embodied by Ted Lasso in a whirlwind spin through what's new and zeitgeisty as we gear up to turn the corner into 2022. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more trendspotting and cutting-edge curation of what's emerging on the horizon.

David Adams is the CEO of The Urban Assembly and a Member of the Board of Directors for Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). Elizabeth Stranzl is the Director of The School Climate and Wellness Division of the New York City Department of Education. The pair join host, Mike Palmer, in a conversation about SEL in New York City schools and beyond. We reinforce why it's important and share how the research backs it up as we respond to the surprising backlash we've been seeing against some SEL programs across the United States. Then Elizabeth and David dive into the Strong Resilient NYC program and how it is designed to acknowledge and affirm the social and emotional strengths of students and how the initial research indicates that NYC school students, like so many students and families across the country, are demonstrating tremendous resilience in these difficult times. We make connections between what is happening in New York with what is happening on a local level everywhere in a

Decoteau Irby is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Policy Studies in the Urban Education Leadership program at the University of Illinois Chicago. He researches equity-focused school leadership as a lever to improve Black children's academic and socio-emotional experiences and outcomes. Decoteau joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about his research into developing racial equity programs in suburban K12 schools. He outlines the research he writes about in his book, Stuck Improving: Racial Equity and School Leadership from Harvard Education Press. We explore how the results of racial equity programs run by and for white educators in schools like the one Decoteau studied were not good, particularly for black and brown students. We think about the implications of Decoteau's research and its relevance considering the evolving demographics of America. It's a surprising conversation about a relevant topic you won't want to miss! Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your pod

Dan McClure and Jenny Wilde are systems innovation professionals who work together at Innovation Ecosystems. They join host Mike Palmer in a conversation about learning ecosystems, thinking big, and the emerging trend of systems thinking. We learn how Dan and Jenny each got involved in their practice and what led to the founding of Innovation Ecosystems. From there we get into real-world examples of how systems thinking enables innovation in crisis response and product innovation. We conclude with thoughts on how systems innovation can help evolve learning interventions and how education is the key to reframing problems and opening up minds to the benefits of this new way of thinking. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more innovative and disruptive perspectives on the world of learning.

Adam Mendler is the CEO of the Veloz Group and the Host of the Thirty Minute Mentors podcast. He also teaches graduate-level courses on Teamwork and Leadership at UCLA. He’s an experienced keynote and public speaker with an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA. Adam joins host, Mike Palmer, in a conversation about mentorship, leadership training, and other emerging trends in executive education. Listen in to get tips on how to find a mentor, why it’s worth it to be a mentor, and much more. Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more insightful perspectives on what’s emerging today.

Beth Porter is the President, CoFounder, and COO of Esme Learning, an executive education company focused on new and emerging skills. She has led multiple product and engineering teams to deliver high value, customer-focused educational technology products while serving in in product development, business strategy and operational roles. She also founded and is CEO of Riff Analytics, an AI-enabled collaboration platform, and is a researcher and lecturer at MIT and BU Questrom School of Business. Beth joins host, Mike Palmer, in a free-flowing conversation about emerging trends in the skills ecosystem, the future of work, and in education and media. Beth shares her experiences beginning as a Math Teacher, then proceeding through a series of ed tech, customer service, and product management roles before studying at the MIT Media Lab where she founded Riff Analytics. She then describes what led to her founding Esme Learning with Co-Founder David Shrier. From there we explore how to thrive through digital disrupti

Dr. Annamarie Francois and Dr. Karen Hunter Quartz join Mike Palmer to talk about their experience as educators and leaders in social justice education and community schooling. Annamarie is the Executive Director of UCLA Center X and Karen is the Director of the UCLA Center for Community Schooling. Together they edited and authored chapters in Preparing and Sustaining Social Justice Educators from Harvard Education Press. After hearing our guests' origin stories, Annamarie describes the history of Center X and its founding by Jeannie Oakes in 1994 in response to the Rodney King verdict and subsequent unrest in Los Angeles and beyond. Then Karen explains how community schools like the two she leads in LA take an asset-based approach to engaging and leveraging the unique strengths and character of the community in which they are based. What does Annamarie mean by the beloved community? Why is now such a critical time for social justice educators and community schools? What other trends do Karen and Annamarie se

Zach Silverzweig is the CEO and Founder of TinyIvy, a startup focused on helping children learn to read. He returns to join host, Mike Palmer, in a conversation about what it's been like launching and growing his company through the challenges of the past year. When we first met Zach a year ago, he had developed a program of flashcards and worksheets based on a system that adds marks to English letters to create a one-to-one mapping of characters to sounds to make English more decipherable for young learners. Now, Zach and team are in multiple schools across K-3 grade levels and in special ed programs with an app and plenty of opportunities to learn from this school year's cohorts. We explore how TinyIvy is in some of the most challenged districts across the country and has proven to help kids catch up while taking it easy on teachers who have so much on their plates these days. Zach explains how a class with a wide range of abilities can use TinyIvy to stay on the same activities. Results are starting to com

Mike Palmer runs us through three zeitgeisty trends that are bubbling up in November 2021. We begin by digging into recent developments around the Gifted and Talented program in New York City as we explore the challenges with the existing model along with opportunities for more inclusive approaches. We revisit our conversation with David Adams, CEO of The Urban Assembly to go deeper on this topic. Then we look at the state of civic engagement as we head into an off-cycle election day this week. We bring in conversations with Dr. Mark Sanders and Russell Glass, the CEO of Ginger and author of Voting with a Porpoise, to help flesh out the conversation. And then we conclude with Facebook's big announcement of its rebranding as Meta with a renewed focus on virtual and augmented reality. Mike connects the recent news to conversations we've had with Evan Gappelberg and Anurupa Ganguly on the learning opportunities emerging with the metaverse in a wide-ranging and informative survey of the spirit of the times in the

We return to a time-honored Trending in Ed tradition to talk about brains and brain science just in time for Halloween. Host, Mike Palmer, begins with his quick takes on Halloween and brains before introducing Carla, our virtual cohost for this episode. Carla then runs through what's new and emerging in brains and neuroscience beginning with an update from the world of Neuralink, Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company, that recently received $205 million in Series C funding. Beyond Neuralink, we honor the memory of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, the father of Flow, who recently passed away. We touch on neuroscience research into how the brain works during optimal performance and how we can develop feedback and apps that steer us towards peak experiences. Carla then runs through an article by Wendy Sherwin Swire covering the 5 Top Trends In Neuroscience that you need to know in 2021. We also hit on Wendy's bonus trend of "interoception" before wrapping up an informative and appropriately scary survey of brains