Experience Matters with Steve Shapiro

If you ask someone about the most powerful learning experience of their youth, few people will mention a lecture, a textbook reading, or a test. Nearly all will identify an EXPERIENCE; that is because experiential learning is the most profound and lasting form of learning. So if experience matters, how do we offer it to students in our schools? This podcast invites folks to share the learning experience that most deeply impacted their lives, and each episode includes provocations about how we can bring those types of experiences into the mainstream of American schools. Experience Matters is about harnessing the power of experiential learning to transform public education

Podcasting since 2020 • 22 episodes

Experience Matters with Steve Shapiro

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Episode 22- Exquisite Compassion with Father Greg Boyle

Exquisite Compassion with Father Greg BoyleFather Greg Boyle has spent most of his adult years helping transform the lives of former gang members at Homeboy Industries in Los Angeles. In this conversation he applies his ma...

October 08, 2023 • 45:03

Episode 21- Liberate! with Dr. Michelle Sadrena Pledger

Michelle Pledger confronted the internalized oppression from her experiences as a Black girl in a predominately white school; then she converted her newfound wisdom into a commitment to promote culturally relevant teaching practices that honor ...

May 28, 2023 • 52:32

Episode 20- The Power of Voice with Russ Quaglia

Humans, young and old, share a basic need to have some authorship in our own lives. Dr. Russell Quaglia has built his entire career around how to bring students’ voices into focus in classrooms and schools across the world. The result is happie...

May 18, 2023 • 39:28

Episode 19- The Achievement Culture Cure with Dr. Stuart Slavin

Episode 19: The Achievement Culture Cure with Dr. Stuart SlavinWhen Dr. Stuart Slavin received disturbing data about the dismal mental health of students at St. Louis University School of Medicine, he broke into action. The change...

January 29, 2023 • 45:20

Episode 18- This is Your Brain on Achievement Culture with Dr. William Stixrud

This is Your Brain on Achievement Culture with Dr. William StixrudWe are in the midst of a youth mental health crisis, especially among kids in “high achieving” schools. Neuropsychologist William Stixrud has a front row-seat to th...

January 11, 2023 • 42:04

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