We are excited to present this conversation as both a  New Year's day present and a final episode of season two for the AoA podcast. We chat with author and speaker David Stroh on what systems thinking is, how to apply to global issues, ho...

José Antonio Bowen has been a strong advocate for student-centered education in a number of roles and in a number of ways. From TED talks to books, from creating departments to becoming the president of colleges. The number of hats he has worn ...

We dive into Dr. Desautels' busy life as an assistant professor at Butler University and her work there with educational neuroscience, as a published author, and reflect on her insights and experiences as an educator in the classroom. She share...

We dive into a really interesting conversation with educator, author, speaker, innovator Paul Gorski. We discuss his recent book, '...

We end 2023 with a wonderful conversation with Dr. Carter Berry discussing her work at her organization, Brownicity and her work as an author. We discuss her recent work,

Navigating the Ethical Horizons of AI with Prof. Casey FieslerJoin us in a thought-provoking conversation with Professor Casey Fiesler from the University of Colorado - Boulder, as we delve into the intricate intersection of artif...

We have our 5th Coffee Chat and part 3 of our conversation with Professor Stephen Mulkey. We chat about warming in the North Atlantic and its impact on ocean currents, changes in hurricane systems, geoengineering projects and why fossil fuel co...

Check out our past episodes at: aoapodcast.comHere is part 2 of 3 of our Coffee Chat conversation with Professor Stephen ...

In this Coffee Chat we have a familiar guest back on, Professor Stephen Mulkey. We discuss current climate change issues, we work to clear up some confusion on 'wet bulb tempe...

We have finally gotten around to sharing the second half of this wonderful conversation with professor and environmental scientist Stephen Mulkey. This is our second Coffee Chat (CC) and we are hoping to post more of these in addition to our ep...

Addressing food insecurity in schools was actually one of my main focuses as a first year teacher many years ago as an environmental educator. I was overly enthusiastic and naive about the promise of schoolyard vegetable gardens solving all foo...

Tune into a fun conversation with author and professor Renee Hobbs. Renee first got on our radar with he recent book and winner of the 2021 PROSE Award, "MIND OVER MEDIA: Propaganda Education for a Digital Age." We discuss her book and how she ...

We are happy to share with you an engaging conversation for your Thanksgiving Break! In this episode we had the privilege to chat with keynote speaker Principal Kafele. We cover how schools can better ...

We are excited to kick off our second season of episodes with a conversation with author and lecturer Alfie Kohn.  This was a shorter conversation but we covered a lot of ground. Like many of...

Here we wrap up our second Coffee Chat and the second half of our conversation with professor and environmental scientist Stephen Mulkey. We touched upon advice for both students and teachers in the environmental world, the uncanny beginnings t...

This is a fun conversation that touches upon Stephen Mulkey’s original motivation to pursue this path, how he has navigated academia in the face of climate-change denial, and how the youth can help shape the future of environmentalism—both as s...

In this last episode of 2021 we end the year with internationally-acclaimed speaker Ken Shelton on the topic of technology in schools. We cover so many more topics and Ken provides us with several real-...

This was a fun episode as we got a chance to speak with someone who has been contributing to Age of Awareness for years.  I actually discovered the insights and works of Sarah Mock on mediu...

This 8th episode was really fun to do. As a Design and Tech teacher, I really enjoyed hearing about the design process, the creative freedoms, and then the impacts of the final products they are producing over at Microsoft Education. For the ed...

We had the amazing opportunity to sit down with Lorena Germán and to discuss so many great topics about her work and about her journey to where she is now.  Her new book,

We had the privilege of chatting with one of the world's leading science communicators, Hashem Al-Ghaili. As a social media manager myself, I was just blown away by the numbers he was rep...

How were some teachers able to thrive during their time teaching from home during a global pandemic? How were some able to pivot so easily and transition from in-person teaching to remote teaching? Well, for thousands of teachers around the wor...

Kids can be entrepreneurs, too. That is what Stephen and Sean discover in this episode of the show when they sit down with Rocket Club founder and CEO, Alex Hodara. Rocket Club is a program for kids that com...

In our third episode we had the opportunity to talk with science communicator and celebrity Steve Spangler. You may know him from The Ellen DeGeneres Show or from his presence on various other platforms ...

Yes this episode is about Scratch, one of the most well known programming language for kids, but it is about so much more. Join us as we talk with Scratch founder,