Innovating Education
Welcome to Innovating Education, where we introduce our audience to leading change-makers whose innovative ideas are shaping the rapidly evolving educational landscape. Our audience includes educational leaders, policy-makers, academics, K-12 educators, parents and families, and anyone who is interested in ideas that influence how we learn, think, and act. The Innovating Education Podcast is hosted by Ed Harris, PhD, and Jentre Olsen, PhD. Ed is Professor Emeritus at Oklahoma State University with over 35 years of experience in educational leadership and the Administrator for the Brock Prize in Education Innovation. Jentre is a Teach for America alum and joined the educational leadership faculty at OSU after teaching in an urban middle school and earning his doctorate at OU. He is currently serving as the Brock Chair of Education Innovation.
Episodes
16 episodes
Innovating Education with Kathy Curry and Daniel Hamlin (OKEII)
In this episode, Ed and Jentre visit with Kathy Curry and Daniel Hamlin of the Oklahoma Education Impact Initiative (OKEII). The Oklahoma Education Impact Initiative is a non-profit initiative dedicated to rapidly transforming Oklahoma's pub...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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40:20
Innovating Education with Evan Rahman & Renee Venagas (Khan Academy)
In this episode, Ed and Jentre visit with Evan Rahman and Renee Venagas from
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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37:39
Innovating Education with La Verne Ford Wimberly
In this episode, Ed and Jentre visit with Dr. La Verne Ford Wimberly. Dr. Wimberly is a veteran career educator who played a role in desegregating the Tulsa Public school system. She later became the first interim African American female ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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29:47
Innovating Education with Danish Kurani
In this episode, Ed and Jentre visit with Danish Kurani, architect and chief designer at Kurani, an architecture studio which designs education centers, public places, and community spaces to help people connect, learn, and feel a sense of b...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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43:13
Innovating Education with Sal Khan
In this episode, Ed and John Brock visit with Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone anywhere. Khan Academy’s content and mastery learning platfo...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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31:48
Innovating Education with Lee Gordon
In this episode, Ed and Jentre visit with Lee Gordon. Lee is the co-founder of Hand in Hand, an Israeli non-profit organization that has created a network of integrated public schools serving Arab and Jewish children. Starting with just 50 s...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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38:06
Innovating Education with Sanjeev Arora
In this episode, Jentre and Ed visit with Sanjeev Arora, the director and founder of Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Health Outcomes). He is a distinguished professor in internal medicine at the University of New Mexico and the recipi...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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40:32
Innovating Education with April Grace
“We can’t do 1960’s industrialized factory-model education with 21st century learners.” In this episode, Ed and Jentre visit with April Grace, Superintendent of Shawnee Pawnee Schools. With over 35 years of experience working in pub...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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37:49
Innovating Education with Autumn Tooms Cyrès
"Learning and leadership are intertwined like a möbius strip.” In this episode, Jentre and Ed visit with Dr. Autumn Tooms Cyprès. Dr. Cyprès is the founding Dean for West Virginia University’s College of Applied ...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:00:29
Innovating Education with William Parker
In this episode, Jentre and Ed visit with William Parker. William is the Founder of Principal Matters, LLC, an educator, author, and speaker who uses his expertise in school culture, leadership and communication to equip educators with solut...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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34:24
Innovating Education with Sugata Mitra & Jeff McClellen (Part 2)
In this second episode of a two part series, Jentre and Ed follow up with Sugata Mitra and Jeff McClellen after Sugata’s 2022 Brock Prize Symposium talk. Jeff is the founding director of StartSOLE. StartSOLE helps educators and students impl...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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59:44
Innovating Education with Sugata Mitra (Part 1: 2022 Brock Prize Symposium)
What should we be looking for in students…Computing, Comprehension, and Communication”In this episode, Jentre and Ed introduce a two part series featuring the 2022 Brock Prize laureate, Sugata Mitra. In Part I, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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35:41
Innovating Education with John Brock
“The most important thing we do in this life is educate our children” (John Brock). In this episode, Jentre and Ed visit with John Brock, founder of the Brock Prize in Education Innovation. The Brock Prize exists to find t...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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19:14
Innovating Education with Ellen Moir
“When new teachers get into school settings with talented teachers, and they partner…together the school community becomes the hub of hopefulness.” In this episode, Jentre and Ed visit with Ellen Moir, founder and past Chief Executive Office...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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38:34
Innovating Education with Rick Miller
“A good education changes what you know. A great education changes who you are.” In this episode, Ed and Jentre visit with Rick Miller, the first employee and appointed President of distinguished Olin College of Engineering outside Boston, M...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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45:39