Conduit Academy Connects
Imagine a vibrant online space where unique learners and their families find belonging, support, and personalized learning experiences, no matter where they are in the world.
That’s the heart of Conduit Academy’s vision and our podcast is part of this vision.
And we also like reading books here too:)
*Please note: often we use NotebookLM to convert Conduit Academy weekly newsletters into podcast form. This is done to ensure that this information is accessible in multiple formats for our families and wider community.
Episodes
177 episodes
The Teacher Who Followed
The profound impact of personalized relationships and truly "knowing" a student beyond their academic labels...this episode emphasizes genuine connection and understanding, rather than data or frameworks, as the most powerful forces in a child'...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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11:28
Co-Creating Digital Classrooms: Beyond Teacher-Owned Spaces
Teachers usually spend lots of their own money and time decorating classrooms before school starts, making everything look perfect for their students. But this can't happen in persistent online classrooms like Conduit. Which option works better...
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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11:00
Digital Classrooms Need Persistent Walls
Conduit made a conscious choice based on years of online teaching experience: we chose a platform that provides a permanent experience for our students. Our online school is unlike any other.
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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14:13
The Hidden Curriculum of Virtual Learning Platforms
Platform matters for online learning so much more than you might imagine. Listen to this conversation to learn more about why an intentional, permanent space makes online learning so much more powerful.
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Season 2
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Episode 1
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9:18
Tears of Connection: Students Miss School
Unlike typical student excitement for summer our students were genuinely sad for classes to conclude. This unexpected emotional response highlights how Conduit, by offering personalized education and fostering a strong sense of b...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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3:49
The Discovery Tax and Other Cognitive Considerations
Based on Carl Hendrick's substack article "Does Explicit Instruction Work For Students with Learning Difficulties?". He details the findings of a University of Haifa study, arguing that explicit instruction is not just helpful, but essential fo...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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13:15
What If We Celebrated Something Else?
This hypothetical scenario encourages readers to reflect on how our own Earth-based educational system, which emphasizes literacy and cognitive skills, shapes our understanding of success and competence. The comparison prompts a consider...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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7:36
Conduit Academy Uses The Polypad
We love the Polypad at Conduit Academy. It provides us with so many opportunities to make math visible to our students.
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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8:18
Making Thinking Visible with Conduit Academy
In this episode, we look at how the document camera provides a way for the teaching team at Conduit Academy to "see" their students' thinking while working online.
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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8:03
Is it just FOMO?
Searching for the perfect educational experience may not help you get what you need. Instead search for the right fit that aligns with you and your family.
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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8:10
Get Out the Pencil and Paper
Conduit helps students work in ways that make their learning stick. We use structures such as "retrieval practice" to ensure our students are making the most of our instruction. We also view the home environment as an important place for ...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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5:53
The Conduit Model: Where Learning Happens
This session explains Conduit's approach to education, emphasizing the importance of active recall for enhancing memory retention. Conduit integrates active recall techniques with personalized learning strategies based on Benjamin...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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11:33
Active Recall Through Daily Writing at Conduit
We discuss our continued implementation of science of learning in terms of how we design our learning engagements. This week, we talk about active recall and our use of this technique with our families at home.
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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12:35
Spaced Learning at Conduit
We know that using science is key to helping our students learning stick. We are deeply invested in what our kids truly need to become lifelong learners.
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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4:25
Why Conduit does Competencies
Learn more about why competency education is so important to us at Conduit and how it helps our neurodiverse learners succeed!
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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8:07
We Don't All Have To Eat The Same Cake
As we develop our understanding of Competency Based Education, this might be helpful to listen to - and take away the idea that CBE is using evidence not time to demonstrate learning.
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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10:12
The Teacher Draft
What if we asked who are the best teachers instead of where are the best schools?
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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8:44
Shoulders Down Learning
Thank you, Sunil Singh, for the "shoulders down" imagery :) This recording is of our weekly Conduit newsletter interpreted by NotebookLM.We love fun. We live in a world that is difficult. Why not have a little fun along the way?...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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7:31
Conduit Qualitative Reasoning
Learn more about the approach we take with math - it is all about making this a tool in our toolbox to solve problems!
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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8:21
The Reasons for Students to Read Whole Books
This podcast was created from Korbey's article using Google NotebookLM"TL; DR: The reasons for students to read whole books, together in class, extend beyond the research"by Holly Korbey
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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9:48
Conduit Competency Based Education
We do CBE with intention because it is what our kids need now.
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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5:16
