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The Future of Smart

By: Ulcca Joshi Hansen | Grantmakers for Education
  • Summary

  • The Future of Smart, a project of Grantmakers for Education, explores ideas at the intersection of education, equity, and philanthropy that point us towards a radical re-envisioning of our education system. We’ll hear from those working at the edge of what’s possible and explore what it means to support transformative change for young people and their communities. We can’t move our education system forward until we see what’s been holding us back. We have to recognize our assumptions, and our blind spots. This podcast helps listeners recognize how we got here and what assumptions we’ve accepted about young people and education. And it provides us with new ways to think about creating something truly different.
    2023 - Grantmakers for Education
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Episodes
  • Student-Centered Assessment with Temple Lovelace and Susan Lyons
    Mar 21 2024

    In the final episode of Season 2, we are joined by Dr. Temple Lovelace, executive director of Assessment for Good, and Dr. Susan Lyons, co-founder and executive director of Women in Measurement. They are colleagues and leaders in the field of educational measurement, challenging fundamental assumptions that underpin how our dominant education system values, designs and uses assessments. Join us for a conversation in which we explore why thinking differently about what and how we measure is critical to building human-centered systems of learning and education.

    If you are new to this podcast, we suggest listening to episodes 2-4 to build a foundation for the concepts and principles we'll keep returning to on the Future of Smart.

    E.2 - From Brain Bound to Our Extended Minds

    E.3 - A Return Journey to Wisdom

    E.4 - Using Science to Imagine a New Purpose and Design for Education with Dr. Pamela Cantor

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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Doing Philanthropy Differently with Jamie Allison
    Feb 22 2024

    In this episode of the Future of Smart podcast, host Ulcca Joshi Hansen speaks with Jamie Allison, executive director of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, which collaborates with partners whose work provides access and opportunity, building a more equitable community in the Bay Area. Their conversation explores the ideological shifts that have led the fund to engage in interest-based partnerships with the organizations they fund, and what this has meant for everyone engaged in the work, including the fund’s board and staff, as well as their nonprofit partners.

    If you are new to this podcast, we suggest listening to episodes 2-4 to build a foundation for the concepts and principles we'll keep returning to on the Future of Smart.

    E.2 - From Brain Bound to Our Extended Minds

    E.3 - A Return Journey to Wisdom

    E.4 - Using Science to Imagine a New Purpose and Design for Education with Dr. Pamela Cantor

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    58 mins
  • Expanding Definitions of Success, Equity and Innovation with Mia Howard
    Feb 8 2024

    In this week’s episode, Ulcca speaks with Mia Howard, managing partner and leader of Innovative Schools at NewSchools Venture Fund. Mia and Ulcca explore the work being done by a new generation of school leaders who are dedicated to building more human-centered programs that embrace expanded definitions of success, equity and innovation. Learn about the ways in which Mia and her team are learning about what it means to codesign with communities and deconstruct assumptions about what matters most about how we educate young people.

    If you are new to this podcast, we suggest listening to episodes 2-4 to build a foundation for the concepts and principles we'll keep returning to on the Future of Smart.

    E.2 - From Brain Bound to Our Extended Minds

    E.3 - A Return Journey to Wisdom

    E.4 - Using Science to Imagine a New Purpose and Design for Education with Dr. Pamela Cantor

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    1 hr and 9 mins

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