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Podcast: Class Disrupted Hosts Return with Job Moves & Insights for K-12 Schools

What motivates people to change jobs and how can these findings guide young people in choosing a career path?

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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Class Disrupted Tackles AI: Exploring its Application for Teaching and Learning

Launching their mini-series on artificial intelligence, Michael & Diane dive into where the tech is useful in education — and where it’s disruptive.

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Podcast: What a Mentorship Mindset Can Do for Student Motivation

In a special summer episode of Class Disrupted, Author David Yeager joins to discuss practical strategies for mentoring young people.

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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Class Disrupted

As Schools Push to Recover from COVID, Turbulent Days for Education Philanthropy

In the season finale of Class Disrupted, Stacey Childress joins to discuss turbulent trends they’re hearing around funding in education sectors.

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Class Disrupted

How Kids Learn: A Gap Between Schools’ Teaching Models & Latest Learning Science

McKinsey’s senior ed advisor joins Class Disrupted to discuss the challenges schools face relating to core education and their role in communities.

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E20: Does Banning Things Actually Keep Children Safe in Schools?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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Artificial Intelligence in Education: Risks, Opportunities and What’s Next

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Podcast: Processing AI in Education Out Loud

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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Podcast: The Premortem on AI in Education

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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Podcast: The Challenges AI Poses for Learning How to Write

Diane Tavenner
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OpenAI’s Education Leader on AI’s ‘Massive Productivity Boost’ for Schools, Teachers

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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Class Disrupted Podcast: Ben Riley on Why AI Doesn’t Think Like Us

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Class Disrupted: How AI is Democratizing Access to Expertise in Education

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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Reimagining School: An Expert’s Take on Unbundling the Core Education Experience

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Is College Really Worth It? What Andreessen & Horowitz Get Right (and Wrong)

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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Podcast — Changing the Equation: How to Make Math Class More Meaningful

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Class Disrupted S5 E8: Providing a Human-Centered, Self-Actualizing Education to Every Student

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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The Rise of Student Apprenticeships: Thinking Beyond 'College or Bust'

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Class Disrupted 2023 in Review: AI, New Assessments, ‘The American Dream’ & More

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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Class Disrupted S5 E4: How America’s Oldest Nonprofit Aims to Drive the Future of Education

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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AI & Education: A Classroom Perspective on Looming Possibilities and Challenges

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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America’s Evolving Definition of Success: Where Do Schools Fit In?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Back in Conversation: New Beginnings on Class Disrupted

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E18: Anxiety, Fear, and the Importance of Listening

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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A New Way to Innovate at Schools: Embrace a Child-Like Mind, Test Boundaries

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E16: Is Legislation the Best Way to End the ‘Reading Wars’?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E15: How Hardening Schools Could Harm Students

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E14: How to Design a College Alternative

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Class Disrupted: When Students Help Direct What They’re Taught in School

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E12: It’s Time We Talked Money

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E11: Scaling the New, Sunsetting the Old

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E10: Education Reflections from Trips to Sierra Leone, Liberia and India

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E9: Shake-Up in the Assessment Market

Diane Tavenner & Michael B. Horn
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E8: Why Failure — and Pivoting from It — Is Hard in Education

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E7: Beneath the AI Hype

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E6: How Do You Staff Innovation?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E5: Why Aren’t There More Innovative Schools?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E4: What Should Schools Try and Test?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E3: Is There a Teacher Shortage? It Depends

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E2: What Does a Real Pilot Look Like in a School?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E1: The Disruptive Journey Ahead

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E19: Are Older Students Fixed in Their Abilities?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Class Disrupted Podcast: 30 Years After the 1st Charter School

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Class Disrupted Podcast: What America Can Learn From Germany

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E16: Rethinking College for All

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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What Does Education Have to Do with Meritocracy?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Is America Facing a Teacher Shortage? Inside the Numbers That Say Yes — and No

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Class Disrupted S3 E11: What is Driving Parent Frustration with Schools?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E10: The Unworkable Burden On Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Omicron, Schools & Ted Lasso: What the Comedy Can Teach Us About Crisis Response

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E8: 3 Big Education Wishes for 2022

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Why Is There More Physical Violence in Schools This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Why Is This Teacher Shortage Different (and How Did We Get Here?)

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Where Are Students Learning This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Standards and Curriculum Aren't the Same

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E3: Who Decides What Gets Taught?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E2: What Schools Should Teach

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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Podcast: Back-to-School COVID-19 Shopping

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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5 Things I Learned Recording ‘Class Disrupted’

Michael B. Horn
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When the Teacher Becomes the Student: What I Learned From Making ‘Class Disrupted’

Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 10: We Should Have Fixed Inequity in Education Yesterday. Now the Pandemic Has Made Redesigning the System Exponentially More Urgent

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 9: Should School Be Year-Round?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 8: The Faulty Promise of Tests

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 7: Straight A’s for All? What’s the Purpose of a Grade?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 6: Help! My Child and I Are Overwhelmed!

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 5: My Kid’s Able to Finish Schoolwork in 3 Hours. So What Is He Doing for the 6 in School?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 4: Why Are We Doing School?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 3: Why Can’t Sal Khan Just Teach Everyone?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 2: Why Is My Child Doing So Many Worksheets Right Now?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 1: Why Doesn’t Every Student Have a Device and the Internet? How One Texas District Is Leading the Way for Virtual Learning

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner
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LISTEN: Introducing the Class Disrupted Podcast, a Weekly Pandemic Education Conversation Hosted by Author Michael Horn & Summit Public Schools’ Diane Tavenner

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner