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Back in Conversation: New Beginnings on Class Disrupted

Michael and Diane catch up on summer reading, Lucy Calkins, education jargon and the season ahead.

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

Author and Populace CEO Todd Rose returns to discuss paradigm shifts in education and society.

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AI & Education: A Classroom Perspective on Looming Possibilities and Challenges

AI expert and Minerva University senior Irhum Shafkat joins Michael and Diane to discuss where the technology is going.

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A New Way to Innovate at Schools: Embrace a Child-Like Mind, Test Boundaries

There’s a beauty to embracing a child-like mind in exploring the limits, to understand where new ideas work — and importantly, where they break

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

Diane Tavenner & Michael Horn suggest a path forward that doesn't seek to show why one side is wrong, but instead starts with deep listening & empathy

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

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

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E16: Is Legislation the Best Way to End the ‘Reading Wars’?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E15: How Hardening Schools Could Harm Students

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E14: How to Design a College Alternative

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Class Disrupted: When Students Help Direct What They’re Taught in School

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E12: It’s Time We Talked Money

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E11: Scaling the New, Sunsetting the Old

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E10: Education Reflections from Trips to Sierra Leone, Liberia and India

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E9: Shake-Up in the Assessment Market

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E8: Why Failure — and Pivoting from It — Is Hard in Education

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E7: Beneath the AI Hype

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E6: How Do You Staff Innovation?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E5: Why Aren’t There More Innovative Schools?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E4: What Should Schools Try and Test?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E3: Is There a Teacher Shortage? It Depends

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E2: What Does a Real Pilot Look Like in a School?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S4 E1: The Disruptive Journey Ahead

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E19: Are Older Students Fixed in Their Abilities?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Class Disrupted Podcast: 30 Years After the 1st Charter School

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Class Disrupted Podcast: What America Can Learn From Germany

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E16: Rethinking College for All

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Benefits of Meritocracy Amid Problems with Exam Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

What Does Education Have to Do with Meritocracy?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Is America Facing a Teacher Shortage? Inside the Numbers That Say Yes — and No

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Class Disrupted S3 E11: What is Driving Parent Frustration with Schools?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E10: The Unworkable Burden On Schools

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Omicron, Schools & Ted Lasso: What the Comedy Can Teach Us About Crisis Response

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E8: 3 Big Education Wishes for 2022

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Why Is There More Physical Violence in Schools This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Why Is This Teacher Shortage Different (and How Did We Get Here?)

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Where Are Students Learning This Year?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

Standards and Curriculum Aren't the Same

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E3: Who Decides What Gets Taught?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted S3 E2: What Schools Should Teach

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Podcast: Back-to-School COVID-19 Shopping

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5 Things I Learned Recording ‘Class Disrupted’

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When the Teacher Becomes the Student: What I Learned From Making ‘Class Disrupted’

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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

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 9: Should School Be Year-Round?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 8: The Faulty Promise of Tests

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Episode 7: Straight A’s for All? What’s the Purpose of a Grade?

Michael B. Horn & Diane Tavenner

LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 6: Help! My Child and I Are Overwhelmed!

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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?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 4: Why Are We Doing School?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 3: Why Can’t Sal Khan Just Teach Everyone?

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LISTEN — Class Disrupted Podcast Episode 2: Why Is My Child Doing So Many Worksheets Right Now?

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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

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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

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