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Jan 26, 2021

Our current system of education is broken. The structures and practices starting with our federal system, down to the states, to the districts, to the schools – including most of higher education – do not support or incentivize innovative ways of engaging students that encourage them to pursue their interests...


Jan 19, 2021

When the Gallup organization measured student engagement in school, they found that engagement drops from 5th grade on. Only about half of students in middle school reported high levels of engagement and about one-third of high school students reported the same. Why are our students increasingly disengaged? In...


Jan 12, 2021

In this episode, we talk with Gregg Brown. Gregg spent 30 years in the telecommunications industry.  He became an instructor at the Blue Valley Center for Advanced Professional Studies (CAPS) where he taught marketing and economics using Profession Based Learning.  In 2017, Gregg became the CAPS Network Coordinator to...


Jan 5, 2021

In this episode, we talk with Patrick Cook-Deegan. Patrick is a leader in reimagining adolescent education through the lens of purpose learning. He is the Founder and CEO of Project Wayfinder.

Project Wayfinder imagines a world where adolescent education is designed for all students to develop lives of meaning and...