Slice of PI: Recent Episodes
Claire Gilbert, Hannah Jennewein
This podcast showcases the work being done within Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College with an eye to Principled Innovation. Principled Innovation is the ability to imagine new concepts, catalyze ideas, and form new solutions guided by principles that create positive change for humanity. This show will look to the process of changemaking - not just the clean and polished side of doing new things, but taking a look at the messier side of innovation. Each episode will hear directly from Faculty, Staff, and Students, and delve into a different area of work within the Teachers College.
This podcast is made possible by a generous grant from the Kern Family Foundation.
We sat down with Jennifer Stein, Lisa Wyatt, and Ben Scragg to talk about the Kyrene Project. Over the course of about ten months, the Design Initiatives Team from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College collaborated with the Kyrene School District in designing what ultimately became known as SPARK School. In this episode they reflect on the challenges they faced during the design project, and their reflections on what it's like to think big and design a school for the future.
For more information on what SPARK has become, visit: kyrene.org/sparkschool
For more information on the Design Initiatives team, and the Kyrene project, go to: https://education.asu.edu/oofsi/design-initiatives/projects/kyrene-designing-new-school-model
That's a wrap on Season 1! Thanks for listening, and stay tuned for a couple bonus episodes coming soon, as well as Season 2.
We sat down with Dr. Punya Mishra, Jennifer Stein, Lisa Wyatt, and Ben Scragg to talk about the Kyrene Project. Over the course of about ten months, the Design Initiatives Team from Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College collaborated with the Kyrene School District in designing what ultimately became known as SPARK School.
For more information on what SPARK has become, visit: kyrene.org/sparkschool
For more information on the Design Initiatives team, and the Kyrene project, go to: https://education.asu.edu/oofsi/design-initiatives/projects/kyrene-designing-new-school-model
As for the Teapot Dome Scandal, it was Warren G. Harding. (Ben was spot on.)
We chatted with Ruhi about her work with teachers and educational leaders from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, her experiences participating in the very first cohort of the Principled Innovation Staff Catalysts, and how she has been intentionally incorporating principled innovation into her work--as well as how all of that has shifted during the pandemic.
Comments? Feedback? Ideas? Drop us a line at sliceofpi@asu.edu.
Teaching is hard! We chatted with Kelly and Will about how forming teams of educators with distributed expertise is one way that MLFTC is tackling just that. In this episode, we talked about team teaching, how that differs from teaching on a team with distributed expertise, and the impact the pandemic has had on their work.
Questions? Ideas? Feedback? We'd love to hear from you. Send us an email at sliceofpi@asu.edu
The IgnitED Labs are creative spaces where users can explore and play with new and emerging technologies that can serve a role in teaching and learning. This is part 2 of our conversation with Dr. Sean Leahy, Director of Technology Initiatives, and Jodie Donner, Lead Technology Strategist and Head of IgnitED Labs, and we're picking up where we left off to talk about the technology selected for the spaces, and the role students play in the labs.
For more on the IgnitED Labs, visit: ignitedlabs.education.asu.edu
Tech mentioned in this episode:
Oculus Rift: www.oculus.com
Sphero: www.sphero.com
Merge Cube: www.mergeedu.com/cube
Questions or comments? Send us an email: sliceofpi@asu.edu
The IgnitED Labs are creative spaces where users can explore and play with new and emerging technologies that can serve a role in teaching and learning. We sat down with Dr. Sean Leahy, Director of Technology Initiatives, and Jodie Donner, Lead Technology Strategist and Head of IgnitED Labs, to talk about the design and creation of the labs here at MLFTC. This is part one of our conversation.
For more on the IgnitED Labs, visit: ignitedlabs.education.asu.edu
Hannah and Claire sit down with Erica Mitchell, Executive Director of Student Services, to talk about what happened next in the story of the Student Success Team. What challenges came up? What problems did they have? And how did they address them?
For more information on Principled Innovation, visit education.asu.edu
Hannah and Claire talk with the Student Success Team at the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, and learn how they support undergraduate students. The SST helps with everything from mental health and academics, to finances and career planning. Beginning with a freshman retention goal of 90%, the team soon realized college students face so many more obstacles than it seems.
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Hear from faculty, staff, and students and delve into the work from the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College at Arizona State University.