Changing Course: Students Take Their Seat at the Table: Recent Episodes
Teach For America's One Day Studio, Pod People
Changing Course explores what’s possible when schools empower students as leaders, partners, co-creators, and decision makers in their own educational paths. Host Jonathan Santos Silva–a former teacher and principal, and host of The Bored of Ed podcast–speaks with students, teachers, and administrators at innovative schools to find out how they’ve reinvented traditional educational practices.
In this special bonus episode, host Jonathan Santos Silva gathers students and educators from season one of Changing Course for a live roundtable discussion about the power of student-staff partnerships, the impact of diversity and authentic cultural representation, and the importance of failure.
Featured speakers include:
- Hailey Ho (Student) - DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach, Hawaii
- Katie (Alum) - The MET School, Rhode Island
- Jamilah Bullock (Lead Designer)- North Phillips School of Innovation, North Carolina
- Andrew Spector (Co-founder/Program Director)- TulsaChangemakers, Oklahoma
- Dana Haukaas (Principal) - Todd County Middle School, South Dakota
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Host Jonathan Santos Silva rounds out the season with a return to his old stomping grounds in South Dakota, where he speaks with staff and students at Todd County Middle School about how practices from Lakota culture help foster an inclusive environment and help build healthy student-staff relationships.
Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with staff and student activists from West High School in Denver, CO, about how they mobilized to successfully reunite their school years after it was split in two.
Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with the students and leaders of Kendall-Whittier Elementary in Tulsa, OK, about how students in the Tulsa Changemakers program are finding their voice and learning skills that are helping them make change in their communities.
Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with the students and leaders of DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach in Kapolei, HI, about how leadership engagement begins with embracing your identity as an individual and a community.
Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with students and educators at The MET School in Providence, Rhode Island, about how designing a curriculum around a student’s unique passions and unlearning traditional academic expectations helps every student become their own valedictorian.
Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with the students and leaders of North-Phillips School of Innovation in Tarboro, N.C., about what it looks like to partner with and design a school based on the needs of its most important stakeholders: the students and the community they serve.
Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Introducing Changing Course, a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio. Host Jonathan Santos Silva will bring you conversations from six schools across the country that are reinventing education with students at the center. Each episode will feature stories about how teachers are partnering with students and what that can teach us about the future of education. Changing Course launches Spring 2022.