Systems Thinking for Kids: Recent Episodes

The Wildwood Outreach Center at Wildwood School

Conversations with classroom teachers offering ideas and insights for making a systems learning approach work with your students... at any grade level.

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Systems thinking thought leader, author, and consultant Linda Booth Sweeney weighs in on K-12 education with a clear message: tomorrow’s leaders need systems thinking today. 

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Hear the story of Tom Bray, a software engineer who’s using systems thinking to develop an ingenious, low-tech approach to urban gardening—Grow Straight Up.

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When Dia Rabin tried on systems thinking as a brand new 5th grade teacher at Palms Elementary School, it was a perfect fit that defined her beginning practice.

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Molly Temple returns to the podcast and shares how systems thinking provides a safe harbor as she navigates the shifting seas of literacy education in her 1st grade classroom.

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Doing homework for fun? It happens with systems thinking. Sarah Simon, Assistant Elementary Director at Wildwood School in Los Angeles, shares how systems thinking captivates student interest.

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NASA loves systems thinking. Teachers do too. Cornell University researchers Derek and Laura Cabrera talk about why systems thinking is also elementary, middle, and high school-friendly.

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Noted educator and DEI practitioner Monique Marshall shares how systems thinking is a key to unlock the action steps that kids can take to recognize and disrupt unjust systems in our world.

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Chapman University researchers, Dr. Margie Curwen and Dr. Amy Ardell, highlight the sea change systems thinking is bringing to education.

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For Chicago Public Schools teacher Melitza Rodriguez, a Systems Thinking approach led to a 2020 Educator of the Year Award.

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Dr. La Tanya Manuel, National Board Certified Teacher at Mid-City's Prescott School in Los Angeles shares her insights using literature as a launchpad for Systems Thinking and social change with her 5th grade students.

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Grace Lazzarini of Sequoyah School in Pasadena CA, offers ideas for teaching systems wherever you are.

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Molly Temple talks about her standards-driven Systems Thinking classroom at Palms Elementary School in Los Angeles.

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Technology teacher Jocelyn Paez shares how her K-5 students use Systems to enhance their learning at the Lovett School in Atlanta.