Chapter 7 of 10.

Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about the ways that the structure of a school needs to change in order to transition from the Industrial Age educational paradigm to a paradigm that prepares learners for the Digital Age.

Dr. Reigeluth explains how small, collaborative, teacher-led schools that share administrative duties provide a strong alternative to the top-down bureaucracy of the Industrial Age education model.

This episode features Orly Friedman and Nikita Khetan from the Red Bridge School, as well as Jim Wartman and Nick Ryan from the Minnesota New Country School.

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Chapter 6 of 10.

Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, and his co-author Dr. Jennifer Karnopp about the ways that school culture needs to change in America.

Dr. Reigeluth and Dr. Karnopp explain how, in order to achieve the learner-centered paradigm, schools much adopt a culture of strong, caring relationships, multi-year mentoring, multi-age grouping, getting rid of grades, and so much more.

This episode features Orly Friedman and Nikita Khetan from the Red Bridge School, as well as Dee Thomas, Jim Wartman, and Nick Ryan from the Minnesota New Country School.

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Chapter 5 of 10.

Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about how the curriculum in American school must change over time and address the needs of the Digital Age to be most effective for students.

Dr. Reigeluth highlights the importance of how critical thinking, problem-solving, collaboration, curiosity, creative thinking, and directing one's own learning contribute to student success.

This episode features Jim Wartman and Nick Ryan from the Minnesota New Country School, As well as Orly Friedman from the Red Bridge School.

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Chapter 4 of 10.

Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about how to shift the educational paradigm in American schools by redefining the roles of teachers, parents, students and technology.

Dr. Reigeluth describes the transformative power of activating the student's role and shifting the teacher from the "sage on the stage" to the "guide on the side" who supports the student in their learning journey.

This episode features Orly Friedman and Nikita Khetan from the Red Bridge School in San Francisco, California, as well as Jim Wartman and Nick Ryan from the Minnesota New Country School in Henderson, Minnesota, who describe the roles of teachers, parents, students, and technology in their learning environments.

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Chapter 3 of 10.

Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about how to truly personalize learning in the classroom. Building on the foundation of competency-based education, Dr. Reigeluth explains how project-based learning, just-in-time tutorials, collaborative team-based work, and student self-direction all work together to create a learner-centered paradigm.

This episode features Nikita Khetan and Kristin Goodell from the Red Bridge School in San Francisco, California, as well as Dee Thomas, Jim Wartman, and Nick Ryan from the Minnesota New Country School in Henderson, Minnesota, who all share how personalized, student-centered learning works in their schools.

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Chapter 2 of 10.

Host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about how America's time-based education system is setting students up for failure. When progress depends on the calendar instead of true learning, students accumulate gaps, confidence drops, and potential is lost.

Dr. Reigeluth introduces competency-based education as a powerful alternative that allows students to move forward only when they’ve mastered the material.

This episode features Nikita Khetan from the Red Bridge School in San Francisco, California, as well as Dee Thomas, Jim Wartman, and Nick Ryan from the Minnesota New Country School in Henderson, Minnesota, who all share how they put student mastery at the center of learning.

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Chapter 1 of 10.

In this opening episode, host Thembi Duncan speaks with education expert Dr. Charles Reigeluth, author of Vision and Action: Reinventing Schools through Personalized Competency Based Education, about why America’s schools are in crisis, and why wholesale paradigm change is needed if American schools are going to be able to compete on the world stage.

From poor international rankings to low proficiency rates in reading and math, Dr. Reigeluth outlines the urgent need to move from an outdated industrial-age model to a learner-centered digital-age paradigm.

This episode features Dee Thomas, Jim Wartman, and Nick Ryan from the Minnesota New Country School in Henderson, Minnesota as well as Nikita Khetan and Kristin Goodell from the Red Bridge School in San Francisco, California, who share how the personalized, student-centered learning model works in their schools.

Special thanks to our Chapter 1 GoFundMe Donors: Roberto Joseph, Fred O’Neal, Eun-Ok Baek, and Olga Morrill!

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