If you could flip just one thing to help our schools and public education thrive, what would it be?
We know that the structure of schools and education were built nearly a century ago, based on a factory model - but the world is a profoundly transformed place. There are people and practices right now - across our nation - that are thinking about school in our transformed world. They are trying innovative and bold ideas that can potentially inspire others to be bold and innovative - even in a schooling system that may not always welcome change.
Co-hosted by LaShawn Bowser and Mike Chalupa, FLIP-ED seeks out and elevates those ideas that could make all the difference for our children, families, and schools. Join us to hear from educators with an idea, a vision, a revolutionary thought that could flip a switch and change schools for our changed world.
Technical Director of FLIP-ED: Justin Eames
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Join us for a conversation with Dr. Kaleb Rashad about the power of authentic work, flying planes, growing up in northeast Florida, and so much more.
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Join us for a conversation with Vanessa Lopez that will challenge our thinking about school, its purpose, and what it might mean to really nurture the future generation of grown-ups.
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Join us for a conversation with Stefan Redding Lallinger that will challenge our thinking about school integration, segregation, boundaries, and the impact of those boundaries on the future grown-ups we are nurturing.
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Children as Creators, Innovators, Problem-solvers
What would it mean to see all children as the current and future innovators, creators, problem-solvers - and how would that lens shape how we create our schools? Join us for a conversation with Dr. Lisa Williams, a national expert on topics of equity and access in public education.
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Teachers and Pediatricians Unite!
What would it mean for teachers and pediatricians to finally unite, open lines of communication, and build partnership on behalf of the young people they are helping to grow? Join us for a conversation with Lisa Carey.
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What if we could reimagine the role of the teacher? What if teachers were not rewarded for being imparters of knowledge or maintainers of control, but instead being instigators of thought? How could this shift in paradigm help our students navigate complexity, grow in their independence, and be ready to manage uncertainty in an uncertain world? Join the conversatio with Aleta Margolis.
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The Hearts and Minds of Young Black Boys
What if we intentionally and robustly invested in nurturing the hearts and souls of young Black boys in Baltimore City and everywhere? Listen to Damion Cooper’s compelling story which grounded his work at Project Pneuma, and consider ways that we could rethink schools to focus on hearts and minds work as well as the academic work.
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Jonathan Johnson is the Founder and CEO of Rooted School Foundation, where he leads The $50 Study—the largest randomized controlled trial of unconditional cash transfers to high school students ever conducted in the U.S.
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Listen to our first ever live podcast - recorded at the 15th Annual Progressive Education Summit with Dr. Gholdy Muhammad in Baltimore, Maryland. What would it like to design schools and curriculum for genius and joy? In this conversation, Dr. Muhammad discusses how designing curriculum to align with the five pursuits (identity, skills, intellect, criticality, and joy), shared in her groundbreaking book Cultivating Genius, can transform teaching, learning and classrooms - and maybe even your dating life!
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Maryland State Senator Cory McCray sat down with us to share his powerful story about how apprenticeships changed his life, the power of apprenticeships, and real-life experiences have in the educational journey of our young people, and how we can consider that concept to inform our schools, classrooms, and structures of education.
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Children’s Capacity for Beautiful Work
During the Baltimore ice storm in January, we had the opportunity to spend an afternoon talking with Ron Berger - THE Ron Berger - over Zoom. Ron was the Keynote Speaker at our very first Progressive Education Summit. Sixteen years later and in his 50th year as an educator, his stance for believing in the boundless capacity of children, helping them to construct beautiful work, the power of making work public, and how we can help schools do this is just as - if not more - resonant than ever. Compelling, provocative, and clear, we left our conversation inspired and believe you will too. Oh, and this was the first episode we ever filmed from our own homes!
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Learning as a Wilderness Expedition
We sat down with our Baltimore colleague, Mica Fidler, to explore the paradigm shift of considering classrooms and learning as a wilderness expedition. How do the same tenets that make powerful experiences in nature or in outdoor education apply to how we should construct our own classroom learning experiences? Mica Fidler is an evangelist of progressive education because she experienced the power of curious, joyful, authentic learning as a student, teacher, and instructional leader. After studying literary translation at Brown University, she began her career with a Fulbright grant in South Africa. Since then, she spent a decade teaching and coaching in expeditionary learning schools, striving to bring the principles of outdoor learning into public school classrooms in New York City and Baltimore.
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We sat down with our good colleague and friend, Kristina Kyles-Smith. Kristina focused her flip on the power of connecting learning to the immediate community, imagining teaching and learning that is exciting, relevant, and completely connected to the context where that teaching and learning is happening.
Kristina Kyles Smith is a dynamic leader in education, dedicated to transforming schools and empowering communities. As CEO of Lillie May Carroll Jackson Charter School, Kristina has spearheaded innovations in school equity, leadership, curriculum design, and project-based learning. She holds an Ed.D. and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Public Policy, bringing practical and scholarly expertise to her work. Kristina has held key roles, including Assistant State Superintendent and Regional Director for a national professional development company. She has published articles on school transformation and equity. She is a recognized speaker, educator, and advocate for educational justice.
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Imagine considering schools as sanctuary places, places that create a protected place for all children - schools that create emotional, physical and psychological safety and create buffers from the forces that cause harm. The Internationals Network helps to design and sustain innovative, multilingual learning environments for recently arrived immigrant and refugee students. The work of Internationals Schools does just that - uses this idea of sanctuary as a core design and concept of school that not only benefits their students, but can benefit all schools.
Lara Evangelista is the Executive Director of Internationals Network, a national nonprofit that partners with public school systems and community-based organizations to design and sustain innovative, multilingual learning environments for recently arrived immigrant and refugee students.
Chandler Patton Miranda is Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Molloy University and an educational anthropologist whose research examines the schooling experiences of recently arrived immigrant youth in the United States. Her work focuses on how educators navigate exclusionary policy and political contexts to create inclusive, empowering learning environments.
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What would it be like to center teachers as the innovators teaching, learning and schooling? We were excited to sit down with Jarrod, the CEO of Improving Education, who called Baltimore home for a long stretch. Imagine if we thought of schools as places that deliberately and intentionally fostered teacher innovation. Investing in the expertise of those adults working closest with students every day, and giving them the space to imagine, create, test, and reflect on innovative or divergent practices could be the way to spark a real flip in our schools.
Jarrod founded Improving Education out of a desire to improve educational systems and create a new approach to educational reform that empowers teachers, schools, and communities to make change.
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“Who would I be, if I had a sponsor?” Rhonda reflects on this question as she challenges us to build structures and approaches where every student in every school has a sponsor - an advocate, a cheerleader, a pure unadulterated fan and champion.
Rhonda J. Broussard (she/her/elle) is an author, entrepreneur, and futurist. As the Founder & CEO of Beloved Community and Awa by Beloved, PBC, Rhonda works to create sustainable paths to regional racial and economic equity. Her vision for Beloved Community is informed by her leadership in education and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s goal “to create a beloved community” that would “require a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”