Joanne Quinn leads the Capacity Building team of New Pedagogies for Deep Learning inspiring change through the development of professional capital in +1000 schools in 7 countries (Australia, Canada, Finland, Netherlands, New Zealand, United States and Uruguay) www.npdl.global

But beyond connecting the dots, she finds the key of educational change in understanding the ways, meaning and purpose of that connection. What makes networking meaningful? Is technology empowering exchange or is it providing a shallow illusion of connection? 
 
Joanne has a coherent grounded innovative perspective of change, having wear every shoe of the educational system, from teacher, principal to the design of strategic whole system change projects at global, national and district levels in Canada, Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, the Caribbean and the United States.

Joanne Quinn

Michael Fullan is a worldwide authority on educational reform that walks the talk of his theory by leading a global endeavour of pedagogical shift in +1000 schools in 7 countries integrating solid academic knowledge and the undeniable (and often under looked) theoretical richness of everyday teacher practice.

Michael received the Order of Canada in December 2012, holding honorary doctorates from several universities in North America and abroad, and yet, he is a constant learner, a careful listener, a gifted observer and a defiant voice advocating for the moral purpose of all children learning. 

His perspective on the why and how to shape a meaningful school for the SXXI pushes the thinking of thousands of change makers around the world. What is slowing teachers and whole system change in Finland? Why we should not wait for politicians to start changing schools? What is the relationship between equity and quality? What is a common false signal of change we fall into?

Michael Fullan Part I

Between the macro and the micro level vision of what educational change must look like, and how to make it happen, there are gaps that sometimes end in superficial or false signals of change. 
The ´leadership from the middle´ has a pivotal role shaping implementation to achieve coherence, turning what education should be into what education really is in each country and community.
In this podcast, we will hear Helen and Scott’s thoughts about practicalities of change, re-professionalising teaching, grunt monkeys, designing beyond mediocrity and student agency, amongst others!

Helen Leyden Deputy Principal in Teaching and Learning Sunshine Beach Highschool and Scott Millman Head of Department Teaching and Learning Nambour State College have not only major roles in shaping implementation of their schools, but are also a  force for local change, in a 29 School NPDL Cluster in Queensland, Australia.

Helen And Scott

Between the macro and the micro level visions for educational change, and as we work on making change happen, there are gaps that sometimes end in superficial or false signals of change.
´Leadership from the middle´ has a pivotal role shaping implementation to achieve coherence, turning what education should be into what education really is in each country and community.
In this podcast, we will hear Helen and Scott’s thoughts about practicalities of change, re-professionalising teaching, grunt monkeys, designing beyond mediocrity and student agency, amongst others!

Helen Leyden is Deputy Principal of Teaching at Learning Sunshine Beach High School and Scott Millman is Head of Teaching and Learning at Nambour State College.  Helen and Scott have not only major roles in shaping NPDL implementation in their schools, but are also a force for local change in a 29 School NPDL Cluster in Queensland, Australia.

Helen Leyden and Scott Millman

In this podcast, we hear about Cashmere Primary´s challenge to rebuild their school after the devastating Christchurch earthquake in New Zealand.  From the ashes rose an opportunity to imagine new beginnings, where teachers and architects collaborated, driven by pedagogy, to create living learning spaces. 

This conversation with Kerry Hall is an invitation to challenge our assumptions on how a classroom could look, and consider what the space is really for. It also addresses the tension that arises when changing the environment inevitably requires a transformation of ´how we do things´, and how that shift, represents, in the end, a real payoff.

Kerry Hall

Human exchange in a ´digitalized´world has turned the capacity to collaborate into a vital skill to develop professional knowledge. 

John Mavorec states that we live in a ´knowmad society´. Whereas industrial society required people to settle in one place and perform a specific function, technologies allow a new paradigm of workers to arise, working from anywhere, re contextualizing their work environments and relationships. 

¿How does this new way of learning and develop talent is reflected in the ways we are re-thinking schools? ¿How can we capitalize this time in history to develop meaningful professional exchanges and social capital to improve education?

In this Podcast three educators that are leading the shift from ´my school´ to ´our network´as New Zealand´s Ministry of Education furthers COLs -Communities of Learning- as a National strategy to promote shared use of resources and good practices. 

To talk about what turns collaboration into a catalyzer of improvement and innovation in schools; Donna Buchanan (Addington School), Liz Williams (Sacred Heart School) and Chris Panther (Thorrington School) from Kahukura Cluster of Schools in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Buchanan, Panther and Williams

Claudia Brovetto lidera Red Global –NPDL- en Uruguay. En esta edición especial en español conversaremos sobre los desafíos de generar un cambio educativo a nivel nacional y cómo aprovechar las ventajas tecnológicas con que cuenta Uruguay para acelerar resultados.

Claudia Brovetto is the Cluster Lead of Red Global. In this Spanish Special Edition we will talk about the challenges of generating educational change at a national scale and how to take advantage of the technological rich infrastructure that Uruguay has in order to accelerate results.

Claudia Brovetto -spanish edition-

Ramón Silveira trabaja en la Comunicación de la Red Global de Aprendizajes. En este podcast conversaremos sobre el rol de las redes de intercambio, la narrativa y el lenguaje como palancas esenciales para materializar el cambio educativo a nivel nacional.

Ramón Silveira works in the Communication of the Red Global. In this conversation we will look at communication as a vital lever for change and it´s key role to position, extend and deepen the message of the RED at a national level.

Ramón Silveira -spanish edition-

Cristóbal Cobo, dirige la Fundación CEIBAL que nutre de investigación académica al proyecto.  En esta charla intercambiaremos sobre aquellos que es posible o imposible medir a gran escala y qué información refleja avances genuinos en educación.

Cristóbal Cobo, directs the CEIBAL Foundation. This organization nourishes the project with academic research. In this dialogue we will talk about how to conceive and measure educational on a large scale and what information reflects genuine educational improvements.

Cristóbal Cobo -spanish edition-

In this podcast we discuss Cristobal Cobo´s perspective on the pending innovation in education. We push our thinking on ¿how to create a future proof education? and we go deeper to understand the gaps between academic theory and everyday school practice.  

Cristóbal Cobo (PhD) is Director of the Center for Research – CEIBAL Foundation in Uruguay, and also an associate researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute at University of Oxford. He has been distinguished by the British Council of Economic and Social Research (ESRC) and is an associate research fellow at the Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organizational Performance, University of Oxford.

Cristobal Cobo

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