Alec Patton talks to Derek Mitchell, CEO of Partners in School Innovation, about his daily reading rituals. Mentioned in the episode:

• Arnold R. Hirsch, Making the Second Ghetto
• Martin Gilbert, Churchill and the Jews
• Jeanie Daniel Duck, The Change Monster
• Sheldon Eakins, Leading Equity
• Brian McClellan, The Powder Mage Trilogy (strictly speaking, Derek mentioned Blood of Empire, which is part of the trilogy that follows the Powder Mage Trilogy)

Derek’s recommendations to get started: Morning reading:

• Barack Obama, Dreams from my Father

Lunch reading:

• Rudy Crew, Only Connect

Evening reading:

• Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

In this episode, Alec Patton talks to Maria Curtis, director of the Early Childhood Center at La Jolla Country Day School, in California, and Junior Kindergarten teacher Kristin Owen, about how they turned the discovery of a mud nest being built outside a classroom into a year-long project.

You can see photos from the project, including photos of the book, here (as soon as the link is live).

This episode is part of an occasional series on Regenerative Education. Here are the other episodes in the series (so far):

• Derek Mitchell and Scott Sampson on Regenerative Education
• Green School: Regenerative Education in the Balinese Jungle
• Green School Student Louis Lacour
• A Story of Butterflies, Regeneration, and Hope
• Solar for All Schools [guest episode from the Climify podcast]

Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education

Sofía Tannenhaus talks to Jarrod Bolte, CEO of both Improving Education and Bedtime in a Box, a nonprofit that provides families with boxes containing everything you need for a positive bedtime routine. Each Box contains four age-appropriate books; bath wash, a towel, and bath toys; a toothbrush and toothpaste; pajamas; a stuffed animal; an alarm clock; a Teach My Learning Kit; and a kid-friendly routine log.

Bedtime in a Box has delivered more than 50,000 Boxes so far, with 80% going to families experiencing poverty.

Resources mentioned in the episode:

• Atul Gawande, The Checklist Manifesto
• Bedtime in a Box website
• Kobi Yamada and Mae Besom, What Do You Do with an Idea?

This episode comes from the Climify podcast, which is hosted by Eric Benson, and produced by the Climate Designers Network. Benson interviews Tish Tablan, senior program director at Generation 180, about how going solar can benefit schools' budgets and provide opportunities for PBL, as well as helping us all thrive as we face an unprecedented climate crisis.

Links:

• Check out This Episode on Climify
• Check out all the great episodes on the Climify website
• Climify Design Class Resources
• Learn more about Cradle to Cradle Design, and check out the book that started it all!

Other episodes in the High Tech High Unboxed Regenerative Education Series:

• Derek Mitchell and Scott Sampson on Regenerative Education
• Green School: Regenerative Education in the Balinese Jungle
• Green School Student Louis Lacour
• A Story of Butterflies, Regeneration, and Hope

Alec Patton talks to Juliette Price, the senior Improvement Science coach at the National Association of Higher Education Systems, about how their Network Improvement Community has achieved its remarkable results on transfer enrollments from two-year to four-year colleges.

You know you want to try it: David Williams’s Mr. Potato Head Game

Check out Juliette’s Substack Newsletter, This Is Your Brain On Improvement

Read more about NASH

Ben Krueger talks to cellist, composer, and teacher Okorie Johnson, who performs as OkCello, about music, teaching, and community. And, appropriately, they talk about how all three of those are, themselves, a form of conversation.

OkCello Website

Learn more about the PBL Leadership Academy

Alec talks to Nika Dubrovsky about Anthropology for Kids, a project she started with her husband, anthropologist David Graeber.

Referenced in this Episode:

• Anthopology for Kids
• Cities Made Differently by David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky
• The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow
• David Graeber on the Charlie Rose Show
• Debt: The First 5000 Years by David Graeber
• David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky, “Another Art World, Part 1: Art Communism and Artificial Scarcity”
• David Graeber and Nika Dubrovsky, “Another Art World Part 2: Utopia of Freedom as a Market Value”

Alec talks to Linzi Golding, Erin Asselin, and Melanie Gonzalez about keeping things simple, celebrating small changes, smart ways to share data with schools, and how to recognize and celebrate effort, even when it doesn’t lead to the outcomes we were hoping for.

• To see an example of a driver diagram (and get a transcript for this episode) click here
• Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Improvement Science: A Primer
• RISE Grade 9 Symposium
• Learn more about the RISE Data hub