At Getting Smart we have an annual tradition of kicking off the year with a “What’s Next in Learning” Town Hall that focuses on trends and opportunities we see on the learning horizon. 

In this particular Town Hall, we talked about five big ideas that are driving innovations in equity. 

• AI As Learning Partner
• Portraits That Align & Inspire
• Work That Matters
• Growing Staff
• New Models in Networks

Check out an edited and linked transcript below that walks through these ideas, highlights a few of the leading exemplars and threads them together.

On this episode of Getting Smart Podcast Victoria Andrews discusses student entrepreneurship with an awesome group from Frisco ISD. Tommy Thompson teaches Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Finance Classes, as well as the DECA sponsor in Frisco ISD. Before teaching he worked in the corporate world for 18 years, started his own business, and served as an industry volunteer in the INCubatoredu program at Centennial High School which he now teaches. 

The initial kernel of an idea was that students need to learn about entrepreneurship sooner so they can hit the ground running. “The goal was to change the trajectory of student lives in this generation. We weren’t going to be patient enough to wait for the community to catch up,” said Dr. Tom Leonard.