Powering through The End of Summer Blues
It's still summer here, but we're ramping up our programming as we gear up for an amazing Fall.
We’re resisting the urge to find a cool place for a siesta to do a quick rundown of what’s new and exciting from your friends at Palmer Media.
We’re firing on all cylinders celebrating key milestones and curating a Best of Trending in Ed series as we gear up for our 500th episode and the kickoff of our 7th season of Trending in Education.
50th Episode of Running It Back
WE MADE IT!!!
Tarlin and Mike are back to celebrate our 50th episode of Running It Back, the Lessons Learned from Sports Podcast. What began as an outlet for us in the midst of the sports-starved days of the first wave of the Covid-19 pandemic has now grown into a real body of work, an oeuvre and a platform to grow.
We share highlights from our favorite episodes including Mike's son Matthew's appearance, Tarlin's Ode to Tiger, and much more. We let listeners in on our creative process as we learn from the data and spitball what topics to cover next. And of course there's plenty of talk of Space Jam, Scottie Pippen memoirs, The Rooney Rule, Black Quarterbacks and More. We even celebrate some great 50s before we wrap. Fifty Cent would approve.
Best of Trending in Ed Series
We’re hitting our stride with weekly Best of Trending in Ed’s each Thursday through the Summer. We just released the pod from our LIVE conversation with
Wendy Zukerman from the Science Vs at NAB at the Javits Center in 2018:
For this installment of the Best of Trending in Ed, we're returning to an episode we recorded live at the Javits Center for NAB New York in the Fall of 2018. Wendy Zukerman joins hosts Mike Palmer and Brandon Jones in a conversation about science, media, podcasting, and the work she is doing at the Science Vs which is still going strong at Gimlet to this day.
Wendy is the Host and Executive Producer of Science Vs. She shares the origin story of the podcast from its humble roots in science reporting in Australia to getting picked up by Gimlet to continuing to represent science, fact-checking, and good critical thinking. We hear some early takes on the anti-science and anti-vaccine movements from the time that foreshadows many of the challenges we have faced in recent years. We also take time to explore how humor and entertaining content can coexist with science content, even making the conversation more relevant and sticky through the use of storytelling, sound design, and great fact-checking. It's a conversation that remains relevant and zeitgeisty to this day. Don't miss it!
Dr. Mohan Sawhney on Reimagining Business School from Spring of 2020:
And we showcased our conversation with Mohan Sawhney from Kellogg School of Management from the early days of the first wave of Covid-19.
Dr. Sawhney is the Associate Dean for Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management, We explore how the traditional approach to Business School and Executive Education is ripe for disruption. As the McCormick Foundation Professor of Technology at Kellogg, Dr. Sawhney is launching and testing several varied and distinct approaches to providing business education both through the traditional two-year on-campus model and also through hybrid and online models. The Professor engages with Guest Host Melissa Griffith, a Kellogg alum, in a conversation about providing continuous value and lifelong learning to alums through communities of interest, small private online courses (SPOCs), along with access to human-powered services like executive coaching, live webinars, and 1-on-1 office hours. We genuinely enjoyed the imaginative and impassioned perspectives Dr. Sawhney provides on this topic and hope you'll lean in with us to explore how graduate education will accelerate forward in the tumultuous times of the 2020s.
Founder Focus - Education Startups
And for our flagship Trending in Education episodes, Mike Palmer’s been going deep with startup founders like Adam Dalton and Chris Bennett to learn how they’re navigating the complexity and leaning into the opportunities of these transformative times.
Adam Dalton from Imagine Robotify
Adam Dalton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Imagine Robotify, a STEM learning company he started at age 23 to make coding and robotics more affordable and accessible for students and prepare them for the future of work.
Adam joins Mike Palmer in a conversation about what sparked his interest in robotics and computer science and what led to him create Robotify to help K-12 students learn computer science by programming virtual robots. We explore how his experiences growing up in Dublin along with the transformations of recent years have informed his strategic vision for the company. By using virtual robots and incorporating relevance, gaming, and fun into the mix, Robotify has made such an impact that they were recently acquired by Imagine Learning to propel their growth even further.
Join us for an imaginative, STEM-powered exploration of what resonates with today's youth as we look to make computer science and a maker's mindset more widely accessible and fun for all kids.
Chris Bennett from Wonderschool
Chris Bennett is the CEO and Co-Founder of Wonderschool, an education company whose mission is to ensure that every child has access to early education that helps them realize their potential. He joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about the critical role early childhood education can play in unlocking opportunities for children who need it.
We learn what led Chris to found Wonderschool prior to the pandemic and how he and team weathered the transformations of recent years. We also learn what it's like to present on the TED stage coming off of Chris's recent appearance there. Chris shares how his experience with home-based childcare was transformative to him and how he's built Wonderschool to enable pathways to caregivers interested in building their own programs while scaling access to care in so-called childcare deserts.
It's a thought-provoking conversation that you don't want to miss.
What’s Next?
September means Labor Day and Back to School. We hope to do justice to both while thinking about Teachers as Labor. A rising trend we’ve been tracking and we’re seeing get new traction heading into the Fall.
And Student Loan forgiveness has become a big issue heading into the Fall. We’ll share our perspective and showcase conversations that get at this by looking at the root problem of soaring tuition compounded by a fundamental questioning on the ROI of a traditional college experience.
Lots to come as we gear up for what should be a fantastic Fall! Thanks as always for listening!