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On this episode of the podcast, Daisy sits down with our student in residence Vertania Kemp to talk about becoming an educator, what disruption means to a new teacher, as well as what she hopes she'll be for her students.

In this episode, we sit down with Mrs. Autumn Dowdy of Porter High School, a past winner of the Samsung Solve for Tomorrow contest. She takes us through her journey into education, why she teaches engineering and technology, as well as the inspiration behind the project that lead to Porter High School winning Samsung Solve for Tomorrow's problem-based learning contest.



For more information about the contest, visit https://www.samsung.com/us/solvefortomorrow/.

What would you do with the chance to reformulate your classrooms without the constraints of bells, seat time, testing, and assessments?

In this episode, Daisy, Victoria, and Vertania sit down to talk about how schools have adapted to make a more equitable and adaptive education landscape. They share their thoughts on what classrooms could look like in the future, as well as their experience hosting educators through their FutureS program and how some of their participants are going to change the way they teach, grade, and run schools.

The 2020 Moral Courage Essay contest belonged to Northglenn High School, as students swept the 3 winning spots with their essays. Kiki meets the students and talks about the process of applying and winning the contest, as well as what moral courage looks like in today's day and age. Listen in for a great discussion with young experts on injustice and standing up for what is right on this episode of the MindSpark Learning Podcast.

After the pandemic ravaged any and all sense of normalcy, education will never be the same.

Kaitlin and Kiki sit down to talk about the new skills K-12 teachers and administrators will need for post-pandemic education, as well as some of the ways in which educators can prepare themselves in order to confidently face the new challenges that the next school year will bring.