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Kenan Sahin, Founder and President of ⁠CAMX Power⁠
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Exploring American Educational Excellence with Author and Founder Kenan Sahin

Host Mike Palmer welcomes Kenan Sahin, the Founder and President of ⁠CAMX Power⁠ and author of ⁠American Educational Excellence: The Foundation of Our Values, Democracy, and Market Capitalism⁠, to the podcast. We explore his educational roots as a product of California public schools and early career as an MIT professor, as well as his time leading Bell Labs as a Vice President of Technology. Kenan shares the story of the catalyst for his book, which began when he challenged an expert in the Hague who could not find enough bad words for the American system. He compares US-trained engineers to those from Europe, arguing that our system excels because it prioritizes what students do with their knowledge rather than just the depth of what they know.

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Host Mike Palmer at ⁠ASU+GSV 2026 sits down with Victoria Weinfeld, Vice President of Enrollment, Marketing, and Sales at ⁠Edconic⁠.
Future of Work
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Building Education Programs with Iconic Brands with Edconic’s Victoria Weinfeld

LIVE! from the Harbor Terrace at ⁠ASU+GSV 2026⁠ in San Diego, Mike Palmer sits down with Victoria Weinfeld, Vice President of Enrollment, Marketing, and Sales at ⁠Edconic⁠. In this fast-paced environment of “drinking from a fire hose,” Victoria shares the evolution of Edconic (formerly known as BrandED) and its unique mission to bridge the gap between traditional education and the future of work.

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Ted Dintersmith
K12 Education
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The Future of Math Education in the Age of AI with Ted Dintersmith, Author of Aftermath

What if everything we’ve been told about math education is backwards? In this episode of ⁠Trending in Education⁠, Mike Palmer is joined by ⁠Ted Dintersmith⁠,venture capitalist, filmmaker, and author of the upcoming book ⁠Aftermath: The Life-Changing Math That Schools Won’t Teach You⁠ to discuss why our schools are still teaching low-level math mechanics that phones and AI already do perfectly. You can learn more about Ted’s work at ⁠What Schools Could Be⁠.

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Michael Ioffe
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AI-Powered Learning in the Flow of Work with Michael Ioffe, CoFounder and CEO of Arist

Welcome to an inspiring conversation on the future of learning with Michael Ioffe, founder of ⁠Arist⁠, a company doing really interesting work in education. Michael is a Forbes 30 under 30 and a Thiel fellow. Michael joins host Mike Palmer to share his journey, beginning with his early obsession with education, influenced by his parents who were refugees. His experiences, including scaling free live conversations with entrepreneurs to 500 cities in 50 countries by age 18, led to a critical insight in a war zone in Yemen: the best way to deliver learning where educational resources and internet access are limited is via text message. This led to building Arist, which focuses on meeting people where they are and making learning conversational and digestible.

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Howard Blumenthal and Bob Pinata
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Learning from Kids on Earth with Howard Blumenthal and Dr. Bob Pianta

On this episode of ⁠Trending in Ed⁠, ⁠Mike Palmer⁠ is joined by Howard Blumenthal and Dr. Bob Pianta, co-authors of the new book, ⁠Kids on Earth: The Learning Potential of 5 Billion Minds⁠. We discuss the research and ideas behind their book, which explores how learning takes place for kids in real life and how that can be better translated into schools. We also delve into the distinction between “old school,” “not school,” and “new school” models of education.

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Dana Bryson
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Transforming Education Through Social Impact with Dana Bryson from Study.com

In this episode of Trending in Education, host Mike Palmer welcomes Dana Bryson, Senior Vice President of Social Impact at Study.com, for an engaging discussion on the intersection of education, technology, and social impact. This follows almost exactly a year from Dana’s first appearance on Trending in Ed with Paul Gollash from ETS. 

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Steve Daly
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Instructure CEO Steve Daly on Canvas LMS and the Future of EdTech

In this episode of Trending in Education, Mike Palmer sits down with Steve Daly, CEO of Instructure, at the HolonIQ Back to School Summit in New York. Steve shares his journey from mechanical engineering to leading the company behind Canvas, the leading learning management system (LMS). We explore the changing landscape of education, the role of technology in learning, and the potential impact of AI on the future of edtech.

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Charles Fadel
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Education Engineering in the Age of AI

In this episode, Mike Palmer engages in a fascinating discussion with Charles Fadel, the Founder of the Center for Curriculum Redesign and author of Education for the Age of AI. We delve into the intersections of artificial intelligence and education, exploring the implications of AI’s rapid advancement and the need for curriculum redesign to make education more relevant.

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