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Dan Goldstein
EdTech
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The Future of AI-Powered Assessment at Learnosity with Dan Goldstein

What if the most important edtech company in your classroom is one you’ve never heard of?

Live from ⁠EdTech Week 2026⁠ at Teachers College’s ⁠Digital Futures Institute⁠, Mike Palmer sits down with Dan Goldstein of ⁠Learnosity⁠, the assessment engine that powers some of the biggest names in education from behind the scenes. Dan’s path ran through College Board’s SpringBoard curriculum, where he led implementation across Texas and New Mexico, and district-facing sales at Cengage, before he joined Learnosity in 2019, just as the “beforetimes” ended.

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James Lane
Future of Work
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Framing the Teacher Shortage as a Workforce Design Problem | Dr. James Lane | Unlimited Instruction (UI)

What if the teacher shortage isn’t really a shortage of teachers?

Host Mike Palmer welcomes Dr. James Lane, CEO of Unlimited Instruction (UI), formerly University Instructors. James started as a middle school band director, and went on to be a principal, a superintendent in three Virginia districts, Virginia’s Superintendent of Public Instruction, and the leader of the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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Janice Jackson
K12 Education
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Centering the Rising Generation: Dr. Janice Jackson on Screens, AI, and the Future of Schooling

Are screen bans solving the right problem, or just creating new ones? Host Mike Palmer welcomes Dr. Janice Jackson, Executive Director of the ⁠Education & Society Program at the Aspen Institute⁠ and former CEO of ⁠Chicago Public Schools⁠, for a conversation that trades hyperbole for nuance. Janice traces her path from CPS history teacher and debate coach to superintendent, then to founder of ⁠Hope Chicago⁠, and now to Aspen. There she helps lead the new ⁠Rising Generations Strategy Group⁠, a cross-sector, cross-partisan, intergenerational effort that puts young people at the center of the conversation, not just on the input list.

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Dr. Taniya Mishra
AI
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Bringing an AI Fluency Program to Kids Globally with Dr. Taniya Mishra, CEO @ SureStart

How do we move beyond baseline AI literacy to true AI fluency, agency, and self-efficacy for the next generation? In this episode of Trending in Education, host Mike Palmer sits down with Dr. Taniya Mishra, Founder and CEO of ⁠SureStart⁠, to explore how hands-on, mentor-led AI education is empowering youth globally to shift from passive users to confident creators.

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K12 Education
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Educators As Designers with Author Jim Gaona Ellis

This week on Trending in Ed, host Mike Palmer is joined by K-12 math teacher and author Jim Gaona Ellis on the day his new book drops: ⁠Educators as Designers: The Hidden Architecture of Learning⁠. Drawing from his unique background transitioning from an architecture student to a global educator across Phoenix, Madrid, and Vienna, Jim brings a fresh, human-centered lens to Universal Design for Learning (UDL).

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Erika Kitzmiller, Research Associate Professor at the University of Chicago
K12 Education
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How One Public High School Transformed First-Gen College Success with Dr, Erika Kitzmiller

In this episode of Trending in Education, host Mike Palmer welcomes Erika Kitzmiller, a research associate professor at the University of Chicago and author of the new book, ⁠Unchartered: How One Public High School Transformed First Generation College Success⁠. Drawing on her own background as a former middle school teacher and a proud first-generation college graduate, Kitzmiller shares the insights gained from an intensive, multi-year case study of a public high school pseudonymously named Clayton.

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Kenan Sahin, Founder and President of ⁠CAMX Power⁠
Education
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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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Anu Vaid, founder of ⁠ParentSquare⁠.
K12 Education
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Parent Communication in the Age of AI with Anu Vaid, CoFounder of Parentsquare

How do we bridge the communication gap between schools and families in an increasingly fragmented digital world? In this episode of ⁠Trending in Education⁠, Mike Palmer is joined by Anu Vaid, the founder of ⁠ParentSquare⁠, to explore the evolution of school-home partnerships over the last 15 years. Anu shares her journey as a computer engineer and immigrant parent who was overwhelmed by the disjointed tools of the K-12 system, from papers stuffed in backpacks to disparate robocalls and long emails.

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Ola Ozernov-Palchik
K12 Education
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Bridging Early Literacy, Brain Research, and AI Innovation with Dr. Ola Ozernov-Palchik

On this episode of ⁠Trending in Ed with Mike Palmer⁠, unlock the secrets of the reading brain and the future of educational technology in this deep dive with Dr. Ola Ozernov-Palchik. A researcher at ⁠Boston University’s Wheelock College of Education and Human Development⁠ and ⁠MIT’s McGovern Institute for Brain Research⁠, Dr. Ola sits at the cutting edge of cognitive neuroscience and the science of reading. 🧠

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