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Carlos Moreno, Big Picture Learning

Episode Summary

Brent Maddin talks with Carlos Moreno, Co-Executive Director of Big Picture Learning, about educational inequality, the need to give students the freedom to maximize their talents and strengths, and how the COVID-19 pandemic might allow us to think more broadly about educational outcomes for students and teachers.

Episode Notes

Brent Maddin talks with Carlos Moreno, Co-Executive Director of Big Picture Learning, in advance of Building the Next Normal, the January 2021 convening hosted by ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, where Carlos will be a featured expert.

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• 1:26: Carlos explains why he is passionate about issues of educational equity and how he sees the educational system hardening inequality instead of maximizing students’ talents and strengths.
• 3:12: Carlos shares his concern that we may not be adequately empowering educators to identify and address issues of equity for all learners and explains that more action, direct communication and mobilization may be necessary.
• 5:24: Carlos explains some of the ways this moment--the COVID-19 pandemic--might allow us to think more broadly about outcomes for learners and educators.
• 8:34: Carlos recommends reading educators might consider exploring before they join him at Building the Next Normal, the January 2021 convening hosted by ASU’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College.