Education By Design
Education By Design
Podcast Description
The Education by Design podcast explores the architecture of learning environments—how schools are designed, not just operated—how culture is disrupted to make way for innovation and reaching potential. Your host, Phil Evans is a career educator and creative. His guests bring inspirational and practical ideas into classrooms, all over the world. Join him as he engages with innovators who untangle the complexity of educational systems to align with shared values, common practices, and a common language to create powerful, human-centered learning experiences. For any formal schooling system to have an impact, the central focus must be on learning. Let's learn together.
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Content Themes
The podcast focuses on topics related to educational innovation, systems thinking, and reforming school culture, with specific episodes addressing issues like equitable practices, student agency, and redesigning learning spaces. For example, one episode delves into how spatial theory can reshape student narratives, while another discusses the impact of joy-centered pedagogies on teacher and student engagement.
The Education by Design podcast explores the architecture of learning environments—how schools are designed, not just operated—how culture is disrupted to make way for innovation and reaching potential.
Your host, Phil Evans is a career educator and creative. His guests bring inspirational and practical ideas into classrooms, all over the world. Join him as he engages with innovators who untangle the complexity of educational systems to align with shared values, common practices, and a common language to create powerful, human-centered learning experiences.
For any formal schooling system to have an impact, the central focus must be on learning. Let’s learn together.
Dive deeper on the EduByDesign Blog: https://edubydesign.com/blog
The Point of Reflection is the companion to each episode of Education by Design — a short, spoken reflection recorded after the conversation ends. This is where I sit with the ideas discussed with my previous guest. It's good to sort through what our learning is stirring in our own lives and work, and think openly. This is a window into how learning happens for me: slowly, personally, and iteratively. If the episode is the conversation, this is what the conversation is shaping, for me.
This is the point of my reflection
After my conversation with Michele on AI, student writing, and authenticating rather than policing, I continued to think about experiences that shape my own voice.
In this reflection, I trace that question through my own life: a self I once lost and spent years recovering, a friend who has been to six silent retreats, the hardest pose at the end of every yoga class, and a recent silence I didn't choose — one I'm learning to sit inside anyway.
Some of what I'm pondering:
- We worry about students outsourcing their writing. Are we paying enough attention to what they're outsourcing with it?
- Whose version of you is circulating right now — and did you author it?
- Is stillness something we're born able to do, or a practice we owe ourselves before life demands it?
- What would it mean to treat reflection not as a luxury at the end of the day, but as the work itself?
Here is Michele's V.O.I.C.E authentication resource and Substack
I hope this reflection gives you a reason to sit alone with your thoughts, too.
🎧 Full episode with Michele Lackovic
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