UnTextbooked Out of the Studio: Reimagining a New Vision for Education at the ASU+GSV Summit

UnTextbooked heads to sunny San Diego, California, for the ASU+GSV Summit and we brought our microphones with us! Host Gabe Hostin and founding producer Victor Ye talked to innovative EdTech leaders, teachers and social entrepreneurs to discuss how we can collaboratively write a new chapter in the history of education. Plus, they ask the question, what else do we need to unlearn?  This week’s guests:  Steven Hernandez, ESQ, Executive Director for the Connecticut Commission on Women, Children and Seniors. Esther Wojcicki, Teacher, Author, and Founder of Palo Alto High School’s Media Arts Program David Adams, CEO of The Urban Assembly Gregg Behr, Founder & Co-chair of Remake Learning and Executive Director of The Grable Foundation Kim Smith, Innovator, Serial Social Entrepreneur and Founding Team Member of Teach For America UnTextbooked is a history podcast for the future. Listen to new episodes every Thursday starting October 19th. Follow the show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen. That way you never miss an episode.  Love the show? Write us a review on your podcast app or tell a friend about the show. This really helps us spread the word.  Learn more about the podcast at UnTextbooked.com.

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UnTextbooked is brought to you by teen change-makers who are looking for answers to big questions. Have you ever wondered if protests really can save lives, why assimilation required Native American kids to attend boarding schools, how Black-led organizations for mutual aid began, how the fear of communism led the United States to plan the overthrows of many leaders in Latin America, or why Brazilian cars run on sugar? Or maybe you've questioned when Asian Americans will stop being seen as "perpetual foreigners," how African heritage influences Black activism, or what resilience looks like for Iranian women?  Your textbooks probably didn't teach you how American Jews were an integral part of the Civil Rights Movement, if history’s greatest leaders were generalists or specialists, how a Black teenager and his young lawyer changed America’s criminal justice system, or if either the US or the USSR won the Cold War. Did you know some of the forgotten BIPOC women of history were spying in aid of the French Resistance, that there's more to being a leader than going down with your battleship, or that there is a long history of gender expression in Native American cultures that goes beyond the male/female binary? Listen in as we interview famous authors and historians who have the answers.  Context is the key to understanding topics like British imperialism, segregation, racism, criminal justice, identifying as non-binary and so much more. These intergenerational conversations bring the full power of history to you with the depth and vividness that most textbooks lack. Real history, to help you find answers to your big questions. UnTextbooked makes history unboring forever.