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In its 13th year, this show is a series of expertly facilitated conversations with world experts in a variety of disciplines. These conversations illuminate problems, issues and solutions faced and considered by aspiring and veteran leaders.

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Research Associate at University of Waterloo, Canada, Maksim Rudnev joins us to share his research on how logical thinking and empathy define wisdom. He is a quantitative social scientist interested in human values, wisdom, and social perception, as well as their development across various cultures and countries. He focuses on understanding the substance of cultural (in)variability and the methods intrinsically linked to cross-cultural inference. Tune in for this broadcast on Wednesday, September 25 @ 6pm EST!
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How has the global pandemic changed the classroom and schools? School leaders from around the country will be featured on this episode of the Perkins Platform to shed light on the challenges they have had to face at the start of this... more

Join us for a discussion on Adverse Childhood Experiences and the implications for ACEs during this global pandemic. ACEs are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood and have an impact on future violence victimization and... more

This broadcast features educational consultant and motivational speaker, Lisa M. Wilson - Founder of C.A.R.E. Coalition on Anti-Racism Education. Lisa is a passionate advocate and educator who believes every student deserves the... more

Teach Kentucky is an educational organization that helps launch careers of college graduates in Louisville, Kentucky's public schools. The program is designed to recruit and retain high quality teachers. How can aspects of this... more

Raising boys to men is a formidable challenge. Add discrimination, poverty, inequality and institutionalized racism and you have considerable higher walls to scale. In Baltimore, a group of educators are defying the odds and despite... more

Recent US events have catapulted a long-standing crisis in America to the forefront. Black men in America have long been the target of unfair educational, judicial and social practices. This reality reached fever pitch when George Floyd... more

Across the US, parents and adult caretakers have been catapulted into roles as primary educators in ways not seen or anticipated. This has caused a great deal of stress in homes particularly around the interactions between adults... more

There are a number of longitudnal studies on the impact summer break has on learning and content retention. Today's broadcast features one of the foremost experts on the topic from the Northweast Evaluation Association, Dr. Megan... more

There is no crystal ball to predict what the future is for our public schools in the coming year. There are some who have extrapolated the previous data related to summer slide and applied it to what's happening now with the Corona virus... more

While there is no federal mandate for public education, each state has codified a system and process to provide education to their citizens. Each state also has a chief state school officer who presides over public education to fulfil that... more

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