Practical conversations for changing K-12 schools.
Reimagine Schools brings K-12 voices into practical conversations about how schools can work better for students. Episodes move between classroom technology, grading, online learning, parent partnership, school design, and the daily realities facing teachers and principals.
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Reimagine Schools is an education leadership interview show centered on the daily work of improving K-12 schools. Greg Goins talks with educators and school thinkers about change that can be seen in classrooms, schedules, family meetings, grading practices, and technology decisions. The show is practical first. It is interested in innovation, but it keeps asking what the idea looks like once real students, teachers, parents, and principals are involved. An episode on Kentucky Virtual Academy pushes back against the assumption that online school means loose structure or minimal instruction, describing live class periods, homeroom, independent work, and supports that resemble a full school day. A conversation with Dr. Ted Huff focuses on family and community engagement, including FACE teams, partnership audits, and structures that help parents participate in school life. Liz Kolb brings the EEE Framework into the conversation, framing classroom technology around engage, enhance, and extend rather than novelty for its own sake. David Jakes presses on the design of learning spaces and the need to reshape teacher roles without flattening the complexity of teaching. Tom Murray connects coaching, adversity, practice, and personal feedback to the emotional demands teachers face. Other episodes point toward standards-based grading, Finnish lessons, and school culture built around belonging and shared responsibility. The pacing is conversational and educator-facing. The vocabulary is familiar to school leaders: Tier 1 standards, rubrics, live instruction, parent development, learning gaps, technology integration, and student achievement. The show does not sell disruption as a slogan. Its stronger lane is the middle ground between big reform language and the small decisions that make schools more responsive. For principals, teachers, and education program designers, Reimagine Schools offers a steady stream of field-tested ideas from people thinking seriously about what schools owe kids.
Made for: Reimagine Schools is for principals, teachers, and education innovators working in K-12 settings. It especially fits listeners who want school improvement ideas tied to implementation, not just inspiration.
What sets it apart: The show connects education thinking to the operating details of school life: schedules, parent teams, grading systems, learning spaces, technology rubrics, and teacher support. Its conversations stay close to what educators can actually use.
Hosted by Dr. Greg Goins, the Reimagine Schools Podcast features many of the nation's top educators, authors and innovators in K-12 education with an emphasis on leadership development, scaling innovation and transforming our public school system. Guest have included some of the world's most prolific thought leaders on education, including Ted Dintersmith, Ted Fujimoto, Ian Jukes, Alfie Kohn, Grant Lichtman, Marc Prensky and Dr. Tony Wagner. The Reimagine Schools Podcast is a proud member of the Education Podcast Network (EPN). Be sure to join the conversation with #ReimagineSchools. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greg-goins/support
Greg Goins' conversation with Ted Huff gives your next family-engagement agenda item an actual plan.
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A principal explains how a virtual school builds a structured day around live teaching, independent work, and student support.
A principal at Kentucky Virtual pushes back on the idea that online school means a loose, self-paced day with little supervision. Students start in homeroom, move through live Class Connect sessions, and then shift into independent work, which she frames as the virtual…
A practical look at turning parent involvement into a school structure with clear roles, tools, and learning opportunities.
Parent involvement is treated as part of how a school runs in this practical conversation about Leading with Parents, grounded in the work at Francis Allen Middle School.
A sports-minded case for personalized teaching, steady feedback, and helping educators recover from setbacks.
The episode looks at what personalized coaching can offer educators as they support students and manage the strain of school life. Its strongest image comes from a soccer coach spending three focused minutes with one player, using that moment to show why useful guidance has to…
A clear, practical framework for deciding whether classroom technology earns its place.
Technology integration gets a useful gut check through the EEE Framework: does a tool engage students, enhance learning, or extend their work into the real world?
Kentucky Virtual Academy, part of Cloverport Independent School District, grew from under 300 students on day one to 1,563 by February.
Ted Huff connects his Francis Howell Middle School leadership with a parent-engagement model shaped by "Beyond the Bake Sale," the National Network of Partnership Schools, and a 2014 conference in Chicago.
Tom Murray and Greg Owens frame Reimagine Schools around a simple question from Murray's social media: "What will you do on day one that has kids running back to your classroom on day two?" Murray connects that question to his book Personal and Authentic, convocation season, and a recent visit to Northampton School District in Pennsylvania where teachers had "voice" and "choice." He argues that educators should act more like coaches, meeting people where they are, building relationships, and using high expectations without a "one size fits all" approach.
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David Jakes, author of The Design Thinking Classroom, argues that design thinking is a human-centered process built around “co-design with people” and “solution finding.” Greg Owens presses him on why schools, unlike business settings such as IDEO or Stanford’s d.school, have adopted design thinking slowly over the last 8 to 10 years.
An interview with veteran teacher Rick Wormley about transforming K-12 education.
This episode features a sponsor segment for Renaissance Intelligence and IXL, followed by host Greg Goins introducing the show's mission to improve schools.
This episode features an interview with a thought leader in K-12 education, discussing school leadership and innovation.
This episode discusses remote learning with John Carripo, Chief Learning Officer for Q Pediatrics, as schools start a new year.
A podcast episode sponsored by Renaissance and IXL, featuring an interview with an education thought leader on transforming public schools.
A podcast episode sponsored by Renaissance and IXL, featuring an interview with Kasey Bell from the Shake Up Learning Show, focused on K-12 education innovation.
A podcast episode sponsored by Renaissance and IXL, featuring an interview with an education thought leader on transforming public schools.
This episode features a sponsored introduction promoting Renaissance Intelligence and IXL, followed by the host's welcome to a podcast about reimagining schools through leadership and innovation.