Ep. 37 - Virtual Learning Strategies During Crisis with Robert Runcie Superintendent of Broward County Public Schools

Robert Runcie, superintendent of Broward County Public Schools
visits with us during this time of the astonishing and rapid
breakdown (albeit temporarily) of society and the economy in the
United States--in large part due to public schools being ordered
to shut down across America. Parents are unable to work, families
and children are unable to get food and computers that are needed
for teachers to even attempt to migrate to online teaching are
not available or dispersed equally to all families. And to make
matters worse, teachers are not trained to be teaching online and
many communities in the United States don't even have broadband
or secure wifi access.


Incredible, right?


This global crisis caused by the virus that is killing people,
has also killed public education in America as we have come to
know it. 


Robert Runcie is at the forefront of change in education
technology. Originally from the private sector technology
industry, by way of Union-heavy Chicago, he knows first hand how
almost impossible it is to innovate in and transform public
educational processes and systems. But the biggest threat we are
all facing is the too-slow transformation of our mindsets around
not only on our awareness of the vitalness of quality public
education for all, but also how we as social beings must evolve
using technology in order to survive. 


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Recorded at Stomping Ground Studios. Podcast editing by Birk
Creative. Mastering by Chris Enns. 


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