Raising Problem Solvers

Raising Problem Solvers (by Art of Problem Solving) is a podcast for parents looking to design the best possible education plan for their K-12 students — whether they’re crafting the entire experience themselves or looking to pointedly fill in the gaps. Listen to brief conversations with STEM leaders, educators, and other parents like you as they design innovative and creative educational experiences for their students. If you’re looking to train resilient students prepared to solve problems they’ve never seen before - the true currency for 21st century success in academics, career, and life - this is the show for you.

Sapienship 09/07/2022

Sapienship Dr. Jim Clarke, Researcher at Sapienship joins the podcast to talk about how to make sure the great problem solvers of the next generation start thinking better about the world's biggest problems, his work with Sapienship, co-founded by Sapiens author Yuval Noah Harari, and all the amazing resources they’re building for K12 students and teachers. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397592

Wonder 08/30/2022

Wonder Dr. Frank Keil, Professor of Cognitive Science and Director of the Cognition and Development Lab at Yale University, and author of the book, Wonder: Childhood and the Lifelong Love of Science, joins the podcast to talk about the academic superpower that is “wonder”, why generalist polymaths make for better specialists than specialists, and how to re-ignite wonder in our children if they’ve lost it along the way. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397595

Learning STEM through Fiction 08/23/2022

Learning STEM through Fiction Dr. Pamela Cosman (Koz-mehn), Author and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of California, San Diego joins the podcast to talk about how to make STEM subjects more fun and engaging for kids, and the specific power of learning STEM through fiction. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397598

Managing Academic Expectations 08/16/2022

Managing Academic Expectations Charlene Wang, Author, Founder of LivingOS, and previously Product Manager at Google joins the podcast to talk about parental and cultural expectations, as well as why our kids might need to break free from some of them on their path toward success. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397601

EdTech at-Home 08/09/2022

EdTech at-Home Dr. Monica Burns, EdTech and Curriculum Consultant, and Founder of ClassTechTips.com talks about how parents should think about picking EdTech at home, what a content vetting process could look like, and how important it is to model what a healthy relationship with technology looks like ourselves. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397604

Learned Helplessness 08/02/2022

Learned Helplessness Vida John, Math Coach joins the podcast to talk about the concept of learned helplessness, why math contests aren’t just for “those” really math’y kids, and why some students who struggle at math end up being the best mathematicians. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397607

Free-Range Kids 07/26/2022

Free-Range Kids Lenore Skenazy, President at Let Grow, and Founder of the Free-Range Kids Movement joins the podcast to discuss how not allowing our children opportunities to learn independence prevents them from becoming independent adults, and what to do about that if you’re an anxious parent like her. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397610

Puzzles vs. Games 07/19/2022

Puzzles vs. Games Ben Orlin, Author and Educator, joins the podcast to talk about his latest book, “Math Games with Bad Drawings”, and if our students can really learn meaningful math through comics, puzzles, and games. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397613

How to Model Problem Solving 07/12/2022

How to Model Problem Solving Lisa Smith, Founder of The Peaceful Parent joins the podcast to talk about how much more our kids learn from our actions than our words, and a 4-step process for modeling problem solving with intention. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397616

Tempering Perfectionism 07/05/2022

Tempering Perfectionism Dr. Eileen Kennedy-Moore, Author, Clinical Psychologist and mom of 4 joins the podcast to discuss the difference between healthy striving and unhealthy perfectionism, and why the most capable kids are often the ones most frightened about failing academically. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397619

Education in the Metaverse 06/28/2022

Education in the Metaverse Maaroof Fakhri, Head of K12 Education at Labster joins the podcast to discuss immersive education in the metaverse, and why “productive failure” is where the best learning happens. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397622

In Defense of Differentiated Instruction 06/21/2022

In Defense of Differentiated Instruction Authors and educators Dr. Angelia Ridgway, Professor of Education at the University of Indianapolis and Nathaniel Ridgway join the podcast to talk about the pros and cons of differentiated learning, how to customize a course down to the individual student level, and the promise of educational technology and adaptive learning within differentiated instruction. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397625

Can Creativity be Taught? 06/14/2022

Can Creativity be Taught? When children are young, all of them are creative — Coming up with wild, bizarre, hilarious, beautiful connections that seem to come naturally. As children grow, unfortunately, there’s the notion that unless you’re following an overtly creative endeavor like painting or writing, you can’t be creative. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397628

Roadschooling 06/09/2022

Roadschooling On this episode of Raising Problem Solvers, we talk Roadschooling with two families who have been RV schooling since before the pandemic and learning U.S. history firsthand by driving their classroom right up to the story. Today’s guests are Kay Akpan, The MOM Trotter, and Robyn Robledo, Co-founder of Nomads with a Purpose. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397631

Navigating Student-Teacher Conflict 06/02/2022

Navigating Student-Teacher Conflict Dr. Stephanie Mihalas, Licensed and Board-Certified Psychologist, Nationally Certified School Psychologist, and Founder at The Center for Well Being joins the podcast to talk about the rare serendipity when a teacher’s pedagogy and your student’s classroom management preference perfectly align, how to navigate situations where they don’t, and when you should take actions on red flags regarding conflict between your student and their instructor. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397634

Embedding STEM into your Every Day 05/24/2022

Embedding STEM into your Every Day Author and educator Emily Hunt joins the podcast to discuss how parents and teachers alike can easily bring STEM thinking into their homes and classrooms through quick and engaging 15-minute activities. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397637

Gameschooling 05/17/2022

Gameschooling Cait Curley, school psychologist and founder of Never Board Learning joins the podcast to talk a little Wordle, her belief that almost all of school can be fun and games, and the academic power of gamification. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397640

How to Solve Wicked Problems 05/10/2022

How to Solve Wicked Problems Learn about the need to create “wicked students” who are ready to solve the future’s most wicked problems from Dr. Paul Hanstedt, Director of the Houston H. Harte Center for Teaching and Learning at Washington and Lee University and author of “Creating Wicked Students: Designing Courses For a Complex World.” /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397643

What Kinds of Students does MIT Look For? 05/03/2022

What Kinds of Students does MIT Look For? Chris Peterson, Director of Special Projects at MIT Admissions and Student Financial Services, joins the podcast to discuss what MIT looks for when they're reviewing college applications, how the pandemic has affected their decision process, and next-steps advice for having an MIT-friendly application. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397646

How Improv Can Train Innovators 04/26/2022

How Improv Can Train Innovators Deana Creiss, Former Director of ImprovBoston's National Touring Company and currently Sr. Organizational Development Specialist at Perkins School for the Blind, joins the podcast to discuss why learning the improv mechanism of “yes, and” is such a critical skill for problem solvers to learn, and easy ways to incorporate improv into the school day. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397649

The Future of Digital Education 04/19/2022

The Future of Digital Education Matthew Rascoff, Vice Provost for Digital Education at Stanford University, talks about the positive learnings from the pandemic’s emergency remote learning experiment, the boundary being broken between in-school and after-school learning, and the future of digital education. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397652

Freeing the World from Math Phobia w/ Dr. Eugenia Cheng 04/12/2022

Freeing the World from Math Phobia w/ Dr. Eugenia Cheng Dr. Eugenia Cheng, mathematician, educator, author of How to Bake Pi, public speaker, columnist, concert pianist, artist, Scientist In Residence at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Honorary Visiting Fellow at City, University of London, talks about simplifying and destigmatizing advanced math and restoring the deeper beauty of math to the next generation of students. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397655

Navigating “Back to School” After a Pandemic Year w/ Richard Rusczyk 03/30/2022

Navigating “Back to School” After a Pandemic Year w/ Richard Rusczyk Richard Rusczyk, Founder and CEO at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS), joins the podcast to talk about how the existing academic gap in our classrooms turned into a chasm after the pandemic year and how Art of Problem Solving families are navigating this new reality. /episode/index/show/72215e24-64f1-47ec-a63d-2f5ea6c4b5f2/id/25397658

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