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Maldita Politicagem#75 - A estratégia educacional de LemannComenta aí! As BNCC ou Base Nacional Comum Curricular é o documento que fornece as referências obrigatórias para elaboração dos currículos escolares na rede pública e privada da educação básica brasileira. Neste episódio contamos como a Fundação Lemann, do bilionário Jorge Paulo Lemann, tomou para si o papel de agente central na elaboração e aprovação deste documento, centralizando uma rede com influência na burocracia governamental, nos meios de comunicação e no meio empresarial ligado à educação. O Maldita Politicagem é um projeto independente. Se você gosta do conteúdo...2023-08-0842 min
ATX AheadCommon Ground: Viewpoints Vary, But Key Leaders Agree on Several SolutionsIn this episode we continue our conversation, seeking solutions to Austin's housing affordability crisis. Reporter Kathryn Hardison invites Nora Linares-Moeller, who tackles the topic on many fronts as the Executive Director at HOUSINGWORKS AUSTIN. Linares-Moeller shares her perspective and experience. Meantime, Reporter Michelle Pitcher calls on Robert Lee, CEO of Pearlstone Partners, who clearly defines his company's mission to offer "attainable housing", detailing many projects completed and in the works across Austin.2022-02-2531 min
Step into Mondays!40. Ten sessions worth checking out (our takeaways from ACTFL conference)Did you attend the ACTFL conference? Or did you want to but couldn't for a reason or another? Here are some sessions worth mentioning and what appealed to us in those presentations. We're listing them below for you to check them out or check out those language professionals (and potentially connect with them).It was a different year for ACTFL but they did a great job giving access to hundreds of sessions. We wish we could talk about all of them but there isn't enough time in a day - and how long would it take us?!2020-11-3058 min
Business DailyZombie statisticsHow bogus stats can get repeated again and again until they end up influencing policy at governments and major multilateral institutions.Ed Butler speaks to three people who claim they are struggling to slay these zombies. Ivan Macquisten is an adviser to the UK's Antiquities Dealers Association who actually wrote into Business Daily to complain about a previous programme that he claimed repeated false figures about the scale of looted archaeology from the Middle East finding its way into Western art markets.Meanwhile, Kathryn Moeller of Stanford University describes how she never found the source...2019-02-2018 min
School's InGlobal Efforts to Educate Girls with Kathryn MoellerKathryn Moeller is a visiting assistant professor at the Lemann Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. She is the author of the 2018 book, "The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development." She discusses the global effort to educate girls and women and how empowerment programs are sometimes based on questionable evidence.
2019-02-1628 min
Feminist Coffee HourEpisode Twenty-Seven: Kathryn Moeller and The Gender EffectWe interviewed professor Kathryn Moeller about her new book, The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Corporate Politics of Development.
Note: Yes, this interview was done in two sessions, one of which had much better sound quality. Sorry if this is distracting!2018-05-1700 min
Women’s WatchProfessor Kathryn MoellerWBZ's Laurie Kirby speaks with Kathryn Moeller about her book "The Gender Effect" and her thoughts on investing in women and girls around the world.2018-04-3001 min
Give and TakeEpisode 86: The Gender Effect, with Kathryn MoellerMy guest is Kathryn Moeller. She is Assistant Professor of Educational Policy Studies and an affiliate of the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her newest book is The Gender Effect: Capitalism, Feminism and the Corporate Politics of Development. In it she examines how and why U.S. transnational corporations are investing in the lives, educations, and futures of poor, racialized girls and women in the Global South. Is it a solution to ending poverty? Or is it a pursuit of economic growth and corporate profit? Drawing on more than a decade of r...2018-03-131h 00
Field Trip PodcastBuilding a Culture of Professional LearningMary Kathryn Moeller and her team facilitate professional learning at Jenks Public Schools in Oklahoma. In this interview, she discusses the big questions that shape their program, how they iterate and improve, and what it looks like to measure impact.
When we spoke with Mary Kathryn, the Director of Professional Development, she spoke with us about:
Developing connections between leaders and across sites to promote learning
Building leadership capacity
The questions they ask when evaluating new professional learning opportunities
Their iteration cycle as they work to refine practice
Promoting positive risk-taking, and exploring ideas like 20% time...2018-01-1931 min