Getting Smart Podcast
Hosted by Mason Pashia and Nate McClennen and Rebecca Midles · Getting Smart
4.7from 66 ratings
- 720
- Episodes
- 189
- Transcribed
- 66
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 34K
- YouTube views
About Getting Smart Podcast
This podcast has over 500 episodes highlighting developing trends in K-12 education, postsecondary and lifelong learning. Each week, Getting Smart team members interview students, leading authors, experts and practitioners in research, tech, entrepreneurship and leadership to bring listeners innovative and actionable strategies in education leadership. Be sure to also check out GettingSmart.com to stay on the cutting edge of innovations in learning.
- Publisher
- Getting Smart
- Category
- business · education
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Sept 2016
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
189 of 720 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Catching Up: Can AI Help Students Connect With People?
7 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Problem With Letter Grades Isn't the Grades | Bill Zima & Michelle McCann
2 Oct 2026
Why Entrepreneurship Is for Everyone | Live at the Uncharted Learning Summit
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Catching Up: Can AI Help Students Connect With People?
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And that often tends to be students in more marginalized communities, lower socioeconomic status, etc. So those students may be getting more and more attention at the higher intensity reading, but that may take away from some of these other experiences that are developing more durable skills that may in the long run also be beneficial to them. So I think we have to find the balance of how are we making sure that core content, like students need to learn how to read, they need to learn how to be mathematically proficient, and they actually need to know science as well to understand how the world works. […]
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- Bill Zima
- Michelle McCann
- Victoria Andrews
- Shawnee Caruthers
- Mika Chang
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 34,105
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 57 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 9 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 92 / 100
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- Quality
- 99
- Social presence
- 100
- YouTube
- 72
- Engagement
- 92
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Who hosts Getting Smart Podcast?
Mason Pashia and Nate McClennen and Rebecca Midles host the show. Published by Getting Smart.
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes daily, based on its RSS feed.
Does Getting Smart Podcast take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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