Shift Everything

About Shift Everything

There are those who say “that’s just the way things are” and there are those who push for change. The West40 team of educators and advocates, led by Dr. Mark Klaisner, is the latter. Shift Everything challenges the education community to shake up their thinking and prepare to challenge the status quo to make the impossible become possible.

Publisher

Shift Everything

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

21 Apr 2020

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

83 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   Why Teacher Voices Can Help Fix Schools

   The people who know how to fix their schools are already in them. That's according to Chicago-based non-profit Teachers Supporting Teachers, whose representatives recently joined Shift Everything for a discussion. Our guests are Dr. Andy Rhodes and Ann Persson. West40 is in the early stages of developing a partnership with Teachers Supporting Teachers.

2. 

   25 Aug 2026

   Retaining Education Staff

   Welcome back to a new season of Shift Everything, the West40 podcast! We start the 2026-27 school year by asking how area education leaders are finding new and creative ways to recruit and retain teachers and support staff. Based on what they told us, you can sum it up in two words: convenience and communication.

3. 

   28 Apr 2026

   Celebrating Student Advocates

   Student advocates are the backbone of West40! They build relationships with students to help them stay on track to success. Join the Shift Everything podcast as two student advocates, Juan and Violet, describe what advocacy looks like and how they define achievement.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 22 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

20

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

60

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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