The LearnIt Podcast brings you inside the world of education through stories, insights, and conversations with leaders shaping its future. Hosted by Dhiraj Hariramani, each 45-minute episode dives into the personal journeys and big ideas of directors, superintendents, principals, and innovators, revealing what’s really happening behind the classroom walls. Whether you’re an educator, parent, or lifelong learner, this podcast inspires fresh perspectives on how we can better teach, lead, and learn together.
The LearnIt Podcast with Dhiraj Hariramani
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The LearnIt Podcast brings you inside the world of education through stories, insights, and conversations with leaders shaping its future. Hosted by Dhiraj Hariramani, each 45-minute episode dives into the personal journeys and big ideas of directors, superintendents, principals, and innovators, revealing what’s really happening behind the classroom walls. Whether you’re an educator, parent, or lifelong learner, this podcast inspires fresh perspectives on how we can better teach, lead, and learn together.
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June 23, 2026
The Future of Smart: Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen on Rebuilding How Kids Learn
<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><p>In this episode of The LearnIt Podcast with Dhiraj Hariramani, we sit down with Dr. Ulcca Joshi Hansen, Founding Partner of Educating Potential and author of The Future of Smart. Ulcca describes herself as a third culture kid and a futurist, and brings a background that spans elementary classroom teaching, a doctorate from Oxford, a law degree, and more than a decade of consulting work with schools, districts, and education funders. She joined Dhiraj in Toronto for a wide-ranging conversation about how education is being reshaped, and what it will actually take for young people to thrive in a world in transition.</p><p>In this conversation, Ulcca shares:</p><ul> <li>Why she calls herself a third culture kid and a futurist, and how growing up in places undergoing political and social change shaped her academic and personal questions.</li> <li>The three buckets she uses to map every school: the factory model, the whole child innovative reform model, and the human centered liberatory model she writes about in her book.</li> <li>Why she does not think her sons necessarily need to go to university, and what she would rather they walk away with instead.</li> <li>The case for treating social capital as a teachable skill, and her concern that we are not building it for young people inside schools or universities.</li> <li>What is being lost when frictionless relationships with bots feel easier than the friction of being with real human beings.</li> <li>The two things she would do tomorrow if she could change one thing about school: three weeks of relationship and reflection at the start of every year, and giving kids credit for pursuing what they actually care about.</li> <li>The kinds of cognition AI cannot replicate, and why embodied, situated, and distributed cognition are the comparative advantage of being human.</li></ul><p>This episode is for every superintendent, every school leader, and every parent who senses we are at a moment of transition and wants to think more clearly about what education can become.</p><p>#TheLearnItPodcast #LearnIt #OntarioEducation #EducatingPotential #TheFutureOfSmart #EducationalLeadership #FutureOfEducation #IndependentSchools #PublicEducation #LearnerCentered #HumanCenteredLearning #SocialCapital #ExperientialLearning #EducationInnovation #EducationLeaders</p></body></html>
June 17, 2026
Tim Jackson on Shad Canada and the Future of Learning
<!DOCTYPE html><html><body><p>In this episode of The LearnIt Podcast with Dhiraj Hariramani, we sit down with Tim Jackson, CEO of Shad Canada. Tim was an accountant by profession who spent years in venture capital and technology before taking on the leadership of Shad, the national nonprofit that brings high school students from across the country together each summer at university campuses. He talks candidly about scaling a deeply experiential program, funding access so cost is not a barrier, and why he came to see his job as building a lifelong network rather than running a summer program.</p><p>In this conversation, Tim shares:</p><ul> <li>The four rules he runs Shad by: take advantage of opportunities, ask for help, make decisions quickly with about 80 percent of the information, and have fun.</li> <li>Why he throws out the marks: Shad asks for transcripts, then sets the grades aside to see what a student does outside the classroom.</li> <li>What scaling without diluting looks like: growing from about 600 students a year to roughly 1,800, while raising about 5 million dollars a year so students who cannot afford the fee can still attend.</li> <li>The waitlist that bothered him: about 300 students a year Shad believed in but had no space for.</li> <li>The job he did not know he signed up for: being hired to run a summer program and realizing it was really a lifelong network.</li> <li>His one skill for the AI era: learning how to learn, because the material a student learns in first year is often dated by the time they graduate.</li> <li>Where he would put a billion dollars for youth: into things that bring young Canadians from across the country together.</li> <li>The trades reframe: the skilled trades are massively needed, and many of them cannot be replaced by AI or technology.</li></ul><p>#TheLearnItPodcast #LearnIt #OntarioEducation #ShadCanada #ExperientialLearning #STEAM #Entrepreneurship #EducationalLeadership #IndependentSchools #SHSM #YouthDevelopment #FutureOfLearning #CanadianEducation #LifelongLearning #EdLeadership</p></body></html>
June 1, 2026
Jennifer Reid,Trinity College School | Middle school is the most rewarding age
<p>In this episode of The LearnIt Podcast with Dhiraj Hariramani, we sit down with Jennifer Reid, Head of Junior School at Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario.</p><p><br></p><p>Jennifer started as a Phys Ed teacher in the Junior School, moved into student academic support, and now leads the school her younger self walked into. This conversation traces what that arc has taught her about middle schoolers, parents, and what makes a school feel like a place a kid actually wants to walk into.</p><p><br></p><p>In this conversation, Jennifer shares:</p><ul><li>The teacher who set her path: a high school Phys Ed teacher who doubled as guidance counselor and made everything feel accessible.</li><li>What changed when she took the Head role: suddenly being privy to budgets, staffing, and parental concerns that had been invisible to her as a teacher.</li><li>Why middle school is the age she finds most rewarding: a mix of curiosity and awkwardness, kids who pretend they don't want guidance but still crave it.</li><li>The Third Path's "five deposits to one withdrawal" model and how she uses it to build relationships before hard conversations.</li><li>Her standing morning practice: being outside as the bus drops off, in the hallways during the "collision hours," walking into classrooms not to evaluate but to join in.</li><li>The Power of Moments framework on elevation, insight, pride, and connection, and how she peppers ordinary days with something extraordinary.</li><li>Why she still believes it's never too late to learn a skill, and what humming, marathons, and a three-wheel motorcycle have to do with school leadership.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>#TheLearnItPodcast #LearnIt #OntarioEducation #TrinityCollegeSchool #JuniorSchool #MiddleSchool #IndependentSchools #CAIS #EducationalLeadership #HeadOfSchool #SchoolCulture #StudentWellbeing #CharacterEducation #ExperientialLearning #PortHope</p>
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