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Podcast and Episode Copyright 2019 Exploring the Core LLC* www.ExploringTheCore.com * #ExploringTheCore *Episode transcripts available at www.ExploringTheCore.comEpisode Release Date: January 27, 2020"Mullen: For me, the last decade of teaching has created a lot of great memories, single moments, snippits of random days where a student did or said something that really struck me, made me think about what I’m doing as a teacher, what they were doing as a student, and what we were all really trying to do together in that classroom." - Greg Mullen"What I had come to realize is that the reason this whole idea of self-directed learning seems so overwhelming is that the current systems are not created to place ownership of learning on the students." - Greg Mullen"It’s been a long journey for me and I am hoping that this episode highlights the importance of shifting not only the practices and methods in schools today but, more importantly, in shifting the philosophies and visions of how we approach the education system not just for teachers and admin in the schools, but for teacher candidates, teacher mentors, instructional coaches, and even families, students, and communities." - Greg MullenInterview: Starr Sackstein, https://www.mssackstein.com/"It has always been my belief that you should do the projects that you expect your students to do..." - Starr Sackstein"The best person to be creating the test are the people who are doing the teaching, so we, you know, we know what we taught, we know what students were supposed to have learned and what they should be able to do, and since all of our curriculum isn’t aligned nationally like from room to room it’s not often exactly the same…" - Starr Sackstein"And the students that are in our schools now really do have rich contexts that they can draw on to connect to different themes and ideas and characters that are happening in literature, and we have to give them the space to ask those questions, dig into those topics that they think are important..." - Starr Sackstein