@tvanderark

Education advisor

 Seattle WA
GettingSmart.com
Joined March 2009
  • Tweets36.2K
  • Following42.9K
  • Followers56.3K
6.6KMedia
From Compliance to Contribution: What Happens When Students Do Work That Matters gettingsmart.com/2026/10/06/… @Getting_Smart

From Compliance to Contribution: What Happens When Students Do Work That Matters

Reem's story shows how real work builds identity, agency, and belonging — and what schools can learn from work-based learning that goes beyond career prep.

gettingsmart.com
1
321
Why the Experience of Experience Matters: Designing learning through experiences that actually have an impact gettingsmart.com/2026/10/01/… @Getting_Smart @Chris_Unger

Why the Experience of Experience Matters: Designing learning through experiences that actually have...

Not all experiences produce real learning. Discover the design principles that make experiences meaningful, transferable, and truly impactful for students.

gettingsmart.com
1
1
239
How school districts are creating microschools, featuring Indiana Microschool Collaborative edweek.org/policy-politics/m…

Microschools Are Spreading. Some School Districts Have Opened Their Own

Districts see the small learning communities as an alternative for families that may otherwise leave.

edweek.org
3
4
1,012
One Map, Every Framework: The Shared Architecture Behind School Transformation gettingsmart.com/2026/09/14/… @Getting_Smart

One Map, Every Framework: The Shared Architecture Behind School Transformation

16 school transformation frameworks. One shared architecture. Discover the 7 questions uniting every redesign effort and how a common map accelerates change.

gettingsmart.com
1
536
What Makes Dual Enrollment Actually Work: Intentional, Coherent Design and Equitable Access gettingsmart.com/2026/09/11/… @Getting_Smart

What Makes Dual Enrollment Actually Work: Intentional, Coherent Design & Equitable Access

What makes dual enrollment actually work? Explore the design principles behind equitable, coherent college pathways for every student.

gettingsmart.com
3
515
Kennedy Davis and Taylor Shead on building an EdTech company gettingsmart.com/podcast/thi… @gettingsmart

Shaping an EdTech Company From the Inside | Kennedy Davis & Taylor Shead

Kennedy Davis reveals what real student co-design looks like, and why it should reshape how every edtech company builds products.

gettingsmart.com
314
Beyond the Shiny Object: How to Assess Your System’s True Innovation Readiness gettingsmart.com/2026/08/24/… @Getting_Smart

Beyond the Shiny Object: How to Assess Your System's True Innovation Readiness

Discover the 5 C's and 8 Archetypes framework to assess your school system's true readiness for innovation before launching large-scale change.

gettingsmart.com
1
1
487
Antonio Parés on How Can Public Schools Benefit from the Education Freedom Tax Credit gettingsmart.com/podcast/how… @gettingsmart

How Can Public Schools Benefit from the Education Freedom Tax Credit? | Antonio Parés

Antonio Parés breaks down the Education Freedom Tax Credit and why public schools can't afford to wait until 2027 to act.

gettingsmart.com
405
Core Plus Explore: How Embedded Career Relevance Improves Engagement in Foundational Courses gettingsmart.com/2026/08/27/… @Getting_Smart

Core Plus Explore: How Embedded Career Relevance Improves Engagement in Foundational Courses

Edmentum and Roadtrip Nation embed career exploration inside core courses so students see why what they learn matters, and who they can become.

gettingsmart.com
1
578
What If Every Graduate Left School with a Credential That Actually Meant Something? A Conversation with @You_Science CEO Edson Barton gettingsmart.com/podcast/wha… @Getting_Smart

What If Every Graduate Left School with a Credential That Actually Meant Something? | Edson Barton

Edson Barton of YouScience unpacks Utah's stackable credential mandate and why aptitude-based pathways are reshaping K-12 workforce readiness.

gettingsmart.com
1
1
537
Reach University President Joe Ross on degree programs for aspiring teachers gettingsmart.com/podcast/joe… @Getting_Smart

How Is One University Turning "Dead-End Jobs" Into Degrees for Aspiring Teachers? | Joe Ross

How Reach University turns jobs into degrees through affordable teacher apprenticeships that strengthen local workforce pipelines.

gettingsmart.com
466
The Microschool Mindset: Why Small Thinking Is the Biggest Shift in Education gettingsmart.com/2026/08/03/… @Getting_Smart

The Microschool Mindset: Why Small Thinking Is the Biggest Shift in Education

The microschool mindset isn't about size. It's a design philosophy any school can adopt to put learners, not systems, at the center of education.

gettingsmart.com
1
3
707
Fund What Pays: 5 Actions for States to Get Results from Workforce Funding assets.arnoldventures.org/up… @Arnold_Ventures
1
814
Schools Are Testing the Past: How Assessment Must Evolve for Writing, Speaking, and Listening in the AI Age gettingsmart.com/2026/07/24/… @Getting_Smart

Schools Are Testing the Past: How Assessment Must Evolve for Writing, Speaking, and Listening in...

AI hasn't erased human competence in writing and communication. It has moved it. Here's how schools must redesign assessment to keep up.

gettingsmart.com
1
1
1
638
David Dimmett talks to 3 seniors at the KC STEM Alliance Senior Showcase in Kansas City learning-together.cohostpodc… @PLTWorg

Hayden, Heidi, & Eymi - Special Edition @ KC STEM Alliance Senior Showcase

David has a conversation with three seniors at the KC STEM Alliance Senior Showcase in Kansas City. Students discuss the real-world problems they c...

learning-together.cohostpodcasting.com
1
2
831
High school students recently presented their data at a Caltech lab. The research addressed the global challenge of antibiotic resistance. lnkd.in/dTeA-Jdr @PasadenaPoly

LinkedIn

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

lnkd.in
709
David Dimmett talks with two seniors from the PLTW Engineering program at Wheaton High School in Silver Springs, MD open.spotify.com/episode/0Lg… @PLTWorg

Rediet and Liam – PLTW Engineering @ Wheaton High School

Learning Together · Episode

open.spotify.com
1
1
881
Gersom de Koning on the value of Theater Education gettingsmart.com/podcast/ger… @Getting_Smart

Gersom de Koning on The Relationship Between Theater Education and Gamification

How theater education builds collaboration, confidence, leadership, and deeper learning through drama, creativity, and performance.

gettingsmart.com
447
Michael Crawford and Chris Unger on Building Durable Skills gettingsmart.com/podcast/mic… @Getting_Smart

Michael Crawford and Chris Unger on Building Durable Skills 

How schools build durable skills through authentic learning, reflection, and real-world experiences that shape agency and career readiness.

gettingsmart.com
248
Experience matters: how to value real world expernece gettingsmart.com/whitepaper/… @Getting_Smart

Experience Matters: A Common Language for Talent, Trust, and Economic Mobility

This report from Getting Smart and Education Design Lab proposes a Common Language of Experience—a robust, interoperable framework for evaluating, designing, and articulating experience value across...

gettingsmart.com
2
1
3
241
Load more