Podcast appearances and mentions of kent mcguire

Kent McGuire of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and Zoe Stemm-Calderon from the Raikes Foundation sit down with Katie Hong to discuss their work on advancing equitable and inclusive public education across the United States. In this episode they share their foundations' collaborative efforts as well as their own personal and professional experiences – both inside and outside of philanthropy – in the education space. 

Join us for our final episode of season 2 as Kent McGuire, program director of education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, reflects on the first half of the 2022-23 school year—and what those in the world of education should take with them into the new year. McGuire explores how we should be judging and measuring success in schools and provides examples of innovative practices worth watching.  

Kent McGuire is the Program Director of Education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He leads the investments in teaching and learning and open educational resources strategies, with a focus on helping all students succeed in college, work and civic life. Highlights from this episode include: an opening dialogue on re-entry into the world post-COVID; the childhood influences that developed Kent's desire to work in education; what it was like going to school during a period of desegregation; the role philanthropy, and specifically the Hewlett Foundation, can play in promoting deeper learning; ways to get the pockets of innovative teaching and learning out from behind closed doors - building a movement; alternatives to teacher and student evaluations; and the importance of developing trust in the education system. Learn more about the Hewlett Foundation: www.hewlett.orgQuestions? Thoughts? Feedback? Email us at  freerangehumanspod@gmail.com or Tweet us at @jal_mehta and @Rodroad219

Wednesday, September 15, 2021 Hoover Institution, Stanford University   Momentum is growing for significant increases to teachers' salaries. Can we be certain in the post-COVID world that the plan would lead to positive outcomes? The Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI) hosts a discussion asking Will Increasing Teacher Pay Harm Students? on Wednesday, September 15, 2021 at 1PM PT. FEATURED PANELISTS Holly Boffy, District 7 Representative, Louisiana Board of Elementary & Secondary Education: Holly Boffy is serving her third term as a member of BESE.  She is the founder of EdTalents, a human capital development organization, and previously worked for six years at the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO).  A middle school teacher for over a decade, she was Louisiana's State Teacher of the Year in 2010. Kent McGuire, Program Director, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Education: Kent McGuire leads investments for teaching and learning and open education resources strategies at the Hewlett Foundation.  Previously he served as President and CEO of the Southern Education Foundation and as the Dean of the College of Education at Temple University.  He was Assistant Secretary at the USDOE during the Clinton administration. Eric Hanushek, Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution: Eric Hanushek is Chair of the Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI) and the Paul and Jean Hanna Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.  He pioneered measuring teacher quality on the basis of student achievement and his work on school efficiency is central to debates about school finance adequacy and equity across America today. MODERATED BY Christopher N. Ruszkowski, Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI): Christopher Ruszkowski is a Distinguished Policy Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he has helped establish HESI.  He served as Secretary of Education for the State of New Mexico under Governor Susana Martinez, Associate Secretary of Education for the State of Delaware under Governor Jack Markell and now serves as CEO of Meeting Street Schools. The Hoover Education Success Initiative (HESI) focuses on providing state leaders with sound research-based recommendations to improve education in America.

Listen to Kent McGuire, Program Director of Education at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, discuss his vision for the future of deeper learning at the SJSU Lurie College of Education's Future of Learning Summit! To learn more about the Future of Learning Initiative, visit sjsu.edu/education/fli. Audio recorded by the SJSU Student Union Theater and edited by Brian Cheung Dooley - http://brianpdooley.com - and Katelyn Zamarron.

Open educational resources have been around for more than a decade, and the sheer number of these materials—in the form of textbooks, courses, videos, software and other public-domain resources—are increasingly available online. . But as more open materials become accessible, advocates for open education still see room for improvement. This week on the EdSurge On Air podcast, we hear from Jess Mitchell, a senior manager of research and design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre at OCAD University, and Kent McGuire, director of the Education Program at William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, who both keynoted the OpenEd conference in New York earlier this month and shared ideas on where the open movement is headed.

Joel Penhorwood hosts the Ohio Ag Net podcast, episode 76, sponsored by AgriGold. Guests include Tom Vilsack, president and CEO of the U.S. Dairy Export Council (former Ag Secretary) on the recent U.S., Mexico, Canada Trade Deal. Betsy Anderson, organization director for the Belmont County Farm Bureau discusses a recent effort that brought $10,000 to youth drug use prevention in their area. Joel also chats with Kent McGuire, health and safety coordinator with OSU CFAES, on harvest safety.

This week: education leaders on the Kerner Commission at 50, including Learning Policy Institute president Linda Darling-Hammond, co-directors of UCLA's Civil Rights Project Gary Orfield and Patricia Gándara, The Education Trust president and former U.S. secretary of education John King, and Hewlett Foundation education program director Kent McGuire.

The crew of Ty Higgins, Dale Minyo, Matt Reese, and Joel Penhorwood braved the snowy roads. Joel talks with Kent McGuire of Ohio State CFAES on cold weather safety. Matt speaks with John and Connie Surber, recipients of the Ohio Pork Industry Excellence Award. Ty hears from Michelle Specht on what her area Farm Bureau his doing to fight the opioid crisis. To wrap it all up, the group listens to Rose Hartschuh on she and her husband Greg recently winning the AFBF Excellence in Agriculture Award.

#EducationReformSeries | The Funky Politics, with our friends from Chalkbeat TN is peeling back the layers on “Education Reform” with some of the brightest and most committed minds in the Education arena.   Guest for this show:  Dr. Kent McGuire, President + CEO, Southern Education Foundation Addressing the issue of expulsion of black boys at a rate higher than all others  Ths series is about tackling the issues of Education Reform.  Enjoy

#EducationReformSeries | The Funky Politics, with our friends from Chalkbeat TN is peeling back the layers on “Education Reform” with some of the brightest and most committed minds in the Education arena.   Guests for this show:  Tomeka Hart, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Dr. Kent McGuire, President & CEO, Southern Education Foundation Tequilla Banks, Executive Vice President, TNTP (formerly “The New Teachers Project”) On this show, we are tackling the issues of Education Reform, specifically teacher quality, development and recruitment,equity and providing students with the necessary resources. Enjoy!

February 28, 2013 at the Rich Theatre, Woodruff Arts Center How do we re-establish the credibility and value of public education in the United States? Many believe that the public educational system is in trouble. It struggles under the weight of politically-charged and competing priorities, controversial new accountability strategies and deep funding inequities. Voices from the left, right and center, from academia, from corporate America, and from philanthropy disagree about what is wrong with public schools and how to fix them. Moderator: Christine Romans Panelists: Prudence L. Carter, Associate Professor of Education at Stanford University; Erin Hames, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy to Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal; Patricia Levesque, Chief Executive Officer for the Foundation for Excellence in Education; Kent McGuire, President and CEO of the Southern Education Foundation; Bob Moses, President and Founder of The Algebra Project; and Randi Weingarten, President of the American Federation of Teachers.