Podcasts

In order to appeal to the multiple intelligences of our network of learners, Big Picture Learning is committed to demonstrating and documenting our work through a variety of media. Visit our YouTube channel to explore Big Picture's video library!

All audio produced by Samantha Broun, with the support of Joe Battaglia, Elliot Washor, and other members of the Big Picture Learning Network.

• “This I Believe” essay from Sonn Sam, Big Picture Principal

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• Sh*t, Time Flies; Closing Piece for Big Bang V: Smaller is Bigger

  Every summer since 2002, Big Picture staff members from around country (and now the world), gather for several days of celebration, training, culture-building, and professional development. This piece was created for the final celebration of Big Bang V, and features Big Picture staff members reflecting upon Big Picture’s ten years of work in education.

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• Jake’s Net: Sam Broun Interviews a student about his passion for designing and constructing trawl nets

  As Elliot says, Big Picture Learning practices a ‘do-think-do’ educational design. Students develop an independent sense of doing and learning while working on projects in the real world with real consequences. In this interview, Jake, a junior at the Met Center in Providence, speaks about his responsibilities at his internship, the skills that it requires, and the sense of learning independently that he is honing while being a student at a Big Picture school.

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• The Work & the Bigger, Bigger Picture

  In this piece, Big Picture staff members from around the network speak about what brought them to Big Picture, why they believe in the design, and how they feel about being an individual piece of a collective movement.

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• Dennis and Elliot on the Beginnings of Big Picture

  Dennis Littky and Elliot Washor, co-founders and co-directors of Big Picture Learning, speak candidly about Big Picture’s beginnings and development, the process of opening the Met in Providence (Big Picture’s first school), and the backbones of the Big Picture Learning design.

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• Hands, Minds, and Learning: An audio summary of Big Picture’s Hand Conference in Dearborn, MI

  With support from the Ford Motor Company Fund, Big Picture convened a small and diverse group of scholars and scholar-practitioners who are united by a passionate belief that all learning is amplified and enriched when the body informs the mind and the mind informs the body. The eclectic group of participants have developed different ways of demonstrating that learning is connected and enhanced through the hands and that language and tool use are interdependent. The meeting examined these issues through the tools, methods, and strategies they have developed to create the energy needed to bring learning into our schools in ways that make sense to our youth, our teachers, our communities, and our workforce. This piece summarizes this incredible gathering.

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