The Backwards Podcast
Summary: A.J. Juliani shares insights and stories on how to reverse-engineer any goal with a backward design approach. Drawing on years of experience using the backward design process for curriculum and learning development, he talks with experts and leaders who know a lot more than him about succeeding through backward planning in all kinds of areas (business, learning, sports, and life).
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Podcasts:
#7 - Dion Lim: How to Backward Design an Ed Tech Startup
#6 - Annie Jean-Baptiste and Catlin Tucker: Designing Blended Learning That Works For Everyone
#5 - James Clear: How To Actually Reach Your Goals By Focusing On Your Habits
#4 - Esther Wojcicki: How to Raise Successful People
#3 - Kristen Swanson: How To Build Better Experiences By Planning Backwards
#2 - Erica Buddington: A Backward Approach to Creating Windows, Mirrors, and Sliding Doors in Curriculum
#1 - Jay McTighe: Everything You Need to Know About Backward Design and Curriculum Mapping 3.0
You’ve probably experienced this phenomenon yourself at some point in time. 1: You don’t care about someone, something, or you have a pre-conceived notion of how you should feel about someone or something. 2: You hear, read, or watch a story about that someone or something. 3: You have a newfound respect, understanding, and empathy for that someone or something. This is not some magical trick. It is the science of stories, and how they impact our learning and empathy for others.
Today in this short episode, we’re going to be talking about empathy. Yes, empathy. I’m working on a new book called “Empathy Every Day.” As I’m going through this writing process, I’ve been reading a lot about empathy. I want to share eight books that spoke to me in different ways about empathy, gave me the science behind it, stories behind it, perspectives that I didn’t have on empathy.
In this episode, we chat with Zaretta Hammond, the best-selling author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain. Zaretta Hammond is a former classroom English teacher who has been doing instructional design, school coaching, and professional development around the issues of equity, literacy, and culturally responsive teaching for the past 18 years. She teaches as a lecturer at St. Mary’s College’s Kalmanovitz School of in Moraga, California.
Pooja K. Agarwal, Ph.D. is a cognitive scientist, conducting research on how students learn since 2005. She is the author of the book Powerful Teaching: Unleash the Science of Learning and an Assistant Professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, teaching psychological science to exceptional undergraduate musicians.
In this episode of Talking About Practice, we talk with Atomic Habits author James Clear. James has built an audience of over 400,000 email subscribers at JamesClear.com and his new book on habits is a game-changer. However, I'm most excited about the conversation we have around exploring and exploiting our passions for a bigger purpose. It is a fascinating look at why "scratching your itch" can lead to lots of trials before finally finding success.
In this episode of Talking About Practice, we talk with best-selling author, Angela Duckworth. Angela is a professor at University of Pennsylvania, and has one of the most popular TED Talks in history on Grit. Her best-selling book, aptly titled, "Grit", centers on the idea that grit leads to success.
In this episode of Talking About Practice, we interview Trevor Ragan. Trevor is the founder of TrainUgly.com and creates viral videos around learning and mindset. Trevor's journey began with the dream of making the Duke Basketball team, and it led him down a path of figuring out how to train like a Zoo Tiger and get past having a fixed mindset.
