10 Best Rebecca Winthrop Podcasts in 2026

1. The Disengaged Teen With Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop

Follow Play Oct 21, 2025 44:04
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About Episode Episode 79: The Disengaged Teen With Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop Available October 21, 2025 Why do so many students seem to lose their love of learning when they reach adolescence? Is there something about the way we approach school for this age group that leads to greater disengagement and apathy? And how can we change our systems, and the ways we relate to teens both in and out of school, to help support their development and flourishing? Authors Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop join host Debra Wilson to talk about their book The Disengaged Teen, and what they recommend to parents and educators in the age of rapidly evolving AI. Guests: Jenny West Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop Resources, Transcript, and Expanded Show Notes In This Episode: “We also heard a lot that it was, parents often figured out things weren't going well when it really kind of blew up. So engagement is a continuum. And some of the behaviors we see early on that we can kind of shrug our shoulders and say, that's just, you know, teens being teens, right? To sort of bring that negative construct in. And some of it is, for sure. Like I don't want to freak out parents unnecessarily, but sometimes seeing those behaviors continuously and not digging into them then was like, kids get to a point where they're telling themselves, there's no point. I'm not going to try at anything. And it's because they failed a test and didn't want to tell anyone or didn't know how to ask for help.” (15:31) “We argue in the book that we need to make a shift from what we call the age of achievement, where through no fault of anybody inside the system, virtually every education system around the world, just how it has been designed from eons ago, is about ranking and sorting. Otherwise, we wouldn't have grades. Do you know what I mean? We wouldn't have that. That is the core. The purpose really was, ages ago, of funneling up into higher ed. How do you select? And so we're saying we are definitely seeing the strains on that design.” (31:24) Related Episodes:76; 71; 63; 60; 59; 51; 40; 31 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. MORE Podcast Title New View EDU
Podcast Description In the past year, school leaders have faced a constant need to innovate and respond to rapidly changing conditions in their communities, our nation and our world. Now we’re all seeking ways to bring healing and strength to our schools in the year ahead. But what else can we learn from these challenging times, and what inspiration can we draw for the future of schools? Tim Fish, NAIS Chief Innovation Officer, is teaming up with Lisa Kay Solomon, author, educator and designer of strategic conversations for leaders, to host a new podcast that will probe the questions that matter most right now. One thing is certain: The world will continue to be complex and ever-changing. This moment can inspire us to approach the future with resilience, curiosity and belief in new possibilities. NAIS New View EDU will support school leaders in finding those new possibilities and understanding that evolving challenges require compassionate and dynamic solutions. We’re engaging brilliant leaders from both inside and outside the education world to explore the larger questions about what schools can be, and how they can truly serve our students, leaders and communities. From neuroscience to improvisation, Afrofuturism to architecture, our guests bring unexpected new lenses to considering the challenges and opportunities facing schools. No prescriptions, no programs -- New View EDU is providing inspiration to ask new questions, dig into new ideas, and find new answers to the central question: “How can we use what we’ve learned to explore the future of what our schools are for?" Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.MORE Guest Rebecca Winthrop
Producer/Network National Association of Independent Schools
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2. October 20, 2025: (From the Archives) What Does Engagement Look Like?

Follow Play Oct 18, 2025 45:25
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About Episode Revisit Inspired Teaching's October 2024 conversation with Rebecca Winthrop, author of The Disengaged Teen, to understand how young people engage--and how to support them in doing so authentically.MORE Podcast Title Hooray For Monday
Podcast Description Hooray for Monday is an award-winning collection of resources from Center for Inspired Teaching, shared at the start of every week. These resources feature questions, ideas, reflections, and actions we can all take to remodel the school experience for students. Hooray for Monday challenges teachers to hone their skills as Instigators of Thought©, includes instructional ideas from our #Inspired2Learn collection, and provides links to other useful tools and opportunities. About Us Creating radical change in the school experience — away from compliance and toward authentic engagement. Center for Inspired Teaching envisions a future in which every person is prepared to thrive in and contribute to our complex and rapidly changing world, through an education that teaches students how to think, not what to think.MORE Guest Rebecca Winthrop
Producer/Network Center for Inspired Teaching
Apple Rating 5.0/5 Avg Length 15 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

3. Sparking Engagement

Follow Play Sep 01, 2025 1:03:19
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About Episode Ron talks with Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop, authors of The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better, about how we can harness adolescents’ natural motivations for agency and connection to spark authentic engagement in education. And how we can ensure that new technologies support healthy engagement, learning, and social development instead of hijacking youth engagement for profit. MORE Podcast Title Adaptivity: The Science of Adolescence
Podcast Description Taking risks. Falling in love. Figuring out who we are. Adolescents are constantly learning and adapting—in ways that are often misunderstood. Host Dr. Ron Dahl, Director of the Institute of Human Development at UC Berkeley, and his guests explore the science of adolescence on Adaptivity, a podcast by the UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent.MORE Guest Rebecca Winthrop
Producer/Network UCLA Center for the Developing Adolescent
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4. Episode 9: On AI and the Disengaged Teen

Follow Play Jun 17, 2025 42:07
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About Episode Rebecca Winthrop, Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, joins Eric to discuss the future of AI in schools and her book, The Disengaged Teen. MORE Podcast Title Community Crafted Education
Podcast Description The landscape of hybrid and microschools in various forms – what we will call “community crafted education” – has grown substantially in recent years. On this podcast we will talk about the downstream effects of school choice and especially community crafted education models. How are all of these entrepreneurial opportunities, policy developments, new schools, and new educational experiences improving society? This is probably the most exciting time in education entrepreneurship and policy in the past 30 years. To explore these developments, host Eric Wearne, Director of the National Hybrid Schools Project, talks with people who are mostly not a part of the school choice world, about how these new options are affecting or could potentially affect their various fields.MORE Guest Rebecca Winthrop
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5. ‘We Have to Really Rethink the Purpose of Education’

Follow Play May 13, 2025 1:08:25
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About Episode I honestly don’t know how I should be educating my kids. A.I. has raised a lot of questions for schools. Teachers have had to adapt to the most ingenious cheating technology ever devised. But for me, the deeper question is: What should schools be teaching at all? A.I. is going to make the future look very different. How do you prepare kids for a world you can’t predict? And if we can offload more and more tasks to generative A.I., what’s left for the human mind to do? Rebecca Winthrop is the director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution. She is also an author, with Jenny Anderson, of “The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better.” We discuss how A.I. is transforming what it means to work and be educated, and how our use of A.I. could revive — or undermine — American schools. Mentioned: Brookings Global Task Force on AI Education Winthrop’s World of Education Book Recommendations: Democracy and Education by John Dewey Unwired by Gaia Bernstein Blueprint for Revolution by Srdja Popovic Thoughts? Guest suggestions? Email us at ezrakleinshow@nytimes.com. You can find the transcript and more episodes of “The Ezra Klein Show” at nytimes.com/ezra-klein-podcast. Book recommendations from all our guests are listed at https://www.nytimes.com/article/ezra-klein-show-book-recs.html This episode of “The Ezra Klein Show” was produced by Annie Galvin. Fact-checking by Michelle Harris. Our senior engineer is Jeff Geld, with additional mixing by Aman Sahota. Our executive producer is Claire Gordon. The show’s production team also includes Marie Cascione, Rollin Hu, Elias Isquith, Marina King, Jan Kobal, Kristin Lin and Jack McCordick. Original music by Pat McCusker. Audience strategy by Kristina Samulewski and Shannon Busta. The director of New York Times Opinion Audio is Annie-Rose Strasser. Special thanks to Switch and Board Podcast Studio. Unlock full access to New York Times podcasts and explore everything from politics to pop culture. Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. MORE Podcast Title The Ezra Klein Show
Podcast Description Ezra Klein invites you into a conversation on something that matters. How do we address climate change if the political system fails to act? Has the logic of markets infiltrated too many aspects of our lives? What is the future of the Republican Party? What do psychedelics teach us about consciousness? What does sci-fi understand about our present that we miss? Can our food system be just to humans and animals alike? Subscribe today at nytimes.com/podcasts or on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. You can also subscribe via your favorite podcast app here https://www.nytimes.com/activate-access/audio?source=podcatcher.MORE Host Ezra Klein
Guest Rebecca Winthrop
Producer/Network The New York Times
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Apple Rating 4.5/5 Avg Length 71 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

6. Rethinking School in the Age of AI

Follow Play Apr 21, 2025 42:35
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About Episode AI has upended schooling as we know it. Students now have instant access to tools that can write their essays, summarize entire books, and solve complex math problems. Whether they want to or not, many feel pressured to use these tools just to keep up. Teachers, meanwhile, are left questioning how to evaluate student performance and whether the whole idea of assignments and grading still makes sense. The old model of education suddenly feels broken. So what comes next? In this episode, Daniel and Tristan sit down with cognitive neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf and global education expert Rebecca Winthrop—two lifelong educators who have spent decades thinking about how children learn and how technology reshapes the classroom. Together, they explore how AI is shaking the very purpose of school to its core, why the promise of previous classroom tech failed to deliver, and how we might seize this moment to design a more human-centered, curiosity-driven future for learning. Your Undivided Attention is produced by the Center for Humane Technology. Follow us on X: @HumaneTech_ Guests Rebecca Winthrop is director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution and chair Brookings Global Task Force on AI and Education. Her new book is The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better, co-written with Jenny Anderson. Maryanne Wolf is a cognitive neuroscientist and expert on the reading brain. Her books include Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain and Reader, Come Home: The Reading Brain in a Digital World. RECOMMENDED MEDIA  The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better by Rebecca Winthrop and Jenny Anderson Proust and the Squid, Reader, Come Home, and other books by Maryanne Wolf The OECD research which found little benefit to desktop computers in the classroom Further reading on the Singapore study on digital exposure and attention cited by Maryanne  The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han  Further reading on the VR Bio 101 class at Arizona State University cited by Rebecca  Leapfrogging Inequality by Rebecca Winthrop The Nation’s Report Card from NAEP  Further reading on the Nigeria AI Tutor Study  Further reading on the JAMA paper showing a link between digital exposure and lower language development cited by Maryanne  Further reading on Linda Stone’s thesis of continuous partial attention. RECOMMENDED YUA EPISODES We Have to Get It Right’: Gary Marcus On Untamed AI  AI Is Moving Fast. We Need Laws that Will Too. Jonathan Haidt On How to Solve the Teen Mental Health Crisis MORE Podcast Title Your Undivided Attention
Podcast Description Join us every other Thursday to understand how new technologies are shaping the way we live, work, and think. Your Undivided Attention is produced by Senior Producer Julia Scott and Researcher/Producer is Joshua Lash. Sasha Fegan is our Executive Producer. We are a member of the TED Audio Collective.MORE Hosts Tristan Harris, Aza Raskin, Daniel Barcay
Guest Rebecca Winthrop
Producer/Network Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin, The Center for Humane Technology
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Apple Rating 4.8/5 Avg Length 48 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

7. Disengaged Teens: What to Know and How to Help Them Find Their Spark

Follow Play Feb 11, 2025 29:40
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About Episode KQED's Ki Sung talks to Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop, authors of "The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better." They discuss the different modes of engagement and how to support teens at home and in school.MORE Podcast Title MindShift Podcast
Podcast Description It’s easy to see a child’s education as a path determined by grades, test scores and extra curricular activities. But genuine learning is about so much more than the points schools tally. MindShift explores the future of learning and how we raise our kids. This podcast is part of the MindShift education site, a division of KQED News. You can also visit the MindShift website for episodes and supplemental blog posts or tweet us @MindShiftKQED or visit us at MindShift.KQED.org. Take our audience survey! https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/7297739/b0436be7b132MORE Host Ki Sung
Guest Rebecca Winthrop
Producer/Network KQED
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Apple Rating 4.8/5Facebook 260KTwitter 90KInstagram 225.1K Avg Length 22 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

8. How to help disengaged teenagers learn

Follow Play Feb 06, 2025 31:14
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About Episode How can you help disengaged teenagers rediscover their passion for learning? In this episode of Top Class, Rebecca Winthrop, a Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Universal Education at the Brookings Institution, discusses ideas from the new book she has co-authored called ‘The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better’ with OECD’s Director for Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher. Whether you’re a parent, teacher or simply interested in the topic, this episode outlines practical strategies and policies to make education engaging and relevant.MORE Podcast Title Top Class: The OECD Education Policy Podcast | Teachers, PISA, Students
Podcast Description Everything you need to know about teaching and learning in one podcast. Top Class, the OECD Education Podcast, interviews leading educators, researchers and policy experts about the big issues facing education systems around the world. Disclaimer: The opinions expressed and arguments employed on the "TopClass" podcast and the recordings contained therein do not necessarily represent the official views of the OECD, its member countries, or non-members who have participated in any related work. This site may display third party videos or recordings. The inclusion of such videos or recordings does not imply any endorsement of, or responsibility for, the opinions, ideas, or information presented in these videos. The "TopClass" podcast is subject to the Disclaimers section of the General Terms and Conditions of the OECD website. http://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/MORE Host Duncan Crawford
Guest Rebecca Winthrop
Producer/Network OECD Education & Skills
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Apple Rating 4.4/5Facebook 357.9KTwitter 703.9KInstagram 140.6K Avg Length 33 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

9. Jenny Anderson & Rebecca Winthrop

Follow Play Jan 13, 2025 59:09
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About Episode Jenny Anderson and Rebecca Winthrop are the authors of the new book The Disengaged Teen: Helping Kids Learn Better, Feel Better, and Live Better. Jenny is an award-winning journalist, author, and speaker with more than 25 years of experience. Her work has appeared in some of the world's leading publications, including The New York Times, where she was on staff for 10 years, TIME, The Atlantic and Quartz.  Rebecca is a leading global authority on education. She is the director of the Center for Universal Education at Brookings and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She is a highly sought after advisor and speaker including by parent networks, school leaders, the White House, the United Nations and Fortune 500 companies. You can find The Disengaged Teen in the US or the UK. MORE Podcast Title Learning Explorations
Podcast Description Welcome to Learning Explorations from Nord Anglia Education - a new podcast all about innovation in education and how teaching and learning is changing as we move into an unknown future.
Guest Rebecca Winthrop
Producer/Network Nord Anglia Education
Apple Rating 5.0/5 Avg Length 49 min Format Long form Get Email Contact