GOA Chats w/ Julie Kallio - Episode 3
Welcome to GOA Chats, hosted by Michael Nachbar and Deepjyot Sidhu.
What’s shaping the future of learning? Let’s talk about it. GOA Chats is a new video series featuring powerful, thought-provoking conversations with education thought leaders from around the world. Hosted by GOA’s Michael Nachbar and Deepjyot Sidhu, each short, engaging episode offers insight and inspiration from people who are pushing boundaries, reimagining learning, and leading with purpose. These are not just interviews; they’re sparks for new ideas and deeper connections in education.
In Episode 3, we are excited to highlight our conversation with Julie Kallio.
Julie Kallio is the Lead Researcher in the Peter Clark Center at Breck School where she supports educators through research-to-practice translation, innovation coaching, and project management. Julie graduated with her PhD in Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying how Networked Improvement Communities can build educational systems for innovation and improvement. Her research interests include research-practice partnerships, systems design, innovation and improvement, social networks, and physical learning spaces. Julie previously taught in outdoor education and independent schools, leading technology integration, teaching science, and dorm parenting.
Tune in to hear:
- 8:15: “I think of a problem as being like a perception. There’s a gap between the way things are and the way you want them to be. People across a system have different perceptions of what’s a problem, and my work is listening, surfacing those perspectives, and then helping build the process for how we work on it together.”
- 18:36: “We’ve come up with a process we call our four-meeting design sprint. The first is articulating the problem, the second is gathering voices and feedback, the third is looking at data and possible shifts, and the fourth is moving to action. That structure creates clarity, momentum, and distributes the work of change to the people best positioned to lead it.”
