Arts Educators Save the World podcast returns for new series

Arts Educators Save the World is returning with brand-new episodes featuring successful artists in conversation with their mentors.

Previous guests include Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cecily Strong, Josh Radnor, Chelsea Devantez and Bradley Whitford. The show is changing from seasonal to always-on, kicking off with Grammy award-winning actor and singer Jonathan Groff and his mentor and elementary school music teacher, Linda Tuff.

Jonathan and Linda’s conversation is a testament to the power of early education and hard work, and a celebration of joy and imagination through music. They reminisce about early plays together, the magic of learning to love learning, and the many techniques that Jonathan learned decades ago in Tuff’s class that he continues to use today.

“It is not your job requirement to teach life. That was your choice. That was what you brought into that room and into all of our lives. That is what changes our lives and changes who we are as a world, as a society,” says Groff of Tuff.

Host Erica Rosenfeld Halverson brings a passion for arts and the life-long impact arts education to the podcast and her own teaching.

She is Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of How the Arts Can Save Education: Transforming Teaching, Learning, and Instruction, outlining how we can fix our broken system of schooling by reimagining teaching and learning using the arts.

Erica says: “I am thrilled to have this platform to share stories about why arts education is so crucial to our education landscape – all of these artists and educators remind us that making art together is what makes us human!”

Arts Educators Save the World will be available from 14 November on all podcast platforms.