13 MAR 2021 · This week on The 55 Minute Question, Stephen and Cameron discuss making the room for people to change, frequently. We wonder about impressions, and how they shape how we see others, ourselves, and our students. We ask how we can develop a capacity to see the world in the dualities and paradoxes in front of us, rather than with the shortcuts of the past.

1 MAR 2021 · This week on The 55 Minute Question, Stephen and Cameron discuss the importance of being seen. We remark at the power of being reminded of the child by seeing childhood photos; and wonder about reframing what we see in the context of Dean James Ryan's 5 Essential Questions. Inspired in part by the power of letters that help us see the humans in front of us, we continue to seek a path, rather than a shortcut to a world improved beyond what it was when we first encountered it.

19 FEB 2021 · In this week's episode of "The 55 Minute Question", Stephen and Cameron discuss a question from the previous week: why are we driven the way we are? What does it mean to "be seen" in the context of contribution? If our frames of reference, our world view, are tools, do they enable us or weigh us down? And if they weigh us down, do we know enough to drop them before it's too late?

11 FEB 2021 · Stephen and Cameron discuss the idea of imbalance, and wonder if a spotlight on ourselves as works in progress might attune us to the infinite mindset so essential to lifelong learning. We ask how reframing our observations about development, and possibility in children, not as gaps, or loss, but as the innate imbalance of life might shift how we understand learning for all.

5 FEB 2021 · Continuing with our theme of shortcuts, Stephen and Cameron discuss the foundational, driving questions for a Royal Commission on Learning; we consider how essential glib notions about education might actually be to the conversation, and, try as we might, we get stuck in why on a path to how, all along thinking about the infinite mindset necessary to imagine an education focussed on children and learning.

28 JAN 2021 · In the first episode of season 2, Cam and Stephen think about shortcuts: are we beginning to see cracks in education, in society, that come from a shallow attention to the parts of a whole? As the pandemic forces structures to be questioned, changed, improved, are the silos that result beginning to cause greater harm? By asking why, and dwelling on the full narrative, do we begin to reframe our models, and in turn discover better solutions?

26 NOV 2020 · Cam and Stephen look back on the last 15 weeks of The 55-minute Question, remembering highlights, consolidating learning and imagining the conversations that could become part of Season 2

18 NOV 2020 · Spurred on by a recent media piece suggesting that final standardized exams are not to be sacrificed in this time of pandemic disturbances, Cameron Jones asks whether or not we are even posing the right questions when it comes to measuring learning.

12 NOV 2020 · In the final instalment of a 3 part series inspired by Seymour Sarason’s provocation, “And What Do You Mean By Learning?”, Cameron Jones and Stephen Hurley begin a conversation about the capacity and mindset of public education to deliver on the kind of relevant learning that encourages students to see their contributions in a world built in their image. The discussion culminates in our forming a way forward for the conversations we relish on The 55 Minute Question, and a call to educators to join the conversation about education reimagined in the image of the child, rather than the institution.

4 NOV 2020 · In the second installment of a 3 part series inspired by Seymour Sarason's provocation, “And What Do You Mean By Learning?”, Cameron Jones and Stephen Hurley speak with Brandon Busteed (Kaplan; Forbes Magazine) about a community model of learning that we've moved away from. We discuss #WhatLearningLooksLike if it is truly "lifelong", and why the present has morphed into a "critical reflective moment" for the connection between learning and democracy.