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10/29/26: #UMustLearn — WPFW 89.3
Innovageous Co-Founder Alicia Woolf joined Dr. Daman Harris on WPFW 89.3's #UMustLearn to discuss how collaboration, community leadership, and capacity-building can turn shared goals into meaningful, lasting change. Through her work with MV United and Montgomery Village’s ENOUGH initiative, and as a resident of Montgomery Village, Alicia highlighted the power of bringing people and organizations together to create stronger opportunities for children, families, and communities.
8/6/26: Future Focused, Not Future Flavored: Preparing Every Student for What’s Next — Integrate This! Ed Tech Podcast
Innovageous co-founders Shira Woolf Cohen and Alicia Woolf explore what it truly means to prepare every student for an unpredictable future. They share practical strategies for building transferable skills, connecting learning to students’ futures, leveraging technology and AI thoughtfully, and creating inclusive career exploration opportunities through meaningful school and community partnerships.
6/24/26: Redefining Future-Focused Schools: Integrating Executive Functioning Habits for Lifelong Student Independence — Growth Over Grades
Innovageous co-founder Shira Woolf Cohen and educator and author Nicole Franchi explore how schools can move beyond traditional career readiness to build future-ready skills into everyday learning and school culture. They share practical strategies for strengthening executive functioning, navigating AI and technology, developing distributed leadership, and partnering with families to build student independence, agency, and lifelong success.
1/21/26: #391 — Out of the Trenches
Innovageous co-founder and author Shira Woolf Cohen brings 25 years of experience in education and youth workforce development, including more than a decade in school leadership. Her work centers on student engagement, innovative instruction, community partnerships, and designing meaningful learning experiences that prepare students for the future, themes she explores in her book, Leading Future-Focused Schools.
1/12/26: Every Teacher is a Career Teacher: Shira Woolf Cohen on Future-Focused Schools — Innovating Education
Innovageous co-founder and author Shira Woolf Cohen joins Innovating Education to explore how schools can move from compliance to purpose by creating learning experiences that connect students to their identities, interests, and futures. She shares practical strategies for embedding career readiness into everyday instruction, strengthening student leadership and engagement, and building school-wide systems that connect learning to life.
1/8/26: Limitless Learning - The Future of Education — Limitless
Innovageous co-founder Shira Woolf Cohen joins the Limitless Learning Podcast to explore what sustainable school improvement looks like when grounded in trust, data, and capacity building. She shares Innovageous’ approach to strategic planning and school design, along with insights on strength-based education, career readiness, durable skills, and thoughtful, human-centered uses of AI to prepare students for a rapidly changing world.
10/5/25: Career and Life Pathways for Young People in Turbulent Times - A Conversation with Global Experts — Future Learning Design Podcast
Innovageous co-founder and author Shira Woolf Cohen joins a panel of global experts to explore how educators can help young people navigate career and life pathways amid rapid technological, social, and economic change. The conversation examines how schools can help students understand their strengths and purpose, make informed decisions about their futures, and develop the skills and adaptability needed to thrive in an increasingly complex world.
10/1/25: Classroom Actions for K-12 Teachers to Promote a Future-Focused Mindset — National Career Development Association (NCDA)
In From Classrooms to Careers, Innovageous Co-Founder Shira Woolf Cohen explores how educators can embrace a future-focused mindset by connecting everyday classroom learning to real-world careers and opportunities. The article highlights nine practical strategies for building students’ durable skills, leadership, self-awareness, and career readiness without adding new curricula or resources.
9/16/25: Future-Focused Schools: Career-Connected Learning with Shira Woolf Cohen — The Balance Podcast
Innovageous co-founder and author Shira Woolf Cohen joins The Balance to explore how schools can bridge the gap between classroom learning and the skills students need for future success. She shares practical strategies for cultivating a future-focused mindset, embedding career-connected learning across subjects and grade levels, building on student strengths, and empowering every educator to play a role in preparing students for what comes next.
7/9/25: Leading Future-Focused Schools — Identity Talk 4 Educators LIVE
Innovageous co-founder and author Shira Woolf Cohen explores why student engagement and career readiness should be embedded throughout the K–12 experience. Drawing on her experience as a teacher, principal, and education consultant, she shares practical strategies and real-world examples for integrating career-connected learning, leading meaningful school change, and creating future-focused learning experiences with equity at the center.
7/7/25: Future-Focused Schools: Preparing Every Student for Success — Leading Equity
Innovageous co-founder and author Shira Woolf Cohen explores how educators can create equitable, inclusive, future-focused schools that prepare every student for diverse pathways and an ever-changing world. She shares practical strategies for culturally affirming leadership, student advocacy, inclusive career-connected learning, and building a future-focused mindset that empowers all learners to thrive.
6/6/25: Leading Future-Focused Schools: Engaging and Preparing Students for Career Success — Principal Center Radio
Shira Woolf Cohen joins Principal Center Radio to discuss how schools can intentionally prepare students for an uncertain future by connecting learning to their strengths, interests, and real-world possibilities. Drawing from her book Leading Future-Focused Schools, Shira shares a developmental approach to career exploration that begins with self-awareness and builds toward authentic career experiences, while emphasizing that career readiness should be embedded across school culture and instruction, because every teacher is a career teacher.
04/16/25: Meet Alicia Woolf, Joanna Hightower, and Shira Woolf Cohen — Bold Journey
Innovageous Co-Founders Alicia Woolf, Joanna Hightower, and Shira Woolf Cohen are featured in Bold Journey, sharing their perspectives as leaders and entrepreneurs in education. Get to know the women behind Innovageous and the experiences and values that shape their work.
Spring 2024: Building Innovative & Courageous Leadership in OST — National Afterschool Association
In Building Courageous Leadership in OST, Innovageous team members Shira Woolf Cohen and Tiffany Searles explore how intentional leadership development strengthens out-of-school-time (OST) programs. Highlighting Innovageous' partnership with Sunrise of Philadelphia, the article shares practical strategies for empowering site directors, building organizational culture, and improving program quality and student experiences.
9/1/22: Getting Started in Service-Learning — The Power of Young People
Innovageous co-founder Shira Woolf Cohen explores the power of service-learning as a strategy for connecting meaningful community service with academic learning and student development. She shares practical insights for using service-learning in schools, classrooms, and afterschool programs to strengthen students’ civic engagement, social-emotional growth, leadership, and academic skills.
8/19/22: Igniting Passion through Career Connected Service-Learning — The Power of Young People
Shira Woolf Cohen brings together global experts in career development, education, and workforce pathways to explore how young people can navigate their futures amid rapid technological, social, and economic change. The conversation examines how educators can help students discover their strengths and purpose, make informed choices about education and career pathways, and build the skills and adaptability needed to thrive in an uncertain future.
2/17/21: How Your Program Can Build Opportunities for Career-ready Youth — Youth Today
In How Your Program Can Build Opportunities for Career-Ready Youth, Innovageous Co-Founder Shira Woolf Cohen explores how youth-serving organizations can intentionally integrate career development into their existing programs. The article shares six practical strategies for helping young people explore career pathways, develop transferable skills, and build meaningful connections to the world of work.
1/13/21: OpinionService Learning Makes Online Learning Meaningful and Engaging — Youth Today
In Service Learning Makes Online Learning Meaningful and Engaging, Innovageous Co-Founder Shira Woolf Cohen and National Youth Leadership Council CEO Amy Meuers explore how service-learning can strengthen student engagement, connection, and purpose in virtual learning environments. The article shares practical strategies and real-world examples of how educators can empower young people to apply their learning, address community needs, and make a meaningful impact, even from a distance.
12/14/20: 8 Ways to Evolve Your OST Programs Online — Youth Today
In 8 Ways to Evolve Your OST Programs Online, Innovageous Co-Founder Shira Woolf Cohen explores how out-of-school-time (OST) programs can adapt to virtual environments while continuing to provide meaningful learning experiences for young people. The article shares eight practical strategies for strengthening student engagement, building relationships, leveraging technology, and expanding access to enriching opportunities beyond the classroom.
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