How To Start Using AI In Your Business: Proven AI Tips That Help Businesses Grow with Jason Blair
Most leaders in the building industry know AI is going to change the game. Very few have a real plan for what to do about it. This episode is a working playbook on how to use AI in your business from a CEO who is already doing it.Jason Blair runs Tal Building Centers, a family-owned company with ...
Why 96% of Roofing Companies FAIL in 5 Years | Jason Blair
This episode of the Gold Coast Podcast is one of the most powerful conversations we’ve had yet.
Host Eric Winegard sits down with Jason Blair, President of Aastro Roofing Company, to unpack the mindset, failures, sacrifices, and relentless discipline it took to build a $15M roofing company from t...
Unlocking Creativity with Jason Blair
Discover how creativity can transform education, community, and personal growth through the inspiring insights of educator Jason Blair. From childhood realizations to systemic changes, this episode explores how nurturing creative confidence can lead to more meaningful learning and living.
In this...
309. Designing Schools for Agency, Not Compliance with Jason Blair
In this episode of Learning Unboxed, we welcome back Jason Blair, arts educator and founder of the Agents of Change, to explore what happens when schools are designed around student agency instead of compliance. Jason shares how the festival brings students from across Central Ohio together to sh...
Bladtcast #690 - "A Celebration of 60 Years of Star Trek"
Christian leads two conversations celebrating 60 years of Star Trek, focusing on favorite films, characters and episodes, joined by Nikki Bailey, Drexel Heard, Tom Kelly and Jason Blair.
Why Depth Beats Delivery Every Time (October Podcast Preview)
October on Schoolutions is all about depth over delivery. I edited every episode this month and noticed one question running through all four conversations: how do we ask kids to make meaning and wonder more, so learning sticks? Here's who joins me.Katie Lewis White explains learning debt. I didn...
Why Every Student Is Smart and Capable (If You Look in the Right Place)
Jason Blair graduated high school ranked around 340th out of 360. He walked out with a diploma and the belief that he wasn't smart. College told him a different story. The way he was smart had never been valued in school.Jason is a creativity specialist, practicing artist, and elementary art teac...
The Empathy Interview Method That Changed How I Teach and Coach
Empathy interviews show you how a student (or teacher) actually feels about the challenge in front of them. Run them one-on-one, or teach kids to interview each other. They sit at the center of design thinking.Start with introductions. Each student shares their name plus the project they're worki...
Want Creative Thinkers in the Age of AI? Focus on the Process
As AI makes it easier to produce polished work in seconds, what happens to the messy, uncertain process where creativity actually develops?
In this episode of The Student-Centered Shift, I sit down with arts educators and creativity thinkers Jason and Brian to explore what it really means to cul...
Every Child is Born an Artist, and Schools Can't Forget It
Jason Blair turned his classroom into Imagination Island, and his students walked in on a boardwalk under black-light stars.Jason lined the tables up right in front of the door. Kids chose to "swim under the water" or "walk on the boardwalk" to get to their seats. The oohs and ahhs started before...
