# Repurposing Spaces and Reimagining Competencies in the Empire State

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Podcast: [The Future of Education](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-future-of-education-3943663)
Published: 2025-09-29T13:30:00+00:00
Episode link: https://michaelbhorn.substack.com/p/repurposing-spaces-and-reimagining
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## Resource

In this episode, Danny Curtis interviewed Jonah Schenker, superintendent of Ulster BOCES in New York, to explore the launch of a groundbreaking new center for career and technical education at iPark87. The conversation dove into the innovative programming and community partnerships at the new center, the challenges of moving beyond traditional, industrial models of schooling, and the vital role of collaboration between educators, industry, and local organizations. Schenker also shed light on broader statewide reforms in New York around redefining student competencies, the importance of starting transformation with empathy and stakeholder input, and how these changes create new opportunities to equip students as designers of a better future. Danny Curtis Welcome to the Future of Education. I’m Danny Curtis and you’re joining the show where we are dedicated to creating a world in which all individuals can build their passions, fulfill their potential and live lives of purpose. And today to help us think through that, we welcome Dr. Jonah Schenker, superintendent of Ulster BOCES, which is a regional education services district in New York. And I’m really excited to have Jonah on today because he’s going to tell us about the innovative work that he is doing with his partner districts in New York, including the opening of a very new and very big center for career and technical education that’s playing an important role in a larger shift happening in New York towards rethinking student competencies. And so Jonah, thank you so much for joining us today. Dr. Jonah Schenker Awesome. I’m super glad to be here and actually recording from the new site as we were just chatting about. So I’m happy to be in space with you. Danny Curtis So cool. And we especially appreciate you carvin…

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