At The Disrupt Education Podcast, we strive to challenge the traditional norms of education. Our mission is to amplify change by spotlighting local initiatives and community-driven movements that are redefining the learning experience.
Peter is an educator, builder, and relentless connector who refuses to accept that school and the real world should operate in separate lanes.
With more than two decades in education, he has committed his career to redesigning how students experience learning — not as preparation for “someday,” but as meaningful work happening now.
As the
Peter is an educator, builder, and relentless connector who refuses to accept that school and the real world should operate in separate lanes.
With more than two decades in education, he has committed his career to redesigning how students experience learning — not as preparation for “someday,” but as meaningful work happening now.
As the Career Internship Educator and Coordinator for Naperville School District 203, Peter has launched and expanded internship programs across six school districts, driving sustained 30% year-over-year growth and opening doors to authentic, community-embedded opportunities.
His philosophy is simple and powerful: helping others find and show their value.
That belief fuels everything he builds — from boardroom-connected internships to student-led professional experiences that prove young people are capable of far more than traditional systems often allow.
As the founder of the Disrupt Education Podcast for over a decade — Peter amplifies educators, leaders, and innovators who are actively challenging outdated models and constructing something better.
He doesn’t just talk about disruption. He builds it.
One student, one partnership, one conversation at a time.
Alli doesn’t believe growth happens inside comfort zones.
A former high school chemistry teacher turned educational entrepreneur, she challenges the status quo in classrooms, leadership spaces, and professional development rooms. Through coaching, immersive experiences, and unapologetically honest conversations, Alli helps educators con
Alli doesn’t believe growth happens inside comfort zones.
A former high school chemistry teacher turned educational entrepreneur, she challenges the status quo in classrooms, leadership spaces, and professional development rooms. Through coaching, immersive experiences, and unapologetically honest conversations, Alli helps educators confront the fear of change—and move anyway.
She still works directly with students as a private 1:1 chemistry tutor and local substitute teacher, because staying connected to learners matters. But her bigger mission is shaking loose outdated systems and empowering educators to build something braver.
And when she talks about courage, it’s not theoretical.
As a tandem skydiving instructor at Skydive Wissota in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, Alli literally guides people through stepping out of airplanes. Because whether you’re redesigning a school or jumping at 10,000 feet, the principle is the same:
Fear is the barrier. Growth begins where comfort ends.
The Disrupt Education Podcast isn’t about talking around change. It’s about making it happen.
Education isn’t slowly evolving.
It’s being forced to reckon with itself.
For over 10 years — Peter Hostrawser and Alli have hosted unfiltered, system-challenging, assumption-shattering conversations with the people who aren’t waiting for permissi
The Disrupt Education Podcast isn’t about talking around change. It’s about making it happen.
Education isn’t slowly evolving.
It’s being forced to reckon with itself.
For over 10 years — Peter Hostrawser and Alli have hosted unfiltered, system-challenging, assumption-shattering conversations with the people who aren’t waiting for permission to change education.
We don’t tiptoe around the edges.
We challenge systems that talk about change but resist real transformation.
And we spotlight the leaders who are actually rebuilding education — not just critiquing it.
From AI and the future of learning to community-driven models, alternative pathways, and bold local innovation, we amplify the voices doing uncomfortable, necessary, future-focused work.
If you care about where education is headed — and whether it’s brave enough to get there — pull up a seat.
New episodes drop every Wednesday.
For 10 years straight.
Don’t watch education change from the sidelines.
Press play.
Join the disruption.
