P1 · Weeks 1–5
Produce
Plan it, build it, capture it, cut it. From what a podcast is for through to a clean exported episode.
- Welcome to podcasting
- Finding your voice
- Audio equipment
- Video podcasting
- Recording software & editing
Podcast production · Training · Speakers
DSN builds podcast capability inside schools, nonprofits and community organizations — twelve weeks, thirty people, and a show that goes live at the end. Your staff run it. You keep it.
The method
Every DSN program runs on the same spine. Produce builds the thing. Perform gets people good in front of a microphone. Promote turns a recording into something with an audience.
P1 · Weeks 1–5
Plan it, build it, capture it, cut it. From what a podcast is for through to a clean exported episode.
P2 · Week 6
Being good on a microphone is a taught skill, not a personality type. Interviewing, presence, and holding a room.
P3 · Weeks 7–8
A show nobody hears is a hobby. This is the part that makes it a venture.
What the buyer keeps
Every competitor sells a provider who leaves. DSN certifies a member of your own staff at our Wall Street studio and licenses you the curriculum. When the twelve weeks are over, your facilitator is still certified and the materials are still yours.
Weeks 9–12
The last four weeks are not lessons. They are a real production, run by the room, ending in a published episode and a screening.
Format locked, run of show written, guests confirmed, roles assigned.
Full episode captured. Every participant on a mic with a job.
Edit, clean, package. Artwork, titles, description, credits.
Live on a platform. Screening for the room, families, or staff.
Workshops & training
The full series is the flagship. These are the ways in for organizations that need something shorter, or that want their own people carrying it.
Flagship
Twelve weeks for thirty people, ending in a published show. Includes the Student Manual and the Teach the Teacher manual, every worksheet, the assessment rubric, and Certificate of Completion templates you issue yourself.
Certification
Five sessions at our Wall Street studio that certify one of your staff to deliver the whole series. Facilitator mindset, gear, guiding student voice, running studio sessions, and publishing.
Short form
One P, one day. Produce for teams starting a show, Perform for people who need to be good on a mic, Promote for organizations sitting on content nobody hears.
School & community editions
A School Edition written for NYC public schools, and a Community & Creator Edition for nonprofits and community organizations. Same spine, different examples, different paperwork.
On the catalog
The core curriculum is finished — both volumes, fully illustrated. Additional production modules release on a dated schedule, and we will tell you the dates before you sign rather than after.
MTSS alignment
The 3 P's How-To Series maps to your school's Multi-Tiered System of Supports as Tier 1 universal engagement, with a Tier 2 small-group option and elements that can complement a Tier 3 plan. The full tier crosswalk, dosage figures, and data-and-consent language are ready to hand to a compliance reviewer.
Request the MTSS briefPathways to entrepreneurship
The last two P's are where the program stops being a class. Participants finish with a published show, a capstone, and the beginnings of something they own.
Step 01
A real episode, published on a real platform, with artwork, titles, description and credits — not a classroom exercise.
Step 02
The Podcast Entrepreneur session covers growth, branding and monetization: sponsorship, audience, and what a show is actually worth.
Step 03
A Certificate of Completion and a Podcast Producer Capstone — the published episode itself, assessed against a four-criterion rubric.
DSN Speakers Bureau
Producers, hosts and studio operators from the DSN network, available for schools, conferences, panels and community events across New York and Atlanta, with Toronto opening next.
Topic
What the first six weeks actually look like when you have no gear, no audience and no budget.
Keynote · Workshop · Panel
Topic
Growth, sponsorship and monetization — how independent shows turn listeners into a living.
Keynote · Fireside · Panel
Topic
Built for schools and youth organizations: why giving young people a microphone changes what they do with it.
Assembly · PD session · Panel
Booking
Speakers are matched to your audience and confirmed subject to availability. Tell us the date, the room and the outcome you want, and we will come back with who fits.
In the community
DSN runs across three cities with schools, nonprofits and community organizations — Wall Street, Windows Over Atlanta, and Toronto next.
Contact us
Tell us the group, the city and roughly when — we will come back with what fits. Call or email directly, or book a time in the calendar.
Useful things to include: roughly how many people, what kind of organization, the city, and when you would want to run it.
Please do not send participant names, rosters or recordings by email. We do not collect them.