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The Stronger Podcast is where the real conversations behind education and nonprofit leadership come alive. Each episode spotlights executives, founders, and purpose-driven leaders who are shaping schools, organizations, and communities across the country.
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The Future Is Not Something We Predict: Venture Philanthropy and Systems Change in a Global Realignment with Shruti Sehra (opens the original)
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Shruti Sehra leads New Profit, a national venture philanthropy, through what she calls the largest global realignment of our lifetimes, driven by rapid innovation and an unprecedented intergenerational transfer of wealth . She is clear that nobody can predict how it ends. In this episode of The Stronger Podcast, Mike Montoya sits down with Shruti Sehra, CEO of New Profit, the national nonprofit that has spent nearly three decades putting unrestricted capital and capacity building support behind
Education Data Misses the Kids in the Middle: From Community Organizing to Getting Servant Leaders on the Ballot with Leticia de la Vara (opens the original)
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Leticia de la Vara, Chief Impact and Operating Officer at New Politics, spent their school years in the part of the education data nobody writes reports about: the middle. That middle is huge, and Leticia argues it is where the gains are. In this episode of The Stronger Podcast, Mike Montoya sits down with Leticia to talk about the move from community organizing to the C-suite, and why servant leaders belong on the ballot. Leticia grew up in Phoenix, raised by a single mother who organized in th
Latino Professionals in Corporate America Plan Further Ahead: Why Culture Is an Asset and Not a Liability with Dr. Daniel Custódio (opens the original)
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Dr. Daniel Custódio's research found that Latino professionals plan further ahead than their peers in corporate America, and that the culture they were told to leave at the door is the asset that carries them. In this episode of The Stronger Podcast, Mike Montoya sits down with Daniel, transformation executive, professor, and author of Code Mastering, to talk about turning a dissertation into a map for the people coming behind him. Daniel's mother immigrated from Belém do Pará and his father fro
Teacher Attendance Predicts Turnover: The Retention Signal Most School Systems Miss with Dr. Tommy Chang (opens the original)
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Teacher attendance is the clearest early warning sign of teacher turnover, and Dr. Tommy Chang, CEO of New Teacher Center, says most school systems are not watching it. He was not watching it either when he ran Boston Public Schools. In this episode of The Stronger Podcast, Mike Montoya sits down with Dr. Tommy Chang, CEO of New Teacher Center and former Superintendent of Boston Public Schools, to talk about what actually keeps new teachers in the classroom. Tommy immigrated from Taiwan at six w
Teacher Retention Is a School Systems Problem: Building the Black and Brown Middle Class in South LA with Jesse Melgares (opens the original)
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Jesse Melgares runs a TK-12 charter school network in South Los Angeles, and he argues teacher retention is not a teacher problem. It is a systems problem, and most school systems never built the systems. In this episode of The Stronger Podcast, Mike Montoya sits down with Jesse, CEO of The Accelerated Schools, to talk about making good instruction repeatable instead of lucky. Jesse grew up in East Hollywood, a first generation Salvadoran-American in LAUSD schools in the nineties. He started as
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