Info

Providing Choice: A Florida Charter School Alliance Podcast

Providing Choice is a Florida Charter School Alliance podcast. Episodes highlight charter school leaders, educators, governing board members, stakeholders, prospective founders, students and parents, to provide a better understanding of the Charter School movement in Florida. The Florida Alliance is a non-profit charter school support and advocacy organization. Our mission is to increase student achievement and meet the demand for parental choice by assisting high quality public charter schools in Florida. Visit our website at flcharteralliance.org
RSS Feed
Providing Choice: A Florida Charter School Alliance Podcast
2023
October
February


2022
October
June
May
April
February


2021
December
October
September
July
May
January


2020
June
April
February


2019
November
April
March


2018
September
January


2017
April
March
January


2016
December
September
June


Categories

All Episodes
Archives
Categories
Now displaying: January, 2021
Jan 29, 2021
Cielo Acosta is an extraordinary young woman. At 15, she took a leap of faith and enrolled in a brand new charter school in her neighborhood. She is now a teacher there -- working with students that are growing up in her neighborhood and who face the challenges she did not so long ago.
 
That charter school, SLAM! Miami, became her second home and its teachers and administrators became mentors who encouraged her and, she says, saw something in her that she hadn’t discovered yet . Cielo’s story is a testament to the power of a great charter school and why we must continue to protect school choice – especially for under-served communities.
 
#SchoolChoiceWeek
 

Providing Choice is a Florida Charter School Alliance podcast. Episodes highlight charter school leaders, educators, governing board members, stakeholders, prospective founders, students and parents, to provide a better understanding of the Charter School movement in Florida.

The Florida Alliance is a non-profit charter school support and advocacy organization. Our mission is to increase student achievement and meet the demand for parental choice by assisting high quality public charter schools in Florida.   Visit our website at flcharteralliance.org

Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/FLcharter

Follow/Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/Choice.FCSA

Jan 26, 2021

When the pandemic hit, schools had to pivot quickly to implement remote learning programs, train educators, walk parents through the process, and make sure students didn't fall behind. Charter schools were able to make the transition and many, like Somerset Silver Palms, took a giant leap forward in their response to the academic, social, and emotional needs of the families they serve.

In this episode, we speak with Kerri Ann O’Sullivan, Principal of Somerset Silver Palm - a k-12 public charter school in Miami-Dade County - and…her daughter, Maddi, a senior at that school. They talk about their experience with remote learning and returning to campus, and what it’s like to be a principal and a student during the pandemic.

Providing Choice is a Florida Charter School Alliance podcast. Episodes highlight charter school leaders, educators, governing board members, stakeholders, prospective founders, students and parents, to provide a better understanding of the Charter School movement in Florida.

The Florida Alliance is a non-profit charter school support and advocacy organization. Our mission is to increase student achievement and meet the demand for parental choice by assisting high quality public charter schools in Florida.   Visit our website at flcharteralliance.org

Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/FLcharter

Follow/Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/Choice.FCSA

Jan 10, 2021

On this episode of Providing Choice, we speak with educator, former public school principal and vice chair of the Senate Appropriation Subcommittee on Education, Senator Manny Diaz, Jr. The Senator talks about the upcoming 2021 legislative session, the 21-22 state budget, and why he supports education choice.

Providing Choice is a Florida Charter School Alliance podcast. Episodes highlight charter school leaders, educators, governing board members, stakeholders, prospective founders, students and parents, to provide a better understanding of the Charter School movement in Florida.

The Florida Alliance is a non-profit charter school support and advocacy organization. Our mission is to increase student achievement and meet the demand for parental choice by assisting high quality public charter schools in Florida.   Visit our website at flcharteralliance.org

Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/FLcharter

Follow/Like us on Facebook at Facebook.com/Choice.FCSA

1