On this episode, Tuthill speaks with JoAnne Glenn, one of the nation’s top online learning leaders. In addition to being Pasco’s 2020 Principal of the Year, Glenn earned one of three Digital Principal of the Year awards from the National Association of Secondary School Principals. She is one of the founders of Pasco eSchool, which offers full- and part-time K-12 digital instruction. Over the past 12 years, the school’s mastery-based model has become a model for digital learning.
Tuthill and Glenn discuss Pasco eSchool’s advantage during the COVID-19 pandemic and how the platform will allow for flexibility of blended learning when school resumes in a few weeks. They also discuss issues of inequity and the “digital divide,” noting there are areas of Pasco County still lacking access to high speed internet.
“When families are looking outside the school district for their core instruction, it does not mean we don’t have things they may like, we just have to figure out ways to make that available.”
EPISODE DETAILS:
What the Pasco County School District is likely to look like in five years
Lessons learned in the spring and Pasco’s reopening models
Pasco’s “franchise” relationship with Florida Virtual School – using its content and platform with district teachers
How Pasco can unbundle its services and offer flexibility to families within the district and beyond
LINKS MENTIONED:
Pasco eSchool leader named top national ‘digital principal’
Pasco eSchool leader named county Principal of the Year
In this episode, Step Up For Students president Doug Tuthill speaks with Omali Yeshitela, chairman of the African People’s Socialist Party (also known as the Uhuru Movement), and Chimurenga Waller, national director of organization and education expert for the party. The three discuss education and self-determination as bedrock principles to achieving sovereignty for African people – the defining goal of the Uhuru Movement.