Charter School Growth Fund Podcast

0:51 How Patty fell in love with talent 1:46 How do you determine your company's culture? 3:21 Why did the Netflix culture deck resonate with so many people? 7:08 What's wrong with perks and bonuses? 9:49 How to hire A players 13:18 Always be recruiting 14:17 What is radical honesty? 17:41 What should be the roles of managers? 19:07 Letting go of teacher retention

An INCREDIBLE interview with Irma Munoz, Chief Operating Officer of IDEA Public Schools, on their Healthy Kids Here initiative. If you ever wanted to be inspired by school lunches and exercise, this is it! Healthy Kids Here is an effort to move the entire school community to better health through food, exercise and wellness education.

Webinar featuring Aspire Public Schools, KIPP New Jersey, and Uplift Education 2:50 Engaging auditors early (Aspire / KIPP NJ) 5:49 Using checklists to close the books (Aspire / KIPP NJ) 15:02 Dipsticking and internal controls (Uplift / Aspire) 26:07 Proactively planning ahead with auditors (Uplift) 29:02 Taking advantage of Audit Committees (Uplift / KIPP NJ) 35:56 How good financial systems make audits easier (KIPP NJ) 38:17 Q&A Resources and original article can be found here: https://medium.com/@CharterGrowth/prepping-for-a-successful-audit-158e8de50502

Jon Schwartz ran Operations and Finance at leading public charter school network Achievement First. He built the corp of School Operations Directors that took hundred of tasks off of principals' plates, letting school leaders focus on students and teachers. Hear his advice for other school systems thinking about putting an Ops Director in every school.