Show: 020 Top Priority Podcast | Post-Secondary Education  

Date Recorded: March 24, 2020

Host: Duane Lester, Manager of Issue Education, Grassroots Leadership Academy

Guests: Ryan Stowers, Executive Director, Charles Koch Foundation

Show Notes & Timestamps

• What is the Stand Together Community doing in the realm of Post-Secondary Education? min [4:04]

A culture of education that unleashes human flourishing must: 

(1) Help people discover who they are as unique individuals—what are their strengths, weaknesses, gifting, and aptitudes  

(2) Encourage people to develop skills and gain knowledge unique to them as individuals

(3) Allow individuals to apply the skills in a way that contributes to others around them in order to progress toward Self-Actualization 

• The STC long-term vision is to create a culture around education where individuals have a dynamic landscape of educational opportunities and a way to create an individualized pathway to learning that is suited and customized to each unique individual. min [7:45] 
• What are alternative forms of credentialing? min [9:45] 
• How our Community views Post-Secondary Education through the lens of the first mutually-reinforcing principle—Equal Rights. min [19:05]
• How our Community views Post-Secondary Education through the lens of the second mutually-reinforcing principle—Mutual Benefit. min [21:15]
• How our Community views Post-Secondary Education through the lens of the third mutually-reinforcing principle—Openness. min [26:30]

**It is important to embrace and celebrate individual growth that is fostered through disagreement. Growth is at a disadvantage when we disavow Openness.** 

• How our Community views Post-Secondary Education through the lens of the third mutually-reinforcing principle—Self-Actualization. min [32:45]

**Additional Resource**

• Letter from Ryan Stowers: In the face of crisis, CKF partners and grantees provide innovative solutions 
• Mike Rowe Works Foundation
• Top Craft Development in Wellington, Colo