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Jia Lin-Bothe, our Director of Family Empowerment, is in conversation with three special guests from SchermCo's family empowerment work. The focus of this episode is to share insights + reflections from Innovate Public Schools’ Leadership Institute (April 2024).

• Parents from SchermCo’s family empowerment work
  • Governors’ Village STEM Academy: Deneka Sampson, Ayesha Scott
  • Ridge Road Middle School: Lisa Divers

In this episode:

• Intros 
• Innovate Public Schools + Leadership Institute
  • SchermCo has partnered with Innovate Public Schools and sent many parents and parent leaders to this training 
  • Training focused on community organizing, advocacy, civic leadership, and more
  • LI in February 2024 - 6 parents from our network completed this training
  • LI in April 2024 - another 20 parents from our network completed this training
• Reflections
  • Opportunity and experience
  • Expectations 
  • What has happened since then?
    • DS + AS - February LI
    • LD - April LI 

Check out Innovate Public Schools' work here: https://innovateschools.org/. 

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