Author of 2022’s A Silicon Valley Life Floyd Kvamme joins Jeanne this week’s in Piazza, bringing his 35+ years of startup, technology and business world experience with him. A veteran of the SV landscape, and as someone who has been present though its transformation into the massive role it plays in today’s economy and culture, he’s uniquely positioned to give us a picture of history we really won’t get anywhere else. Listen on for more!

Join Jeanne for the first in a special two-part edition of in Piazza, live from the 2024 ASU+GSV Summit and stay tuned for part 2, airing later this week. Andiamo!

First, we talk to members of the NFL and sports player management space. Co-founder/Co-CEO of Pro Athlete Community Chip Paucek, together with COO Travis Key and Jake Browning, a current NFL QB, talk about their work with players navigating business, investment and the professional world during and after a pro sports career.

We also speak with the brilliant Jane Swift, former Massachusetts governor and President of Education at Work about the great need for increased and equitable representation for women, among multiple overlooked groups, in business, and in executive and leadership roles, and some of the initiatives she’s working on to move the dial on those efforts.

unCommon Construction Executive Director Aaron Frumin and Keith Brooks, Founder and CEO of the National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, also stopped in Piazza for a chat. UnCommon, a New Orleans-based program that offers high school students on the job training and course credit for completing a construction project, and NFBLME, who focus on the efforts to create and strengthen the pipeline for and representation of minorities and diversity in education leadership, were 2022 and 2023 finalists for the Yass Prize, respectively. So Andiamo, let’s go! Enjoy!

Recorded live from the 2024 ASU+GSV summit hall of innovators, Jeanne is joined by vocal coach to-the-stars Roger Love, and delves into the true meaning of ‘finding your voice’ and why the ‘tuning’ and management of it matters so much for educators and learners alike, his work with the ASU teaching college, and why this work on human communication is more important than ever with the rise of AI generative content and adaptive learning. Listen on for more!

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ASU+GSV Summit: www.asugsvsummit.com

"They’re building prisons off of 3rd grade reading levels.” That’s why Valiant Cross Academy, winning institution in the 2023 Yass Prize, exists. It’s the best place for African American young men, period; says Anthony Brock, Valiant's co-founder and Head of School. Listen on for more on his school's transformational work.

Join this week’s discussion with Kelby Woodard, President and CEO of the national, independent schools of the Cristo Rey Network, and Elias Pappas, Head of School for Odyssey Charter School in Wilmington, DE, who lead school networks with impact and purpose.

Jeanne returns, discussing how strong entrepreneurial thinking is helping create more effective education for children in more ways than one, joined by Yass Prize 2023 Semifinalists Brenaea Fairchild, Founder & Executive Director of the Melanin Village, a national model of support for a growing population of non-traditional parents who want to customize what their child’s academic experience looks like; and Heidi Treu, Executive Director of West Virginia Academy, a charter school in Morgantown, WV who are the first to give students in the state's third largest district an education that caters to student needs and not top down mandates.

On this week’s in Piazza, US Senator Bill Cassidy and Dr. Laura Cassidy, share their work in education and how their medical training informs it all. Listen to these champions for education opportunity and especially students with special needs. 

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Gisèle Huff, education transformation advocate and founder and President of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity arrived in America at 11 from France and the horrors of the Holocaust - and has since dedicated her life to education and improving conditions in life for people in need - a journey she describes in her memoir, Force of Nature: The Remarkable True Story of One Holocaust Survivor’s Resilience, Tenacity, and Purpose. Gisele joins In Piazza to talk through her journey and more on the Future of Learning, from the classroom to the frontier of machine learning in AI. Don't miss it!

This episode of in Piazza brings together education leaders and Yass Prize Awardees David Wofford of Chickasaw Public Schools and Amparo Suarez of Hope Youth Ranch with leading authority on the impact of external forces on student’s mental health Erica Komisar, to talk about what’s causing the stressors on our kids, and what we can do to mitigate the impact of an unhealthy climate on our children.