Education Reimagined with Becky Pringle and Gisele Huff

Let's Find Common Ground

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🗓️ 5 August 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Everyone wants the best education for their children. But parents and teachers don't always agree on how to get there. In this episode, we hear from two education leaders whose views clashed when they first met. Gisele Huff is a philanthropist and longtime proponent of school choice, including charter schools. Becky Pringle spent her career in public education. A science teacher for three decades, she is now President of the National Education Association, the nation’s largest labor union. After some deep initial skepticism, these women and other leaders came together and developed a transformational vision for US education. Along the way, they developed a deep respect for one another, and a friendship that has helped each of them through personal tragedies. This episode is co-produced in partnership with Convergence Center for Policy Resolution— one of a series of podcasts that Common Ground Committee and Convergence are producing together.

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0:00.0	Everyone wants the best education for their children,
0:03.1	but parents and teachers don't always agree on how to get there.
0:07.1	In this episode, we talk with two education leaders
0:10.8	whose visions clashed when they first met.
0:18.9	This is Let's Find Common Ground. I'm Richard Davies.
0:22.8	And I'm Ashley Milntite.
0:24.9	Giselle Huff is a philanthropist and long-time
0:27.6	proponent of school choice, including charter schools.
0:31.2	Becky Pringle has spent her career in public education.
0:35.1	A science teacher for three decades today,
0:37.6	she's president of the National Education Association,
0:40.6	or NEA, the nation's largest teachers union.
0:44.6	Becky and Giselle first met through convergence center for policy resolution,
0:49.6	which brought them together with other education experts to agree on a vision
0:54.4	to transform education for America's kids.
0:58.0	Convergence encouraged them to leave their entrenched mindsets at the door.
1:03.6	Giselle is a Holocaust survivor who emigrated to the U.S. as a child
1:07.3	and got a shot at the American dream.
1:09.9	Becky wants every student, regardless of background, to be able to do the same.
1:15.2	I started by asking Becky about how she got interested in teaching and education.
1:19.8	I always wanted to be a teacher, always.
1:22.3	From the time I forced my two sisters to play school on the front steps of my north-filly home,
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