Hello and welcome back to Franklin Covey's on Leadership Series.

My name is Scott Miller and I serve as your weekly interviewer and host.

As you may know, this is now the world's largest subscription newsletter dedicated to the topic of leadership.

Just passed our one-year mark, we've had an amazing ride, best-selling authors, CEOs, business

leaders.

We're also inviting now international guests on.

We also like to mix it up and not just have people that are luminaries and leaders of businesses,

but also people who are giving back to their communities that are working with students and

educators and not-for-profits.

And today is just that day.

I'm delighted to welcome to On Leadership Dr. Curtis Jones, who is the superintendent of Bibb County schools in Georgia, and has also been

named as Georgia's superintendent of the year and the 2019 national superintendent of the Year for all of the US.

Dr Jones, welcome to On Leadership.

Thank you so very much. I'm very happy to be with you.

What an honor, sir. We're so honored and delighted that you can squeeze out 30 minutes from your educators, administrators,

and most importantly, the students in Bibb County to come and talk to us.

We have some great questions today to talk to you around

what is the state of education in your mind? What is the future look like?

What are some of the challenges that you face as an superintendent?

What can business leaders and parents do to become more involved?

I want to talk about your district and the challenges that you faced

and what is your

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