Episode Details

How can schools and communities build opportunity worth coming home to?

Joshua Arce, president and CEO of Partnership With Native Americans (PWNA), joins Mason Pashia and Jason Cummins to talk about how showing up builds trust with school communities, why leadership training and local jobs matter, and how culture and language support the whole student. It is a conversation for school leaders, superintendents and educators about what lasting support for Native students and communities can look like.

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00:00 Introduction
02:00 What Partnership With Native Americans Does
04:45 Working With PWNA as a Superintendent and Lessons From Haskell
10:55 Building Trust With Communities and BIE Schools
14:00 Identifying and Rebuilding Systemic Barriers in Schools
16:50 Entrepreneurship, Brain Drain and Local Opportunity
21:30 Staying, Leaving and Coming Back With Gifts
23:30 What Gives Josh Hope: Food Sovereignty and Community
27:00 Advice for Starting a Nonprofit
31:30 Schools as Ecosystems and Closing the Gap
38:25 Funding Systems and Barriers for Native Students
39:40 What's Next for PWNA and Why Physical Work Is Innovation

Joshua Arce: https://nativepartnership.org/bio-josh-arce/
Partnership With Native Americans: https://nativepartnership.org