For the previous three years, Getting Smart has hosted regional New Pathways events sponsored by Britebound across the country, with the latest taking place in the great city of Chicago.

In this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast, hosts Victoria Andrews and Shawnee Caruthers travel to Chicago for the Uncharted Learning annual summit, where they sit down with students, alumni, teachers, a first-year educator, a school champion, and a program director to explore what happens when entrepreneurship becomes the organizing principle of a school community. From Mika Chang discovering her business-minded identity to Connor Boundy reflecting on pitching venture capitalists as a teenager in the very first INCubatoredu cohort, and from Alan Carranza connecting delegation skills to life in the Army National Guard to Spiky founder Abigail turning a product into statewide policy advocacy, the episode braids together voices across generations, roles, and geographies to reveal what Uncharted Learning has built over more than a decade...

• AI As Learning Partner
• Portraits That Align & Inspire
• Work That Matters
• Growing Staff
• New Models in Networks

Check out an edited and linked transcript below that walks through these ideas, highlights a few of the leading exemplars and threads them together.

On this episode of Getting Smart Podcast Victoria Andrews discusses student entrepreneurship with an awesome group from Frisco ISD. Tommy Thompson teaches Marketing, Entrepreneurship and Finance Classes, as well as the DECA sponsor in Frisco ISD. Before teaching he worked in the corporate world for 18 years, started his own business, and served as an industry volunteer in the INCubatoredu program at Centennial High School which he now teaches. 

The initial kernel of an idea was that students need to learn about entrepreneurship sooner so they can hit the ground running. “The goal was to change the trajectory of student lives in this generation. We weren’t going to be patient enough to wait for the community to catch up,” said Dr. Tom Leonard.