Jobs, Housing and Schools Worth Coming Home To in Native Communities | Joshua Arce

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