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The Square Pizza podcast focuses on the intersection of education, innovation, and diversity. We host and interview leaders doing incredible work around the country to ensure all students have access to an equitable education. The Square Pizza podcast is hosted by SchermCo, a social-impact implementation firm that offers strategic implementation and project management services to schools and education-focused organizations across the country.
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Shamaiye Haynes - Co-Director, QC Family Tree & CMS School Board Member
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Shamaiye Haynes is more than a school board member. She is a longtime community leader, family engagement advocate, and one of the voices helping shape the future of a $2 billion public school district. In this episode of the Square Pizza Pod, she shares how years of grassroots organizing and showing up for families prepared her to lead at the district level, and why family engagement, advocacy, and community trust are still at the center of meaningful change in education.
In this episode, you’ll learn more about:
- Why Shamaiye believes family engagement is the missing link to stronger student outcomes
- How her journey from active parent advocate to school board member prepared her to lead at the district level
- What it looks like to operationalize family engagement so schools better serve whole families, not just students
- How she thinks about school choice, charter schools, and what a stronger public education ecosystem could look like
- How Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools is approaching issues like artificial intelligence, cell phone policy, and support for teachers and families