September 6, 2023 • 19 mins
The Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship will provide a hands-on, engaging program designed to bring entrepreneurial and economic concepts alive for students. The lessons related to the Pennsylvania Core Curriculum of English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies will incorporate the basic economic and entrepreneurial concepts.https://phcharter.org/
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(00:05):
And welcome in. This is theCEOs You Should Know podcast. I'm your
host, Johnny Hartwell, let's sayhello to doctor Wayne Jones, the CEO
of Penn Hill's Charter School of Entrepreneurship. Thank you for joining me. Thank
you, John, Thank you forhaving me. All Right, so tell
us everything we need to know aboutyour school. Well, first things first,
the Pen Hill's Charter School of Entrepreneurshipis the only public school in the
(00:28):
state of Pennsylvania teaching students entrepreneurship andgrades K through eight. We opened our
doors in the fall of twenty elevento students and grades K through two.
And at that time we had implementeda curriculum called micro Society, and which
at the time was that we werethe first school teach teaching micro society to
(00:49):
students and grades K through two.And we had a little over two hundred
students enrolled in the first year.And now we're in our thirteenth school year
and we have over five hundred studentsenrolled in grades K through eight. So
we've been growing, you know,pretty rapidly and consistently since inception in twoy
eleven. All Right, you mentioneda word that I'm not familiar with micro
(01:11):
society. What is that? Somicro society is exactly you know what it
sounds like. It's a miniature society. So our students have the opportunity of
you know, developing businesses and beingowners of those businesses, being employees of
those businesses, managing their own youknow, banking system. Uh and and
(01:34):
also you know, serving in differentlevels. Our capacities of form the form
of government. And so we havea president, we have a vice president,
we have a Speaker of the House. We have peacekeepers who are essentially
our law enforcement agency. As Imentioned, we have a bank and so
we have tellers, and you know, we have bank managers, and our
(01:57):
students, you know, have debitcards and their manager you know, their
their registers and checkbooks, you nameit. What we experience as adults through
our daily living experiences. Our studentshave the opportunity of replicating that in their
miniature society that is is hosted andoperated in our school. And this is
(02:21):
the only school in Pennsylvania that doessomething like this. We're the only school
offering that type of educational model.So what's the advantage. The ultimate goal
is to prepare you know, ourstudents to you know, have a very
seamless transition into the real world.And so we're giving we're equipping them with
(02:42):
a knowledge, the skills and thecompetencies, you know, to be successful
day one. You know, Iknow, you know, through my experience
when I was in education or ingrade school, I'll say that, you
know, I didn't know too muchabout, you know, managing my finances.
I didn't know too much about owningor operating a business. I didn't
know too much about being an employee, you know, or better yet,
(03:07):
being a leader and managing people.And so, you know, I think
through you know, my collegiate,my post secondary education experience in college,
it was when I first really gotintroduced to you know, how really introduced
interworkings of society and interworkings and thedaily experiences of my parents and other adults
(03:30):
that were in my life who hadto you know, who had jobs to
make a living and to pay billsand to ensure that their children had everything
they needed to be successful, youknow, whether that was you know,
ensuring there was food on the table, our roof over their heads, in
terms of having a home or housing. I was just going to say,
(03:51):
we're fast tracking and expediting that processfor our young people. Right, so
instead of them being thrusted and throwninto the real world without any you know,
practical experience or understanding, you know, we're giving We're putting that in
their hands as early as kindergarten whenthey're five years old. I'm not sure
I even to have those kills.It's but it's it's true. So what
(04:15):
is the overarching mission and core valuesof your school? So we we go
by four you know, central corevalues and uh the acronyms care, right,
C, A, R E.And so the first core value is
character, and we we focus onenshowing that our students understand and know how
(04:36):
to respect one another first and foremostthe pairs. And then secondly to understand,
you know how, from a societystandpoint, how they can utilize their
own skills and abilities to improve theirway of life and to improve the way
of life of others. Right,So you have to first understand, you
(04:56):
know, what is the need,and you have to understand, you know,
how things how society is currently operating. And then secondly, our second
core values academics and so that's theA and our care and so for them
to understand, you know, howthe knowledge, the skills and the tools
that they're learning and obtaining through oureducational model can be utilized once they leave
(05:18):
our our our school building, rightso almost immediately, that's while they're students
and upon graduation. And thirdly,relationships and that's the r and so we
are big on our students understanding that, you know, the importance of having
(05:38):
good rapport and connection you know,with with their peers and in the staff
and our building. And so wewe spend a lot of time you know
with the relationship building, you know, with our students and our staff,
to our students with our staff,to our parents, with our outside you
know, our external partners and communitymembers, you know who are our friends
(06:02):
and partners of the school as well. And so with that you come into
our building, you know, it'sa very warm feeling that you get upon
entry. And it's because you knowof our relationship score value. You know,
we are very big on that andwe value it tremendously. And then
lastly, entrepreneurs is the e enand care and that it just more so
(06:26):
is reiterating to our students, ourparents, our staff, our supporters and
partners that we're using entrepreneurship as avehicle to ensuring our students are successful,
to ensure our students are prepared tolead upon graduating from from our school,
no matter what they choose to doother than the micro society, Do you
(06:46):
also teach like the classes that youmight see at in public school, the
history, math and things like that. Is that is that over and above
what you do as far as themicro society is concerned. Yeah, and
so microsociety isn't isn't a curriculum thatwe're using to teach entrepreneurship to students in
grade skate through sixth like that's ourfoundation, and then it's in seventh and
(07:11):
eighth grade. They take that foundationalknowledge and experience and they create, you
know, businesses in which they're buyingand selling. People are able to buy
their products, and they're selling theirproducts to the real world. So two
people, you know, outside ofour school and also in our school,
we have an e commerce website andstudents we're selling products on the website and
(07:34):
they're packaging them in our school,and they're and they're melling them out,
you know, to corporations, toindividuals. They're taking part in Shark Tank
events and pitch competitions in which you'remaking real money. Uh, they're vending
pop up shops in the community andthroughout the Pittsburgh region this past year,
(07:57):
this past summer, they were exhibitorsnational conference called the State of Black Learning,
which is hosted an annually in Pittsburgh. And we have students who made
you know, nearly a thousand dollarsover a two day time period vending and
selling you know, their their theirtheir products from their their businesses. And
so in seventh and eighth grade,they're taking as I mentioned that that that
(08:20):
knowledge and you know that they've beenobtaining and gaining for seven years and they're
applying it, you know, inthe real world. And so our students,
you know, are able to tolaunch businesses, you know, while
they're in school, you know,which is extremely cool. What makes our
school the most unique? You askedthe question about our you know, some
of the traditional courses and classes thatstudents would experience in your traditional public schools
(08:45):
or even your independent in private schools, is parochial schools as well, We
have been able to integrate entrepreneurial conceptsin every single class that the students are
taking part in. So our teachersare actually tasks and required as part of
their less implanted submission and which isapproved by our school principle and our our
(09:07):
academic department. They are required forevery activity in homework assignment that the students
are engaged and there has to bean entrepreneurial connection to it. And so
we are the only school in thestate of Pennsylvania, and from what we
believe, the only school teaching studentsin grades K through eight who have imployed
(09:28):
and implemented this type of model,meaning ensuring that every single thing the students
are learning daily throughout the entirety ofthe school year has a connection to entrepreneurship
or business ownership. I love thisidea. Actually, this conversation is blowing
my mind. So give us,give us an example. Give me an
(09:50):
example of a type of student thatsucceeds at your school. Oh, there's
a number of them, and soI'll give you, you know, one
example, and it was just,you know, just a you know,
a snippet our you know, ofwhat our students have been accomplishing. So
we have a one young lady,she actually is in tenth grade this year,
(10:11):
and when she was a student inour school. She was the author
of a book. Uh and sheauthored this book based on her personal experience,
you know, in in when shewas in elementary school and she she
came over to her she was atransfer student. She entered our school in
middle school. And when she wasin elementary school, unfortunately, she was
(10:35):
a victim of bullying. And theway in which she coped with the bullying,
bullying through her elementary experience was tojournal and document her experiences. And
that was you know, her outlet, her way of you know, of
ensuring that she didn't bottle up allof these emotions and in experiences that she
(10:58):
was having them, and so shewas putting them down on paper. And
she when she came into her school, you know, she would speak about
these share of these experiences, youknow, with our our staff and even
some of our pairs. And shewas encouraged to become an author and to
write her own book. And sheauthored a book, and I believe it
(11:20):
was called at the title of thebook is the Girl in the Shadows.
And while she was a student inour school, she sold over seven hundred
copies of her book on Amazon.And she's actually now in the process of
authoring a second book, and withthat first book, she decided to partner
(11:41):
with one of her classmates, andher classmate had came up with a business
idea in which she was helping studentsaddress their bullying experiences our cope with their
bullying experiences in school using utilizing thisjournaling technique. And what she and another
(12:03):
young lady decided to do during thisschool day, she would they would go
into lunches and they would meet with, you know, students who who were
experiencing, you know, had experiencesexperiencing bullying, and they were helping them
or engaging them with this journaling techniqueand they were hosting workshops now for the
(12:24):
young students, both boys and girlsin our school, and they were helping
them to utilize this technique to overcomesome of their experiences. So the young
lady took her parents as elementary schoolpartner with another student in our school when
she trans transferred into our school,and it was a huge success, and
(12:46):
they actually launched and upon graduation,they launched their own podcasts. And what
they were doing was they were bringingstudents onto the podcast and they were talking
about their bulling experiences and how theywere able to overcome and to cope with
those experiences utilizing this journaling technique.And it's something as I mentioned, the
young lady implored herself, not realizingor knowing that she could actually transform or
(13:11):
transfer that into a business, andit became an entire business model for her
and it was extremely successful. Soyou have a school of entrepreneurs. What
kind of reaction are you getting fromreal entrepreneurs, real businesses? What kind
of reaction are you getting from PittsburghIn the hold? You get a lot
of help from the from the community. We do so first things First,
(13:33):
a number of our parents, probablymore than half of them, are business
owners and so small and large businessowners. And you know, one of
the coolest things that I hear fromfrom those parents is that, you know,
they chose our school because although they'reable to expose their children to entrepreneurship
(13:54):
right through you know, just modeling, you know, what entrepreneurs do on
a daily basis, many of themdidn't learn entrepreneurship from a textbook, you
know, sort of standpoint our sense, and so we're actually able to add
value to their you know, aspiringour young you know, entrepreneurs by connecting,
(14:18):
you know, by applying like theoryto the practice right, and that's
pretty much what you know, educationis. It's taken, you know,
a theoretical approach to preparing or helpingyoung people to understand, you know,
what they're going to experience through practiceright in reality, in the real world.
And so we're one of the veryyou know, few schools and maybe
(14:39):
the only school who is taking this, you know, who is applying theory
with practice. So we're exposed notonly exposing our students to you know,
creating and building and designing businesses,but also educating them on you know,
what business ownership means and is rightin so you know, you know,
(15:01):
because of that, our parents aremany of our parents are interested in heaving
intrigue you know, and send tosending their kids, you know, to
our school. Oh yeah, Igot a million questions and we just started,
and I only have a couple ofminutes left, doctor Jones. This
is such a unique school, andI wish I could talk to you all
day, but you know, Ionly have like six, you know,
two minutes left. Uh So,let me ask you, what is the
(15:24):
biggest challenge, what is the biggestmisconception people have about your school? And
what do you want to say topeople who kind of don't understand what your
school really does. Well. Firstof all, the biggest misconceptions I'll speak
to that regarding the charter school movement. So charter schools are in fact public
schools. There is no tuition toattend our school. It is free,
(15:46):
you know, and with that,we aren't taking money or resources from traditional
public schools. The way the fundingformulas set up, the dollars are the
funds follow the child or the students, and so you know, our budget
is dictated by the number of studentsthat we have in our school, therefore
(16:07):
in the seats in each one ofour classes, and so we have to
have we have we're utilizing our resourcesand our funds to pay our teachers in
our staff to support the learning andthe education of the students that are in
our school. That's first and foremost. The second thing is, you know,
we're a school for entrepreneurship, andwe believe that our model can be
(16:30):
you know, can be transformative innature in terms of level leveling the playing
field you know, for for allpeople. Many of our our our students
live in our our low income orlive below the poverty line, and we
believe entrepreneurship is the key to changingthe narrative and therefore leveling the playing field
(16:53):
for all people, and to ensurethat our young people are given the keys
to success and to be successful inthe future, and they can create businesses
and opportunities for themselves, but alsotheir peers and their friends and their family
members as well. And so that'sthat's what makes our school the most unique,
(17:15):
and that's what I would love forpeople to understand about our unique model
is that it's a school for allpeople. And with that, we're hoping
that we can transform society. Wecan improve the economy by educating and equipping
young people with the skills and thecopt and the competencies to be successful as
(17:37):
soon as they graduate from school,better yet to be successful while they are
in school. And if somebody wantsmore information on your school, what's your
website p h charter dot org org. And what they'll find on our website
as well is that I am thefounder of Dominus High School and which will
be the first public school, publiccharter school in the state of Pennsylvania with
(18:02):
the core focus and entrepreneurship. Ourgoal is to open up our doors to
ninth grade students in the fall oftwenty twenty four, and we fully expect
that many of the graduates from pennHill Charter School Entrepreneurship will enroll into Dominus
High School. Also, hopefully thereare more you know, young are interested
entrepreneurs, are youth entrepreneurs who maywant to enroll and apply for enrollment at
(18:27):
Dominus, as I mentioned, whichwill be the only school public school for
entrepreneurship in the state of Pennsylvania.Doctor Wayne Jones, CEO a pen Hill's
Charter School of Entrepreneurship and a CEOyou should know. This has been fun.
Thank you so much. Thank you, John, I really appreciate the
opportunity this has been The CEOs youshould Know podcast showcasing businesses that are driving
(18:48):
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I'm Johnny hart Well, thank youso much for listening.
And welcome in. This is theCEOs You Should Know podcast. I'm your
host, Johnny Hartwell, let's sayhello to doctor Wayne Jones, the CEO
of Penn Hill's Charter School of Entrepreneurship. Thank you for joining me. Thank
you, John, Thank you forhaving me. All Right, so tell
us everything we need to know aboutyour school. Well, first things first,
the Pen Hill's Charter School of Entrepreneurshipis the only public school in the
(00:28):
state of Pennsylvania teaching students entrepreneurship andgrades K through eight. We opened our
doors in the fall of twenty elevento students and grades K through two.
And at that time we had implementeda curriculum called micro Society, and which
at the time was that we werethe first school teach teaching micro society to
(00:49):
students and grades K through two.And we had a little over two hundred
students enrolled in the first year.And now we're in our thirteenth school year
and we have over five hundred studentsenrolled in grades K through eight. So
we've been growing, you know,pretty rapidly and consistently since inception in twoy
eleven. All Right, you mentioneda word that I'm not familiar with micro
(01:11):
society. What is that? Somicro society is exactly you know what it
sounds like. It's a miniature society. So our students have the opportunity of
you know, developing businesses and beingowners of those businesses, being employees of
those businesses, managing their own youknow, banking system. Uh and and
(01:34):
also you know, serving in differentlevels. Our capacities of form the form
of government. And so we havea president, we have a vice president,
we have a Speaker of the House. We have peacekeepers who are essentially
our law enforcement agency. As Imentioned, we have a bank and so
we have tellers, and you know, we have bank managers, and our
(01:57):
students, you know, have debitcards and their manager you know, their
their registers and checkbooks, you nameit. What we experience as adults through
our daily living experiences. Our studentshave the opportunity of replicating that in their
miniature society that is is hosted andoperated in our school. And this is
(02:21):
the only school in Pennsylvania that doessomething like this. We're the only school
offering that type of educational model.So what's the advantage. The ultimate goal
is to prepare you know, ourstudents to you know, have a very
seamless transition into the real world.And so we're giving we're equipping them with
(02:42):
a knowledge, the skills and thecompetencies, you know, to be successful
day one. You know, Iknow, you know, through my experience
when I was in education or ingrade school, I'll say that, you
know, I didn't know too muchabout, you know, managing my finances.
I didn't know too much about owningor operating a business. I didn't
know too much about being an employee, you know, or better yet,
(03:07):
being a leader and managing people.And so, you know, I think
through you know, my collegiate,my post secondary education experience in college,
it was when I first really gotintroduced to you know, how really introduced
interworkings of society and interworkings and thedaily experiences of my parents and other adults
(03:30):
that were in my life who hadto you know, who had jobs to
make a living and to pay billsand to ensure that their children had everything
they needed to be successful, youknow, whether that was you know,
ensuring there was food on the table, our roof over their heads, in
terms of having a home or housing. I was just going to say,
(03:51):
we're fast tracking and expediting that processfor our young people. Right, so
instead of them being thrusted and throwninto the real world without any you know,
practical experience or understanding, you know, we're giving We're putting that in
their hands as early as kindergarten whenthey're five years old. I'm not sure
I even to have those kills.It's but it's it's true. So what
(04:15):
is the overarching mission and core valuesof your school? So we we go
by four you know, central corevalues and uh the acronyms care, right,
C, A, R E.And so the first core value is
character, and we we focus onenshowing that our students understand and know how
(04:36):
to respect one another first and foremostthe pairs. And then secondly to understand,
you know how, from a societystandpoint, how they can utilize their
own skills and abilities to improve theirway of life and to improve the way
of life of others. Right,So you have to first understand, you
(04:56):
know, what is the need,and you have to understand, you know,
how things how society is currently operating. And then secondly, our second
core values academics and so that's theA and our care and so for them
to understand, you know, howthe knowledge, the skills and the tools
that they're learning and obtaining through oureducational model can be utilized once they leave
(05:18):
our our our school building, rightso almost immediately, that's while they're students
and upon graduation. And thirdly,relationships and that's the r and so we
are big on our students understanding that, you know, the importance of having
(05:38):
good rapport and connection you know,with with their peers and in the staff
and our building. And so wewe spend a lot of time you know
with the relationship building, you know, with our students and our staff,
to our students with our staff,to our parents, with our outside you
know, our external partners and communitymembers, you know who are our friends
(06:02):
and partners of the school as well. And so with that you come into
our building, you know, it'sa very warm feeling that you get upon
entry. And it's because you knowof our relationship score value. You know,
we are very big on that andwe value it tremendously. And then
lastly, entrepreneurs is the e enand care and that it just more so
(06:26):
is reiterating to our students, ourparents, our staff, our supporters and
partners that we're using entrepreneurship as avehicle to ensuring our students are successful,
to ensure our students are prepared tolead upon graduating from from our school,
no matter what they choose to doother than the micro society, Do you
(06:46):
also teach like the classes that youmight see at in public school, the
history, math and things like that. Is that is that over and above
what you do as far as themicro society is concerned. Yeah, and
so microsociety isn't isn't a curriculum thatwe're using to teach entrepreneurship to students in
grade skate through sixth like that's ourfoundation, and then it's in seventh and
(07:11):
eighth grade. They take that foundationalknowledge and experience and they create, you
know, businesses in which they're buyingand selling. People are able to buy
their products, and they're selling theirproducts to the real world. So two
people, you know, outside ofour school and also in our school,
we have an e commerce website andstudents we're selling products on the website and
(07:34):
they're packaging them in our school,and they're and they're melling them out,
you know, to corporations, toindividuals. They're taking part in Shark Tank
events and pitch competitions in which you'remaking real money. Uh, they're vending
pop up shops in the community andthroughout the Pittsburgh region this past year,
(07:57):
this past summer, they were exhibitorsnational conference called the State of Black Learning,
which is hosted an annually in Pittsburgh. And we have students who made
you know, nearly a thousand dollarsover a two day time period vending and
selling you know, their their theirtheir products from their their businesses. And
so in seventh and eighth grade,they're taking as I mentioned that that that
(08:20):
knowledge and you know that they've beenobtaining and gaining for seven years and they're
applying it, you know, inthe real world. And so our students,
you know, are able to tolaunch businesses, you know, while
they're in school, you know,which is extremely cool. What makes our
school the most unique? You askedthe question about our you know, some
of the traditional courses and classes thatstudents would experience in your traditional public schools
(08:45):
or even your independent in private schools, is parochial schools as well, We
have been able to integrate entrepreneurial conceptsin every single class that the students are
taking part in. So our teachersare actually tasks and required as part of
their less implanted submission and which isapproved by our school principle and our our
(09:07):
academic department. They are required forevery activity in homework assignment that the students
are engaged and there has to bean entrepreneurial connection to it. And so
we are the only school in thestate of Pennsylvania, and from what we
believe, the only school teaching studentsin grades K through eight who have imployed
(09:28):
and implemented this type of model,meaning ensuring that every single thing the students
are learning daily throughout the entirety ofthe school year has a connection to entrepreneurship
or business ownership. I love thisidea. Actually, this conversation is blowing
my mind. So give us,give us an example. Give me an
(09:50):
example of a type of student thatsucceeds at your school. Oh, there's
a number of them, and soI'll give you, you know, one
example, and it was just,you know, just a you know,
a snippet our you know, ofwhat our students have been accomplishing. So
we have a one young lady,she actually is in tenth grade this year,
(10:11):
and when she was a student inour school. She was the author
of a book. Uh and sheauthored this book based on her personal experience,
you know, in in when shewas in elementary school and she she
came over to her she was atransfer student. She entered our school in
middle school. And when she wasin elementary school, unfortunately, she was
(10:35):
a victim of bullying. And theway in which she coped with the bullying,
bullying through her elementary experience was tojournal and document her experiences. And
that was you know, her outlet, her way of you know, of
ensuring that she didn't bottle up allof these emotions and in experiences that she
(10:58):
was having them, and so shewas putting them down on paper. And
she when she came into her school, you know, she would speak about
these share of these experiences, youknow, with our our staff and even
some of our pairs. And shewas encouraged to become an author and to
write her own book. And sheauthored a book, and I believe it
(11:20):
was called at the title of thebook is the Girl in the Shadows.
And while she was a student inour school, she sold over seven hundred
copies of her book on Amazon.And she's actually now in the process of
authoring a second book, and withthat first book, she decided to partner
(11:41):
with one of her classmates, andher classmate had came up with a business
idea in which she was helping studentsaddress their bullying experiences our cope with their
bullying experiences in school using utilizing thisjournaling technique. And what she and another
(12:03):
young lady decided to do during thisschool day, she would they would go
into lunches and they would meet with, you know, students who who were
experiencing, you know, had experiencesexperiencing bullying, and they were helping them
or engaging them with this journaling techniqueand they were hosting workshops now for the
(12:24):
young students, both boys and girlsin our school, and they were helping
them to utilize this technique to overcomesome of their experiences. So the young
lady took her parents as elementary schoolpartner with another student in our school when
she trans transferred into our school,and it was a huge success, and
(12:46):
they actually launched and upon graduation,they launched their own podcasts. And what
they were doing was they were bringingstudents onto the podcast and they were talking
about their bulling experiences and how theywere able to overcome and to cope with
those experiences utilizing this journaling technique.And it's something as I mentioned, the
young lady implored herself, not realizingor knowing that she could actually transform or
(13:11):
transfer that into a business, andit became an entire business model for her
and it was extremely successful. Soyou have a school of entrepreneurs. What
kind of reaction are you getting fromreal entrepreneurs, real businesses? What kind
of reaction are you getting from PittsburghIn the hold? You get a lot
of help from the from the community. We do so first things First,
(13:33):
a number of our parents, probablymore than half of them, are business
owners and so small and large businessowners. And you know, one of
the coolest things that I hear fromfrom those parents is that, you know,
they chose our school because although they'reable to expose their children to entrepreneurship
(13:54):
right through you know, just modeling, you know, what entrepreneurs do on
a daily basis, many of themdidn't learn entrepreneurship from a textbook, you
know, sort of standpoint our sense, and so we're actually able to add
value to their you know, aspiringour young you know, entrepreneurs by connecting,
(14:18):
you know, by applying like theoryto the practice right, and that's
pretty much what you know, educationis. It's taken, you know,
a theoretical approach to preparing or helpingyoung people to understand, you know,
what they're going to experience through practiceright in reality, in the real world.
And so we're one of the veryyou know, few schools and maybe
(14:39):
the only school who is taking this, you know, who is applying theory
with practice. So we're exposed notonly exposing our students to you know,
creating and building and designing businesses,but also educating them on you know,
what business ownership means and is rightin so you know, you know,
(15:01):
because of that, our parents aremany of our parents are interested in heaving
intrigue you know, and send tosending their kids, you know, to
our school. Oh yeah, Igot a million questions and we just started,
and I only have a couple ofminutes left, doctor Jones. This
is such a unique school, andI wish I could talk to you all
day, but you know, Ionly have like six, you know,
two minutes left. Uh So,let me ask you, what is the
(15:24):
biggest challenge, what is the biggestmisconception people have about your school? And
what do you want to say topeople who kind of don't understand what your
school really does. Well. Firstof all, the biggest misconceptions I'll speak
to that regarding the charter school movement. So charter schools are in fact public
schools. There is no tuition toattend our school. It is free,
(15:46):
you know, and with that,we aren't taking money or resources from traditional
public schools. The way the fundingformulas set up, the dollars are the
funds follow the child or the students, and so you know, our budget
is dictated by the number of studentsthat we have in our school, therefore
(16:07):
in the seats in each one ofour classes, and so we have to
have we have we're utilizing our resourcesand our funds to pay our teachers in
our staff to support the learning andthe education of the students that are in
our school. That's first and foremost. The second thing is, you know,
we're a school for entrepreneurship, andwe believe that our model can be
(16:30):
you know, can be transformative innature in terms of level leveling the playing
field you know, for for allpeople. Many of our our our students
live in our our low income orlive below the poverty line, and we
believe entrepreneurship is the key to changingthe narrative and therefore leveling the playing field
(16:53):
for all people, and to ensurethat our young people are given the keys
to success and to be successful inthe future, and they can create businesses
and opportunities for themselves, but alsotheir peers and their friends and their family
members as well. And so that'sthat's what makes our school the most unique,
(17:15):
and that's what I would love forpeople to understand about our unique model
is that it's a school for allpeople. And with that, we're hoping
that we can transform society. Wecan improve the economy by educating and equipping
young people with the skills and thecopt and the competencies to be successful as
(17:37):
soon as they graduate from school,better yet to be successful while they are
in school. And if somebody wantsmore information on your school, what's your
website p h charter dot org org. And what they'll find on our website
as well is that I am thefounder of Dominus High School and which will
be the first public school, publiccharter school in the state of Pennsylvania with
(18:02):
the core focus and entrepreneurship. Ourgoal is to open up our doors to
ninth grade students in the fall oftwenty twenty four, and we fully expect
that many of the graduates from pennHill Charter School Entrepreneurship will enroll into Dominus
High School. Also, hopefully thereare more you know, young are interested
entrepreneurs, are youth entrepreneurs who maywant to enroll and apply for enrollment at
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Dominus, as I mentioned, whichwill be the only school public school for
entrepreneurship in the state of Pennsylvania.Doctor Wayne Jones, CEO a pen Hill's
Charter School of Entrepreneurship and a CEOyou should know. This has been fun.
Thank you so much. Thank you, John, I really appreciate the
opportunity this has been The CEOs youshould Know podcast showcasing businesses that are driving
(18:48):
our regional economy. Part of iHeartMediais commitment to the communities we serve.
I'm Johnny hart Well, thank youso much for listening.
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