Providing Choice: A Florida Charter School Alliance Podcast

Providing Choice: A Florida Charter School Alliance Podcast

On the Providing Choice podcast we feature interviews with Educators, parents, leaders, legislators and students on best practices, student achievement and provide news and initiatives about the Charter School movement in Florida. This podcast is from The Florida Charter School Alliance, a non-profit charter school support and advocacy organization. Our mission is to increase student achievement and meet the demand for parental choice by assisting high quality public charter schools in Florida.

Episodes

April 20, 2025 30 mins

On this episode of Providing Choice, we learn about Special Event Risk Management from the experts at the Florida Insurance Alliance and Egis Insurance and Risk Advisors, Ryan Rupnarian & Brent Grimmel. This is an important topic for charter school leaders who plan proms, fundraisers, and special events on and off campus.

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Grades aren't the only measure of success. While they offer a familiar performance benchmark, they don't capture the full picture. On this episode of Providing Choice, Dr. Jessica Barr contextualizes NAEP scores and explores charter school achievements and learning gains that recent NAEP data...

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March 2025 marks five years since the COVID-19 lockdowns began. While many headlines focus on what’s not working in education, we will highlight what is working at Florida charter schools. In this episode, Adriana Diaz-Garcia, Principal of Somerset Academy Palms in Miami-Dade, talks about student achievement and acceleration on campus and their journey to becoming a "High Performing” school and earning a"Florida School of Excellenc...

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 On the episode of Providing Choice, Jim Horne talks about the upcoming 2025 Florida Legislative Session and gives parents and educators tips for reaching out to legislators.  
As a State Senator and Commissioner of Education, Jim Horne has played a pivotal role in advancing Florida's school choice movement and policies that empowered students and parents. Throughout his career, Jim's unwavering commitment to educational reform has...

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A quick interview with Teacher of the Year, Shereen Reid, as FCSA Executive Director Lynn Norman-Teck visits her class and they sit for a fantastic talk about what inspires Shereen on Providing Choice: The Florida Charter School Al...

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On this episode of Providing Choice, a Florida Charter School Alliance podcast series, Dr. Tony Arza discusses what the Returning Education to Our States Act means to Florida and charter schools. The Bill, introduced by Senator Rounds of South Dakota, proposes the redistribution of programs from the U.S. Department of Education to other federal departments. 


The Florida Charter School Alliance (FCSA) is a member-driven organizatio...

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Last night's results and what they mean for Charter Schools - Dr. Tony Arza on The Florida Charter School Alliance podcast , Providing Choice, discusses last night's election and what it means for schools of choice, with Executive Director Lynn Norman-Teck

The voice of the charter school movement, the Florida Charter School Alliance (FCSA) is no...

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Meet Ryan Lamping and his team at Amergis - they are providing long-term solutions to challenging staffing shortages at schools nationwide. In this episode, Ryan explains how they find critical staff — from teachers, nurses, paraprofessionals, behavior services professionals, and even cafeteria staff — for Florida school districts and charter schools. Learn more about Amergis at

The FCSA's School Leaders Fellowship trains future charter school administrators. Funded by a grant from the Florida Department of Education, the Fellowship prepares participants to successfully lead a charter school, ...

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The FCSA School Leaders Fellowship trains future charter school administrators. Fu...

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The FCSA School Leaders Fellowship trains future charter school administrators. On this episode you'll meet Shavonna Daniels, a graduate of the School Leaders Fellowship, Cohort3.

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The FCSA plays a critical role in ensuring that charter schools -- their students and teachers -- are represented during the state legislative session. On this episode, Dr. Tony Arza provides a recap of the 2024 Florida Legislative Session ...

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For National Charter Schools Week - our talk with Christian Graham, a math teacher and football coach at Duval Charters at Baymeadows. He is also an alumnus. In the episode, we speak with Mr. Graham about how his love of football and mathematics brought him back to his alma mater. #CharterSchoolsWeek

The voice of the charter school movement, the Florida Charter School Alliance (FCSA) is non-profit, member-driven organization. Our m...

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Speaking with Razia Ali Hamm, Founding board member and Principal Constellation Charter School and an FCSA School Leaders Fellow. 
 
FCSA's Lynn Norman-Teck speaks with Razia Ali Hamm about her journey to open Constellation Charter School, a parent/educator-led and community-supported initiative to bring Public Waldorf education to Alachua County, Florida. The curriculum supports children on their...
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In honor of National School Choice Week, we want to highlight two spectacular charter school teachers, who returned to their Alma Mater to teach: Aiysha Everett and Courtney Herbert. These two young women are making a big impact on...

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Ashley Cary from Hubrich Construction spoke with FCSA about their unique approach to school facility development -- streamlining the financing, design and construction of educational charter school facilities into a timely, cost-ef...

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TechnologyLab, a FCSA Marketplace partner, is the go-to IT experts for many charter schools. Their team not only provides simplified and effective IT solutions for schools but their research and development specialists understand w...

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FCSA got a chance to broadcast LIVE from the Academica Media booth at the 2022 Florida Charter School Conference and here's our talk with Dr. Tony Arza of the District/Charter Collaborative. The FCSA developed the Collaborative with a grant from FLDOE. 

The voice of the charter school movement, the Florida Charter School Alliance (FCSA) is non-profit, member-driven organization. Our mission is ...

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FCSA got a chance to broadcast live from the Academica Media booth at the 2022 Florida Charter School Conference. Here's our talk with Julie Stewart, Vice Principal of Everglades Preparatory Academy an...

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Andy Hernandez Salazar, Jr just graduated from EdVenture Charter Schoo...
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