Episode Transcript
iHeartMedia present CEOs you should know.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
In the studio Todd Dixon, founder and CEO of Valor
Collegiate Academy. Tell us about yourself.
Speaker 3 (00:09):
So I grew up in Colorado, went to college and
ended up starting a real estate company. Had an early
midlife crisis around twenty nine. I was like, I want
to do something more meaningful with my life. So I
decided to sell the real estate company and went back
to school to get a master's in education. So I
started a school with a group of friends in California,
and Mayor Carl Dean toured those schools and recruited me
(00:31):
to Nashville to start a new set of schools here.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
What is the mission of your organization.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
To empower our diverse community to live inspired in purposeful lives.
Public schools are critical to all communities, and they're at
risk to be honest, and so we're trying to think
through like how can we help be a part of
making a strong public system so that we have really
well educated, kind human beings that are coming into the
world to be the future of our country.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Describe what your organization is about.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Yeah, we're a public charter school, middle school, and high school. Really.
We set out to work on three major crisises at
the achievement gap crisis, especially for kids from marginalized backgrounds.
The second one is a loneliness or connection crisis, depending
on how you define it. And then the third is
the polarization crisis, and how can we help them reach
across lines of difference and really see the strengths and diversity.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Todd Dixon a Valor Collegiate Academy. Where can people find
out more?
Speaker 3 (01:23):
You can just google Valornashville and you'll find our website
and it's Valor Collegiate dot org.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
This has been iHeartMedia's CEOs. You should know
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