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. 📬 Free weekly newsletter: https://www.gettingsmart.com/newsletter/ 🎧 Full episode + transcript: https://www.gettingsmart.com/podcast/ 🍎 Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/getting-smart-podcast/id1017984086 · 🟢 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2cUXLWi6LxdMxihgzzTntf?si=c4754b8f8bd449fc 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 23:30 What Gives Josh Hope: Food Sovereignty and Community 27:00 Advice for Starting a Nonprofit 31:30 Schools as Ecosystems and Closing the Gap 38:25 Funding Systems and Barriers for Native Students 39:40 What's Next for PWNA and Why Physical Work Is Innovation Joshua Arce: https://nativepartnership.org/bio-josh-arce/ Partnership With Native Americans: https://nativepartnership.org