Episode Notes

Table of Contents

1:25 Growing up in New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, and childhood trauma

2:16 College and Hurricane Katrina

2:55 Starting again in North Texas

3:30 Working at Wal Mart

4:07 Returning to college to finish her undergraduate degree

4:33 Brandy starts teaching math

5:22 Brandy becomes an English teacher

5:35 Brandy returns to New Orleans start an “Earn to Learn” program run by Tulane University

5:45 Why Brandy decided she had to start a new school: her son

9:30 How Brandy’s son’s experience changed how she looked at other students and parents

11:20 Brandy joins the 4.0 Schools Essentials program and starts planning her new school

11:40 The difference between “customer” and “user” for a school

12:30 Brandy’s first iteration: a school for twice-exceptional learners ONLY

14:10 Brandy’s vision for spread and scale of Generation Success Academy

14:45 Where Generation Success Academy is at in their development process now

15:40 How you pilot a school without actually opening a school

16:15 Which students the Generation Success Academy will serve

17:00 How they’re making this financially sustainable

18:00 Why and how to build a strong network