Using Data to Improve Education with Aimee Guidera

In this episode of Swimming Upstream, we have Aimee Guidera, the Secretary of Education in Virginia. She oversees education from Pre-K through Postsecondary in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

Aimee describes how they’re using the information to identify where the education system is in Virginia and what they’re going to change to get different results. She explains how they support and empower parents, teachers, and students to engage, work together, and deliver results.

Listen in to learn the critical role of parents in their children’s lives, especially the education they consume.

What You Will Discover:

• 00:00 Episode Begins

• 02:57 How Aimee uses her experience to change the culture and utilize data in education.

• 04:52 How Virginia uses data to see and expand educational opportunities for every child.

• 07:13 How to support and empower parents, teachers, and students to work together.

• 09:11 The ways Virginia is engaging and reaffirming parents’ critical role in their kids’ lives.

• 13:15 How they’re dealing with the teacher shortage by removing barriers and offering support.

• 18:31 The power of having data creates urgency and changes the education system's crisis.

• 19:22 Aimee’s hope in executing students, parents, and teachers’ partnership in the next year.

Connect with Aimee:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aimee-guidera-27a2646/

Produced by Old Soul