EP #136: Changing Education with Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
Teachers are underappreciated. But we spend billions of dollars on recruiting them!? There is quite a demand in the education space right now few solutions to train and certify highly qualified professionals.
Mallory Dwinal-Palisch is a highly educated lover of education. That’s a great combination for the needs in the industry. She leads Reach University and Craft Education. These are platforms designed to help paraprofessionals in the education space find the right technical learning and certifications to join with their experience so they can acquire lead teaching positions. This episode will inspire you to help others reach their potential.
What You'll Learn In Today's Episode:
About Mallory’s unexpected path to education
About Mallory’s Rhodes Scholarship degree
How unaccredited education workers can help the education system
About the Reach model
About teacher shortages
How many paraprofessionals there are
How there is a snowball effect on education
Mallory’s thoughts on business development
About the data that Mallory’s organization have
The three general buckets of data they use to make an impact
How paraprofessionals in education can overcome roadblocks
How Mallory’s companies can maintain quality in service
How to get a hold of Mallory
Reasons why there is a lack of access to education and healthcare
Mallory’s husband’s impact project
Ideas Worth Sharing:
“Education had been this critical part of my life.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“Man makes plans and God laughs.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“I spent most of my time thinking through the business mechanics.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“My dad really struggled to find access to the opportunities he wanted.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“I kinda sucked.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“They didn’t have that piece of paper.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“In some ways, practice is our more important education.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“I had this manifesto we were trying to sell to universities.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“There was no way to do this under the constraints of a taught degree.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“Any good business development process begins with market analysis.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“There are 1.3 million paraprofessionals and classroom aids in the United States.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“We spent about 2.2 billion dollars in federal money that year on teaching recruitment.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“It would open up billions of dollars that could go back into the classroom.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“Our current systems are 0-sum.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“Inputs, process, outputs…” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“I knew I could do it…but life was in the way.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch speaking about the story of the people she serves
“We set teacher wages about 100 years ago.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“We saw the market liberalize in terms of teacher labor.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“It’s hard to be a teacher today than it has ever been - from a financial perspective.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“The biggest challenge for us is this goal around impact versus direct service.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“Our goal is to get 10,000 students in the next 4 years.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“The first goal is for Reach to build a collective impact network alongside other organizations doing this.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“My goal is that Craft be implemented in all 50 states.” - Mallory Dwinal-Palisch
“As long you know you have a passion for something, you can figure out how to apply what you do well to it.” - Bob DePasquale
“I married into a family of teachers.” - Bob DePasquale
“The practical stuff is so important.” - Bob DePasquale
Resources In Today's Episode:
Mallory Dwinal-Palisch - LinkedIn
Reach University - Website - LinkedIn - Facebook - YouTube - Twitter - Instagram
Bob’s Book - Personal Finance in a Public World
This week’s E-Impact Blog Entry
Episodes Referenced:
EP #74: Making Education Enjoyable with Dr. Christopher Brown