Community Conversations with NACSA

About Community Conversations with NACSA

The only podcast that tells the stories of charter school authorizing and the people that strive to ensure students and families have access to quality public schools.

Publisher

National Association of Charter School Authorizers

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

23 Jun 2023

Latest episode

22 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

36 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   22 Sept 2026

   Financial Oversight in Practice: A Conversation with Jamie Garwood

   Spotting a financial red flag at a charter school is one thing. Knowing what to do next is another. In this episode, David Greenberg sits down with Jamie Garwood of Ball State University to talk through a real financial oversight challenge she faced—and how NACSA's financial oversight community helped her navigate it. It's a candid look at what strong financial oversight actually requires: not just standards and tools, but a network of peers willing to share what they know. qualitycharters.org

2. 

   31 Aug 2026

   Financial Oversight at the Start of the School Year

   This episode is drawn directly from a Third Thursdays session with NACSA's financial oversight community — a monthly peer group where authorizers work through real oversight challenges together. David Greenberg, who leads NACSA's Authorizer Learning and Development team, walks through NACSA's Guide to Performance Frameworks and works a live case study with the group: a K-8 school (anonymized here) carrying significant long-term debt, a clean but improving audit history, and a board that shows...

3. 

   7 Aug 2026

   From Approved to Open: Tennessee's Approach to Readiness

   What happens between a charter school's approval and its opening day? In this episode of Community Conversations with NACSA, Sophie Binenfeld Gilmore of the Tennessee Public Charter School Commission joins us to unpack how NACSA's Ready to Open Criteria helps authorizers ensure new schools are truly prepared to serve students from day one. qualitycharters.org

Who has been a guest on Community Conversations with NACSA

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• David Greenberg
• Rachel Hannah
• Jason Moore
• Laurie Schroeder
• Jay Whalen

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

20,412

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

3 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 42 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

31

Social presence

0

YouTube

72

Engagement

60

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Guest appearances

Does not typically book guests

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