CLNA Strategy Lab: Building Stronger Connections Between Education and Industry
In the latest episode of Productive Disruption, Dr. Rusty Parker, Director of CTE at Gaston County Schools in North Carolina, talks about coming home to the district where he started as a business teacher more than 20 years ago. With nearly 70% of Gaston’s 31,000 students taking CTE classes, he’s focused on aligning pathways with the region’s real needs, from manufacturing and healthcare to building out finance and aviation programs next door to Charlotte. He also shares how his latest CLNA brought business leaders, parents, students, and teachers to the same table, and gave him the documentation to prove what he already knew.
18 Sept 2026
The USA Needs Career and Technical Education (CTE)
In the latest episode of Productive Disruption, Dusty Moore, CEO of iCEV, talks about coming up through four years of ag sciences and FFA — and how the public speaking and communication skills he built there are still what he leans on most in his career today. He and Dan break down why CTE isn't the fallback path people assume it is, and why the research backs that up: students in CTE programs tend to perform better, not worse.
25 Jun 2026
Why School Districts Are Losing Students and What They Can Do About It
Most districts know they're losing students. Very few know to whom. Almost none know why.
In this episode, Rhodes Branding President Dan Wyar breaks down the four-part diagnostic Rhodes uses when a district comes to us with an enrollment problem including the one question most leaders never think to ask.
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