Most Likely to Change the World

In an exclusive interview with Angela Jerabek, the Executive Director of the BARR Center, 

Education Secretary Cardona shares his passion for educators and his admiration for the work they do.  In addressing the teacher shortage, Secretary Cardona says, “We've created [the shortage] over the years by underinvesting and disrespecting the profession… It's time we stop that. We need to make sure we're paying our educ...

Bill Milliken, Founder of Communities In Schools (CIS), takes some time to talk with us about his journey from Pittsburg’s pool halls to one of the nation’s pioneering advocates for students throughout the nation.

Milliken found his vocation on the streets helping children and teens coping with poverty, hunger, homelessness, drug addiction and mental illness. He reflected on the importance of simply hanging out -- and build...

Billy and Debbie Shore, the brother and sister team who co-founded Share Our Strength and orchestrated the No Kid Hungry campaign, share the ins and outs of getting food to children in school. It should be easy, no? The money is there, the need is there.  Most especially, the students are there.  Listen as they share their story and passion for feeding our nation’s young people so that they can truly learn and th...

Four United States Secretaries of Education, Margaret Spellings, Arne Duncan, John B. King, Jr., and Miguel Cardona join their voices to discuss leading our country through some of the greatest changes and challenges we have witnessed in education. They each share with host Angela Jerabek, the founder and executive director of the BARR Center, their one common goal: Ensuring each and every student succeeds. 

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John B. King Jr., Secretary of Education under President Obama, talks about the need to give students a fresh start.

"I worry about young people who are going through struggles; they lose a sense of hopefulness that it could be better, that it could be different," says King.

Speaking from personal experience, King calls for educators to offer fresh starts to students: "I'm the first United States Secretary of Education that ...

Margaret Spellings, the architect of the No Child Left Behind initiative, discusses the soft bigotry of low expectations and analyzes the stress COVID has put on our educational system.

On the American public school system, Spelling observes, “You know, we get our crop of kids at the beginning of the school year and we shoot them out the other end and you kind of do the best we can in the middle. But it's a more factory mod...

Former Secretary of Education Arne Duncan shares his painful discovery at an early age of how systemic failures in our schools allow children to graduate high school without the ability to read.  

Duncan says, “Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not. And our job is to help make sure that opportunity finds talent, wherever it is.”

That realization ignited Duncan’s passion to commit his career to improving the educ...

Most Likely to Change the World recognizes the limitless talents of individuals. The title of our podcast came from educators across the country who know that changing the world is possible—- when you focus on relationships and strengths.  

We engage in deep conversations with educational policy leaders like former Secretaries of Education:

• Margaret Spellings
• Arnie Duncan
• John B. King Jr.

And teacher...