We give you the first proper episode of Setting the PAIS (of course the staff episode is proper, but you get it...) We start with the oldest Quaker School in the world. The William Penn Charter School is a forward-thinking, successful blend of history and modernity. New buildings supported by wooden bricks. Leadership trends that look significantly different from the early days. Updated traditions and unique governance and community-driven learning. All of it supported by the Quaker challenge to find and cultivate the light in every human being.

Join Liz as she navigates...with some help...the starting line and walks with Karen Warren Coleman, the eighth head in the modern era, to discuss what it's like to sit in front of the original charters and usher a 300-year-old school forward. With Quaker values guiding the way and the ethos of their namesake adorning the walls, Penn Charter is a standard-bearing institution that we're proud to call one of our own. Setting the PAIS indeed.

Setting the PAIS can be found at paispa.org/blog or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Narrated:⁠Liz Hofreuter⁠

Produced:⁠Luke Hladek⁠ (⁠Strong Minded Agency⁠)

Welcome to Setting the PAIS! In this inaugural episode, we thought it would make sense to take a peek behind the PAIS curtain and meet the staff that makes this whole thing go.

Liz Hofreuter, the new executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools, steps out with the staff to learn more about them in real time. They talk about professional histories, family life, and even a favorite president or two. It's about the most essential non-essesntial conversation you'll hear today, but it offers a glimpse of the real people behind the emails and the character that drives this whole organization forward.

So lace em up and tag along, because today, the PAIS staff is Setting the PAIS.

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Learn more about⁠ PAIS⁠.

Narrated:⁠Liz Hofreuter⁠

Produced:⁠Luke Hladek⁠ (⁠Strong Minded Agency⁠)

It's a new day at the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools, and we're here to tell the stories!

Join Liz Hofreuter, director of PAIS, in Setting the PAIS, a new series highlighting the leaders of independent education, from school heads to school kids and everyone in between, as they navigate the many peaks and valleys of school.

Setting the PAIS drops twice monthly, anywhere you get your podcasts. For more information on the Pennsylvania Association of Independent Schools, their offerings, and how they are taking a larger leadership role in the region, visit PAIS.org.

Learn more about PAIS.

Narrated:⁠Liz Hofreuter⁠

Produced:⁠Luke Hladek⁠ (⁠Strong Minded Agency⁠)