Charter School Insider: Lessons from the Nation's Top Charter School Operators Presented by BuyQ

In this episode, Vanessa Segovia Barry from Mariposa Consulting Group unpacks the secrets to mastering enrollment marketing for charter schools. She emphasizes critical elements often overlooked: goal setting, strategic resource allocation, and adapting to the seasonality of parent behavior. Learn how to enhance the parent experience and leverage automation to streamline communication.


Thanks to our sponsor Procurify! 


Procurify is the AI-enhanced procurement and AP automation platform for charter schools, making it easy to take control of spend and save money.  


Gone are the days of manual data entry and reliance on Google Sheets to map how funds are spent across your schools. Procurify brings together your schools purchasing process end to end.  To learn more click here: https://www.procurify.com/industry/education/charter-schools/ 

In this episode of The Charter School Insider, Daniel Casselli talks with Trey Vernaci, Sr. Director of Operations at RePublic Schools, about the shortage of qualified operations professionals in charter schools, focusing on Mississippi. Trey discusses his innovative solution: an operations leadership residency program covering key areas of operations and offering practical advice for replication. Gain valuable insights to enhance your school's operational efficiency.


Thanks to our sponsor Procurify! 


Procurify is the AI-enhanced procurement and AP automation platform for charter schools, making it easy to take control of spend and save money.  


Gone are the days of manual data entry and reliance on Google Sheets to map how funds are spent across your schools. Procurify brings together your schools purchasing process end to end.  To learn more click here: https://www.procurify.com/industry/education/charter-schools/ 

In this episode, Daniel Casselli outlines five best practices to make procurement a financial stability pillar. He stresses procurement's role in tough financial times and covers its four core pillars: strategic sourcing and cost management, policies, compliance and risk management, technology and data, and stakeholder engagement. The best practices are: revisiting the purchasing policy, listening to data, developing supplier relationships, standardizing and consolidating, and measuring performance.


Thanks to our sponsor Procurify! 


Procurify is the AI-enhanced procurement and AP automation platform for charter schools, making it easy to take control of spend and save money.  


Gone are the days of manual data entry and reliance on Google Sheets to map how funds are spent across your schools. Procurify brings together your schools purchasing process end to end.  To learn more click here: https://www.procurify.com/industry/education/charter-schools/ 

Jen Davis Wickens & Kristen McCaw are the Co-Founders of Seminar, a national community for charter school leadership development. As school leaders and founders themselves, Jen & Kristen speak to the need for tactical/practical support for executives and we explore how Seminar is tackling this challenge using AI as an example of a hot-button item leaders are currently navigating.


Thanks to our sponsor Procurify! 


Procurify is the AI-enhanced procurement and AP automation platform for charter schools, making it easy to take control of spend and save money.  


Gone are the days of manual data entry and reliance on Google Sheets to map how funds are spent across your schools. Procurify brings together your schools purchasing process end to end.  To learn more click here: https://www.procurify.com/industry/education/charter-schools/ 

What's the role of the board? How can CEO's and boards best collaborate to achieve shared goals? We sit down with Dr. Garland Thomas-McDavid to answer these questions and more. She highlights the importance of building relationships, open communication, and leveraging the resources and knowledge of the board. Dr. TM also addresses common challenges, such as navigating the transition from a founder/startup phase to a more mature organization, uncovering and addressing sacred cows, and recruiting the right board members.






Thanks to our sponsor Procurify! 


Procurify is the AI-enhanced procurement and AP automation platform for charter schools, making it easy to take control of spend and save money.  


Gone are the days of manual data entry and reliance on Google Sheets to map how funds are spent across your schools. Procurify brings together your schools purchasing process end to end.  To learn more click here: https://www.procurify.com/industry/education/charter-schools/ 


Interested in sponsorship? Reach out to us at podcast@buyq.org

We sit down with Megan Thomsen to talk all things "day one readiness". It's never convenient to start prepping for next years opening, but with no plan things get messy fast. Megan shares her experiences as the former director of operations at Ednovate driving day one readiness strategy and optimization. If you are an ops enthusiast who is eager to learn more about process improvement methodologies and systems codification, this is a can't miss episode.






Thanks to our sponsor Procurify! 


Procurify is the AI-enhanced procurement and AP automation platform for charter schools, making it easy to take control of spend and save money.  


Gone are the days of manual data entry and reliance on Google Sheets to map how funds are spent across your schools. Procurify brings together your schools purchasing process end to end.  To learn more click here: https://www.procurify.com/industry/education/charter-schools/ 


Interested in sponsorship? Reach out to us at podcast@buyq.org