This episode explores what board leadership truly requires, from holding schools accountable to their missions, to supporting school leadership, to ensuring that every decision made at the board level finds its way to the students these schools were built to serve.

Joining Dr. Walker-Davis for this conversation:

Troy Donte Prestwood Board Chair, Learn DC Charter School

Fonda Sutton Board Chair, E.L. Haynes Public Charter School

Together they bring two distinct and powerful perspectives on what board governance in DC's public charter sector actually looks like in practice. It is happening every day inside the schools they serve.

What does school look like when we design it for today's realities instead of yesterday's norms?

This episode explores how schools are doing more with less, rethinking how and when learning happens, building programs that meet students where they are, and creating environments where professionalism, safety, and belonging are not afterthoughts but foundations.

"UnCHARTERed Territory" addresses what the work truly requires from the people doing it and the hard decisions, the moments that tested them, and what thirty years of building charter schools in this city has taught leaders who refused to settle for anything less than what their students deserved. This episode is essential listening for anyone who leads a school, supports one, or simply believes that great leadership changes lives.