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SUMMARY:Ploghoft Lecture
LOCATION:Ballroom
DESCRIPTION:Ploghoft Diversity Lecture: Charles King\nCharles King – the f
 ounder\, president and chief executive officer of The Educator Academy in
  Kansas City\, Missouri – will present “Teaching Students from Historical
 ly Marginalized Backgrounds: Lessons from Urban Classrooms and Teachers w
 ho have Thrived.” The lecture is free and open to the public.\n\nKing lea
 ds organizational strategy\, policy engagement and long-term sustainabili
 ty efforts to strengthen the educator workforce. As the CEO of The Educat
 or Academy\, he oversees strategic planning\, board governance\, fundrais
 ing and operations\, guiding the multi-million-dollar organization and se
 curing more than $3 million in new philanthropic investment to expand imp
 act annually.\n\nHe previously served as program director at the Ewing Ma
 rion Kauffman Foundation\, where he helped design and launch a teacher re
 sidency program and navigated state policy and accreditation processes. E
 arlier in his career\, he spent more than a decade with KIPP Texas Public
  Schools in Houston as a teacher and school leader\, building high-perfor
 ming teams and driving student achievement.\n\nKing is pursuing a Doctor 
 of Education in higher education leadership and policy at the University 
 of Kansas and holds degrees from Houston Baptist University and Morehouse
  College.\n\nAbout the Ploghoft Diversity Lecture series\nNorthwest’s Plo
 ghoft Diversity Lecture series is funded through the lasting generosity o
 f the late Dr. Milton Ploghoft and his wife\, Zella. The series features\
 n\nhttp://next-to-u.app/events/9a256227-5668-416b-8793-d4b7ca54bcdb
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