Task, Time, Energy Ep. 30 – Helping Tomorrow’s Leaders Build Collective Intelligence with Dan Gonzalez

“Students with social capital and family networks tend to get the bulk of the meaningful work-based learning opportunities that exist in the world.”

District C is working to change that.

If you think it’s important for high school students to learn practical skills that will help them succeed as adults, you’ll like what District C is doing.

District C is a nonprofit organization founded by Dan Gonzalez and Anne Jones. Their mission is to prepare the next generation of diverse talent for modern work.

Students in District C’s Teamship program work together to solve real-world problems for actual businesses and organizations. The students learn to work effectively on a team, investing in each other’s thinking and learning to collaborate with people whose ideas and approaches are different from their own.

Dan Gonzalez, District C’s co-founder and CEO, is our guest for this episode. Dan describes some of the important lessons that students learn in District C’s programs, and how those lessons can help us all work together more effectively.

He also describes how starting and running District C has been a process of learning and discovery for him.

Learn more about Dan, District C, and their Teamship program at https://www.districtc.co.