About this episode

Will Staton discusses his journey from being a teacher to running for Congress and his vision for improving the public school system.

Will Staton began his career as a high school history teacher, and has worked as a teacher, Dean and administrator in Memphis, New York City and Washington, DC. Most recently, Will worked as an independent nonprofit consultant. Now he is now running for Congress as an independent in central New York, where he lives in Syracuse with his wife and two daughters. In our talk, Will and I discuss his journey from education to politics, and how he wants to improve the public school system. If you care about our education system, you’ll want to tune in. For all links and resources mentioned in this episode, head to the show notes: https://www.educatorforever.com/episode182 .

People in this episode

Host: Lily Jones

Guest: Will Staton

Topics covered

• education
• politics
• public school system
• career transition
• nonprofit consulting

Keywords

• education
• Congress
• Will Staton
• public school
• teacher
• politics
• nonprofit

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Memphis, New York City, Washington, DC, central New York, Syracuse

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