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The CEO Who Gets 91% Teacher Retention Without Tenure with Pablo Villavicencio

The CEO Who Gets 91% Teacher Retention Without Tenure with Pablo Villavicencio

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Leading a 25-school network to a 96% graduation rate and 91% staff retention — with zero tenure protection — takes more than good policy. It takes a leader who has lived the exact inequity his schools now solve for. Pablo Villavicencio grew up in East LA, where his own neighborhood school graduated less than half its students, and only got a real shot at a quality education because his parents falsified an address to send him to a school 30 miles away. He carried that lesson through Teach For America, a school closure in Harlem, and five years as a founding high school principal in the Bronx before landing back in the exact Los Angeles community he grew up in — this time as CEO of Alliance College-Ready Public Schools. Find Alliance's work at laalliance.org. Teacher retention is the number every superintendent claims to be working on and almost none can move. Pablo Villavicencio's network sits at 91% retention across every employee group, without tenure, while running 25 schools and a 96% graduation rate in some of LA's highest-poverty neighborhoods — and in this episode, he breaks down exactly how belief, not policy, got him there. ✍️ What You'll Learn Why "all kids can learn" has to function as infrastructure, not a mission statement, before it changes anythingHow to build a wraparound services model that pairs academic teacher teams with therapists and social workersWhat actually drives teacher retention without tenure protectionHow to keep 25 schools aligned to one vision without creating a siloed bureaucracyWhy redefining "college ready" to include community advocacy and wellness changed Alliance's outcomes 🔨 Breaking Down the Old Rules 🚀 Key Insight #1: Why School Culture Change Starts With a Belief System, Not a Policy What's broken: Most school systems write "all students can learn" on a banner and call it culture work, while the master schedule, staffing model, and discipline systems tell students something else entirely.The shift: Villavicencio treats the belief that every kid can learn as an operating system — it has to show up in the master schedule, the staffing model, and the wraparound services, or it isn't real.Impact: Alliance's 25 schools graduate 96% of students and get 89-93% to college-ready status, compared to roughly 49% graduation and 59% college-ready rates at neighboring LAUSD schools. 🚀 Key Insight #2: The Wraparound Services Model That Turns Around Low-Performing Schools What's broken: Teachers are left to diagnose whether a struggling student is "lazy" or dealing with something deeper, usually alone and without the information to know the difference.The shift: Villavicencio built "kid talk" teams that pair content teachers with therapists and social workers — partnering with outside organizations for family therapy — so root causes get surfaced instead of guessed at.Impact: At the high school Villavicencio founded in the Bronx for English language learners, the first graduating class hit 66% graduation from a starting point of 10% — climbing to an 88% six-year graduation rate. 🚀 Key Insight #3: How to Hit 91% Teacher Retention Without Tenure What's broken: Most systems either get good at attracting talent or good at retaining it — rarely both — because they never build a stable, consistent container people trust enough to stay in.The shift: Alliance runs focus groups across every school, shares the real narrative of what staff are facing, and refuses to place value judgments on how different generations of teachers experience the same problem.Impact: Alliance holds 91% retention across every employee group in a sector where turnover is the norm — with no tenure protections in place. 🎙️ PABLO VILLAVICENCIO QUOTES FROM THE RUCKUSCAST "You have to believe, deeply believe, that all kids can learn." — Pablo Villavicencio "Equity to me is not about fairness. It's about making sure kids get what they need in order so that they're successful." — Pablo Villavicencio "We have 91% retention across all employee groups in Alliance. It is not common in the educational space." — Pablo Villavicencio "Large bureaucracies or large systems will never fully get the results that are needed for hyper community, like for local context, because those closest to the impact that you're hoping to have are not at the decision-making table." — Pablo Villavicencio "You have so much power, you have such a high locus of control." — Pablo Villavicencio "You have to be talking to your teachers and your kids on a regular basis. You have to be in relationship, you have to have a pulse on the ground." — Pablo Villavicencio 🚵‍♀️ Your Do School Different Challenge Ready to implement? Start here: Tomorrow: Ask three staff members the same open question Villavicencio uses in his focus groups — "Tell me what's good, then tell me what's bad" — and just listen.This Month: Run a "kid talk" style meeting where content teachers and ...
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