CEO Aaron Withe and CEO Ryan Walters: TFS Interviews

Well, the Teacher Freedom Summit, this is its fourth year, correct? So Aaron, you've been here since the initial start of the Teacher Freedom Summit.

And Ryan, you've been on for about the past year since the Teacher Freedom Alliance.

Can you speak to how the summit has grown? And Ryan, can you speak to what you're seeing happen here and the conversations and what teachers are talking about to really empower educators to take back their voice in the classroom?

Well, in terms of growing, I mean, you look at the size of it.

We have over 400 people here, teachers from all over the country.

And that's a testament to what Ryan's done.

But in terms of actual growth also, Ryan was at that first summit also.

Ryan was a speaker.

Someone sent me an interview of him on Fox News and told me, you've got to have him at this summit.

So we got him in.

He headlined that first night.

So now he's here as the CEO of it.

I feel like that's That's a lot of growth.

And now we have its own the own organization, the Teacher Freedom Alliance that he's the CEO of.

So it's there's a lot of exciting things happening right now.

Well, you know, it's it's been Aaron's vision of getting folks out of the unions.

What's the next step? What's helpful for them? and that's where the teacher freedom alliance came from is aaron recognizing hey you know when folks leave there there's this there's this need there's this desire to be a part of a community there's things like liability insurance professional development we just got through having hours and hours of professional development offered for the teachers here and so this is really something that's been missing in this space for so long and so you see you know folks from all 50 states showing up.

You see it, whether it's a red state or blue state, they want a sense of community.

They want out of their unions and they want to be better teachers.

And so it's fantastic to be here with all of them.