Dr. Dan Challener has spent his career supporting the people he calls the linchpin in every child's life: teachers. He is the president of Public Education Forward (formerly known as Public Education Foundation).

In this episode, Dan shares how a summer camp job changed the course of his life, why one person believing in a child can change everything, and how a friend's nudge to check out a job led him to Chattanooga for what he thought would be five years (spoiler: it's been 27), and a candid conversation about the current state of public education in Tennessee.