Episode 2: Getting it Up & Running
These two got the Cedar Falls CAPS program up and running! How? Hear their incredible, insightful, and hilarious story
- Ethan Wiechmann, Director of the Cedar Falls CAPS program
- Nate Clayberg, former Business Development Manager of the CF CAPS program and now Business and Industry Director for the CAPS Network
In this 2nd episode of Season 3 of the A Revolution in Education podcast, Chris talks with Ethan Wiechmann and Nate Clayberg who, with no advanced notice, were asked to get the Cedar Falls CAPS program up and running within six weeks. Listen to the hilarious adventure as they get it up and running and how they did so – including the story of Ethan going to a regular coffee shop for the first time!
The CAPS (Center for Advanced Professional Studies) network now boasts 100+ programs across the United States, with affiliates in Kenya, Kuwait, and Canada, and was named one of the top 100 scalable education innovations in the world in 2023 by the hundrED organization, and one of only 10 in the United States.
Ethan and Nate not only started the Cedar Falls CAPS program in 2017, they have helped to start and grow seven other CAPS programs in Iowa.
How do these things get off the ground? Listen to find out one way to get such an innovation can get up and running! (Hilarious too!)
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