Anthony Head:
What I’m doing with exposing our students to experiences is shortening the gap to greatness. There’s an entrepreneur, Marty Grunder, who has a large landscaping company. When I was in third grade, he came to my class and spoke to me at Jefferson Elementary about his journey. So when you see icons and idols and business leaders at the highest level of success come back to you, what it does is shorten that bridge. Now it doesn’t seem so impossible. Now, it’s just a matter of taking some very strategic steps. So I’ve been very intentional about that, not only in my culinary career, but as an educator to help students see “You can do this, too.” And what people don’t know about that trip where we took our students to a three-star Michelin restaurant in Chicago is the chef/owner is from Ohio. He said “I absolutely will have you guys come in here.” So my…
