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Teresa brings the four elements of trust in leadership to our attention.  Reliability, Acceptance, Openness, and Congruence are the elements that leaders need to build trust throughout their organizations.  

Teresa Tulipana and Brett Coffman discuss the Wall Street Journal article, "The results are in on remote learning: It didn't work."  Give us your thoughts about remote learning by emailing coffmanb@umkc.edu.

We wanted to follow up with our guests, Ovie Oghenejobo, Jordan Lewis, and Tina Ellsworth and give them a chance to express their thoughts about our discussions. 

This is our fourth and final episode in our series, "Conversations about Race."  In this episode we look at "What's next for schools?"  From recruiting black and brown teachers, increasing black leadership in suburban district offices, to changing curriculum to reflect black history, literature, art, science, philosophy, and ideas, these are some of the topics discussed. Our guests are Tina Ellsworth, a social studies coordinator for an area school district, Ovie Oghenejobo, a sociology teacher at Lee's Summit North High School, and Jordan Lewis, a counselor and social worker with Youthrive.   Email coffmanb@umkc.edu to leave comments, feedback or to get in touch with any of our guests.

In our third episode of our four part series on "Conversations about Race."  We delve into the surprises that have come out of the protests following the murder of George Floyd two weeks ago.  From gaslighting and the community response to the protests and riots, to the positive actions of young people, our panel discusses their takeaways.   My guests are Ovie Oghenejobo, a sociology teacher at Lee's Summit North High School, Jordan Lewis, a counselor and social worker for Youthrive, and Tina Ellsworth, a social studies coordinator in an area suburban school district.   If you have comments, feed back, or would like to know how to get in touch with our presenters send your requests to coffmanb@umkc.edu. Our fourth and final episode in this series "What's next for schools" will be released June 9th.

This is the second episode in a series of four regarding "Conversations about Race."  In this episode, we explore who needs to hear, experience, and have conversations about race.  My guests are Jordan Lewis, a counselor and social worker from Youthrive in Kansas, Ovie Oghenejobo, a sociology teacher at Lee's Summit North High School, and Tina Ellsworth, a social studies coordinator for a suburban area school district.   We would love to hear your comments, feedback, ideas, and questions about the episode.  Please email coffmanb@umkc.edu to have our voice heard by our panel.  We will address your comments in followup podcasts. Please share our podcast via your social media outlets.

It has been almost two weeks since police murdered George Floyd in the streets of Minneapolis, today we start a series of conversations with area educators and counselors exploring what productive conversations regarding race in this country could look like.  Joining me today are Ovie Oghenejebo, sociology teacher at Lee's Summit North High School, Jordan Lewis, counselor and social worker for Youthrive in Kansas, and Tina Ellsworth, social studies coordinator for an area suburban school district.  This is the first in our series of four conversations about racism and its ramifications.  The death of George Floyd is still very much on our minds and protests are still occurring in cities across the nation.  We hope that you will use this program as a starting point to have Conversations about Race with the people you care about, your neighbors, and people you need to get to know. The second installment in our series is entitled, "Who needs to hear this?" will be released on June 6th followed by a third installment "What is surprising in this moment?" and a fourth installment, "What's next for schools?".  We will have more discussions to come and would like your input on topics you think are important in our discussions, ideas you might have for future episodes and comments you have for any of the presenters.  You can email your responses to coffmanb@umkc.edu.

Teresa Tulipana and Brett Coffman discuss the need for intimacy, interaction, inclusion and intentionality in conversations about important and vital matters.

We discuss the disconnect between remote learning and collective teacher efficacy.

How important is it to take care of yourself first as a leader? Teresa Tulipana and Brett Coffman discuss the finer points of Self Care and Leadership.

Teresa Tulipana and Brett Coffman discuss an article with the same title from the Brookings Institute and Rachel Winthrop.

Today Teresa and Brett discuss a great model for team building, teacher appreciation week, and their favorite teacher movies.

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Today we talk books from our past, our present, and our professional life.

Kat Nicolaus gives teachers ten tips on preparing for the uncertainty of the 20-21 school year.

Dr. Teresa Tulipana discusses Eric Sheninger’s article “10 Remote Learning Practices to Avoid” with Dr. Brett Coffman.

This is the final installment of a series of discussions with Dr. Mary McConnell on student self regulation at home.

Teresa Tulipana leads the discussion about some vital characteristics of courageous leadership in times of crisis.

Dr. Tamara Moore-Callahan inspires us to move toward the laughter during rough patches in our life.

Our second in a series of discussions with Dr. Mary McConnell on strategies that will help students take control of their own learning.