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009: Jennifer McCready: Equity in the Workplace and in the World
Jennifer McCready-Resnick is a school counselor in Texas. This is her 28th year in education, she’s a graduate of Trinity University, B.A and M.A in Teaching and University of North Texas M.E.D. in Counselling. In her current job, she helps implement restorative practices in the fall of 2018 as a relational approach to build school culture and address student behavior with the focus on belonging over exclusion, social engagement over control, and meaningful accountability over punishment. In the circle, students experience a structured intentional space that promotes connection, understanding, dialogue, respect, equality, empathy and emotional literacy, problem-solving, responsibility, self-regulation, self-awareness, and shared leadership. 2021-2022 marked her fourth year of restorative practices implementation. Outside of school, Jennifer enjoys reading, pilates, yoga, biking, and traveling.
In this episode Dr. Gaye Lang and Jennifer McCready-Resnick discuss:
- Restorative rather than punitive
- Creating spaces of equity in schools
- Letting counselors counsel
- The key to creating equity
Key Takeaways:
- Respond to issues in a restorative manner, making punitive action a secondary option.
- As the school grows and new facilities and technology are introduced, we need to make sure that people who are in the older facilities have just as much access to it as everyone else.
- It’s a counselor’s job to counsel the students but often, they’re being given clerical work. We must advocate for counselors to be able to do their job.
- Listening is the key ability that we need in order to create spaces of equity within our communities.
“There's nothing more powerful than sitting in a circle with the group of staff and students... everyone feels equal... everyone gets to speak, the speaker gets to speak without interruption and everyone else has permission to listen…” - Jennifer McCready-Resnick
Connect with Dr. Gaye Lang:
Don’t forget to subscribe to the show, so that you don’t miss a single episode; and please leave a rating and review. I would greatly appreciate it.
Follow our show on Facebook and check out our Website for more details and to engage with our podcast community. You can also follow Dr. Lang on LinkedIn.
Download Three Vital Practices to avoid a potential lawsuit for free by clicking this link: www.WorkplaceRestorativePracticesInc.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaye-lang-1735761b5/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gaye.lang.779/
KEY WORDS:
Diversity, inclusion, equity, tolerance, racism, bias, implicit bias, and explicit bias.
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.
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Jennifer McCready-Resnick is a school counselor in Texas. This is her 28th year in education, she’s a graduate of Trinity University, B.A and M.A in Teaching and University of North Texas M.E.D. in Counselling. In her current job, she helps implement restorative practices in the fall of 2018 as a relational approach to build school culture and address student behavior with the focus on belonging over exclusion, social engagement over control, and meaningful accountability over punishment. In the circle, students experience a structured intentional space that promotes connection, understanding, dialogue, respect, equality, empathy and emotional literacy, problem-solving, responsibility, self-regulation, self-awareness, and shared leadership. 2021-2022 marked her fourth year of restorative practices implementation. Outside of school, Jennifer enjoys reading, pilates, yoga, biking, and traveling.
In this episode Dr. Gaye Lang and Jennifer McCready-Resnick discuss:
- Restorative rather than punitive
- Creating spaces of equity in schools
- Letting counselors counsel
- The key to creating equity
Key Takeaways:
- Respond to issues in a restorative manner, making punitive action a secondary option.
- As the school grows and new facilities and technology are introduced, we need to make sure that people who are in the older facilities have just as much access to it as everyone else.
- It’s a counselor’s job to counsel the students but often, they’re being given clerical work. We must advocate for counselors to be able to do their job.
- Listening is the key ability that we need in order to create spaces of equity within our communities.
“There's nothing more powerful than sitting in a circle with the group of staff and students... everyone feels equal... everyone gets to speak, the speaker gets to speak without interruption and everyone else has permission to listen…” - Jennifer McCready-Resnick
Connect with Dr. Gaye Lang:
Don’t forget to subscribe to the show, so that you don’t miss a single episode; and please leave a rating and review. I would greatly appreciate it.
Follow our show on Facebook and check out our Website for more details and to engage with our podcast community. You can also follow Dr. Lang on LinkedIn.
Download Three Vital Practices to avoid a potential lawsuit for free by clicking this link: www.WorkplaceRestorativePracticesInc.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaye-lang-1735761b5/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/gaye.lang.779/
KEY WORDS:
Diversity, inclusion, equity, tolerance, racism, bias, implicit bias, and explicit bias.
Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla
Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.