Dr. Andre Hornsby has 35 years of experience in Public Education. His work has been in higher education and k-12 education. Dr. Hornsby’s administrative career has been in multiple school districts across The United States, the smallest being 8000 students and the very largest of a million students in America. He has held various positions in his career such as educator, teacher, magnet school teacher, magnet school coordinator, principal, executive director, district or area superintendent and Chief Executive Officer. Many of the schools he was responsible for across the united states have predominantly minority student populations and made statistically significant gains in student achievement. With that in mind, most of these districts were under federal supervision for one or more violations for federal laws under federal court supervision for desegregation. Positive results were the byproduct of the focused efforts of the professional staff that existed in the public school education where Dr. Hornsby worked. 

 

In this episode Dr. Gaye Lang and Dr. Andre Hornsby discuss:

• One-shot trainings won’t get you very far
• Challenges in every human interaction 
• Making children feel like they belong 
• How organizations are doomed to ignore diversity 

Key Takeaways: 

• If the organization is not focused on tolerance and you’re doing a one-shot training to meet some standard, you’re not going to get things implemented. 
• There will always be challenges where there are any human interactions. The goal is to take all the differences and the diversity that everyone brings and find ways to integrate them in a way that allows the organization to be productive. 
• Children have to feel that the way they come in and show up when going into an environment is respected and not challenged just because it’s different from the people responsible for organizing and leading the environment. 
• If you don’t talk about, reward, or recognize diversity, then your organization is doomed to ignore diversity. 

 

“What gets monitored, gets done. It’s plain and simple… you have to have that system of accountability attached to it in order to emphasize the importance of what that organization is attempting to do, especially in areas of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Tolerance.” - Dr. Andre Hornsby

 

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KEY WORDS: 

Diversity, inclusion, equity, tolerance, racism, bias, implicit bias, and explicit bias.  

Show notes by Podcastologist: Justine Talla

 

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