Ask Dr. B. Good

Today’s podcast will introduce a new program we have been anxious to begin for several years. It took us a while to find the right instructor!

We’ll start with a history of the Jr ROTC Program and a brief overview of the Jr ROTC Program at LPCA at both the MS and HS level.

Today, we will focus more in-depth at the HS program at LPCA. We’ll share the curriculum, including:
-components of the program
-the different activities
-how it changes between 9th - 12th
-desired program goals and outcomes

And we’ll hear from the scholars!
-Why did they sign up for this program?
-What do they hope to get out of being in Jr. ROTC?
-Want will happen after graduation
-Possible career outcomes

We are very excited to bring this look at our HS JrROTC program to you!

Today we continue our discussion on what we do to prepare kids in the MS and HS grades for college while they are with us and college/university after they graduate.

We will do that by bringing back our College and Career counselors to chat with us about what we do and when we do it, to help scholars prepare. We also will be going over the FASFA, the 529 college savings plan, and scholarships!

Thanks in advance to our C&C counselors, Ms. Forge (MW) and Ms. Zambrano (Plano)!
This is one you don't want to miss!

We have included some resources you may want to not only check out but keep handy!
What is the FASFA
https://www.savingforcollege.com/article/what-is-the-fafsa

What is a 529 savings plan?
https://www.savingforcollege.com/intro-to-529s/what-is-a-529-plan

Today we will be chatting about how our Chinese program has evolved over the last few years.



We will also be sharing:

The Benefits of Learning Chinese
Things that we actually teach during this time
Chinese culture
Things that connects to the scholars daily lives
How parents can help their children to get better at Chinese at home
Comparison between Chinese cultures and American cultures
Upcoming Chinese Events
Come listen to why so many of our children come back home talking about their exciting Chinese program they are part of!

Thank you to Ms. Vivian Yang, our Chinese Program Coordinator, and Ms. Diaz, one of our three Chinese teachers for coming on today!

Today we are going to revisit the dual credit program at Legacy since there are some misconceptions that even Dr. Good had to understand and say differently as she shared about this program.
We'll start with:
What College Readiness looks like at Legacy. What is the TSI? How we prepare kids for the TSI?
We'll have a deep discussion around the Crossover courses vs. the college courses for the partnering college vs the Texas High School Graduation requirements.
What we can and cannot do because of the Texas HS requirements.
And finally, how parents and students can get the best benefit from Legacy's dual credit environment.
We thank Ms. Natasha Forge for coming in a sharing her expertise in the high level area and exciting opportunity for Legacy scholars!

Today's podcast will be on how you can help us at home to develop a growth mindset in your child(ren). Super important!
We will share definitions, graphic organizers and videos to help you understand what a fixed vs growth mindset is and how to help develop the growth mindset at home.

This week we have Ms. Forge and Ms. Zambrano, Legacy counselors, who will be sharing with us information on how Legacy reacts when we are occasionally alerted to certain unusual behaviors displayed by our scholars.
The ladies will talk about how they help teachers know when a behavior should be cause for concern.
They will also share what processes are in place for anxiety, suicidal tendencies, cutting, and other social emotional traits, that when caught early, can help the family walk through next steps.
Our wonderful counselors will also share what resources we have available for families who may need them when their child needs addition professional support.

Today we are going to take the long way to chat about school lunches. It's the long way because before we get to the lunches we have at school or should pack for school we need to review today's nutrition and health guidelines.
We will begin with going into the US Dept. of Agriculture (USDA) website called ChooseMyPlate.gov where we will look at the information they have available on the latest research on healthy eating.
We will touch on -the Dietary Guidelines, Key Elements of Healthy Eating Patterns, Shifts that Need to Align with Healthy Eating, and Who has a Role in Supporting Healthy Eating Patterns.
We will go through the ChooseMyPlate website so you can see how easy it is to use and some of the meal planning and menu planning templates they have to make eating on a budget easier.
Then we will finally talk about what all this means as far as packing a healthy school lunch and some creative ways to help children want to eat their healthy school lunch!

Today we have asked Mr. Clarence Glover aka Professor Freedom to come in help us further frame out the 400th observance of the first enslaved Africans in America which began in Jamestown. (1619 - 2019)

Mr. Glover is a descendant of enslaved Africans with a direct connection to slavery. He will share with us the concept of the dual victims of slavery, the enslaved Africans and the Europeans who came with their flawed entitlement thinking of the right to "own" another human being. He will also talk about his commitment to a multicultural America through some of the opportunities he had as a young man, working in Washing D.C. on Civil Rights issues in the 70's later working with Mrs. Corretta Scott King, Mrs. Rosa Parks, Dr. Bernard Lafayette and other civil rights activists.

In the 80s and early 90s he was part of the push for diversity at SMU. He not only taught courses there, he helped the university with developing a cultural philosophy, practice, and policy which was a first for a major university. Mr. Glover was on the committee while at SMU to help the city of Dallas and Dallas ISD change the term of Black to African American in the late 80's. He then worked on the fallacy of the term RACE. He pushes the concept that we are in fact, all one race, and has the research to prove it. While at SMU, he found the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech from March 17, 1966 given at SMU in McFarlin Auditorium (now online) and related news articles. He was also the Interviewer and Consultant of The PBS Documentary "In Remembrance of Martin, The First Federal Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Federal Holiday in Atlanta, Georgia 1986

While at Harvard in 1985, he studied with Dr. Lawrence Kohlberg in the Stages of Moral Education and while at Dallas ISD as a multicultural administrator, he trained on the concept of One Race; Many Cultures.

He has been at Legacy now for 6 years, building multicultural institutional capacity to administrators, educators, parents, and scholars. He has helped Legacy develop its own cultural philosophy, policy, and practices.

In his spare time he is working on helping us understand the term predictable cultural conflict (PCC) and social dynamics between people from different cultures.

This will be a fact filled show with pictures and artifacts from the 70s to now to help enrich the dialogue even more.

Link to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speech at SMU:
https://www.smu.edu/AboutSMU/MLK

Today we will revisit School Safety and how it's changed over the last 10 years (or so). Staci Weaver, retired police Officer and current school operations senior director will lead us through the school safety requirements. We will also share what's in place to make the buildings secure.

Other topics today include:

-New safety guidelines passed by the 2019 legislative session and signed by Gov. Abbott

-Different types of drills (and how those have changed during the years)

-Standard Response Protocol- Lockdown, lockout, shelter, hold. We will talk about when each is appropriate and what the procedures are when it's time to practice them.

-Active shooter required drills- The language has not been released, but a requirement of 4 a year is being discussed.

-School Marshal/Guardian-funding and guidelines

Parents, we hope when we are done you will feel that Legacy has gone over and above the required safety requirements so that safety is not an issue to worry about at our schools.

The Ask Dr. B. Good Podcast, featuring Tyler Adams of TINYpulse, will join Dr. Good and Lilly Chacon, HR Manager for Legacy, to talk about how Legacy works hard to give its staff a voice in the every day running of the schools and district. We will share TINYpulse’s founding story (which is a fascinating story all by itself!) a list of platform features (Pulse surveys, Anonymous suggestions, Onboard, Cheers of Peers, Wall of Wins), and how this has evolved over the last six years as TINYpulse and Legacy have worked together to empower our staff. 😁

Happy educators mean happy students! 💞🏤💞

How will food trucks come up in our TINYpulse discussion? 🚚


More about TINYpulse’s history

David Niu’s book Careercation, which is free to read online