Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 152

Hosted by: Isaiah Drone III

Nina Taylor| Dr. Natasha Scott | John P Mirrione| Dr. Kristen C. Eccleston | Buddy Thornton

Being Charitable Toward Others

Being charitable toward others comes with clear expectations from the beginning; the expectations must be put together in the beginning foundation to halt any ethical reflections that could potentially be problematic and cause social discourse. Safety must be at the forefront, especially in dealing with community involvement which will give room for sharing abilities and being charitable to work together, provide expectations, monitor progress, present clear information, set boundaries with time, and form a sense of morale. It is essential to foster positive relationships by promoting ongoing, two-way communication and involvement. We do not aim and point to blame for anyone's shortcomings, especially those who have challenges in their personal lives. Our love language must be keen and use discernment to be charitable toward others.

Nina Taylor: What have you faced growing up that would make it challenging to be charitable toward others?

Dr. Kristen C. Eccleston: What can educators do to monitor and demonstrate being charitable toward others Post COVID-19?

John P Mirrione: What are some potential goals that your organization might campaign to be charitable toward others?

Buddy Thornton: What is the benefit of being charitable toward others?

Dr. Natasha Scott: Why is being charitable toward others vital to you?

Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks

Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 146

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III

Larry Davis | Jamilah Bashir | Buddy Thornton

Individual Education Program and Community Involvement

What is IEP, an Individual Education Program? Educational leaders are tasked to describe how students who qualify for special education services can have a voice in a positive way for school culture and vision. A student's IEP will specify the strengths and challenges the student has in each content area and determine accommodations and modifications required to be implemented for the student. There are some ways that organizations are beginning to refocus on developing youth advocacy skills and information to address these initiatives, and building mentors internally and externally to service this population within the school system is crucial moving forward. Special education programs in the United States were made mandatory in 1975 when the United States Congress passed the Education for All Handicapped Children Act (EHA) in response to discriminatory treatment by public educational agencies against students with disabilities.

Panel Question: Do we need an overhaul in our IEP system post-COVID-19?

Buddy Thornton: What are the benefits of community involvement in education?

Jamilah F. Bashir: What programs would you recommend to enhance community relationships, increase positive health behaviors and decrease risk-taking behaviors in the IEP community?

Larry Davis: How can we get parents meaningfully involved in your school?

Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks

Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 148

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III

Dr. Theresa Poussaint | Larry Davis | Dr. Natsha Scott | Buddy Thornton | Elder Renee Logan

Identity AFFECTS Roles of Confusion

In 2020, Congress designated the new 988 dialing code to be operated through the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. Erik Erikson, a behavioral therapist, was interested in how social interaction and relationships affect development and growth. According to Erikson, people progress through a series of stages as they grow and change throughout life. During each stage, everyone faces a developmental conflict that must be resolved to develop that stage's primary virtue successfully. As they transition from childhood to adulthood, teens may feel confused or insecure about themselves and how they fit into society. As they seek to establish a sense of self, teens may experiment with different roles, activities, and behaviors. According to Erikson, this is important to forming a solid identity and developing a sense of direction in life.

Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 147

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III

Panelist: Erik Cork | Tanjarae Porter | Charles Big C Caldwell |

Parental Involvement Beyond Extracurricular Activities

Sports are the most popular extracurricular activity for kids in this age group. About seven in ten parents (73%) with at least one child ages 6 to 17 say their children participated in sports or athletic activities in the 12 months before the survey. Parents seem to have a stronger bond with their children regarding extracurricular activities, which in most cases are just as important as formal education. Many children thrive on those activities and can gain the needed confidence to succeed in the classroom. Parents must also connect with teachers to ensure that, as a parent, they help keep their young scholars involved in the school. Connectionism (Edward Thorndike) The learning theory of Thorndike represents the behavioral psychology of connections: Learning results from associations between stimuli and responses. Such associations or "habits" become strengthened or weakened by the nature and repetition of a particular pattern. When a student's patterns or trends are noticed, it becomes more attainable to discover their strengths and weaknesses. High involvement, in turn, identifies the student’s challenges and goal setting becomes more intentional for growth.

Charles Big C Caldwell: How do we bridge the parental involvement gap between families in high-poverty schools?

Tanjarae Porter: How are you and your team continuing to cultivate connections with high expectations while demonstrating various levels of community and offering parents and students a wide variety of opportunities for engagement?

Erik Cork: What practical ways can school administrators to motivate parents to become or stay involved in the school system?

Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks

Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 143

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III

Buddy Thornton | Sande Roberts |Nina Taylor

Hanging Out With Bullies

Are you friends with a bully, or are you a bully yourself? More attention has been paid to bullying in the past few decades than ever before. According to the National Bullying Prevention Center, bullying is "an intentional behavior that hurts, harms, or humiliates a student, either physically or emotionally, and can happen while at school, in the community, or online. Interesting enough, even if someone does not witness the bullying itself, there are signs that a person is being bullied, such as the person appearing depressed, avoiding school or other places where the behaviors are occurring, becoming aggressive themselves, withdrawing and isolating, avoiding social events, having difficulty expressing feelings, neglecting their appearance or becoming preoccupied with their appearance. With students ages 12–18, the percentage of students of Two or more races (37 percent) who reported being bullied was higher than the corresponding percentages for White students (25 percent) and Black students (22 percent), which were in turn more elevated than the percentage of Asian students (13 percent) who reported being bullied. In addition, higher rates of students of  Two or more races and White students than Hispanic students (18 percent) reported being bullied at school during the school year.

Sande Roberts: What do bullying looks like.  And how do you know that you are being bullied?

Nina Taylor: Adult bullies act out for the same reasons that kid bullies do: they’re trying to make up for some shortcoming of their own.

Buddy Thornton: How to stop playing the victim.  This tactic is an oldie but a goodie: stop playing their victim.

Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks

Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 145

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III

Panelist: Buddy Thornton| Anika S. Jones

Forgiveness and Reconciliation for Student Behavior Post COVID-19

Managing students' behavior during COVID-19 can be a painful experience for

teachers, and diffusing small behaviors before they become big problems requires

a skillful balance of concealing your emotions and using techniques to de-escalate

the behavior. John B. Watson was a pioneering psychologist who played an

essential role in developing behaviorism. Watson believed that psychology should

primarily be observable scientific behavior. Watson is remembered for his research on

the conditioning process. According to Watson (1997), the core of the Theory of

Caring is that "humans cannot be treated as objects and that humans cannot be

separated from self, other, nature, and the larger workforce." This learning theory

states that behaviors are learned from the environment and says that innate or

inherited factors have very little influence on behavior.

Anika S. Jones: How are you and your team continuing to excel with clear  expectations while demonstrating various community levels with intentional, restorative mindsets during COVID-19?

Buddy Thornton: What do feelings have to do with it when it comes to being an Positive Social Change Agent Pro and community leader?

Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks

Impact of Educational Leadership Talk Show Episode 98 

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III 

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Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 141

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III

Panelist: Buddy Thornton | Patrícia Cerqueira Seidler|Dr. Larry Davis

Applying Racial Equity for Severe Behavior

Classroom management is so much more than a set of appropriate rules and consequences. Motivation, instructional planning, parent engagement, teacher efficacy, and consistency of high expectations are irrevocably intertwined. Educators are now hard-pressed to make clear instructions and flexible opportunities for the physical space, the hybrid space, and the digital space. A climate that fosters and values respect, decency, and success for EVERY student and staff member is what schools should strive for in their policies and practices. To help students meet demanding course standards in academic and career/technical classrooms, each teacher must establish and maintain a learning environment that supports and motivates students to do their personal best. Teachers and principals can use a skill set of strategies to create focused and productive classrooms that help students achieve higher performance levels.

Patrícia Cerqueira Seidler: What policies must be aligned with racial equity standards to develop the best instructional plans that facilitate bell-to-bell teaching in classrooms with potentially challenging behavioral students?

Buddy Thornton: Why are educators less motivated post-Covid-19, create classroom organization and arrangement that spurs productivity, and how can you identify goals for achieving those motivations we discussed previously?

Patrícia Cerqueira Seidler: How can implementing circular, not linear/hierarchical policy structures within districts, schools, and classrooms yield equitable outcomes and offer what is needed for our families, students, staff, and communities that we serve?

Dr. Larry Davis: Why should government officials be more aware of which policies need to be sustained and done away with to help school districts, administrators, and teachers better develop, communicate and implement classroom motivation and management plans?

Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks

Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 136

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III

Panelist: Lori Tsugawa Whaley | Buddy Thornton | Delna Bryan | 

Spreading Hope for Students During COVID-19

Because of COVID-19, teachers and leaders must change the way students interact by helping them become more mindful of selflessness, setting clear expectation goals, and tracking their impact while learning. In martial instruction, it is essential that you exercise patience during lessons. When teaching, take it one step at a time. Martial Arts instruction is vital because not all students can learn fast or learn four moves at a time. The teacher should know how to establish a classroom climate that fosters learning, equity, and excellence and use this knowledge to create a physical and emotional environment that is safe and productive. Spreading hope is necessary when facing the high-level challenges that have tragically been exposed since the onset of COVID-19. Low proficiency scores rocked traditional public schools. As a percentage of students enrolled in the choice program, 62% of students tested at basic or below basic for math, 12% were proficient in math, and only 2% were advanced. We know that U.S. Students from Low-Income Families Underperforming Their Peers Overseas. So, yes, in general, poverty and factors correlated with low family income are strongly related to low test scores.

Buddy Thornton: What are some ways teachers can identify goals for achieving mindfulness about selflessness and tracking their impact while meeting the needs of diverse students?

Lori Tsugawa Whaley: How do ancient Japanese folk tales help spread hope in the different classroom settings where you entertain?

Delna Bryan: How do you include as many real-world examples into your lesson as possible to ensure that you successfully carry out objectives and plans in both practical and non-effective settings?

Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks

Impact of Educational Leadership Episode 138

Hosted by: I. D. III for Isaiah Drone III

Panelist: | Geraldine Edwards Hollis |

March 20, 2022 5:00 PM CST

Desegregation of Public Libraries

The term "radical reconstruction" refers to the sweeping social, economic, and political reforms passed by Republicans in Congress that made up the Reconstruction Acts of 1867. The notable achievements of Reconstruction were the ratification of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments, which focused on formally ending slavery and disenfranchisement of African Americans. The legislation was passed to ensure equality among all men regardless of race and rebuild the nation's infrastructure destroyed during the Civil war, most notably in the southern regions. During Reconstruction, the southern state governments represented a coalition of African Americans known as the Freedmen Bureau that provided relief and helped tens of thousand formerly enslaved people. However, Racial segregation's systematic division of people into racial or other ethnic groups was still alive. On March 27, 1961, nine young African American students were arrested for entering the whites-only public Library in Jackson, Mississippi. A local newspaper called the read-in the “first move to integrate public facilities in Jackson.” Geraldine Edwards Hollis was one of at the historically black Tougaloo College in Mississippi who Desegregating Public Libraries,”

Geraldine Edwards Hollis: Mrs. Hollis, please share what happened that day when you and the others requested books not held by the "colored" branch of the Library. Police arrested you and your group because you went to another Library where the law said you did not. They did not belong.

Geraldine Edwards Hollis: Were there any confusing parts in your mind about why you had to go to a whites-only Library to search for a particular book. Furthermore, what went through your heart, emotions, and mind when they called the police on you and the other young scholars?

Geraldine Edwards Hollis: An Attorney and artist named Michael Crowell created a portrait of Hollis for a Banned Books Week trading card published by the Library in 2016, which won a Special Jury Prize because it depicted a banned person rather than a book.

Geraldine Edwards Hollis: In June 1962, U.S. District Court Judge William Harold Cox ordered the Library to desegregate. How did you feel when you received that news? Especially when the Tougaloo Nine episode was one of the first desegregation victories in the 1960s civil rights campaign in Mississippi. As a Civil Rights World Changer, what advice would you leave with young people today?

Isaiah Drone III Closing Remarks