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.  

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.  

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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.  

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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.  

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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 [email protected].