Shanedria Wagner is a graduate of Texas A&M University, Shanedria Wagner earned a bachelor’s degree in French and a second degree in speech communication. She went on to earn her master’s degree in bilingual education from the University of Houston. Her studies also include superior-level French courses at the University of Caen in Normandy, France. She is a linguist who speaks, reads, and writes in French and in Spanish.

 

While teaching in the Alief and Houston Independent School Districts, she served as a foreign language/speech communication teacher at the secondary level and as an elementary bilingual instructor. A highlight of her career was teaching at her alma mater, Mac Arthur Elementary School. Mrs. Wagner has also taught ESL courses and citizenship classes. Her enormously effective teaching techniques and compassion for her pupils have earned her three Teacher-of-the-Year Awards.

 

As a national consultant, Mrs. Wagner has devoted the past twenty years to tailoring engaging and motivating 

presentations to meet the needs of her diverse clients. She presents a variety of workshops ranging from techniques for second language acquisition to innovative strategies for reading, math, grammar, and writing instruction. Her audiences have comprised children, administrators, school board members, parents, politicians, and instructors in twenty-five states. She has been hired as a presenter, translator, lecturer, panelist, keynoter, test-writer, and motivational speaker.

 

In this episode Dr. Gaye Lang and Shanedria Wagner discuss:

• The value of promoting diversity 

• The priority of the leadership 

• Innovation and diversity 

Key Takeaways: 

• Promoting diversity is a moral obligation and is a way to amend the inequity that transpired in the past and still echoes in our present age. Compliance with the diverse initiatives of the leadership is a step toward the right direction but is a means to an end. 

• The way employees treat people is a direct reflection of the expectations of their job and what the leadership of a company values. When people value diversity, they seek out those who are different from all walks of life and from all backgrounds. 

• If you put an older person with a lot of wisdom and a young person with a lot of fresh ideas, then what you get is a powerhouse of innovation. 

 

“Be the change. If you're in a situation when someone's not valuing diversity, speak up about it. And then watch your words. We have to consider how our words might affect somebody else, especially when discussing topics that could be potentially controversial.” - Shanedria Wagner

 

Connect with Shanedria Wagner:

Website: https://www.shanwag.com/ | www.spanishetc.com | and www.shanwag.org 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shanedria-wagner-m-ed-a92397118/ 

 

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KEYWORDS: 

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

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