Today, we talk with Dr. Shawn Joseph about looking within ourselves and accepting that we, as educators contribute to students not making progress and how if we want to fix organizations we need to fix ourselves. We will discuss how important student voice is when using improvement science to get to the root cause of problems within school communities.  We will also chat about how true equity work begins when you see who is in front of you. 

Visit our Bronx ART website and connect with us on Twitter @BX_ARTeam!

Today's hosts are Kris DeFilippis, Adelia Gibson, and Kaitlyn Reilley

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Join us as we have a very real conversation with Dr. Shannon Waite about systemic racism, anti-blackness, and the work that needs to happen to disrupt and dismantle inequitable systems. We will discuss how school leaders need to be social justice and equity oriented leaders and how that work starts within, how to our core values show up in words, and actions, and how we all need to get in the work together to make meaningful changes to to the inequitable systems that exist today.  

Visit our Bronx ART website and connect with us on twitter @BX_ARTeam! 

Today's hosts are Kris DeFilippis, Adelia Gibson, and Kaitlyn Reilley 

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Join us today as we talk with Executive Superintendent Meisha Ross Porter about changing the Bronx Narrative, seeing the possibilities and potential in our students, and developing transformational leaders! Learn more about using improvement science to get to the root cause of issues schools face and what it means to be Bronx Strong!!

This is a special bonus episode of Shift Impact Build where we sit down with Dr. Dia Bryant, Deputy Director and Chief of Partnerships at The Education Trust in New York City and talk about her role with the Academic Response Team and leading change in a changing system! In the interview we talk about being a visionary while needing to execute plans, processing and acknowledging change as loss, creating a sense of urgency so that status quo is more dangerous than unknown, and skydiving as a metaphor for educational leadership!

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In today's episode we are joined by Dr. Terry Orr, associate professor of Educational Leadership, Administration and Policy at Fordham University and Kris DeFilippis, Director of the Bronx Academic Response Team. We talk about what improvement science is and how schools across the country have begun using improvement science to make systems changes. Listen to hear about how improvement science is being used to address inequities and questions to ask to get started. Dr. Orr will share with us the creation of partnerships with iLEAD, the Carnegie Foundation, and New York City. 

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Today we will introduce you to a new team in the New York City Department of Education, the Academic Response Team (ART). We will look back on educational reforms that have shifted the educational culture in NYC allowing for the creation of the ART. During the episode we discuss The importance of building trust to move practice, building leadership capacity, and how we use improvement science to provide targeted support, especially around issues of equity. We also have an engaging interview with Dr. Dia Bryant, the Deputy Director and Chief of Partnerships at The Education Trust in NYC. 

Visit our Bronx ART Website to learn more about our team! 

Connect with us on Twitter @BX_ARTeam!

Today's hosts are Kris DeFilippis, Adelia Gibson, and Kaitlyn Reilley

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Dr. Dia Bryant recently completed her doctoral program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.  She completed her doctoral residency as the special assistant to the First Deputy Chancellor for the NYC DOE.  Dia currently serves as the Deputy Director and Chief of Partnerships at the Education Trust in NYC.

Connect with Dr. Dia Bryant on Linkedin

Resources: 

An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization 

New York City’s Children First: Lessons in School Reform 

Better Leaders Better Schools Podcast

What is the Impact of New York City Community Schools Initiative?

Illustrating the Promise of Community Schools 

Learning to Improve