What is your why? Why are you doing all of this? This podcast focuses your improvement efforts by providing information relevant to the benefits of involving your staff in the process of determining their why. The goal is to then use their why statements to examine the mission statement associated with your organization. Listen in on this ten minute podcast for further details.

Episode three is entitled : The Wrong Side of the Street and is a spinoff to the blog that I posted on my website (sonyawhitaker,com) on December 18, 2018. The focus of this seven minute show is to draw our attention to the need to identify and then address the societial factors which impact student performance.

This episode focuses on Dr. Sonya Whitaker's four leadership lessons learned from the lady who cleans the bathroom at the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport.

The is the introduction to the Podcast Show Entitled: What's Really Going On: A Spotlight on Solutions for Improving Student Achievement in America's Schools.

The purpose of this podcast is to examine at a very deep level, those things that are occurring in America's schools which impact educators' ability to improve the academic achievement levels of all students, and more specifically, students of color (which includes students from various linguistic backgrounds) and students experiencing the impact of poverty (which includes students from all ethnic backgrounds).

The second and most important purpose of this Podcast Show is to provide recommendations that can be tried, proven and then replicated in schools and districts across the entire country.