On today's episode I speak with Jovan Denaut, our equity leader here in Cumberland County about the plans that CCS has for the upcoming school years to begin addressing equity and working toward our vision in the CCS Strategic Plan. "Every stud...

On today’s episode we will be wrapping up our series entitled From History to Healing with a conversation with several educators in Cumberland County on how to address issues of social justice and diversity in the classroom.  We will he...

On today’s episode we continue our series entitled From History to Healing with a conversation about the emotion behind race related issues from a psychological and practical perspective.  Today, I am joined again  cohosts Maureen ...

On today’s episode we will be continuing with our series entitled From History to Healing.  I am again joined by our teacher of the year partners, Maureen Stover, Nicole Rivers, and Chris Lucas. But we will also be joined by two of our ...

Today we begin a new series entitled From History to Healing.  I am partnering with Maureen Stover, NC Teacher of the Year and finalists for the National Teacher of the Year; Nicole Rivers, current Cumberland County Schools and Sandhills R...

On today’s episode we will be learning about a new initiative that is starting in Cumberland County Schools to address the issue of access to highly effective teachers for historically underrepresented students.  Opportunity Culture is ...

For this episode, I will be talking with several faculty members from Ashley Elementary School in Fayetteville, NC.  We disucss a professional development they participated in last fall that took a deep dive into the historical aspect o...

On today's episode I welcome back my good friend Tianna O’Brien and members of the new developed Equity Team from Bill Hefner Elementary School. As you will hear- Tianna started this team after the same Professional Development that led to t...

On this episode, I continue my conversation with the school counselors from Cumberland County about the professional development they embarked on in the fall.  Today they share with us some of their next steps.  I am so grateful for t...

Our first mini series of Season Two will focus on some of the equity work that is being done in Cumberland County Schools.  I want to highlight those that are addressing the inequities of the educational system by hearing from them.&nbs...

On today’s episode, the last of Season One, we will get a look into equity from our superintendent’s perspective, Dr. Marvin Connelly Jr.  Following my conversation with him, I will debrief some of my big takeaways from this episode as ...

On today’s episode we will be continuing our conversation about equity with the 20-21 Cumberland County Principal of the Year- Suzanne Owen from Cliffdale Elementary School and the Assistant Principal of the Year- Tianna O’Brien from Bill Hefne...

Today we begin our final mini series of Season 1 of Issues Now! Conversations About Equity.  I will spend the next three weeks talking with leaders from around my district about what our goals should be and what ideas we have about how ...

On today’s episode, I talk with my good friend, Duncan McMillan about many aspects of equity in early childhood education.  We look at some of the disparities in the statistics that face our young students of color and really get into how ...

On this episode, we will be wrapping up our series on LGBTQ issues in schools.  This was originally supposed to be a two part series, but my dear friend Kandy Cox Dillion who was on the first two episodes about this topic pushed me to d...

On this episode, I welcome back Ashley Boles, Dustin Best, and Kandy Cox Dillion to discuss their personal experiences as an educator who is also a member of the LGBTQ community.  I am so grateful to these three amazing educators for sh...

On this episode we are diving into a new topic about equity in education.  We will spend the next three episodes exploring issues related to LGBTQ students and staff.  Today’s episode will focus on the importance of, and how to cre...

In this episode we are dig a bit deeper into the classroom application of becoming an anti-racist ELA teacher.  Last week, I talked with three professors from NC State University about their white paper about this topic.  Today, I tal...

In this episode I with three professors from NC State University on how to work towards becoming an Anti-Racist ELA Teacher; Dr. Michelle Falter, Dr. Chandra Alston, and Dr. Crystal Chen Lee.  These three ladies worked together in the summ...

In part three of our series on White Privilege, I talk with three colleagues from CCS- Larry Parker, Dr. Lillian McDavid, and Jovan Denaut about the importance of having access to teachers of color for our students of color.  We talk about...

In this second part of our White Privilege in schools series, we take a look at the disproportionate access to AIG services and AP classes for students of color and highlight a grassroots initiative to counteract this data.

In this first episode of a three part series about where we see white privilege in schools, we talk with Jeff May, Youth Development consultant currently residing in Houston, TX and Kailey Hill, an elementary principal in Spring Lake, NC. ...

On this episode, I interview two of my colleagues from Cumberland County Schools.  Kristy Newitt, the Coordinator of school counseling for the district, and Bridgett Pridgen, educator and advocate for Social Emotional Learning.  We di...

In this episode of Issues Now! we talk with Graig Meyer, a NC Representative and co-founder of Equity Collaborative about the biggest issue facing schools right now, school re-opening. Can we do this equitably? 

In this first episode of Issues Now! Conversations about Equity, I interview several educators from Cumberland County Schools in North Carolina.  We delve into what equity in education means; diversity, inclusion, and equity; highlight som...