“UNTIL THEY KNOW YOU CARE” with Greg Jackson
To mark the 50th episode milestone, I’ve teamed up with Greg Jackson of Action J Productions to discuss our new video project called Point of Learning Master Class (not to be confused with the very well funded instructional video series whose registered trademark does not include a space between “Master” and “Class”). Like the late, great journalist Bill Greider, we believe the essential unit of democracy is not the voting booth, but the conversation, so we have chosen civil discourse as our first topic. If you agree with us that it’s never been more urgent to get better at having hard conversations across divides, please share this episode or the video below with your friends, family, and especially the high school teachers in your life!
NEW CIVIL DISCOURSE VIDEO!
The citations for sources mentioned in podcast audio (and provided in captions on the video): Jill Harrison Berg, Christine Connolly, Abda Lee, and Emmanuel Fairly. “A Matter of Trust: How a Boston Turnaround School Built Its Plan for Improvement Around Relational Trust,” Educational Leadership, March 2018; They Say/I Say. Gerald Graff and Kathy Birkenstein. They Say/I Say (Norton, 2009), pp. 133-135.
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SOUNDTRACK NOTES
Gil Scott Chapman originally developed his tracks inspired by Mose Allison for “Leading with Mind and Heart with Errick Greene” (Episode 28).
Molly Colvin originally mixed the tracks underscoring segments featuring Lily Flast and Keith Zemsky for the episode “Crystallizing Coronavirus with Sarah Bowman” (Episode 31).
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