Episode 807

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5th Nov 2024

Give Them a Positive Touch

In our seventh episode of this season, our panel is joined by veteran K-20 educator, author, professor, and founder of Sustained Solutions, Dr. Alicia S. Monroe, as we explore how we honor that each student is here to do well, to cultivate self-efficacy and agency, and to experience the joy in learning .

In this episode we will explore Chapter 6 of Powerful Student Care: Honoring Each Learner as Distinctive & Irreplaceable, published by ASCD in 2023, and written by Grant A. Chandler & Kathleen M. Budge.

What does it look like when we focus our energy on the human experience in our classroom? How does that change the trajectory of not just their learning, but on what matters even more - when we prove to them that this world, this society, this school, and this classroom exists for them.

Join Dr. Monroe and roundtable members, Kathy Mohney, Penny Brockway, and Michael Pipa, as we all think about the power of what we do to prove to each student that they are distinctive and irreplaceable.

Don't miss another exciting conversation about Powerful Student Care.

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About the Podcast

The Wheelhouse

Where Each Student is Distinctive and Irreplaceable

The Wheelhouse exists to create an inclusive community of empowered educators who believe that, together, we can disrupt the transactional herding nature of schooling to create districts, schools, and classrooms where each student feels confident, optimistic, capable, well-supported, and emboldened to be and to become who they are meant to be.

Guiding Principles
1. We are steadfastly committed to each learner and each educator believing they are distinctive and irreplaceable.
2. We believe that educating our children should be a humanizing, relational, and transformational endeavor. All else is secondary.
3. We believe that dignity is a birthright; it is not earned. Each child deserves a future filled with open doors and unlimited possibilities. Our work is in service to this central aspiration.
4. We believe that each human life is unique and precious; as such we are compelled to remove aspects of schooling that disregard any student’s dignity.

About your hosts

Grant Chandler

Dr. Chandler is currently the president and chief executive officer of Students Matter, the producer of The Wheelhouse. Along with Kathleen M. Budge, Chandler, is the author Powerful Student Care: Honoring Each Learning as Distinctive & Irreplaceable (ASCD, 2023). Chandler brings over 35 years of practical experience as a high school teacher, building and central office administrator, higher education dean, professional learning director in an outreach department at a large research university, and as a technical support provider and executive coach. . Since 2005, Chandler has provided technical support to over 350 districts in developing systemic approaches to solving student learning issues and was recognized by the US Department of Education as a national expert in small learning communities. He has designed and led professional learning experiences at many levels of the K-12 arena and for many different audiences and has conducted numerous workshops at national, state, and regional conferences. His consultancies include boards of education, state and regional service providers; as well as individual schools and local districts across the United States and internationally. In his spare time, he’s writing a children’s book and raises standard poodles for animal assisted activities. Contact him at grantchandler@ourstudentsmatter.org or www.linkedin.com/in/grant-a-chandler.

Katherin Mohney

Kathy Mohney continues as an inspiring voice and thinker on The Wheelhouse since she began in Season 4. Katherin is a veteran educational leader having served as a local superintendent, a local state and federal program officer, and as a technical service provider for local districts in additional to her work as an elementary teacher, , instructional coach, principal, and consultant. Kathy strongly advocates for each student, understanding that a high-quality education is the foundation for having more opportunities beyond their K-12 education. Kathy earned her Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from Western Michigan University and her Master’s in Educational Leadership from Michigan State University. In her spare time, Kathy enjoys spending time with her husband, daughter, son-in-law, son, and her two fur babies.

Michael Pipa

Mike is a 36-year veteran educator. Before joining the CASDA faculty, he worked as an administrator at both the high school and middle school levels. Prior to his administrative career, Mike taught English Language Arts in middle and high school, achieving National Board Certification in 2006. He has worked extensively in support of students at risk as well as led his building’s professional development efforts.

Mike has worked as an instructional and administrative coach supporting staff in several area schools.

Alicia Monroe

Alicia Monroe, EdD, is a PK–20 experienced educator, international education consultant, and career coach. She has served as a teacher, supervisor, assistant principal, principal, assistant superintendent, and adjunct professor. Her notable success in creating a culture of belonging and achievement in schools along with her expertise in developing equity and access models that frame educational opportunities for all students are the core of the ongoing professional learning and support she provides to school districts.

Dr. Monroe teaches undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral courses in Africana Studies and education at a state university. Her partnership with the Office of Accessibility Services and Center for Neurodiversity has provided for collaborative planning, mentoring, career coaching, and internship and job placement for diversability students and alumni.

Dr. Monroe is the CEO and founder of Solutions for Sustained Success, LLC. Through her private practice, she serves as national faculty for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD). The whole child/whole student/whole educator framework that she was instrumental in designing is a trademark of ASCD.