Tanji Reed Marshall CEO and Principal Consultant of Liaison Educational Partners. With more than 2 decades of experience in the classroom, district, and organization level, she has a lot of gems to share. The problem of educational inequities, and how certain groups of students, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, have historically been underserved and misinformed by ineffective teaching methods.
The system has too many pockets and gaps - it has to change so it can serve all students suitably. Dr. Tanji advocates for classroom leaders to have skills and tools, but also a mindset to provide the best possible education for all students. Dr Tanji provides a framework for transformative change in education, emphasizing learning, critical thinking about roles in education, planning, applying, evaluating, and integrating practices.
The importance of literacy and the need for proficiency and mastery in education is a must and if all other industry has it, education should have it too because every student has the potential to achieve high results.
Notes:
๐ RONdering as a word in Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
01:54๐ฉ๐พโ๐ซ Starting in retail and switching to education:
03:02๐๐๐พ Why do we get so upset when we talk about numbers and education?
09:49๐คฏ Moving to North Carolina: changing the standards that are set so low.
13:23๐ Going to a Catholic high school and having amazing teachers - Tanjiโs circle of champions.
17:22๐ Literacy and power of reading is important for advanced math: becoming district literacy coach.
23:51๐ Proficiency vs Mastery - proficiency is not enough and we need to put more effort into all kids.
25:00โญ The three-queuing system is banned in some countries and literacy has to become a right in Massachusetts.
33:39โ ๏ธ Tanjiโs five strategies and four environmental types: integrating practices and changing the system.
39:37๐ค We are ok with kids being failed: a value disparity in education.
44:27โ๏ธ A nationwide misalignment between values and practices in education.
49:58๐ Tanjiโs RONdering: naming the truth on where we are so we can go the way wa want to be.
51:22๐ Tanjiโs book, free course and newsletter.
๐ Too many pockets in education and we donโt want that.
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Episode 49
