Podcasts For Leaderful Schools

Bob and Linda talk with Dr. Lance McCready of Toronto. Lance T. McCready, Ph. D. is Assistant Professor of Urban Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He received his doctorate in Social and Cultural Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. McCready teaches School & Society in the inner city-focused cohort of the Secondary Initial Teacher Education program and teaches graduate course on urban education and gender issues in urban schools. His research and writing focuses on curricular and pedagogical issues in urban education, specifically the "troubles" facing Black male students in urban schools and the experiences of queer youth of color.

Bob and Linda talked with Dr. Kevin Kumashiro, Ph.D., who is the founding director of CAOE. He is currently professor of Asian American Studies and Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where he was formerly Chair of Educational Policy Studies, Interim Co-Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, and Coordinator of Asian American Studies. At UIC, he is the primary investigator of a $1.9 million U.S. Department of Education grant to support Asian American and Pacific Islander students in higher education. He is also president-elect (2010-2012) of the National Association for Multicultural Education, and chair of its 21st annual international conference, scheduled for November 2011 in Chicago. His research, teaching, and activism are redefining the field of "anti-oppressive education" as he develops new approaches to addressing issues of social justice in schools.

Bob and Linda talk to Rob Neu of Federal Way Schools in the state of Washington.

Bob and Linda take a trip down memory lane. They look at the many podcasts including our series in memory of Dr. Pam Morehead, our podcasts of the Legends, like Parker Palmer, the Chicago Crowd including Bill Ayres, Kevin Kumashiro, Pauline Lipman, the OU guests which includes Julie Doneen Ricks, Shannon Flummerfelt, Caryn Wells, Dawn Pickard. We also have interviewed all three of deans of SEHS: Mary Otto, Bill Keane, and Louis Gallien. The list goes on... and so do we.

Bob and Linda spend time with Dr. Jana Nidiffer for OU's school of Educational Leadership.

Bob and Linda talk with Dr. Dawn Pickard of OU's Office of Global Initiatives and International Studies. Our producer, Mary Belz also weighed in on this interview.

Linda & Bob talk about the future of education with Gary Doyle.

Linda and Bob talk to Dr. Rick Hess about his view on public education.

Bob and Dr. Bill Hamilton (recently retired Superintendent of Walled Lake Schools) talk about PLCs and what Walled Lake Schools does so well.

Bob and Linda take a field trip to North Farmington High School to chat with principal, Rick Jones.

Bob and Linda reflect on the interviews from fall and talk about upcoming interviews.

Bob and Linda talk with Bill Bigelow.

Bob and Linda talk with OU's Dr. Shannon Flummerfelt.

Podcasts for Leaderful Schools welcomes Dr. Adam Urbanski for a second interview.

Linda & Bob talk with Dr. Lipman about social justice issues including the Whittier incident of this past week in Chicago.

Bob talks to Dr. John Merrow of NPR about his philosophy, how he got there, and his new book, Below C Level.

Dr. Lorraine Monroe shares with Bob and Linda the story of her success as a leader in New York.

Bob and Linda take a trip to Bloomfield Hills to visit Bill Boyle, Principal of Model High School and Bowers Academy.

Linda and Bob take time to get to know the new Dean of Education at Oakland University - Dr. Louis B. Gallien, Jr.

Bob and Linda talk with Dr. Tim Larrabee on teacher education in sexual orientation.