The headlines are still screaming at us … but those headlines are not written by teachers and principals. As we saw in the last episode, most media headlines simply don’t reflect the experience or concerns of those considered actual educational experts.
00:00 Introduction to the Second Season
Dr. Barbara Stengel 01:25 Introduction to Autonomy (a tour through the headlines from Chicago and Denver)
Stengel, Camilla Modesitt, Director of External Relations, Denver Language School 08:15 Principals’ Perspectives: “Professionalism and Empowerment with Balance and ‘Compliance’”
Merida Freguada, Principal, Marrama Elementary 12:13 Principals’ Perspective: “Innovation in Name Only”
Alex Wenzel, Principal, Denver Center for International Studies 19:55 Principals’ Perspectives: “Autonomy as Freedom, Power, and Responsibility”
Modisett 32:44 Autonomy = Trust and Responsibility
Stengel, Fraguada 33:55 Teacher Autonomy, Dead or Not Dead?
Stengel 36:45 Autonomy in the Good School: Lessons from Bailey
Stengel, Claire Jasper-Crafter, Bailey Chief of Culture; Karen Dorris, Bailey Teacher Leader, Laura Laufman, Bailey Resident 41:50 “All Their Needs Were Taken Care of”
Stengel 42:45 Next Time: Learning in and through Practice
Wenzel, Stengel
Many thanks to the guests who agreed to inform our thinking for this episode!
As usual, there are references to a variety of social, educational and historical news and commentary. You can pursue our sources and find out more about these issues at our website:
www.chasingbaileypod.com.
What is Chasing Bailey?
Chasing Bailey is a podcast about a group of teachers, leaders, and others who dedicated themselves to changing the fortunes of a failing middle school in Nashville TN from 2012 to 2016.
They succeeded, but their achievement was bittersweet.
In 2016, the district closed that school.
Still, those who were there knew they had stumbled onto something special, some important educational truths that might help all of us find our way out of the morass that COVID 19 has left us in.