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Shortly, I am hosting the Tom Ficklin show on FM once again in New Haven down the block from Yale.
In 2015 Tom Ficklin began hosting a Monday morning radio show. Four years ago he set out on a mission.
"His mission was to create a weekly 10 am Monday Morning Radio Program spotlighting innovation, creativity, and courage in the socio-political-cultural-spiritual realm.
Tom used his show to light a lantern, broadly calling out storytellers, voices of hope and truth.
And for four years on Monday morning at 10 Tom Ficklin has led planetary ranging discussions with impactful global citizens and thought leaders from your street , to wall street , to alleys and international boulevards.
Founding Date August 2015".
This education activist has been a guest on his show many times. In a world where much of mainstream media ignores the truth, and makes certain not to rock any of those status quo boats.
Tom Ficklin uses his show to lift the voices of hope spoken on the streets, in our book stores, libraries, neighborhoods, art houses, and seekers of truth in New Haven, and from afar.
Today, Tom is giving me a chance to host a show discussing how to recruit and retain diverse teachers in Connecticut Public Schools. Today it's not our governor, our new Commissioner of education, legislators, or some CEO Education Reformer. Today it something rare, it talking and deeply listening to two incredible diverse teachers discussing their ideas on how to recruit and retain teachers of color.
Over the past two decades, three consistent facts have emerged from the research on teacher education:
1. Teachers of Color are making a difference,
2. Teachers of color improve learning for all children,
3. More than half of our them leave by year five.
1. Teachers of Color are making a difference,
2. Teachers of color improve learning for all children,
3. More than half of our them leave by year five.
My question is who is listening to Connecticut's diverse teachers? If this were medicine any interventions or programs any new program or interventions would be seeking deep input from new and veteran teachers. Trust me our policymakers and legislators are spending millions of dollars on how to recruit and retain teachers of color. So, my question is are they seriously engaging in deep discussions with diverse teachers already in our public schools, and are they engaging in those same discussions with diverse teacher candidates in our Connecticut Colleges and Universities?
I sincerely hope so, but I am not waiting.
Today Tom Ficklin has given me a gift, the bully pulpit from 10 AM to 11 AM.
To I use this hour to listen deeply to two diverse teachers fighting the good fight from two Connecticut Priority School Districts, (Willimantic and New Britain). It not about me, it's about listening to two teachers in the field doing the work. It's about respecting teacher voices, it's about hope, and it's about teachers stepping up.
My Guests:
Rose Ryes 25 year veteran teacher Bilingual teacher from Willimantic, who has been active in and out of the classroom in Willimantic from day one.
Jessica Arasimowicz a Middle School Teacher from New Britain, and former graduate student in courses I taught at Central Connecticut State University.
Thank you, Tom Ficklin, for this blessing of time.
Now world get ready for some truth,
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
Professor of Literacy, Elementary, and Early Childhood Education
I sincerely hope so, but I am not waiting.
Today Tom Ficklin has given me a gift, the bully pulpit from 10 AM to 11 AM.
To I use this hour to listen deeply to two diverse teachers fighting the good fight from two Connecticut Priority School Districts, (Willimantic and New Britain). It not about me, it's about listening to two teachers in the field doing the work. It's about respecting teacher voices, it's about hope, and it's about teachers stepping up.
My Guests:
Rose Ryes 25 year veteran teacher Bilingual teacher from Willimantic, who has been active in and out of the classroom in Willimantic from day one.
Jessica Arasimowicz a Middle School Teacher from New Britain, and former graduate student in courses I taught at Central Connecticut State University.
Thank you, Tom Ficklin, for this blessing of time.
Now world get ready for some truth,
Dr. Jesse P. Turner
Professor of Literacy, Elementary, and Early Childhood Education
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