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.
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Latest Episodes
How Choice for Students Gets Us to Responsibility
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Responsibility: Anchoring (Renewal in) Education
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Professional Development? Learning In and Through Practice
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