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How Choice for Students Gets Us to Responsibility
Families’ choice of school for their children is not the only kind of choice that matters educationally. It may well not be the most important kind, either. We heard...
Reading Wars Redux: The Science of Reading
Folks have been debating how to teach reading at least since 1985. At that time, the issue was framed as top-down vs. bottom-up. This makes the debate seem “tidy,”...
What Do Parents REALLY Want?
Today we don’t talk enough about John Dewey’s call to educational equity and its impact on democracy. Instead, small groups of parents (most notably Moms for Liberty)...
Responsibility: Anchoring (Renewal in) Education
This is a “bonus episode,” not part of our regular schedule, but a conversation that nonetheless deepens and expands the ideas about education that ground the podcast....
Professional Development? Learning In and Through Practice
Have you ever taken the time to really listen to teachers talk about their work, about their joys and frustrations, and about how they grow as they work together? Th...
Autonomy? Trust and Responsibility
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 d...
Season 2 Episode 2 Teaser
The Pandemic is endemic, or nearly so. We’re still getting sick at all the wrong times, but the impact on most who actually test positive for COVID-19 are annoying ra...
Post-Pandemic Responsibility and Recovery
The Pandemic is endemic, or nearly so. We’re still getting sick at all the wrong times, but the impact on most who actually test positive for COVID-19 are annoying ra...
Season 2 Episode 1 Teaser
Mid-pandemic, the wish educators most often expressed was that the COVID 19 Pandemic would provide an opportunity for an educational reset, that educators (not politic...
Season 2 Teaser
The new school year is underway, and we are getting ready for the second season of Chasing Bailey. The first episode of the new season will drop October 1st. Plan ...
Bonus Back-to-School Commentary: Let Teachers Teach!
September 16, 2023Chasing BaileyBonus Back-to-School Commentary: Let Teachers Teach! In this bonus back-to-school episode of Chasing Bailey, we listen as our commenta...
Bailey Closes on Greenwood Ave.
It’s been a minute since our last episode … sorry to keep you waiting to hear just why Bailey on Greenwood Avenue was shut down, but I couldn’t explain how Bailey clo...
This Is What Success Looks Like
The question of a school’s “success” is the thread underlying this entire podcast – and the specific target we aim at today by listening to the voice and experience of...
Allyship at its Best? Black Teachers Lead the Way
Have we unintentionally reinforced a stereotype about Black and white teachers in the last two episodes? In a majority Black school, do the Black teachers carry the s...
To Fail Safely: Teachers’ Creativity as the Lifeblood of Learning
In this fifth episode of Chasing Bailey, we consider the question of curriculum. What was the curriculum that powered academic success at Bailey and how did it come t...
Love and Limits: Re-making Culture for/and Learning at Bailey
In this fourth episode of Chasing Bailey, we turn to the critical issue of culture for learning and growth. We think about the transformation that supported the Baile...
Locating Leadership at the Heart of Teaching and Learning
The third episode of Chasing Bailey looks at how teacher leadership multiplies the point and power of teams in schools. Four teacher leaders – Kelly Aldridge Boyd , Le...
Teaching is a Team Sport
This second episode of Chasing Bailey explores the first of several characteristics that marked the practice of education at Bailey: that is, teaming. Content teachers...
"Let's Remember Who We Are": The Bailey Story
This first episode of Chasing Bailey sketches the four-year story of an effort to transform a “failing” public school in Nashville, TN, only to have success turn sour ...
