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Chasing Bailey
by 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.
Episodes
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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 from parents in Episode 4 who were concerned with whether or not their kids learned to think and act for themselves, and in the...
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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,” just two sides with clear delineation. You were FOR phonics (bottom up) or you were FOR textual understanding (top down), but you...
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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) are prompting battles in local school boards to ban books, to fight racially inclusive curriculum, and to limit the rights and...
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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. In mid-December, Bloomsbury Press published Responsibility, a book authored by Dr. Barbara Stengle for their Philosophy of...
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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? This episode is an opportunity to do just that. Bailey teachers talk about their experience and offer wisdom for all of us as they do...
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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 don’t reflect the experience or concerns of those considered actual educational experts. 00:00 Introduction to the Second Season Dr....
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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 rather than debilitating. But the pandemic left us with a huge educational hangover, and the headlines really are screaming at us. As...
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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 rather than debilitating. But the pandemic left us with a huge educational hangover, and the headlines really are screaming at us. As...
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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 politicians) might once again set the agenda. What actually happened, of course, is not that. The first episode of Season 2 of Chasing...
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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 to join us as we take a look at what schools can and should be doing post-pandemic. Later episodes will look at principal’s autonomy,...
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Bonus Back-to-School Commentary: Let Teachers Teach!
September 16, 2023 Chasing Bailey Bonus Back-to-School Commentary: Let Teachers Teach! In this bonus back-to-school episode of Chasing Bailey, we listen as our commentator, Dr. Barbara Stengel, reads “An experienced educator’s plea: Let teachers teach!” This is a short essay Barb was asked to…
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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 closed without the help of Principal Christian Sawyer and Dr. Alan Coverstone who was the Director of the iZone in MNPS and the...
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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 four representative Bailey students. In the face of all we could put in the basket of “learning loss,” the educators at Bailey...
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Allyship at its Best? Black Teachers Lead the Way
October 31, 2022 Chasing Bailey Episode 6: 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 social-emotional weight (and…
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To Fail Safely: Teachers’ Creativity as the Lifeblood of Learning
September 30, 2022 Chasing Bailey Episode 5: 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 to be? The short…
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Love and Limits: Re-making Culture for/and Learning at Bailey
August 31, 2022 Chasing Bailey Episode 4: 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 Bailey shift from “persistently...
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Locating Leadership at the Heart of Teaching and Learning
July 31, 2022 Chasing Bailey Episode 3: 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 , LeKeisha Harding, Whitney Bradley...
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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, special educators, teacher leaders, paraprofessionals, and residents learning to teach collaborated on both grade level and...
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"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 when the district office determined that the underserved students at the school -- mostly poor and mostly Black -- had to be moved...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
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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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...
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