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Students everywhere have gone through a lot, but especially high school students. They rely on seeing their friends and going to those ritual high school events. The pandemic halted all of that.
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LAWRENCE The School of Education & Human Sciences at the University of Kansas has announced the featured speakers for each session of the 2021 Strategies for Educational Improvement Summer Conference, a virtual multisession professional development series.
This year’s theme, “Back to the Future: Time to Redesign,” will focus on the needs for today’s PK-12 teachers, schools, districts and other education service providers. Each virtual session supports an overall topic that includes multiple presenters and a moderator. This year’s featured speakers for each session:
June 15: “Re-entry & Supporting Socio-emotional Health for Teachers & Administrators” with Jenny Flinders, KU Center for Public Partnerships & Research; Arpita Ghosh, assistant professor in the KU Department of Educational Psychology; Jacqueline Rodriguez, Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools; and M’Balia Thomas, assistant professor in the KU Department of Curriculum and Teaching.
EXCEPTIONAL Kansas City
journalism we ve seen this week and something that deserves to be highlighted as a teachable moment in the aftermath of controversy.
To wit . . .
WATCH THE FIRED OLATHE COACH OFFER PERSPECTIVE ABOUT HIS N-WORD DEBACLE AND SHARE HIS FEELINGS IN THE AFTERMATH OF CITYWIDE RACIALLY CHARGED CONTROVERSY!!!
Reality check . . .
He seems like a nice guy and somebody that simply made a mistake and now understands the power of his words . . . Not the monster portrayed among many social media commenters and print publications.
Check-it . . .
Former Olathe North High School baseball coach Pete Flood realizes what he said last Thursday before an Olathe North varsity baseball game was absolutely wrong. I know better than to say what I said, Flood told KMBC 9 Investigates in his first televised interview since the Olathe school board fired him unanimously Monday.
Editorial Roundup: Kansas
Kansas City Star. May 7, 2021.
Editorial: ‘He should be fired!’ Olathe North coach needs to go after using n-word
Pete Flood, head baseball coach at Olathe North High School, needs to be fired after aiming the n-word at the only Black player on the team.
In a Friday Facebook post, the player’s father, Tony Banks, said his son and another player on the team set up speakers and were playing rap music during batting practice before a game with Olathe South. Banks said Flood walked up to his son, “looked him in the eyes, and told him, ‘We don’t play that n music over here. We only play country and rock music.’ ”