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The Urban Educator with Jasmyn Williams
Manage episode 377715430 series 3279539
Urban educator and inner-city school advocate Jasmyn Williams is an Upper Elementary School Dean in East Cleveland, Ohio. Over the years she has developed the awareness, compassion, and knowledge to effectively lead and educate students with severe behavioral needs and learning disabilities in the inner city realm. In 2019, she received a Master of Education from Ursuline College. Prior to graduate school she attended Bowling Green State University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies. As a speaker with a focus on Urban Ed, Jasmyn leads professional development sessions and coaches teachers on various strategies to use when building relationships and working with Students of Color. As an advocate for Students of Color, she works to bring awareness through dialogue and community service in hopes of liberation.
What You Will Hear:
- Impact of being raised by a young mother and grandparents
- Providing resources rooted in wellness, equity, intellectualism and love
- Leadership and being an instructional coach, an assistant principal, and an urban educator.
- Urban education in non urban communities
- Reading proficiency. Systemic issues in assessments and testing
- Social emotional learning
- Environmental effects on learning
- Book suggestions (See Mentioned below)
Quotes:
“Wellness is accessible to you even if you are from an environment that is not ideal.”
“Equity is asking how can I get every student there? There can be so many different things and so my job is to figure out what is there for my children, for our students, and then what can we do to get them there.”
“I think that it's our job as educators to show what healthy love is.”
“There's just so many layers that go into a child's ability to be successful “
“The earlier we can allow children to know that they're individual, the better, because they're not forcing themselves to fit in these spaces that they just don't fit in.”
Mentioned
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
We Want To Do More Than Survive
144 episodes
Manage episode 377715430 series 3279539
Urban educator and inner-city school advocate Jasmyn Williams is an Upper Elementary School Dean in East Cleveland, Ohio. Over the years she has developed the awareness, compassion, and knowledge to effectively lead and educate students with severe behavioral needs and learning disabilities in the inner city realm. In 2019, she received a Master of Education from Ursuline College. Prior to graduate school she attended Bowling Green State University where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Studies. As a speaker with a focus on Urban Ed, Jasmyn leads professional development sessions and coaches teachers on various strategies to use when building relationships and working with Students of Color. As an advocate for Students of Color, she works to bring awareness through dialogue and community service in hopes of liberation.
What You Will Hear:
- Impact of being raised by a young mother and grandparents
- Providing resources rooted in wellness, equity, intellectualism and love
- Leadership and being an instructional coach, an assistant principal, and an urban educator.
- Urban education in non urban communities
- Reading proficiency. Systemic issues in assessments and testing
- Social emotional learning
- Environmental effects on learning
- Book suggestions (See Mentioned below)
Quotes:
“Wellness is accessible to you even if you are from an environment that is not ideal.”
“Equity is asking how can I get every student there? There can be so many different things and so my job is to figure out what is there for my children, for our students, and then what can we do to get them there.”
“I think that it's our job as educators to show what healthy love is.”
“There's just so many layers that go into a child's ability to be successful “
“The earlier we can allow children to know that they're individual, the better, because they're not forcing themselves to fit in these spaces that they just don't fit in.”
Mentioned
Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
We Want To Do More Than Survive
144 episodes
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