May 12, 2025 • 41 mins
WDIA's Stan Bell hung out with Dr. John Barker and Dr. Meah Keys. They have launched a new Charter School, Tennessee Career Academy on American Way in Memphis, TN. The first day of school is July 31st. Listen and get the information about enrollment and curriculum.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Memphis Born and bread, walking the walk and talking and talk.
It's the stan Bell Morning Show weekday mornings from six
to ten am on the Heart and Soul of Memphis,
ten seventy WD.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
I a democractic. This microphone open right now. We got
a lot going on this morning. Where's my phone? Huh
wdi listens. It is such a treat to do this
feature and this segment every Friday without ceasing. And it's
just an hour and a half. Special people in the
studio every time we do this, man, and that's why
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we call it on purpose stand special people, spotlight and
in the studio right now. Let me let me get
to it, and then I'm gonna drop the one thousand
dollars nation.
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Wide keyword on you. Those are your waiting with baby breath.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I get that two years well, and we'll officially I
need the station all that radio stuff that we do.
First of all, let me say welcome to our guest.
Let's put a microphone on you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
All.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We have doctor John Parker, no strangers to the community,
Doctor John Alrah like all rah for two syllables and
then from humble tones, sir, yes, sir, humble, humble, humble
humble on Strawberry Festival, Grand Floats Parade May today.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm here and I'm not there.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, I know what you may be there, so you got.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
To be there later on.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I guess, man, man look and then and this lovely
person that you have to your rights across from me
is one and only.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Let me let let me put a mic on. Good morning,
doctor King, who she said a whole day. I don't
know your hold and I just called your boo. I
just called your boo.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I don't know your whole graduating tomorrow, Bell Ringer, Conniversity
of Memphis, stand up.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
If they can see me. But you never know. I
just alluded doctor me Vet King.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well too more important words. Thank you carving out time
to be with us, you know on double J. I
don't get likely. You got a lot of things to do,
especially open up the new school. Were gonna talk about
a minute, uh too much of important words in language.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Thank you. Most important word we.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
As you will probably tell the kiddos, and when you
open up the school late in July, we and then
the least important word I right, right, So so I'm
gonna step back. It's going to be the Doctor John
Barker Show and The Doctor Mia Yvette King Show featuring
Stan Bell keep on, Micael myself. But it's all about
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you all.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I just want to thank you for being here. Let
me ask you some important the most important things. How doctor,
doctor King? How's the family?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
And God is good?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
My parents are will my family is well, and he's
still holding us up?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
All right? Is your mother still with us?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yes, sir, yes, said she just celebrated her birthday on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Okay, yeah, lively, gonna celebrate her again on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Right, And if you can't add to two, you can't
mix them, you can't know, she.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Said to her parents. Just celebrated their fiftieth wedding annivers
for real. Yeah, stuff going on?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yes, Elder Herb and joice King.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Hold he said, elder Yeah, let me straight up around here,
say the way you said, helda we kept how I
talked to the doll?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
He thanks, Jo, appreciate give me that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It was a wonderful celebration and no doubt an amazing couple.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Man. That's all right.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The anniversary, then the birthday and the mother's day coming up.
All this and then you getting ready to graduate with
a doctor.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Come on, with all this going on, it's right down,
back to back to back.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Whole stuff right there. So you're receiving your what is
this the e d D The Pad.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Of Education in Urban Educational.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Leadership, Educational Leadership.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Concentrating instruction in curriculum.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Dig that and and and congratulations to uh from.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Where University of Memphis Tigers go.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
That's what I'm talking about, yes, sir, And under what
what what'd you go?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Undergraduate?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
The University of Memphis major.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
I got a Bachelors of Arts in Literature and Technical Writing,
and then I went right back to the university off
and got as of Arts and Teaching and where I
also ended up with an Urban Graduate Certificate in Urban
Educational Leadership under the direction of dever lacrossect.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Be cross the bell classes bleed blue.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You smiling little someone with us across from me, Gaul,
you earned it.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Have you had time to exhale all that studying and
all that dissertation and all that presenting and all.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Well, brother Bill, you know we're getting ready to open
the school. So and got a nice wife borth of
sleep and we're here now.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Come on, man on the ground, Doctor King is the
Queen of Tennessee Career Academy.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's right, come on with doctor Barker.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I see your personal staff is on point. They've already
hit the ground runner. You've got the right place.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
You already know.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So far, so good. All right, let me take a break.
We gotta pay these bills, so I get a check
on the fifteenth of the month. Think you guys to
understand that we'll come back with our special guests in
the studio here at w d I A doctor John
Aurrah Barker. What your title is the CEO of the
school direct We say, yeah, executive, Okay, that's that sounds right. Yeah,
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And and you doctor King is ahead of school principal.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
What is all right?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
We'll be back with our special guest, Harton told the
Memphis Am ten seventy w d I eight.
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That's fun entering now and I.
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fun fun, but.
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It helps you remember you remember that doctor Barkru Fun fun,
did it, but.
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Just one f this time. You know on the album
they spelled it f f u in, but don't put
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to my w D I a dot com. So we're back.
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Welcome back, everybody. You know, it's Friday's trade.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You see how I got the vantage point. I can
give the real weather. You see that, doctor, doctor King.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I just look out and I can well it's gonna
rain today, it's cloudy. I just look up if I
don't see the silhouette coming through the you know the
windows from top. I okay, overcast, cloud cover. So it's
it's Friday, yes, sir. And I thought we'd kind of
lighten things up, if you will, from features gone by,
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you know, from my last special People's Spotlights.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You know, we talked about a lot of stuff. Man
scooped the nuts.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But I said, you know, this Friday, I want to
talk about education. You know, we talk about education every day,
but I wanted to do a little something different. When
I ran into doctor John Barker not long ago. Sometimes
we bump into each other here and there, you know,
just you know, like that. But he said saying, I'm
working on the school, working on school. I said, what's school? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
He said Tennessee Career Academy.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I said, what, Well, where you're standing over here, wasn't
that a former school? He said, yeah, that was merit.
We got the building. Now we got space. They went
to the Kroger space.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Talk to us doctor Barker on the inception of this
particular TCA, this school.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Stan.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's always interesting to think about, you know, where ideas
come from. And you know, it's like I always think
about that the idea is, you know, something that has
its time has come. So what we're seeing in the
state of Tennessee right now, it's a real push from
Governor Leon down career in technical education really has to
move to the front of people's thinking because what we've
done too long, I think, is focused on college only.
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College is great, college is wonderful, but college may not
be the choice for everybody. And what I think we've
done is taken away choice. So we sat down with
the governor at one point and heard him say, you know,
I want more choices. And the answer back was there's
not any more choices than in Memphis, Memphis Shelby County
public schools, right in the county school system.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And what he said was I want more choice. And
it's like, what does that mean? What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What it means is to have parents have more choices
about what opportunities their students have in front of them.
And it's like, oh, I say, now, it's not about
you know, just kind of only a specific kind of
choice kind of thing, you know, like a magnet school
or an optional school or that kind of stuff. It's
that we need to have more choices beyond just doing
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college and every So when I actually started this projec,
call somebody in Nashville and I says, so, I'm thinking
about starting a new school and the person saying that
to me, it's not another college prep school. And I
think that's kind of where people are with this, that
they've been oversaturated with this idea of college for everybody.
And what we're looking at Tennessee Career Academy is to
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help students become world ready. Because there's the college ready
and the career ready, So what about ready for the world.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You say ready for the for the world.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So with that, what that means too is that, yeah,
you're ready for college if you want to go to college. Yeah,
you're ready to go for a career. If you're ready
to go for career. So that means having some certifications.
Maybe you're certified in cybersecurity, maybe you're certified as a
phlebotomy tech. Maybe you're certified as a patient care system.
Maybe you're certified as a welder. Maybe you're certified as
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something that you know you you can put to work
and use immediately. What we've had is several people, as
you might imagine, from the business community to respond super positive.
My next question before I get to doctor King, are
you partnering with anybody in all this absolute pretty.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Much like workforce development? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, Can we shout out a couple of folks with
on our board. We got Andy Davis from Turner Construction.
Andy and his team are super fantastic and they've said,
you know, how can we be of help. They've given
us some money, they've given us some support, they've given
us some.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Opportunities with them. Octavius Nixon.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Octavius is a young brother from the Binghampton neighborhood, who.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Went off to college.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
He was prepared to go to college, who went to college,
said you know, this isn't really for me, came back
to Big Hampton, started his own construction company.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Now has done.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Incredible good for the community, building houses and impacting families.
And as doctor King's going to say, I know because
we talk about this every day, it's disrupting poverty, fighting
economic mobility.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It's changing now.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now this is going to be just sound a little
bit too much, but it's changing the world. And what
we know is that we can't change the world alone.
So we do have some great partners, so Andy and
Octavias and our friends at Methodist Hospital and Baptist Hospital,
and in the cybersecurity world, we got the folks at EBIZ.
I mean, there's just a lot of great partners who
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want to and are at the table with us on
that's awesome. Getting back to our most important word, we
you got a lot of folks on boys, Sir, Doctor King,
what say you yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
TCA Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
So Tennessee Career Academy. We are starting with sixth and
seventh gratist this year.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Wow, this is a career six and seven.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Yes, sir, so it's very intentional on why we're starting
six and seventh. We do recognize that there was a
big lining loss during the COVID era and some schools
are just not able to catch those students up by trade.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I am a literacy specialist, So.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Being able to close the gap with those riata's skills
that our children often lack is what we are concentrating on.
And while we're doing that, number one, we are trying
to allow students to realize number one, what they're good
at and then how does that align with what you
want to do in life by giving them exposures to
different careers and not just talking about it or showing videos,
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but actually putting classrooms on wheels taking.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Them out to the community.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
That's why our corporate partners are so important in Tennessee
Career Academy. The lingo that we have adopted is Occupational
Advisory Councils that we got from our sister school in
Philadelphia Lehigh. They will feature on CBS and so we
kind of use a lot of things that back don
best practices to adopt and bring here, but we adopted
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it to our context here in Memphis, Tennessee and so
that's what we're doing with our students, and so we
have four pathways that we are concentrating on. That's that
digital technology where we're looking at the cybersecurity and web design.
We're also looking at advanced manufacturing with this STEM component,
so we're standing abrisk of the way that our world
is evolving yet preparing our children with those skills. Were
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also looking at health and human skill traits, which is
that educational piece with the health care piece, so our
students are able to leave us actually in eleven and
a half grade, they'll be able to start working.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
And what we're doing is number one so.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
A half gad that second semester right, yes, sir, they
would have accomplished the requirement.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah, and worked up to thirty five hours a week
with one of our corporate partners. And that way we
are really, as doctor Barker just said, addressing economical disparity
and producing economical mobility.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
We all know that.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
The seed to crime is poverty, and so how are
we more intentional And that's why we want to do
it with the community.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
We want to do this work with the community.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
We've had a lot of good input from different commissioners
Charlie Casswell, people of that nature of Michael Larry, but
they have shown.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Interest in our school.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
But also even the mayor, Mayor Paul Young, who came
to our soft opening and he didn't just come and
shake hands and kiss babies. He stayed for a couple
of a couple of hours, he and his wife, just
to show that they understood the importance of this for
the community.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
We also got some.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Pastors that have uh indulshed in our work as well well,
Keith Norman as well as Tony Wade. We we got
some great Yeah, we got some great pastors, yes, sir,
Divine Life Church, yea yeah. Awesome brother, awesome brother. But
we just we have some great partners that are coming
along with us in this work to uh scaley quickly.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
So even though we're schooling, because.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
School is the seed to learning, we are addressing our
community needs and so uh doctor b to align there
with the passion being aligned with well, it's.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Where your deep passion meets the world's deep needs. That's
where deep passion meets the world's needs.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Deep neats deep needs. Yes, yeah, deep passion deep needs.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Now what I'm saying is now Doctor King's gonna do
some stuff. I mean, she was over East High School
and she was the twenty eleven Milk and Award winner
for the state of Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
So the reason she was the teacher of the year, Yes, sir, Yeah,
that's right. That's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
So you got you got the that's all right. I'm
gonna stop right there. Did we get to your four component?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I just want to make sure you number one digital
technology to uh, the the advancing the manufacturing part right,
three health and health and human skill set and.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The last them. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
So New York Times published an article in December whether
the skill trace worker is the new millionaire and so
intentional intentional, that's right. And so it's not a or
it's an a. And so what we're doing is we're
going to prepare our children for the and components where
they'll be prepared for the University of path if they choose,
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or if they want a skill, they'll walk away where
they can start working immediately and be assets to our community,
their families and themselves.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
All right, Well that's all. I gotta take aquick break.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Could you give me the address of tcaight so that
our listeners will know exactly what we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Forty seven to seventy five American way, if it's Tennessee
three eight one eighths.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
All right, we're talking with the head of school of
Tennessee Career Academy, doctor doctor Mia with an age the mind.
The house is yes, sir, mea king clean on the throne,
and the executive director of Tennessee Career Academy, the one
and only doctor John Bark right back. Okay, now we
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be back. Who paid a lot of bills on that one.
I need to get an extra check. Thank you everybody
for coming back. H like going on in the studio.
But but it's good and healthy and and productive. I think, yeah,
all right, not on one five three five nine three
four two. We get back to paying bills a little later.
I gotta get back into this conversation on one five
three five nine three four two eight hundred and five
zero three nine three four two or eight three three,
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five three, five nine three four two. Uh, you light
up the phone lines if we're talking thing all things
education today.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I liked that it was your fan club over there.
I like that go Live Go Lies, everything squeaky clean
in there, so we're talking education, and I have my
guests this morning and stand special people spotlight the one
and only doctor John R. Barker, who is the executive
director of the brand of school opening here in Memphis,
right in our own backyard, Tennessee. Career is singular, right,
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No career is a career right academy Yeah at forty
seven seventy five American America. Way, now, let me get
right into it before opening up the phone lines, well
before we start taking callers.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
All right, how do you apply?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
We have a mother, we have a guardian, we have
a parent. They listen going like, oh, I need to
get my daughter grants out. Somebody in that at least
you know, inquire, So how did they get at you?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
So you go straight to t inn Career Academy dot org.
This TN Career Career Academy dot org, Tennessee Career Academy
dot org and go to the right hand side of
the screen. It says apply and once you apply, if
you want to scroll down and call me personally, you
can call me and I'll make sure that I.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Your number, your numbers on that on the screen.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
I'm so serious about this real call me, Yeah, all
to give it's like it's nine zero one four eight
seven sixty five ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Say it again, please sign zero one four eight to
seven sixty five ninety eight.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Okay, and yours doctor King.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Nine zero one two three zero twenty eight twenty seven
again nine zero one two three zero seven.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
That is with that.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Let's go right to my phone line, not on one
five nine three four two, give me that phone. Tell
the d good morning. Who's on the radio your turn?
Oh hey, hey, good morning? Stand yeah, good morning, you're
on there?
Speaker 9 (19:17):
All right, Oh hey, good morning, good morning to you
guess one until you guess.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Good morning, good morning, all right. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I'm listening to the show this morning, and.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
The first thing that came to my mind was.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Like vocational or trade school. And I said to myself,
there would be an understatement. You know, listen to what
you all to say your off brand, and I want
to say that I think your idea is a great ideal.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It seems that it would offer.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
A lot of choices and uh different opportunities for people
that could be life changing. And h I really applied
to all for that.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
One question for you, though, yes, one question. I was
in my mind thinking that first this would be like
for like high school students, but I'm beginning to think
is this operation for adults as well?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
So let me tell you what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
We're starting early with the sixth and seventh graders, but
we believe that, okay, that we're a divinely called to
address the community by using the two three gen strategy,
which means that we know that we're going to have
to address the different generations of the family. So if
you just give us a couple of months, then we
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can revisit this conversation for adult support. There's something that
Dark and I have done doing our tenure in education,
and we have a lot of partners who are reaching
out because Tennessee Career Academy sounds like something for adults.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
And so.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
What we're doing is we're realizing the need and a
lot of people are calling us, so we're going to
address the need.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
All right, Well, I think what you all are trying
to do is really great, and I think it's going
to be very sufficient.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Applaud you.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Thank you so much, than you so much.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That's right, And you know a lot of people are
already asking you know what separates you know the TCA
from other schools, stuff like that. But I know you
really all, as we mentioned earlier, under Memphis Shelby County Schools, right,
just another branch. I guess you could say, if you
will get them workforce ready to just thought about the state,
you know, we want to make sure that everybody hears
to say that this is a free public charter school
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authorized by Memphis Shelby County school So we partner with
the district. King and I both were employees of the
district quite some time, you know. So we have all
that good training, all that good culture built from Memphis
Shelby County School days, not experience experience, and what we're
doing is continuing that under the auspices of the district,
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under the direction of the district, because we have to
meet their requirements for being a charter school. But just
to be clear for everybody, everybody, this is a free school.
So if you've been going to a private school paying
tuition and would maybe want to think about doing something different,
we're free public school.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
And speaking of different, brother Bell, when you ask that
question of what makes us different. Number one, We're going
to provide the climate for students to fall back in
love with learning, and so I tend to call it.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Unschooling school unschooling as school.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Absolutely, So some of those tenants that become penal, some
of those tenants are aligned with the prison to pipeline approach.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
We are aboarding those in.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Our approach, and so our students will have a space
of creativity through different avenues of clubbing as well as.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Even in their dress.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
We will still have boundaries, but we won't have uniforms
every day.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
We will have your service.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
So a couple of days we would give them some
paraphernalita that we would like for them to wear to
praise their school Tennessee Career Academy. But what we're doing
is we are allowing our students to fall back in
love with learning. I remember when my mom had to
make me stay home. I would be seeking like Mama
(23:04):
can still go, now you can't go?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
You sick.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
We want that approach and we want to provide a
space where teachers want to come to work and do
not mind coming in because they will be treated right.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So, speaking of teachers, what would be the ratio teachers
student ratio there?
Speaker 6 (23:19):
So we're looking at a one to seventeen to twenty
class size. What we're trying to do is we're intentional
on keeping a small class side so that we are
able to address our students appropriately, as well as intentional
on addressing as I said before, stated that COVID loss,
the COVID learning loss.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yes, we gotta address that.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
We cannot keep ignoring it as though it does not exist.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
So it still lingers.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I guess absolutely, I'm.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Still and you can see that because these children are
now becoming the students who are taking these high steaks
standardized tests, and we can't keep just saying that there
are only culturally biased like what main standards should I
children be competent in? And that's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna address that competence yea or the lack the Let's.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Go back to the phone, if we don't mind, w
D you on the radio. You got a question coming
for doctor King, doctor H.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Barker.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Yeah, this is dealing with the education situation with our
school and with education period. You know, there something.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Out there that I learned a long time ago, but
I was reading through some books.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
You ever read a theory called the three R s
Q theory.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
The three R H what is that.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yeah, okay the three hours, uh read, recite and review
them the three hours. And we're not doing that to
our students teaching them that and as curious surveyed, you know,
like surveying the question or anything, and then also questioned it.
(25:11):
The newine brain stand is advanced. We just don't know
how to use it. If if the school system we're
using this psychological approach and teaching methods, it was really far.
But educate our students, man, because we got some smart
kids out there. They born intelligien Man, we just dumbing
(25:32):
them down. So looking into that thing, looking in that thing.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'm gonna go to relate it over to our guests. Man,
a little bit of inaudibility on your phone, But that's okay.
We got the point of We got to just have
you said a key word on forgetful method method man,
the methods, doctor King, Yes, your words.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
So what what this gentleman is basically talk about is
engaging the students into the texts. And so what we
failed to do is this is the importance of being
culturally competent. In other words, you have to immerse yourself
into what's important to the students, their native knowledge what
they bring to the classroom, incorporate that into your instruction.
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So you use their familiar introduced to unfamiliar, whether unfamiliar
then becomes familiar, and so that's engaging the students into
the texts whereas they can connect it to something that
they already Now some words.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Of a master teacher, right there, no doubt, and I
hope that answer is for sure.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Let me learn something new every day? Are are s Q? Yes? Right?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yes, Now, just a quick thought there too about kudos
kudos to this listener out there and raising this issue,
because what doctor King has elaborated here too is kind
of our approach. There's a lot of being said now
about the science of reading and deep deep reading and
deep listening. All this is very systematic, and whether you
use this particular approach or another approach, it is going
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to be methodical. And what I can tell you is
my colleague right here is wizard at it. What's amazing
is I've seen her do it with the teachers who
we've interacted it with. Yeah, she not only teaches students,
but she teaches others how to teach those students.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And that's what you need.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
She she of course herself master teacher as well as
you said, she's just right.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You deserve it. I'll play a regular minute for doctor King.
You deserve it, and you earn is this on the weekend?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Okay, I digress man, you know what it's important, So
let me get to it again. You guys are located
right across the street, literally forty seven what the address?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Yeah, forty seven seventy five American forty seven seventy five
American Wave.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I think can we invite people to come over? So
on the seventh of June, on the Saturday, the seventh
of June, from one to four in the afternoon on
that Saturday, we're gonna blow it out. We're gonna cut
the ribbon, We're gonna have grand opening, we will have
tours're gonna sign students up the whole banana mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And you guys are the tea see a Tigers. What
are your colors? Blue and orange? Blue and orange.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
So we're saying Memphis blue and Tennessee orange.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Okay, Memphis blue, Tennessee orange, Yes, Tennessee Career Academy. Right, Tigers, Yes, sir,
got stuck a little orange. Then you got the orange blue.
I get it, I get it. So total Roman projected
a two hundred right, that's sixth and seventh graders only
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at his points.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
But the end goal is to what all the way
up to what? Let twelve?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Twelve twelve?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Okay, the schools district has approved us for up to
fourteen hundred students when we're full tilt. So won't that
be all that building is capable? O? Wow, that's yeah,
we would pack them in there. We gotta get started somewhere.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta get started everyone.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Everybody who got where it was started where they work, okay, yeah,
got to where they wanted to be, started where they were.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That's what's up.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
So we're talking education, which many of you know, it's
vitally important to me. Education is should be actually it
should be a priority. You know, you know, if not
for us, but for our children. You know, you know
I will say this education, Uh, it's it's I've always
said that, it's the willingness to continue to learn and grow.
(29:19):
It's the willingness to continue to learn and grow. It's
it's discipline to set goals for ourselves and accomplish them
and it's the it's a commitment in there. We all
have God given intelligence, right sir. But the next step
is to challenge and question those ideas and practices which
are part of the status quo. That's what that listener
(29:41):
was talking about. Yeah, yeah, and see god better ways
of thinking and doing. And that's what you're that's what
your intentions for this Tennessee Career Academy. All right, all right,
So if you have any thought, questions, comments about this,
maybe you're satisfied with where your child is, maybe you
it's time for change. If they are sixth graders, seventh graders,
and I understand.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
The necessarily matter of the age.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
If we used to use say this term over age
for grade, it doesn't matter. That's right, you said, come on,
come on, sir, absolutely free.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Right. And so the first step is to apply to.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Apply at t in Career Academy dot org. Say it again,
t N Career Academy dot org.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
All right, So I'm gonna take this last break. Uh,
if you want to comment, you want to call in.
No no question is you know, no bad questions, you
know everything is significant. You can give me a call
it not on one five three five nine three for
two eight hundred five zero three nine three four two
eight three three five three five nine three four two before.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We take a break, Can I take one more call here?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, they're lighting up like a Christmas tream here, Wed,
I come on, you're living the radio.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Thanks for calling. What's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Yeah, yes, yes, yes, I was just calling to respond
to the guy that was talking about the.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
Three r is Q is not anything in you been.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
I learned that.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Forty years ago. But it's just it's just the environment
that you're in and where you've said. But it's I'm
so glad he mentioned it so they people can't start
using them because it is wonderful. Yeah, the three hours
is true. It's not anything that has been out for
over forty years, I know, right.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Yeah, the part about the survey and the question that y'all.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Yeah, So what we have done is we've got we've
standardized everything. So when he says it's been out for
forty years, he's exactly correct. But when we standardize everything,
we totally abort and dismiss the knowledge that our students
bring to the classroom, and so they believe that there
are deficient models. Whereas a lot of them just as
you said, come with their God given talents, and we
(31:32):
dismiss them. And so Tennessee Career Academy deems to employ
those intellectual thoughts as we teach our students moving forward.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, heart, and.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Told the Memphis Am ten seventy eight. W d I
A come on, get that money.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
C H E c K. Check.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's the one thousand dollars nation wide. Keyword take it
to the Lord and prayer. I mean, take it to
our website. On elder, take it to the Lord and prayer.
I look around and let's just sit here. Take it
to our website, is what I wanted to say.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Doctor King.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Uh, I leave it there.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You can't fight there. See that. See the nikes over,
I'm running girls.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Adidas. All right, So here's what we do. One thousand dollars.
It's a for real contest. Hey, gonna call up me
get to you again. Uh, take it to my w
d I A dot com for your chance to win
one thousand dollars Again.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
That keyword is check. C H E c K. Good luck.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Back to the phone lines and then we'll wrap things up.
We're in the waning moments of the Doctor Mia King
and doctor John Barkers Show featuring stand Bell. So let's
take another call. They gave me permission to do it.
W D I a good morning on the radio.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Who's there? Yeah, that's me?
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Yeah, ye, good morning to your years.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I'm learning.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
To deal with the I love the way they see
it because you know, I'm black. Every child is my
college bow. I hate when they tell children that can
every child go to college?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Up?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
But everybody ain't college? And do you have to pay
for the shirts and uniforms and stuff, because like most
charter schools, you got to pay for the shirts and
all that, which it wouldn't be no problem. But what
I love is that they said they're gonna have them
wear just regular clothes. That right there, stadents, Our children
(33:35):
get the as I call it, the bad end of.
Speaker 10 (33:38):
The stick, because if you cross over just in w. Smiths,
they don't wear you a form. You know, it's it's alright,
But children feelings.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Though everything they hands are tied. Don't nobody want to
listen to them. But I think just from listening to
their young lady saying, it's the best thing that ever
happened to Memphis, and believe it or not, she got
my two favorite colors.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I oh, I look at them.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
All, those are my favorite color, saying I can't do
my I got a lot of favorite color, but them
too off the top. Do you all is I know
it coolish free what you're saying, But do y'all take
(34:30):
donating shues?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Lord?
Speaker 6 (34:34):
So yes, ma'am, so yes, yes. So let me start
at your first inquiry. You asked about shirts. Do they costs?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
No, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
I would call all the students when they come in
and they'll receive their uniform shirts from us. I just
got off the phone with a parent doing the break
telling her don't buy anything until I tell you to,
because I'm not thinking that you're going to have to
buy anything. And so I just asked her to get
me an opportunity to provide with her child needs. And
(35:04):
I'm saying that across the board. Doctor Barker has done
a great job with really working on that component because
there's a personal desire of ours that we are able
to fully provide the students with.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
What they need and the parents.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
That's why we're so intentional with connecting with the community
so our parents will have what they need as well.
So no, they will not have to pay for their uniforms.
The next question you talked about was we were talking
about the autonomy of uniforms, and so we do know
that it's a gift. But I also realize that creativity
(35:38):
starts at home, and so I want to return that
to the classroom. But I want to nurture that in
our students, and so getting away from some of these
things that seem so penal and then for those students
who may need more support, we'll have that as well. Lastly,
you asked do we receive donations, Yes, ma'am. Information is
(36:00):
on Tennessee Career Academy dot org. This Tennessee Career Academy
dot org. You can look up myself as well as
doctor Barker, and we'll give you that avenue in which
that we can take in those donations.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And doctor King, we're just so blessed. Stand so we
got a donation the other day. There's businesses sometimes to
go out of business or you know, downsize or whatever.
So we have office buildings, especially in light of the
covid UH challenges, who you know, go more toward work
from home kind of environment, So wouldn't necessarily have the
need for office supplies and stuff and desks and that
(36:36):
kind of stuff. We received this week a big truckload
of office furniture.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
So we would not have desk in the school, no doubt. No,
our students would not be that's a good point on school.
In school, brother Bell, you.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Have chairs environment, what do you call that? That that's
a unique environment.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
I'm gonna with word I like to It's just certain
things that so I talked twenty two years and some
things that my students just did not like. So if
you came to my classroom, you saw and you staw
bean bags and rugs and couches in my class even
saw launchairs in my classroom. And so we won't have
(37:19):
laun chairs in the school, but we will have conducive
learning environments that I'm more aligned with a little bit
of liberality I was saying, but that we still have structure.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Now let's be clear, we still have structure.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
We still have expectations, high expectations for our students and teachers.
So we're not negating those tenants as we educate them.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
So we would love any type of donations that you
like to do.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
We'd love to stand if somebody wants to give us
some time to come out there and work with students
and work with We got a few things that need
to happen around the building yet, right, So we just
hope that and want that and really want to make
sure that we you neat a space at forty seven
to seventy five American Way, Yes, where the community can
feel at home.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
So are you fully staffed now or are you getting there?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
No, sir, we're still looking for a few more teachers.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Okay, what do they apply? I mean, do you want
to throw.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
That out to your career academy down websites?
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Okay, so the positions out on there as well.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Okay, give us the email or the r U L
whatnot again.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Tennessee Career Academy dot ugus, TN Career Academy dot org.
Were halfway there. We're not all the way there. And
so what we did want to say with those donations,
we're looking for time, talents and trades.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Oh, there you go, time, talent, interest.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
That's how you serve.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yeah. I like that.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
You guys are gonna be sowing for real and you're
gonna be roaring and you're getting the students ready for
the world. Thank you so much, Tennessee Career Academy. Yes, sir,
forty seven seventy five American way. Yeah, we are the
future of Tennessee future. Let me say thank you, thank
you the way I started it. Thank you so much
for being here, caring our time. Uh, and continue the education.
(39:04):
I think it's so important, particularly you're starting with the
sixth grade and seventh grade. The end goal maybe perhaps
eleven twelve. And you at what you added here every year, right,
two years? Every Oh, okay, okay, that's that's how you
do it. Increments my step a little by little does
the trick says the stops fable.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
That's how you do it. Huh, hello somebody.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah, it's been a plump, pleasing, pleasure and privilege, in
the words of Rufus Thomas Junior, to have you here
on the show today.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
We've been speaking ladies and gentlemen with the doctor Mia
Yvette King. About to get the sheep skin again, but
a bigger one, a different lettering, a different texture, bigger
terminal forever tomorrow the afternoon in the University of Memphis.
(39:54):
Talk to somebody, Doctor John Richard Barker. Always a pleasure, man.
I know you got to get to the strawberry festival
the later on. If you can, if doctor, if they
had the school to let you leave to go to
Humble an hour and a half drive, you'd be all right. Yeah,
super fresh, stupid fresh man, just across the railroad, across
the crossing man. Any additional words before we go, man,
(40:15):
I'm ready to dismiss class.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Literally. It's been a joy to have you great information today.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Yes, please connect with us.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Come.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Our doors are open again.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
We are looking for those who will give their time, talents,
and treasure as we go to embark upon this mission
that we believed that was divilent given to us for
our students of Memphis, Tennessee initially and our parents with
their two three gen strategy to address this crime issue
(40:45):
with addressing poverty, producing economical mobility, addressing economical disparity.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
All right, thank you so much for being here. I
want y'all have a great week here. Thank you too.
I know that's right.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
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Thank you everybody.
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
I a democractic. This microphone open right now. We got
a lot going on this morning. Where's my phone? Huh
wdi listens. It is such a treat to do this
feature and this segment every Friday without ceasing. And it's
just an hour and a half. Special people in the
studio every time we do this, man, and that's why
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we call it on purpose stand special people, spotlight and
in the studio right now. Let me let me get
to it, and then I'm gonna drop the one thousand
dollars nation.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Wide keyword on you. Those are your waiting with baby breath.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
I get that two years well, and we'll officially I
need the station all that radio stuff that we do.
First of all, let me say welcome to our guest.
Let's put a microphone on you.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
All.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
We have doctor John Parker, no strangers to the community,
Doctor John Alrah like all rah for two syllables and
then from humble tones, sir, yes, sir, humble, humble, humble
humble on Strawberry Festival, Grand Floats Parade May today.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
I'm here and I'm not there.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, I know what you may be there, so you got.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
To be there later on.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
I guess, man, man look and then and this lovely
person that you have to your rights across from me
is one and only.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Let me let let me put a mic on. Good morning,
doctor King, who she said a whole day. I don't
know your hold and I just called your boo. I
just called your boo.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I don't know your whole graduating tomorrow, Bell Ringer, Conniversity
of Memphis, stand up.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
If they can see me. But you never know. I
just alluded doctor me Vet King.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
That's right, that's right.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
Well too more important words. Thank you carving out time
to be with us, you know on double J. I
don't get likely. You got a lot of things to do,
especially open up the new school. Were gonna talk about
a minute, uh too much of important words in language.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
Thank you. Most important word we.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
As you will probably tell the kiddos, and when you
open up the school late in July, we and then
the least important word I right, right, So so I'm
gonna step back. It's going to be the Doctor John
Barker Show and The Doctor Mia Yvette King Show featuring
Stan Bell keep on, Micael myself. But it's all about
(02:32):
you all.
Speaker 5 (02:32):
You know.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
I just want to thank you for being here. Let
me ask you some important the most important things. How doctor,
doctor King? How's the family?
Speaker 4 (02:40):
And God is good?
Speaker 6 (02:41):
My parents are will my family is well, and he's
still holding us up?
Speaker 3 (02:48):
All right? Is your mother still with us?
Speaker 6 (02:50):
Yes, sir, yes, said she just celebrated her birthday on Wednesday.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
Okay, yeah, lively, gonna celebrate her again on Sunday.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Right, And if you can't add to two, you can't
mix them, you can't know, she.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Said to her parents. Just celebrated their fiftieth wedding annivers
for real. Yeah, stuff going on?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yes, Elder Herb and joice King.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Hold he said, elder Yeah, let me straight up around here,
say the way you said, helda we kept how I
talked to the doll?
Speaker 3 (03:24):
He thanks, Jo, appreciate give me that.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
It was a wonderful celebration and no doubt an amazing couple.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Man. That's all right.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
The anniversary, then the birthday and the mother's day coming up.
All this and then you getting ready to graduate with
a doctor.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Come on, with all this going on, it's right down,
back to back to back.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Whole stuff right there. So you're receiving your what is
this the e d D The Pad.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Of Education in Urban Educational.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Leadership, Educational Leadership.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Concentrating instruction in curriculum.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Dig that and and and congratulations to uh from.
Speaker 6 (04:01):
Where University of Memphis Tigers go.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
That's what I'm talking about, yes, sir, And under what
what what'd you go?
Speaker 3 (04:09):
Undergraduate?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
The University of Memphis major.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
I got a Bachelors of Arts in Literature and Technical Writing,
and then I went right back to the university off
and got as of Arts and Teaching and where I
also ended up with an Urban Graduate Certificate in Urban
Educational Leadership under the direction of dever lacrossect.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Be cross the bell classes bleed blue.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
You smiling little someone with us across from me, Gaul,
you earned it.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
Have you had time to exhale all that studying and
all that dissertation and all that presenting and all.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Well, brother Bill, you know we're getting ready to open
the school. So and got a nice wife borth of
sleep and we're here now.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Come on, man on the ground, Doctor King is the
Queen of Tennessee Career Academy.
Speaker 3 (05:05):
It's right, come on with doctor Barker.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I see your personal staff is on point. They've already
hit the ground runner. You've got the right place.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
You already know.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
So far, so good. All right, let me take a break.
We gotta pay these bills, so I get a check
on the fifteenth of the month. Think you guys to
understand that we'll come back with our special guests in
the studio here at w d I A doctor John
Aurrah Barker. What your title is the CEO of the
school direct We say, yeah, executive, Okay, that's that sounds right. Yeah,
(05:35):
And and you doctor King is ahead of school principal.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
What is all right?
Speaker 2 (05:40):
We'll be back with our special guest, Harton told the
Memphis Am ten seventy w d I eight.
Speaker 3 (05:44):
All right, Oh wait, okay, I made the legal Let
me give a word out we can to with one
thousand dollars.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Just enter this nature white keyword on our website.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
Fun.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
That's fun entering now and I.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Don't don't don't type it in like the Confunctions song
fun fun, but.
Speaker 3 (06:01):
It helps you remember you remember that doctor Barkru Fun fun,
did it, but.
Speaker 2 (06:05):
Just one f this time. You know on the album
they spelled it f f u in, but don't put
that in. Don't take that to our website. Go f
you in the way you learn it in school. He
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to my w D I a dot com. So we're back.
(06:27):
Welcome back, everybody. You know, it's Friday's trade.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
You see how I got the vantage point. I can
give the real weather. You see that, doctor, doctor King.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I just look out and I can well it's gonna
rain today, it's cloudy. I just look up if I
don't see the silhouette coming through the you know the
windows from top. I okay, overcast, cloud cover. So it's
it's Friday, yes, sir. And I thought we'd kind of
lighten things up, if you will, from features gone by,
(06:59):
you know, from my last special People's Spotlights.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
You know, we talked about a lot of stuff. Man
scooped the nuts.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
But I said, you know, this Friday, I want to
talk about education. You know, we talk about education every day,
but I wanted to do a little something different. When
I ran into doctor John Barker not long ago. Sometimes
we bump into each other here and there, you know,
just you know, like that. But he said saying, I'm
working on the school, working on school. I said, what's school? Uh?
Speaker 3 (07:26):
He said Tennessee Career Academy.
Speaker 2 (07:29):
I said, what, Well, where you're standing over here, wasn't
that a former school? He said, yeah, that was merit.
We got the building. Now we got space. They went
to the Kroger space.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Right.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Talk to us doctor Barker on the inception of this
particular TCA, this school.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Stan.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
It's always interesting to think about, you know, where ideas
come from. And you know, it's like I always think
about that the idea is, you know, something that has
its time has come. So what we're seeing in the
state of Tennessee right now, it's a real push from
Governor Leon down career in technical education really has to
move to the front of people's thinking because what we've
done too long, I think, is focused on college only.
(08:09):
College is great, college is wonderful, but college may not
be the choice for everybody. And what I think we've
done is taken away choice. So we sat down with
the governor at one point and heard him say, you know,
I want more choices. And the answer back was there's
not any more choices than in Memphis, Memphis Shelby County
public schools, right in the county school system.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And what he said was I want more choice. And
it's like, what does that mean? What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (08:35):
What it means is to have parents have more choices
about what opportunities their students have in front of them.
And it's like, oh, I say, now, it's not about
you know, just kind of only a specific kind of
choice kind of thing, you know, like a magnet school
or an optional school or that kind of stuff. It's
that we need to have more choices beyond just doing
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college and every So when I actually started this projec,
call somebody in Nashville and I says, so, I'm thinking
about starting a new school and the person saying that
to me, it's not another college prep school. And I
think that's kind of where people are with this, that
they've been oversaturated with this idea of college for everybody.
And what we're looking at Tennessee Career Academy is to
(09:19):
help students become world ready. Because there's the college ready
and the career ready, So what about ready for the world.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
You say ready for the for the world.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
So with that, what that means too is that, yeah,
you're ready for college if you want to go to college. Yeah,
you're ready to go for a career. If you're ready
to go for career. So that means having some certifications.
Maybe you're certified in cybersecurity, maybe you're certified as a
phlebotomy tech. Maybe you're certified as a patient care system.
Maybe you're certified as a welder. Maybe you're certified as
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something that you know you you can put to work
and use immediately. What we've had is several people, as
you might imagine, from the business community to respond super positive.
My next question before I get to doctor King, are
you partnering with anybody in all this absolute pretty.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Much like workforce development? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Yeah, Can we shout out a couple of folks with
on our board. We got Andy Davis from Turner Construction.
Andy and his team are super fantastic and they've said,
you know, how can we be of help. They've given
us some money, they've given us some support, they've given
us some.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Opportunities with them. Octavius Nixon.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Octavius is a young brother from the Binghampton neighborhood, who.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Went off to college.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
He was prepared to go to college, who went to college,
said you know, this isn't really for me, came back
to Big Hampton, started his own construction company.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Now has done.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Incredible good for the community, building houses and impacting families.
And as doctor King's going to say, I know because
we talk about this every day, it's disrupting poverty, fighting
economic mobility.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
It's changing now.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
Now this is going to be just sound a little
bit too much, but it's changing the world. And what
we know is that we can't change the world alone.
So we do have some great partners, so Andy and
Octavias and our friends at Methodist Hospital and Baptist Hospital,
and in the cybersecurity world, we got the folks at EBIZ.
I mean, there's just a lot of great partners who
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want to and are at the table with us on
that's awesome. Getting back to our most important word, we
you got a lot of folks on boys, Sir, Doctor King,
what say you yeah?
Speaker 3 (11:33):
TCA Yes, sir.
Speaker 6 (11:35):
So Tennessee Career Academy. We are starting with sixth and
seventh gratist this year.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
Wow, this is a career six and seven.
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Yes, sir, so it's very intentional on why we're starting
six and seventh. We do recognize that there was a
big lining loss during the COVID era and some schools
are just not able to catch those students up by trade.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
I am a literacy specialist, So.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
Being able to close the gap with those riata's skills
that our children often lack is what we are concentrating on.
And while we're doing that, number one, we are trying
to allow students to realize number one, what they're good
at and then how does that align with what you
want to do in life by giving them exposures to
different careers and not just talking about it or showing videos,
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but actually putting classrooms on wheels taking.
Speaker 4 (12:24):
Them out to the community.
Speaker 6 (12:25):
That's why our corporate partners are so important in Tennessee
Career Academy. The lingo that we have adopted is Occupational
Advisory Councils that we got from our sister school in
Philadelphia Lehigh. They will feature on CBS and so we
kind of use a lot of things that back don
best practices to adopt and bring here, but we adopted
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it to our context here in Memphis, Tennessee and so
that's what we're doing with our students, and so we
have four pathways that we are concentrating on. That's that
digital technology where we're looking at the cybersecurity and web design.
We're also looking at advanced manufacturing with this STEM component,
so we're standing abrisk of the way that our world
is evolving yet preparing our children with those skills. Were
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also looking at health and human skill traits, which is
that educational piece with the health care piece, so our
students are able to leave us actually in eleven and
a half grade, they'll be able to start working.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
And what we're doing is number one so.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
A half gad that second semester right, yes, sir, they
would have accomplished the requirement.
Speaker 6 (13:36):
Yeah, and worked up to thirty five hours a week
with one of our corporate partners. And that way we
are really, as doctor Barker just said, addressing economical disparity
and producing economical mobility.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
We all know that.
Speaker 6 (13:48):
The seed to crime is poverty, and so how are
we more intentional And that's why we want to do
it with the community.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
We want to do this work with the community.
Speaker 6 (13:57):
We've had a lot of good input from different commissioners
Charlie Casswell, people of that nature of Michael Larry, but
they have shown.
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Interest in our school.
Speaker 6 (14:09):
But also even the mayor, Mayor Paul Young, who came
to our soft opening and he didn't just come and
shake hands and kiss babies. He stayed for a couple
of a couple of hours, he and his wife, just
to show that they understood the importance of this for
the community.
Speaker 4 (14:26):
We also got some.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Pastors that have uh indulshed in our work as well well,
Keith Norman as well as Tony Wade. We we got
some great Yeah, we got some great pastors, yes, sir,
Divine Life Church, yea yeah. Awesome brother, awesome brother. But
we just we have some great partners that are coming
along with us in this work to uh scaley quickly.
Speaker 4 (14:50):
So even though we're schooling, because.
Speaker 6 (14:52):
School is the seed to learning, we are addressing our
community needs and so uh doctor b to align there
with the passion being aligned with well, it's.
Speaker 2 (15:03):
Where your deep passion meets the world's deep needs. That's
where deep passion meets the world's needs.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
Deep neats deep needs. Yes, yeah, deep passion deep needs.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
Now what I'm saying is now Doctor King's gonna do
some stuff. I mean, she was over East High School
and she was the twenty eleven Milk and Award winner
for the state of Tennessee.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
So the reason she was the teacher of the year, Yes, sir, Yeah,
that's right. That's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
So you got you got the that's all right. I'm
gonna stop right there. Did we get to your four component?
Speaker 3 (15:41):
I know you.
Speaker 2 (15:41):
I just want to make sure you number one digital
technology to uh, the the advancing the manufacturing part right,
three health and health and human skill set and.
Speaker 4 (15:52):
The last them. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (15:56):
So New York Times published an article in December whether
the skill trace worker is the new millionaire and so
intentional intentional, that's right. And so it's not a or
it's an a. And so what we're doing is we're
going to prepare our children for the and components where
they'll be prepared for the University of path if they choose,
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or if they want a skill, they'll walk away where
they can start working immediately and be assets to our community,
their families and themselves.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
All right, Well that's all. I gotta take aquick break.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Could you give me the address of tcaight so that
our listeners will know exactly what we're talking about.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Forty seven to seventy five American way, if it's Tennessee
three eight one eighths.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
All right, we're talking with the head of school of
Tennessee Career Academy, doctor doctor Mia with an age the mind.
The house is yes, sir, mea king clean on the throne,
and the executive director of Tennessee Career Academy, the one
and only doctor John Bark right back. Okay, now we
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be back. Who paid a lot of bills on that one.
I need to get an extra check. Thank you everybody
for coming back. H like going on in the studio.
But but it's good and healthy and and productive. I think, yeah,
all right, not on one five three five nine three
four two. We get back to paying bills a little later.
I gotta get back into this conversation on one five
three five nine three four two eight hundred and five
zero three nine three four two or eight three three,
(17:21):
five three, five nine three four two. Uh, you light
up the phone lines if we're talking thing all things
education today.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:28):
I liked that it was your fan club over there.
I like that go Live Go Lies, everything squeaky clean
in there, so we're talking education, and I have my
guests this morning and stand special people spotlight the one
and only doctor John R. Barker, who is the executive
director of the brand of school opening here in Memphis,
right in our own backyard, Tennessee. Career is singular, right,
(17:49):
No career is a career right academy Yeah at forty
seven seventy five American America. Way, now, let me get
right into it before opening up the phone lines, well
before we start taking callers.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
All right, how do you apply?
Speaker 2 (18:03):
We have a mother, we have a guardian, we have
a parent. They listen going like, oh, I need to
get my daughter grants out. Somebody in that at least
you know, inquire, So how did they get at you?
Speaker 6 (18:16):
So you go straight to t inn Career Academy dot org.
This TN Career Career Academy dot org, Tennessee Career Academy
dot org and go to the right hand side of
the screen. It says apply and once you apply, if
you want to scroll down and call me personally, you
can call me and I'll make sure that I.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Your number, your numbers on that on the screen.
Speaker 8 (18:39):
I'm so serious about this real call me, Yeah, all
to give it's like it's nine zero one four eight
seven sixty five ninety eight.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
Say it again, please sign zero one four eight to
seven sixty five ninety eight.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
Okay, and yours doctor King.
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Nine zero one two three zero twenty eight twenty seven
again nine zero one two three zero seven.
Speaker 3 (19:03):
That is with that.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Let's go right to my phone line, not on one
five nine three four two, give me that phone. Tell
the d good morning. Who's on the radio your turn?
Oh hey, hey, good morning? Stand yeah, good morning, you're
on there?
Speaker 9 (19:17):
All right, Oh hey, good morning, good morning to you
guess one until you guess.
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Good morning, good morning, all right. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (19:25):
I'm listening to the show this morning, and.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
The first thing that came to my mind was.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
Like vocational or trade school. And I said to myself,
there would be an understatement. You know, listen to what
you all to say your off brand, and I want
to say that I think your idea is a great ideal.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
It seems that it would offer.
Speaker 9 (19:43):
A lot of choices and uh different opportunities for people
that could be life changing. And h I really applied
to all for that.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Thank you so much.
Speaker 9 (19:51):
One question for you, though, yes, one question. I was
in my mind thinking that first this would be like
for like high school students, but I'm beginning to think
is this operation for adults as well?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
So let me tell you what we're doing.
Speaker 6 (20:05):
We're starting early with the sixth and seventh graders, but
we believe that, okay, that we're a divinely called to
address the community by using the two three gen strategy,
which means that we know that we're going to have
to address the different generations of the family. So if
you just give us a couple of months, then we
(20:26):
can revisit this conversation for adult support. There's something that
Dark and I have done doing our tenure in education,
and we have a lot of partners who are reaching
out because Tennessee Career Academy sounds like something for adults.
Speaker 7 (20:44):
And so.
Speaker 6 (20:46):
What we're doing is we're realizing the need and a
lot of people are calling us, so we're going to
address the need.
Speaker 9 (20:52):
All right, Well, I think what you all are trying
to do is really great, and I think it's going
to be very sufficient.
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Applaud you.
Speaker 4 (21:00):
Thank you so much, than you so much.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That's right, And you know a lot of people are
already asking you know what separates you know the TCA
from other schools, stuff like that. But I know you
really all, as we mentioned earlier, under Memphis Shelby County Schools, right,
just another branch. I guess you could say, if you
will get them workforce ready to just thought about the state,
you know, we want to make sure that everybody hears
to say that this is a free public charter school
(21:24):
authorized by Memphis Shelby County school So we partner with
the district. King and I both were employees of the
district quite some time, you know. So we have all
that good training, all that good culture built from Memphis
Shelby County School days, not experience experience, and what we're
doing is continuing that under the auspices of the district,
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under the direction of the district, because we have to
meet their requirements for being a charter school. But just
to be clear for everybody, everybody, this is a free school.
So if you've been going to a private school paying
tuition and would maybe want to think about doing something different,
we're free public school.
Speaker 6 (22:02):
And speaking of different, brother Bell, when you ask that
question of what makes us different. Number one, We're going
to provide the climate for students to fall back in
love with learning, and so I tend to call it.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Unschooling school unschooling as school.
Speaker 6 (22:17):
Absolutely, So some of those tenants that become penal, some
of those tenants are aligned with the prison to pipeline approach.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
We are aboarding those in.
Speaker 6 (22:28):
Our approach, and so our students will have a space
of creativity through different avenues of clubbing as well as.
Speaker 4 (22:37):
Even in their dress.
Speaker 6 (22:38):
We will still have boundaries, but we won't have uniforms
every day.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
We will have your service.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
So a couple of days we would give them some
paraphernalita that we would like for them to wear to
praise their school Tennessee Career Academy. But what we're doing
is we are allowing our students to fall back in
love with learning. I remember when my mom had to
make me stay home. I would be seeking like Mama
(23:04):
can still go, now you can't go?
Speaker 4 (23:06):
You sick.
Speaker 6 (23:07):
We want that approach and we want to provide a
space where teachers want to come to work and do
not mind coming in because they will be treated right.
Speaker 3 (23:15):
So, speaking of teachers, what would be the ratio teachers
student ratio there?
Speaker 6 (23:19):
So we're looking at a one to seventeen to twenty
class size. What we're trying to do is we're intentional
on keeping a small class side so that we are
able to address our students appropriately, as well as intentional
on addressing as I said before, stated that COVID loss,
the COVID learning loss.
Speaker 4 (23:38):
Yes, we gotta address that.
Speaker 6 (23:39):
We cannot keep ignoring it as though it does not exist.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
So it still lingers.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
I guess absolutely, I'm.
Speaker 6 (23:45):
Still and you can see that because these children are
now becoming the students who are taking these high steaks
standardized tests, and we can't keep just saying that there
are only culturally biased like what main standards should I
children be competent in? And that's what we're gonna do.
We're gonna address that competence yea or the lack the Let's.
Speaker 2 (24:06):
Go back to the phone, if we don't mind, w
D you on the radio. You got a question coming
for doctor King, doctor H.
Speaker 3 (24:13):
Barker.
Speaker 7 (24:14):
Yeah, this is dealing with the education situation with our
school and with education period. You know, there something.
Speaker 3 (24:24):
Out there that I learned a long time ago, but
I was reading through some books.
Speaker 7 (24:29):
You ever read a theory called the three R s
Q theory.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
The three R H what is that.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
Yeah, okay the three hours, uh read, recite and review
them the three hours. And we're not doing that to
our students teaching them that and as curious surveyed, you know,
like surveying the question or anything, and then also questioned it.
(25:11):
The newine brain stand is advanced. We just don't know
how to use it. If if the school system we're
using this psychological approach and teaching methods, it was really far.
But educate our students, man, because we got some smart
kids out there. They born intelligien Man, we just dumbing
(25:32):
them down. So looking into that thing, looking in that thing.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
I'm gonna go to relate it over to our guests. Man,
a little bit of inaudibility on your phone, But that's okay.
We got the point of We got to just have
you said a key word on forgetful method method man,
the methods, doctor King, Yes, your words.
Speaker 7 (25:52):
Yes.
Speaker 6 (25:52):
So what what this gentleman is basically talk about is
engaging the students into the texts. And so what we
failed to do is this is the importance of being
culturally competent. In other words, you have to immerse yourself
into what's important to the students, their native knowledge what
they bring to the classroom, incorporate that into your instruction.
(26:12):
So you use their familiar introduced to unfamiliar, whether unfamiliar
then becomes familiar, and so that's engaging the students into
the texts whereas they can connect it to something that
they already Now some words.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
Of a master teacher, right there, no doubt, and I
hope that answer is for sure.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Let me learn something new every day? Are are s Q? Yes? Right?
Speaker 2 (26:35):
Yes, Now, just a quick thought there too about kudos
kudos to this listener out there and raising this issue,
because what doctor King has elaborated here too is kind
of our approach. There's a lot of being said now
about the science of reading and deep deep reading and
deep listening. All this is very systematic, and whether you
use this particular approach or another approach, it is going
(26:56):
to be methodical. And what I can tell you is
my colleague right here is wizard at it. What's amazing
is I've seen her do it with the teachers who
we've interacted it with. Yeah, she not only teaches students,
but she teaches others how to teach those students.
Speaker 3 (27:13):
And that's what you need.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
She she of course herself master teacher as well as
you said, she's just right.
Speaker 3 (27:20):
You deserve it. I'll play a regular minute for doctor King.
You deserve it, and you earn is this on the weekend?
Speaker 2 (27:27):
Okay, I digress man, you know what it's important, So
let me get to it again. You guys are located
right across the street, literally forty seven what the address?
Speaker 8 (27:37):
Yeah, forty seven seventy five American forty seven seventy five
American Wave.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
I think can we invite people to come over? So
on the seventh of June, on the Saturday, the seventh
of June, from one to four in the afternoon on
that Saturday, we're gonna blow it out. We're gonna cut
the ribbon, We're gonna have grand opening, we will have
tours're gonna sign students up the whole banana mean, it's.
Speaker 3 (27:56):
Gonna be awesome.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
And you guys are the tea see a Tigers. What
are your colors? Blue and orange? Blue and orange.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
So we're saying Memphis blue and Tennessee orange.
Speaker 2 (28:07):
Okay, Memphis blue, Tennessee orange, Yes, Tennessee Career Academy. Right, Tigers, Yes, sir,
got stuck a little orange. Then you got the orange blue.
I get it, I get it. So total Roman projected
a two hundred right, that's sixth and seventh graders only
(28:28):
at his points.
Speaker 3 (28:29):
But the end goal is to what all the way
up to what? Let twelve?
Speaker 4 (28:32):
Twelve twelve?
Speaker 7 (28:33):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Okay, the schools district has approved us for up to
fourteen hundred students when we're full tilt. So won't that
be all that building is capable? O? Wow, that's yeah,
we would pack them in there. We gotta get started somewhere.
Speaker 3 (28:49):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you gotta get started everyone.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Everybody who got where it was started where they work, okay, yeah,
got to where they wanted to be, started where they were.
Speaker 3 (28:56):
That's what's up.
Speaker 7 (28:58):
Man.
Speaker 3 (28:58):
This is great.
Speaker 2 (28:59):
So we're talking education, which many of you know, it's
vitally important to me. Education is should be actually it
should be a priority. You know, you know, if not
for us, but for our children. You know, you know
I will say this education, Uh, it's it's I've always
said that, it's the willingness to continue to learn and grow.
(29:19):
It's the willingness to continue to learn and grow. It's
it's discipline to set goals for ourselves and accomplish them
and it's the it's a commitment in there. We all
have God given intelligence, right sir. But the next step
is to challenge and question those ideas and practices which
are part of the status quo. That's what that listener
(29:41):
was talking about. Yeah, yeah, and see god better ways
of thinking and doing. And that's what you're that's what
your intentions for this Tennessee Career Academy. All right, all right,
So if you have any thought, questions, comments about this,
maybe you're satisfied with where your child is, maybe you
it's time for change. If they are sixth graders, seventh graders,
and I understand.
Speaker 3 (30:00):
The necessarily matter of the age.
Speaker 2 (30:02):
If we used to use say this term over age
for grade, it doesn't matter. That's right, you said, come on,
come on, sir, absolutely free.
Speaker 3 (30:09):
Right. And so the first step is to apply to.
Speaker 6 (30:11):
Apply at t in Career Academy dot org. Say it again,
t N Career Academy dot org.
Speaker 2 (30:17):
All right, So I'm gonna take this last break. Uh,
if you want to comment, you want to call in.
No no question is you know, no bad questions, you
know everything is significant. You can give me a call
it not on one five three five nine three for
two eight hundred five zero three nine three four two
eight three three five three five nine three four two before.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
We take a break, Can I take one more call here?
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Uh?
Speaker 2 (30:35):
Yeah, they're lighting up like a Christmas tream here, Wed,
I come on, you're living the radio.
Speaker 3 (30:39):
Thanks for calling. What's on your mind?
Speaker 7 (30:41):
Yeah, yes, yes, yes, I was just calling to respond
to the guy that was talking about the.
Speaker 10 (30:46):
Three r is Q is not anything in you been.
Speaker 7 (30:51):
I learned that.
Speaker 10 (30:51):
Forty years ago. But it's just it's just the environment
that you're in and where you've said. But it's I'm
so glad he mentioned it so they people can't start
using them because it is wonderful. Yeah, the three hours
is true. It's not anything that has been out for
over forty years, I know, right.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Yeah, the part about the survey and the question that y'all.
Speaker 6 (31:11):
Yeah, So what we have done is we've got we've
standardized everything. So when he says it's been out for
forty years, he's exactly correct. But when we standardize everything,
we totally abort and dismiss the knowledge that our students
bring to the classroom, and so they believe that there
are deficient models. Whereas a lot of them just as
you said, come with their God given talents, and we
(31:32):
dismiss them. And so Tennessee Career Academy deems to employ
those intellectual thoughts as we teach our students moving forward.
Speaker 3 (31:41):
Yeah, heart, and.
Speaker 2 (31:41):
Told the Memphis Am ten seventy eight. W d I
A come on, get that money.
Speaker 3 (31:44):
C H E c K. Check.
Speaker 2 (31:46):
That's the one thousand dollars nation wide. Keyword take it
to the Lord and prayer. I mean, take it to
our website. On elder, take it to the Lord and prayer.
I look around and let's just sit here. Take it
to our website, is what I wanted to say.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
Doctor King.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Uh, I leave it there.
Speaker 3 (32:09):
You can't fight there. See that. See the nikes over,
I'm running girls.
Speaker 2 (32:15):
Adidas. All right, So here's what we do. One thousand dollars.
It's a for real contest. Hey, gonna call up me
get to you again. Uh, take it to my w
d I A dot com for your chance to win
one thousand dollars Again.
Speaker 3 (32:27):
That keyword is check. C H E c K. Good luck.
Speaker 2 (32:33):
Back to the phone lines and then we'll wrap things up.
We're in the waning moments of the Doctor Mia King
and doctor John Barkers Show featuring stand Bell. So let's
take another call. They gave me permission to do it.
W D I a good morning on the radio.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
Who's there? Yeah, that's me?
Speaker 5 (32:49):
Yeah, ye, good morning to your years.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I'm learning.
Speaker 5 (32:57):
To deal with the I love the way they see
it because you know, I'm black. Every child is my
college bow. I hate when they tell children that can
every child go to college?
Speaker 2 (33:09):
Up?
Speaker 5 (33:10):
But everybody ain't college? And do you have to pay
for the shirts and uniforms and stuff, because like most
charter schools, you got to pay for the shirts and
all that, which it wouldn't be no problem. But what
I love is that they said they're gonna have them
wear just regular clothes. That right there, stadents, Our children
(33:35):
get the as I call it, the bad end of.
Speaker 10 (33:38):
The stick, because if you cross over just in w. Smiths,
they don't wear you a form. You know, it's it's alright,
But children feelings.
Speaker 5 (33:47):
Though everything they hands are tied. Don't nobody want to
listen to them. But I think just from listening to
their young lady saying, it's the best thing that ever
happened to Memphis, and believe it or not, she got
my two favorite colors.
Speaker 3 (34:06):
I oh, I look at them.
Speaker 5 (34:08):
All, those are my favorite color, saying I can't do
my I got a lot of favorite color, but them
too off the top. Do you all is I know
it coolish free what you're saying, But do y'all take
(34:30):
donating shues?
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Lord?
Speaker 6 (34:34):
So yes, ma'am, so yes, yes. So let me start
at your first inquiry. You asked about shirts. Do they costs?
Speaker 4 (34:42):
No, ma'am.
Speaker 6 (34:43):
I would call all the students when they come in
and they'll receive their uniform shirts from us. I just
got off the phone with a parent doing the break
telling her don't buy anything until I tell you to,
because I'm not thinking that you're going to have to
buy anything. And so I just asked her to get
me an opportunity to provide with her child needs. And
(35:04):
I'm saying that across the board. Doctor Barker has done
a great job with really working on that component because
there's a personal desire of ours that we are able
to fully provide the students with.
Speaker 4 (35:16):
What they need and the parents.
Speaker 6 (35:18):
That's why we're so intentional with connecting with the community
so our parents will have what they need as well.
So no, they will not have to pay for their uniforms.
The next question you talked about was we were talking
about the autonomy of uniforms, and so we do know
that it's a gift. But I also realize that creativity
(35:38):
starts at home, and so I want to return that
to the classroom. But I want to nurture that in
our students, and so getting away from some of these
things that seem so penal and then for those students
who may need more support, we'll have that as well. Lastly,
you asked do we receive donations, Yes, ma'am. Information is
(36:00):
on Tennessee Career Academy dot org. This Tennessee Career Academy
dot org. You can look up myself as well as
doctor Barker, and we'll give you that avenue in which
that we can take in those donations.
Speaker 2 (36:14):
And doctor King, we're just so blessed. Stand so we
got a donation the other day. There's businesses sometimes to
go out of business or you know, downsize or whatever.
So we have office buildings, especially in light of the
covid UH challenges, who you know, go more toward work
from home kind of environment, So wouldn't necessarily have the
need for office supplies and stuff and desks and that
(36:36):
kind of stuff. We received this week a big truckload
of office furniture.
Speaker 6 (36:42):
So we would not have desk in the school, no doubt. No,
our students would not be that's a good point on school.
In school, brother Bell, you.
Speaker 2 (36:50):
Have chairs environment, what do you call that? That that's
a unique environment.
Speaker 6 (36:57):
I'm gonna with word I like to It's just certain
things that so I talked twenty two years and some
things that my students just did not like. So if
you came to my classroom, you saw and you staw
bean bags and rugs and couches in my class even
saw launchairs in my classroom. And so we won't have
(37:19):
laun chairs in the school, but we will have conducive
learning environments that I'm more aligned with a little bit
of liberality I was saying, but that we still have structure.
Speaker 4 (37:30):
Now let's be clear, we still have structure.
Speaker 6 (37:32):
We still have expectations, high expectations for our students and teachers.
So we're not negating those tenants as we educate them.
Speaker 3 (37:41):
So we would love any type of donations that you
like to do.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
We'd love to stand if somebody wants to give us
some time to come out there and work with students
and work with We got a few things that need
to happen around the building yet, right, So we just
hope that and want that and really want to make
sure that we you neat a space at forty seven
to seventy five American Way, Yes, where the community can
feel at home.
Speaker 3 (38:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (38:05):
So are you fully staffed now or are you getting there?
Speaker 4 (38:08):
No, sir, we're still looking for a few more teachers.
Speaker 3 (38:11):
Okay, what do they apply? I mean, do you want
to throw.
Speaker 4 (38:13):
That out to your career academy down websites?
Speaker 6 (38:15):
Okay, so the positions out on there as well.
Speaker 2 (38:19):
Okay, give us the email or the r U L
whatnot again.
Speaker 6 (38:25):
Tennessee Career Academy dot ugus, TN Career Academy dot org.
Were halfway there. We're not all the way there. And
so what we did want to say with those donations,
we're looking for time, talents and trades.
Speaker 3 (38:38):
Oh, there you go, time, talent, interest.
Speaker 4 (38:40):
That's how you serve.
Speaker 3 (38:41):
Yeah. I like that.
Speaker 2 (38:43):
You guys are gonna be sowing for real and you're
gonna be roaring and you're getting the students ready for
the world. Thank you so much, Tennessee Career Academy. Yes, sir,
forty seven seventy five American way. Yeah, we are the
future of Tennessee future. Let me say thank you, thank
you the way I started it. Thank you so much
for being here, caring our time. Uh, and continue the education.
(39:04):
I think it's so important, particularly you're starting with the
sixth grade and seventh grade. The end goal maybe perhaps
eleven twelve. And you at what you added here every year, right,
two years? Every Oh, okay, okay, that's that's how you
do it. Increments my step a little by little does
the trick says the stops fable.
Speaker 3 (39:24):
That's how you do it. Huh, hello somebody.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
Yeah, it's been a plump, pleasing, pleasure and privilege, in
the words of Rufus Thomas Junior, to have you here
on the show today.
Speaker 3 (39:33):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (39:34):
We've been speaking ladies and gentlemen with the doctor Mia
Yvette King. About to get the sheep skin again, but
a bigger one, a different lettering, a different texture, bigger
terminal forever tomorrow the afternoon in the University of Memphis.
(39:54):
Talk to somebody, Doctor John Richard Barker. Always a pleasure, man.
I know you got to get to the strawberry festival
the later on. If you can, if doctor, if they
had the school to let you leave to go to
Humble an hour and a half drive, you'd be all right. Yeah,
super fresh, stupid fresh man, just across the railroad, across
the crossing man. Any additional words before we go, man,
(40:15):
I'm ready to dismiss class.
Speaker 3 (40:16):
Literally. It's been a joy to have you great information today.
Speaker 4 (40:20):
Yes, please connect with us.
Speaker 3 (40:22):
Come.
Speaker 4 (40:22):
Our doors are open again.
Speaker 6 (40:24):
We are looking for those who will give their time, talents,
and treasure as we go to embark upon this mission
that we believed that was divilent given to us for
our students of Memphis, Tennessee initially and our parents with
their two three gen strategy to address this crime issue
(40:45):
with addressing poverty, producing economical mobility, addressing economical disparity.
Speaker 3 (40:51):
All right, thank you so much for being here. I
want y'all have a great week here. Thank you too.
I know that's right.
Speaker 2 (40:58):
Happy Mother's Day to each and every mother listening of
those who may be alive, who are live, and those
in this celestial city. Thank you over dall listeners, Thank
you callers, thank you to the email of us.
Speaker 3 (41:07):
Thank you everybody.
Speaker 2 (41:08):
I want you to have a splendid weekend, of course,
have a great Mother's Day. The rest of the hour
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(41:30):
church Mark Stansbury Sunday's Best Gospel three to seven. All right,
Happy Mother's Day to each and every one of you.
We love you and nothing you could do about it.
And remember mothers are like fine collectibles. As the years
go by, they increase in value.
Speaker 3 (41:49):
He's on and popping.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
It's the stan Bell Morning Show weekdays from six to
ten AM. On the Heart and Soul of Memphis. Ten
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