Podcasts about connie grier

Connie Grier joins Beyond Prisons to discuss a new policy in Pennsylvania prisons targeting materials brought in by educators, religious practitioners, recreational and therapeutic facilitators, and others. Connie is a mother of twin sons, a career educator, a mentor, and a social justice advocate. She is also the founder of The RESPECT Alliance, an organization which has, as one of its core tenets, the addressing of justice issues that impact marginalized populations both pre and post-incarceration. As an educator with 28 years of experience within the K-16 realm, Connie has an intimate relationship with the lack of advocacy and harsh discipline policies that lead to the school-to-prison pipeline and is determined to mitigate and ultimately, dismantle said pipeline, one student at a time. Connie is an Inside-Out trained instructor and has taught courses inside of correctional facilities in Philadelphia and Chester. She is actively engaged in several social justice and criminal justice initiatives focused specifically on women, youth, and families, and has been a Graterford Think Tank Member for the past four years. She specializes in supporting marginalized youth and adults most impacted by the system academically and utilizes interactive workshops, speaking engagements, and mentorship to support in the areas of family reunification and advocacy. View the new PA DOC memo [PDF]. Support our show and join us on Patreon. Please listen, subscribe, and rate/review our podcast on iTunes, Spotify, and on Google Play Join our mailing list for updates on new episodes, events, and more Send tips, comments, and questions to beyondprisonspodcast@gmail.com Follow us on Twitter: @Beyond_Prison @phillyprof03 @bsonenstein Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beyondprisonspodcast/ Music by Jared Ware

We continue our look at the area schools.  We look particularly at the challenges we expect the children and parents to face this school year.  Our guest this week is Connie Grier.   Connie Grier has been professionally engaged in instruction and educational management, within the public school arena, for over 20 years.  She has a strong commitment to social justice, parental engagement, relationship building and the development of students and staff. As an Assistant Principal, she collaborated with the families of her students for academic success and secured needed supports for her school community.  She continues to serve families in several school districts through her 501c3 non-profit organization, The RESPECT Alliance (www.therespectalliance.org).  This is an organization devoted to bringing the “respect” back to interactions between home and school and to increasing parental advocacy.   She has authored and published a book “The ABC’s of Mentoring: A Bi-Weekly Road Map to Uplifting Youth” available on Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/14yG60f ).  She is a contributing author for ParentNet.com, a national educational organization. She is also a Fellow with the Center for Progressive Leadership, and an Adjunct Professor at Wilmington University http://www.progressiveleaders.org. Follow her on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/CKGConsults   We are so excited.  Tune in to hear what Connie has to say.  You will not be disappointed. 

We continue our look at the area schools.  We look particularly at the challenges we expect the children and parents to face this school year.  Our guest this week is Connie Grier.   Connie Grier has been professionally engaged in instruction and educational management, within the public school arena, for over 20 years.  She has a strong commitment to social justice, parental engagement, relationship building and the development of students and staff. As an Assistant Principal, she collaborated with the families of her students for academic success and secured needed supports for her school community.  She continues to serve families in several school districts through her 501c3 non-profit organization, The RESPECT Alliance (www.therespectalliance.org).  This is an organization devoted to bringing the “respect” back to interactions between home and school and to increasing parental advocacy.   She has authored and published a book “The ABC’s of Mentoring: A Bi-Weekly Road Map to Uplifting Youth” available on Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/14yG60f ).  She is a contributing author for ParentNet.com, a national educational organization. She is also a Fellow with the Center for Progressive Leadership, and an Adjunct Professor at Wilmington University http://www.progressiveleaders.org. Follow her on Twitter http://www.twitter.com/CKGConsults   We are so excited.  Tune in to hear what Connie has to say.  You will not be disappointed.