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A Better Way to Work

Radical Candor® - Caring Personally while Challenging Directly - is guidance that's both kind and clear, specific and sincere.

The antidote to toxic company cultures, it's a simple concept that's not always easy to practice.

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What is radical candor?

A management philosophy based on Caring Personally while Challenging Directly.

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Radical Candor | Feedback Training, Coaching & Consulting

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Radical Candor is feedback that's kind clear, specific, and sincere. Our feedback training, coaching and consulting is the antidote to toxic company cultures.

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Robyn R. Jackson, PhD

Founder and CEO

Dr. Robyn R. Jackson is passionate about the profession of teaching. She helps teachers and administrators understand the principles of mastery teaching and shows them how to apply these principles in order to help every student succeed. As a former high school English teacher and middle school administrator, she refined these principles on her own journey to become a master teacher. And, now as a best-selling author, internationally recognized keynote speaker, and professional developer, she provides step-by-step advice on how to use these same principles to become or help others become master teachers. Because she believes that every child deserves a master teacher and that any teacher can become a master teacher with the right kind of support and practice, and she started Mindsteps™ Inc., a professional development firm located in Washington, DC to provide the right kind of practice for teachers and the administrators who lead them. She doesn't just want to change how we teach; Dr. Jackson wants to change the way that we think about teaching.

Dr. Jackson is the author of nine books including Never Work Harder Than Your Students and the Mastering the Principles of Great Teaching series. Through her speaking and training she inspires audiences world-wide to become master teachers, implement more rigorous instruction, support struggling students, and provide effective instructional leadership.

Accomplishments:

Advocate: Dr. Jackson served as a teacher, administrator, adjunct professor, consultant, and speaker championing equity, access, and rigor for over 15 years.

National Board Certified AP English Teacher: As a National Board Certified English teacher, she increased the enrollment of minority and non-traditional students in her AP Language and Composition classes and tripled her course enrollment within one year without a decrease in her students' test scores.

Award winning administrator: As a middle school administrator in Montgomery County Maryland, she worked to revise the district's Gifted and Talented program to be more inclusive of under-represented students and better prepare students for rigorous high school work. She also compiled the final draft of the district's Middle School Reform Report and helped lead one of the largest middle schools in the district to win the state and national Blue Ribbon.

A nationally recognized presenter and consultant: Dr. Jackson has traveled throughout the United States sharing her unique approach to instruction. Most recently, she has worked with non-profits such as the College Board, The National Governors' Association, and the Fulfillment Fund and with school districts in Maryland, Florida, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin, New York, Colorado, Georgia, Ohio, and the District of Columbia to help develop the capacity of both teachers and school leaders help all students meet or exceed rigorous learning standards and become college-ready. She has also been featured in The Washington Post, a PBS/Annenberg television series,Lifetime Television's daily talk show Lifetime Live, and several times on WTOP radio.

University Professor and Researcher: As an educator, she has served as an adjunct professor at Towson University and Bowie University and presented her own research on equity, access, rigor, and instructional strategies designed to help under-represented and under-served student populations meet rigorous learning standards at several national conferences including the College Board National Forum, The AP Annual Conference, CCCC, AERA, ASCD Annual Conference, The National Middle School Association Annual Conference, The National Staff Development Conference, and the National Board of Professional Teaching Standards National Conference. She is also a senior fellow of the Phelps Stokes Fund and served as the Chairperson of the DuPont Park Adventist Junior Academy School Board.

Dr. Jackson is the author of the following books:

You Can Do This: Hope and Help for New Teachers

Never Underestimate Your Students

The AP* Teacher's Resource Book: Strategies for Successful AP Courses

How to Motivate Reluctant Learners

How to Plan Rigorous Instruction

How to Support Struggling Students

Never Work Harder than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching

The Instructional Leader's Guide to Strategic Conversations with Teachers: How to provide customized feedback to teachers that actually helps them get better at teaching.

The Differentiation Workbook: A step-by-step guide to creating lessons that help every student meet the standards

*AP is the registered Trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

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Dr. Robyn R. Jackson is passionate about the profession of teaching. She helps teachers and administrators understand the principles of mastery teaching and shows them how to apply these principles in order to help every student succeed. As a former high school English teacher and middle school administrator, she refined these principles on her own journey to become a master teacher.

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Film & Discussion

September 16

100 Ways to Cross the Border
Post screening discussion with filmmaker Amber Bemak in person.
Celebrated Mexican/Chicanx performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and his performance troupe La Pocha Nostra have spent their careers working with conceptual, social, and physical borders. With intimate access to the artist and his troupe, 100 Ways to Cross the Border unabashedly documents the impact of Gómez-Peña's work and his contributions to conversations on Latinx and Chicanx identity, politics, and border theory.

(National Gallery of Art)

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National Hispanic American Heritage Month 2023

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Paying tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched our nation and society.

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Story of MLK for children

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A hero is born

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1929. At the time in that part of the country, segregation-or the separation of races in places like schools, buses, and restaurants-was the law. He experienced racial predjudice from the time he was very young, which inspired him to dedicate his life to achieving equality and justice for Americans of all colors. King believed that peaceful refusal to obey unjust law was the best way to bring about social change.

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Civil Rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., never backed down in his stand against racism. Learn more about the life of this courageous hero who inspired millions of people to right a historical wrong.

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1831

Popular circus clown Dan Rice blackens his face to perform "negro songs" for a variety show in New York's Bowery district and sets off the minstrelsy craze.

1851

Stephen Foster writes Old Folks At Home, based on an Ethiopian melody.

1877

First practical phonograph invented.

1896

Scott Joplin, James Scott and Joseph Lamb bring West Indian rhythms to European progressions to create a uniquely American popular music form called ragtime.

1897

Buddy Bolden organizes first band in New Orleans to play instrumental blues.

1900

The Spanish, French, blues and ragtime music all the rage on Mississippi river boats moves into New Orleans brothels and honkytonk bars, where it later becomes known as jazz.

1902

Teenaged sporting house pianist Jelly Roll Morton claims to be the first to play this so-called jazz music.

1912

Bandleader and composer William Christopher Handy writes and publishes Memphis Blues, giving rise to the classic blues era.

1916

Charles Albert Tindley becomes the first published black gospel composer with the release of New Songs Of Paradise, a songbook of 37 gospel hymns.

1917

The era of jazz recording is launched in New York with Livery Stable Blues, by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band.

1919

New Orleans trumpeter Louis Armstrong and Jelly Roll Morton make Chicago the new capital of jazz music.

1922

Jazz pianist/composer Duke Ellington forms the Duke Ellington Orchestra in New York.

1923

Bessie Smith's first song, Down Hearted Blues, is an instant hit, and Smith becomes "Queen of the Blues."

1924

George Gershwin composes symphonic jazz piece Rhapsody In Blue, leading jazz out of the clubs and into concert halls for the first time.

1925

WSM Barn Dance begins Saturday radio broadcasts of country and western music. Program becomes known as Grand Ole Opry. Lovesick Blues recorded by minstrel singer Emmett Miller, inspiring Hank Williams, Jimmie Rodgers and Merle Haggard. The 78 rpm record becomes the industry standard.

1928

Victor label holds first recording session in Nashville, featuring black Opry star DeFord Bailey, but only half of his songs are released and he's short-changed on royalties.

1929

Stock market crash brings on the Great Depression.

1930

First commercially available "long-playing" records are introduced by Victor but don't catch on due to lack of affordable playback units. Columbia has more success with its microgroove LPs in 1948.

1936

Electric guitars debut.

1938

Sister Rosetta Tharpe takes gospel out of the church and brings the spirit to secular music venues like New York's Cotton Club and Cafe Society. Saxophonist Louis Jordan leaves Chick Webb's orchestra to start his own jump band, the Tympany Five, whose sound is a precursor of rock 'n' roll.

1939

Saxophonist Charlie Parker, while jamming on Cherokee, hits on a new method of soloing by building on the chords' extended intervals, starting the bebop movement.

Charlie Christian brings the electric guitar to new prominence while sitting in with Benny Goodman.

Oscar Peterson wins CBC amateur contest at 14 and gets a regular 15-minute gig playing live on the air.

1941

Travelling folkloricist Alan Lomax records MUDDY WATERS on Stovall's Plantation in Mississippi.

Saxophonist Lester Young gives beat generation writer Jack Kerouac his first joint.

1949

First 45 rpm 7-inch singles appear in the U.S.

1951

Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed uses the term "rock 'n' roll� to help sell the black rhythm and blues music he's playing for a white audience. Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm cut Rocket 88, generally considered the first rock 'n' roll record.

Bill Haley records a cover of Rocket 88 three months later.

Richard cops Turner's piano intro to Rocket 88 note for note for his own Good Golly Miss Molly.

1952

Phil and Leonard Chess lets recent signee Muddy Waters go into the studio with his own band and they create an electrifying new urban blues sound.

1957

Entrepreneurial R&B crooner Sam Cooke lays the foundation for the 60s soul boom by using the proceeds of his hit song You Send Me to start his own label, publishing imprint and management firm.

CHARLES MINGUS records The Clown and East Coasting. Norman Mailer publishes The White Negro.

1958

Modern amplified rhythm and blues is introduced to England by Chuck Berry on a UK tour. A teenaged Keith Richards is listening.

1960

Tired of playing sideman, John Coltrane forms a quartet of his own and touches off the new thing movement.

1963

The Beatles and the Rolling Stones take over the UK charts by playing in the style of their favourite American R&B and blues artists.

1967

Jimi Hendrix Experience blows minds of musicians on both sides of the Atlantic with Are You Experienced?

1972

Not to be outdone, Curtis Mayfield creates the Superfly soundtrack, a number-one pop and R&B chart smash.

1973

Jamaican �migr� Clive "Kool Herc" Campbell applies his knowledge of Kingston soundsystems to rock block parties in the South Bronx, using two turntables to extend the length of beat-heavy "break" sections of soul and funk records.

1974

Inspired by Jamaican toasting, the concept of emceeing begins with shouts of "to the beat, y'all!"

1975

Coke La Rock and Clark Kent form the first emcee duo, giving Run and DMC an alternative to pizza delivery.

1976

Disco flourishes. Larry Levan starts spinning at New York's Paradise Garage bringing new prominence to the DJ as artist.

1977

Frankie Knuckles gives up textile design studies to take DJ gig at Chicago's Warehouse club. Thumping drum machine-based music he plays becomes known as house.

1979

The Sugar Hill Gang's Rapper's Delight becomes the first commercial rap hit. The Fatback Band's release of the rap song King Tim III creates controversy over the "first rap record" for decades to come.

1980

Blondie releases Rapture, which despite Debbie Harry's corny rhymes, introduces rap to a whole new audience.

1982

Michael Jackson's Thriller is released and sells 25 million copies, making it the top-selling album in history.

First star of the Grand Ole Opry, DeFord Bailey, dies penniless, never inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Afrika Bambaataa and the Soul Sonic Force's Planet Rock uses samples of Kraftwerk's Trans Europe Express to become first global electro hit.

1983

Compact discs are introduced and soon become the industry standard. Herbie Hancock cuts Rockit, which becomes the first jazz/hiphop crossover hit.

AFRIKA BAMBAATAA's Looking For The Perfect Beat ushers in the sampling era.

1986

Eric B and Rakim's game-changing Eric B Is President forces all aspiring rappers to raise their skills. Run DMC's reconstruction of Aerosmith's Walk This Way puts rap on the pop charts and MTV.

1987

The term "world music" is coined by the music biz to market African and Latin music to the masses.

1993

New York's Hot 97 switches from dance format to hiphop, launching the career of Funkmaster Flex.

1996

Rapper TUPAC SHAKUR is shot four times while leaving the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. Dies six days later in hospital.

Scribble Jam begins showcasing unknown underground rappers like Sage Francis and Eminem.

2001

FLOW 93.5 becomes Canada's first urban radio station.

2002

Hiphop dominates the mainstream: Eminem's The Eminem Show and Nelly's Nellyville rank as two top-selling albums of the year, far outperforming releases by Celine Dion, Pink and the Dixie Chicks.

2003

Othar Turner, perhaps the last living original fife-and-drum musician, dies at 94 in Mississippi.

2004

Ray Charles dies of liver disease at the age of 73.

With the release of Confessions, Usher becomes the first R&B singer to sell in excess of 1.1 million discs in first week.

Jay-Z's unlikely collabo with Linkin Park on Collision Course debuts at number one and becomes the biggest-selling CD/DVD package of the year.

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Book Talk - Online

February 2

Online Panel Discussion

February 6

Men of Change: Taking it to the Streets Opening Panel
Join us for a virtual panel discussion to kick off the Anacostia Community Museum's outdoor installation of the Men of Change: Taking it to the Streets exhibition. The social unrest of 2020 has illuminated the active presence of institutionalized racism in America and its impact on the Black community. CNN Correspondent Omar Jimenez will moderate this discussion between panelists Jonathan Jackson, founding partner of the design firm We Should Do it All; Dr. Rob Gore, founder of the youth intervention program, Kings Against Violence Initiative; and artist Tariku Shiferaw.

(Smithsonian Institution)

Historical Reenactor

February 11

Young Learners Program - Meet Harriet Tubman
Harriet Tubman is portrayed by Daisy Century, a talented teacher and inspirational actor with American Historical Theatre. Harriet Tubman's indomitable spirit, valor, and fearless actions as an abolitionist, Union nurse and spy, suffragist, and humanitarian continue to inspire children and adults today. A question-and-answer session with Harriet Tubman will follow the presentation.
View on YouTube

(National Archives)

Book Talk - Online

February 18

Giants of Racial Justice
In an event celebrating African American History Month, Peniel E. Joseph ("The Sword and the Shield") and Tamara Payne ("The Dead Are Arising") will discuss their books on Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. with NPR TV Critic Eric Deggans. This event will be premiered on Facebook and YouTube and on the Library of Congress website.

(Library of Congress)

Lecture - Online

February 25

On the Road with Jason Reynolds
National Ambassador for Young People's Literature Jason Reynolds will discuss his ambassadorship, including his recent "GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story" virtual tour, with Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden. Through his platform, "GRAB THE MIC: Tell Your Story," Reynolds has directed his focus as ambassador by empowering students to embrace and share their own personal stories. This event will be premiered on Facebook and YouTube and on the Library of Congress website.

(Library of Congress)

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How Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are - TED Talk

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How Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are - TED Talk

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Your body language may shape who you are

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(NOTE: Some of the findings presented in this talk have been referenced in an ongoing debate among social scientists about robustness and reproducibility. Read “Corrections & Updates” below for more details as well as Amy Cuddy’s response.) Body language affects how others see us, but it may also change how we see ourselves. Social psychologist Amy Cuddy argues that “power posing” -- standing in a posture of confidence, even when we don’t feel confident -- can boost feelings of confidence, and might have an impact on our chances for success.

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In a culture where being social and outgoing are prized above all else, it can be difficult, even shameful, to be an introvert. But, as Susan Cain argues in this passionate talk, introverts bring extraordinary talents and abilities to the world, and should be encouraged and celebrated.

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15 signs you have emotional intelligence - World Economic Forum

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15 signs you have emotional intelligence - World Economic Forum

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Dr Travis Bradberry looks at the qualities shared by people with emotional intelligence, based on data from more than a million people.