The EJT Show

During this episode, I am sharing 3️⃣ attributes of money coming with ease. Click here to apply for your invite to special training on how to build a six-figure consulting business with Get LaunchED Consulting​™! https://getlaunchedconsulting.com/apply

During this episode of office hours with Dr. JT, Season of Sacrifice: 3️⃣ Sacrifices you must make to go to your next level Click here to apply for your invite to special training on how to build a six-figure consulting business with Get LaunchED Consulting​™! https://getlaunchedconsulting.com/apply

During this episode of office hours with Dr. JT, I share a few reflections on how my own money mindset has grown. Click here to apply for your invite to special training on how to build a six-figure consulting business with Get LaunchED Consulting™! https://getlaunchedconsulting.com/apply

Candide Bukedi, affectionately known as Candy is a math teacher by day and a college coach by night. She works with black and brown children to prepare them for college while helping them to avoid student loan debt! Her focus is college matriculation with the crippling debt. She graduated from NC State and Johns Hopkins University with ZERO debt!

During this episode of office hours with Dr. JT, I am answering the top three questions from last week's poll.  1. How do I acquire new leads? 2. How do I justify the price of my services? 3. How can I show up, take up space, and get visible? Click here to apply to the program: https://getlaunchedconsulting.com/apply

During this episode of office hours with Dr. JT, I am answering the top three questions from last week's poll.  1. Should I accept free consulting engagements to build my business? 2. What is the estimated timeline for launching a consulting business? 3. If I am not doing this full time, how do I avoid conflict of interest? Click here to apply to join the Get LaunchED Consulting™ program: https://getlaunchedconsulting.com/apply

Erica Harrell is the CEO of Erica Harrell Consulting, an education consulting firm created to help dedicated, overworked K-12 principals and district leaders create organized, strategic professional development plans to increase student achievement and improve staff capacity. Erica has over 12 years of experience in K-8 education. She began her career as a special education teacher and has held multiple leadership roles from instructional coach to principal to Director of Leadership Development. In all of her roles, Erica has always had the desire to grow and help others do the same. As a school leader, Erica has led teams to develop strategic and comprehensive project plans for multi-day and multi-week professional development series and coached leaders to ensure high-quality session facilitation. Under her leadership, a team of school-based leaders facilitated 4-week summer professional development with an average of over 90% of participants rating sessions and operations as “Platinum” (highest rating on 5-point Likert scale) multiple years in a row, she doubled third grade ELA scores in one year and coached 2nd year teacher to be the highest performing math teacher among all Achievement Network Schools. Erica is originally from Upstate New York. She attended University of Maryland, College Park for undergrad where she obtained a BA in Sociology and Communications. She holds a Masters of Education in Instructional Leadership from Relay Graduate School of Education. Erica currently lives in Maryland with her husband and one year old son.

Lydia Mercer is a dynamic and holistic coach, creator, facilitator, and trainer. She leads with love, equity, and inquiry. She is empathetic, and her way of being reflects compassion, especially during courageous conversations. She builds authentic relationships through a holistic approach and uses differentiated coaching lenses to positively impact lives. Lydia's current work is grounded in (Un)learning her own racist trauma and supporting others as they examine their own. The (Un)Learning Space is the converging of her lived experience and her soul's purpose. Lydia has influenced the Chicago educational landscape for the past fourteen years. She has designed and facilitated numerous Diversity Equity and Inclusion workshops and coaching sessions, revised curriculum and resources to be more culturally relevant, and actively engages in her own (un)learning journey. Lydia has a Bachelor's Degree in Education from the University of Kansas (2005) and earned her Master's Degree in Cultural Education and Social Policy from Loyola, Chicago (2010). The only thing that matches Mercer’s passion for antiracism work is her toddler daughter, and her husband Jason.

Meredith Stanley is K-8 math coach and specialist and founder of Meredith 4 Math LLC, a math education consulting business. A former elementary classroom teacher and instructional coach, she is a two-time finalist for the Presidential Award for Math and Science, a Buncombe County Teacher of the Year, a Buncombe County Math Teacher of the Year, and a National Board certified teacher. In addition to supporting schools and districts across the country through her consulting business, she is also a lecturer for the Mount Holyoke College Masters of Mathematics Teaching program and serves the teachers of North Carolina as the Elementary State VP for the North Carolina Council for Teaching Mathematics. Meredith’s passion for providing quality mathematics instruction to marginalized students was the impetus for starting Meredith 4 Math in 2015. Now Meredith 4 Math provides interactive, classroom-based, professional learning and coaching experiences for schools and districts. These experiences engage educators in learning math instructional strategies that position students to develop positive math identities, to connect conceptual understanding to fluency, and to make sense of mathematics through representation and problem solving. You can find more information about Meredith, as well as a bank of instructional resources, at www.meredith4math.com and on Twitter and IG at @meredith4math.

Eno Richardson is an assistant principal and the founder of Eno Richardson Consulting (ERC). She is passionate about education and believes that all children deserve excellent schooling. She is most fervent about reading and the ability for books to transform the minds and the lives of children. Eno believes that reading is the great equalizer. Eno possesses a core belief that a school environment which cultivates independent readers and builds a love of reading is a school where students will excel beyond measure. Despite a student’s race, background ethnic, or socioeconomic status, the ability to read a diverse selection of books unlocks growth and provides unimaginable opportunities. Eno has served in schools for 10 years as a classroom teacher and currently as an assistant principal. She has experience teaching a range of scholars in both middle and high school. She has invested her years in urban schools working diligently to ensure students get the excellent education that they deserve. As the founder of Eno Richardson Consulting, Eno works with school districts and school leaders to assess the efficacy of their current reading programs, create robust reading initiatives, lead collaborative professional development, build investment strategies and track scholar progress in order to build a culture of independent reading that propels academic gains while fostering a student love of reading. Eno graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor of Science in Child Development and Medicine, Health and Society and a minor in Spanish. She is a graduate of Nashville Teaching Fellows under The New Teacher Project. She obtained her Masters of Education from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education with a focus on Teaching and Learning in Urban Schools. Eno holds a specialty in English Language Learners and is a graduate of the Relay National Principals Academy Fellowship.

With over 20 years of experience in education, Beth is a dynamic, accomplished executive with a national reputation as a successful, positive leader. Most recently, Beth founded and served as Chief Executive and Academic Officer at Chicago Collegiate, a 5th-12th grade charter school network on the Far South Side of Chicago. Chicago Collegiate has the highest-rated open-enrollment high school on the Far South Side and is on track to have 100% of their students accepted to college in 2021, the year their founding class of 5th graders graduates. Before that, Beth served in roles as varied as the Senior Managing Director of the Teach For America Institute to the founding Dean of Instruction at KIPP: Gaston College Preparatory. She is an national award-winning teacher, and founder of several highly successful leadership development programs,. Beth graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a degree in American Studies, with a focus on social justice and is a single mom who lives in Chicago with her three amazing kids and soon, a pandemic puppy.

Okema is Founder and CEO of Okema Simpson Consulting, LLC. She's a native of Oxford, NC where she grew up knowing that she would one day become an educator. With 23 years of education, Okema has been able to impact hundreds of scholars and was able to extend the reach of her impact by serving as an Multi Classroom Leader (MCL) at Ranson Middle school where she led teams of teachers to positively impact the academic growth and achievement of scholars each year. Okema credits much of her success to the investments that she made in herself to engage in her own professional development. She vows to be the educator and leader that students and teachers deserve, therefore she commits to doing the work to achieve this. Okema started her business to inspire, empower, and encourage aspiring and current educators and leaders to take charge of their own professional development so that they can show up being the type of educator that they want to be and the type of educator that their scholars deserve.

Allecyn Gay Howard is the Founder of Alexander Howard Consulting, a firm focused on developing the effectiveness of mid-level leaders and designing leadership pathways for individuals in mid-level leadership positions. A native of College Park, Georgia, Allecyn began her career as a teacher in South Louisiana before transitioning to a Literacy Integration Specialist in New Orleans, LA. She has served in numerous leadership capacities with Teach for America, including Manager of Intervention and Leadership Development. She also served as the Founding Dean of Instruction at KIPP Delta: Forrest City. In 2018, Allecyn relocated to Washington, DC, where she has worked as an administrator with both charter and public schools. Allecyn holds a Bachelors from Southern University and A&M College and Masters from Teachers College at Columbia University. When she is not leveraging her skills to combat inequities, Allecyn enjoys exploring new recipes, traveling, and reading. Her greatest joy is spending quality time with her wife and children.

Dr. Timisha Barnes-Jones is a 1992 graduate of Davidson College where she earned a bachelor’s degree in music. She earned her Master’s degree in Education Curriculum & Supervision from the University of North Carolina. In 2014 she earned her doctorate degree in Education Leadership from Gardner-Webb University. She has over 25 years in education and has held various roles including teacher, dean of students, assistant principal of instruction, high school principal and principal coach. In 2014 Dr. Barnes-Jones completed the National Principals Academy Fellowship from Relay Graduate School and now serves as a principal advisor for the program. Dr. Timisha Barnes-Jones previously served as principal of West Charlotte High School located in the Charlotte Mecklenburg School district. Under her leadership, West Charlotte’s graduation rate increased by over 31 percentage points. During her tenure, she helped transform the school from a failing school to being named a school of academic high growth. In 2019 Dr. Barnes-Jones was named the Wells Fargo North Carolina Principal of the Year for the Southwest Region. Dr. Barnes-Jones believes in adding value to others and has successfully developed and coached both emerging and veteran leaders. She coaches school leaders to lead with authenticity and excellence. She is also a John Maxwell certified coach, speaker and DISC behavioral analysis trainer. Dr. Barnes-Jones currently serves as the Director of School Improvement for the Savannah-Chatham County School district in Savannah, Georgia. Dr. Barnes-Jones is also excited to soon be launching LiftED Leader, LLC.

DérNecia Phillips prides herself on being an unstoppable champion for education. She has 15 years of experience as a public school educator with service in various roles including teacher, instructional facilitator, and principal. She has leveraged her expertise to create DAL Education & Care Solutions, an education consulting company providing leadership development to schools and organizations with education outcomes. DAL Education & Care Solutions offers a variety of services to increase the efficacy of educational leaders including creative approaches to professional development, strategic planning, and leadership coaching. Developing leaders' gifts ultimately supports her 'heart work' of helping students maximize their own.

Deborah Peart is the lead writer for 2nd grade for the Illustrative Mathematics Elementary Math Curriculum project. Now based in FL, Deborah taught for over 25 years in NY, CT, and GA in the public and private sectors. Deborah is the founder of My Mathematical Mind and speaks on a variety of topics related to math identity and literacy connections to mathematics. She offers professional development for schools and districts, provides coaching support for teachers and school leaders, and offers virtual math sessions to elementary students. Blending her training in yoga and mindfulness with mathematics instruction, Deborah advocates for a mindful approach to teaching mathematics in order to address math anxiety, build confidence, and support the development of positive mathematical identities. She has dedicated her career to helping other educators approach teaching in innovative ways that allow students to see themselves as valued mathematical thinkers.

Joe Lofstedt is the Founder of Lofstedt Coaching, LLC and has been teaching and coaching students and teachers for nearly a decade. Joe has a deep belief that all students can learn rigorous material when empowered to leverage their prior skills and knowledge. He believes that this is possible when educators are supported, have collaborative working relationships and receive coaching. In his experience as a teacher, instructional coach, assistant principal and principal, he has seen how children meet and exceed growth when educators continuously reflect, plan and execute. Joe is a graduate of the University of Scranton and the University of Houston with his B.S. in Early and Primary Education and his M.Ed in Educational Administration and Supervision. He founded two primary schools in Eastern North Carolina with a team of talented and hard working educators serving as a grade-level chair, instructional coach, assistant principal and principal.

Philonda Johnson is a teacher and coach in her heart. Philonda grew up in San Antonio, Texas and New York City. At a young age, she always thought that she would be a lawyer and fight for justice. Joining the 2005 Houston Teacher for America corps as a Pre-Kindergarten teacher changed her career trajectory. In 2007, KIPP DC as a founding Pre-Kindergarten teacher, she fell in love with teaching, serving and began to (re)imagine what it meant to fight for educational justice. For 8 years, she served as the Founding Principal at KIPP Discover Academy. In 2017, Philonda transitioned to KIPP Northern California, where she serves as a Managing Director of Schools and has the honor of serving school leaders in Oakland, San Francisco and Redwood City. For the past seven years, she has served as a Leadership Coach and specifically loves coaching Black women school leaders. Philonda Johnson is the CEO of Philonda Johnson Consulting, a boutique leadership coaching and development firm for aspiring and current Black Women school and district leaders. She continues to explore and reinforce her commitment to Black Women and Black Girls through her research as a second year doctoral student at San Francisco State University. Currently, her dissertation study is on the experience of Black Women Principals as they implement an Anti-Racist Black Langauge Pedagogy on behalf of Black Girls in their schools. When Philonda is not supporting leaders and doing grad school homework, you can find her enjoying her new passion of reading and journaling poetry from amazing Black female poets.

Sable's journey as an educator began at Swarthmore College, where she first discovered the rage, passion and power of Black history as American history. When she recognized that her access to a remarkable education was an exception, and not the rule, her commitment to transforming and expanding educational opportunities for students of color back home in New York City began. For the past 10 years, Sable has served America's children as a teacher, coach and curriculum designer in Uncommon Schools, Inc., Public Prepatory Network, KIPP, TNTP, Teach for America and InquirED. With an average NPS of 85, she's facilitated and created professional development for Alder Graduate School of Education, EL Education, Achievement Network, Teaching Lab, Eskolta: School Research and Design and TNTP. Nationally, I've built the capacity of teachers, principals and district leadership for high-quality instructional practices and continuous improvement. In every organization, Sable sharpened an equity-minded consciousness that has pushed all stakeholders to fight for change within their spheres of influence. Currently, Sable supports school systems nationally as Founder & CEO of Equitable Outcomes, LLC while living in Sacramento, CA with her wife, Christina, and their dog, Grizzly.

Vanity Jenkins is the founder and principal consultant of ShiftED Consulting. She created the organization with the vision of abolishing racism and anti-blackness from organizations across America. ShiftED’s mission is to provide communities the knowledge and skills to eradicate anti-blackness and white supremacy culture individually, interpersonally, and systemically so that individuals and organizations can build inclusive, productive, and thriving environments. Vanity has over a decade of experience working for and advising nonprofits, district leaders, principals, charter networks, and companies on equitable practices and racial literacy. Vanity has been guided by a lifelong commitment to equity for children, families, and communities. She has designed and facilitated content to over 2000 principals, non-profit employees, and C-Suite leaders across the country. The content that she has designed has always been grounded in culturally relevant leadership and organizational equity. An inclusive, goals-oriented leader, Vanity’s teams consistently scored in the top 10% on the national Great Places to Work Survey. Vanity is bolstered by the hope that the work she does will one day lead to the dismantlement of systems of oppression and that there will exist a world in which all children and communities thrive. Vanity holds certifications in Women’s Leadership, Restorative Justice, and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy.