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Unboxing Potential featuring Cassandra Mallett

(Showing Our Sass: Season 2 - Episode 2)

Welcome back to Season 2 of Showing Our Sass. I am your host, MartaGwyn, and this season I will be introducing you to many of the amazing people in my life who have blessed me and who I hope I’ve been a blessing to. So, get comfy and slide on up to join the conversation as we talk about life and how we have all come to or are working to understand what it means to unbox our potential. In this episode I chop it up with my friend of over 20 years, Cassandra Mallett and trust that means there will be LOADS of laughter between some gems. Alright now, lets get it!

0:00 - Intro Showing Our Sass Season 2

1:00 - Unboxing Potential featuring Cassandra Mallett

2:20 - Tougaloo College Visit www.Tougaloo.edu to learn more

4:20 - New York University Faculty Resource Network Student Exchange

5:08 - Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

7:17 - Goddard Hall, New York University (Check Out Grace’s video for a modern day look at Goddard Hall

https://youtu.be/LqKWWh1ZMyk)

8:53 - Career Tips - What is one thing you wish you’d known when you first started your career?

10:58 - Intro Off-Screen Voiceover Co-Host Cheska

12:16 - Best Learning Opportunity - What has been the greatest learning opportunity of your life?

15:03 - Intro On-Screen Silent Co-Host Ms. Celie

20:45 - The Age of ScanTron

32:20 - Should I Teach? - What advice would you give to someone considering teaching as a career?

36:25 - Teacher PR Problem - Do you feel that the teaching profession has a public relations problem?

37:06 - Check Out Dr. Marta D. Collier’s Interview | Showing Our Sass Season 2 Episode 1

39:59 - Dealing with Teach for America Rejection | Mississippi Delta

51:15 - Understanding how K-12 education is funded in the U.S.: The Basics

55:59 - Broadcast Interruption (Intermission)

56:32 - Donors Choose Platform Supports classroom teachers | www.donorschoose.org

57:53 - Fear of Losing Out (FOLO)

1:07:27 - Who Inspires You?

1:08:48 - 35% of ALL undergraduates were 1st Generation College in 2015-2016 (National Center for Education Statistics)

1:10:47 - Making sure we pronounce HORROR properly…

1:11:00 - What are you reading?

1:35:30 - Spill the Tea

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Showing Our Sass - The Podcast, Origin Story

Ready for something new? Born out of Quarantine 2020, Showing Our Sass w/host MartaGwyn (@MartaGwyn) does a weekly deep dive into subjects that tend to make some people clutch their pearls. Join MartaGwyn each week as she shares some of the fun conversations she carries on with her friends as they talk about any and everything going on in their worlds.

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Music is courtesy of Epidemic Sound and features the amazing talents of Daniel Fridell.

A Handmaid’s Tale (1990) Trailer Clip Courtesy of SHOUTFACTORY: http://bit.ly/1nm0dKP. A great source for nostalgic pop culture.