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 Hilliard Caldwell - Teachers in the community, integration (clip)

Hilliard Caldwell: Teachers lived in the community. Teachers attended churches of their choice within the Black community. Parents had a chance to see teachers, not necessarily at school. Teachers also attended the churches in their community. That is not the case today. A large contingency of our…

 Hilliard Caldwell - Churches, Schools, PTA (clip)

 Hilliard Caldwell - Living in rented homes (clip)

 Hilliard Caldwell - Punishment and role of school (clip)

Hilliard Caldwell: Child abuse was never mentioned. It was not even a word. Abuse was not even mentioned back in those days. We got many a [unclear.] And as Eddie Murphy used to say in one of his jokes, that his mom used to whup him and said, the louder he cried the louder she whupped. And he said,…

 Hilliard Caldwell - Childcare while mother worked (clip)

Interviewer: Do you remember after your father died, which was during the war, and your mother having to raise the four of you on her own, that meant that she must have been working a lot, do you have any memory of what her hours of work would be? Hilliard Caldwell: She would be gone all day. She’d…

 Hilliard Caldwell - Mother’s domestic work (clip)

 Hilliard Caldwell - Janitor’s association (clip)

 Hilliard Caldwell - Fraternity work (clip)

 Hilliard Caldwell - His parents (clip)

Interviewer: I’m going to try to get straight on a few of the things that he’s already mentioned. Could you tell me your birth date? Hilliard Caldwell: February 26, 1937 Interviewer: Were you born at home? Hospital? Hilliard Caldwell: Yes, I was one of those home babies attended to by a midwife back…

 Hilliard Caldwell - Career in public administration (clip)

 Hilliard Caldwell - Brothers in law enforcement (clip)

Hilliard Caldwell: My brothers’ backgrounds are varied. The leading career in my family was law enforcement. I have two brothers who have many years of law enforcement experience. One of the older brothers was the first full-time Black policeman in Chapel Hill. Interviewer: Who was that? Hilliard…

 Hilliard Caldwell - Introductions (clip)

 Terrence Foushee - Sharing his appreciation (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Is there anything you’d like to add before we wrap up? Terrence Foushee (TF): One, I definitely appreciated this conversation because there are so many things that I got to think about and I really just want to show appreciation for a lot of the teachers, a lot of the Black women…

 Terrence Foushee - On finding balance as a teacher (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): If you [Gillian] have any questions, I’d love for you to jump in, and also, if there’s anything you [Terrence Foushee] want to add before we wrap up that would be great. Gillian Kepley (GK): You had mentioned a while ago about your sleep schedule, and stuff like that, when you…

 Terrence Foushee - On eliminating the achievement gap (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): … in part to try to address the achievement gap, what else do you think needs to happen in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools system to reduce that gap and eliminate that gap in the future? Terrence Foushee (TF): What I think, and I don’t know how this happens, but it’s the…

 Terrence Foushee - On relationship building and service projects (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): What do you love about this role? Terrence Foushee (TF): I love a lot of things about this role. One, I get to experience what I might consider like life-changing moments with them. And in the classroom I loved, I used to love seeing their “Aha!” moments. But in this role, it…

 Terrence Foushee - On Blue Ribbon Scholars (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): What kinds of things do the Blue Ribbon Scholars who have the individual mentors, what sorts of the things do they tend to, what are some of the things that they do together, with their mentor? Terrence Foushee (TF): A lot of times the mentors bring their scholars, and it also…

 Terrence Foushee - On the history of the Blue Ribbon Program (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Can you tell me about the Blue Ribbon Program and how it came to be and what all it entails? Terrence Foushee (TF): I think that the Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocacy Program started in ‘95 with the main goal of closing the achievement gap. The program is an opportunity access program…

 Terrence Foushee - On teaching at Northwood (clip)

Terrence Foushee (TF): I taught at Northwood for about 8 and a half years. Kathryn Wall (KW): Did you go from that to a different school to teach English or to a different role? TF: I transitioned to the job that I’m in now, and that is the Blue Ribbon Specialist for the Blue Ribbon Mentor Advocate…

 Terrence Foushee - On his first year of teaching (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Do you remember your first day in the classroom as a teacher? Terrence Foushee (TF): I don’t even know! So I remember my room. I remember that my first year, that I had to share my room with another teacher but it was a blur. I know that I was sweating profusely and that it was a…

 Terrence Foushee - On classroom engagement (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): It seems like English class, thinking back to my own experiences in English class, like there's a lot of story in English class, you’re talking about the stories that are in the literature, whether you're talking about people telling their own story, students recording their own…

 Terrence Foushee - On his teaching philosophy (clip)

Terrence Foushee (TF): One of the things I appreciate about students is like we don’t give them enough credit for how smart they are, and I mean like, emotionally aware, that is one of the things I truly appreciate about the students that I’ve had the opportunity to teach. Kathryn Wall (KW): Yeah,…

 Terrence Foushee - On lessons learned as a teacher (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): When you got into your own teacher education, what were some of the things that you know, was there anything that surprised you learning about how to be a teacher, or things that were more or less challenging or? Terrence Foushee (TF): Yeah, there's absolutely no way to make a…

 Terrence Foushee - On servant leadership (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): You've talked a little bit about your passion for servant leadership. Could you just maybe describe how you would define that and then why that's a passion for you? Terrence Foushee (TF): Servant leadership is, to me, learning who you are to find out what you can contribute to…