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 Terrence Foushee - On pursuing a business major (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): You mentioned that you were a business major when you came right out of high school. What made you inclined in that direction initially? Terrence Foushee (TF): I don’t know. [laughter] I don’t know at all. I think that my self-perception and my family kind of being recognized, my…

 Terrence Foushee - On maintaining boundaries (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): You mentioned that a few of the teachers had that combination of being like loving and nurturing on one side, and a little more stern and strict on the other side. What do you think that does for kids in the classroom? Terrence Foushee (TF): So, I think interestingly enough I just…

 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 his time at Chapel Hill High (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): And going back to your high school experience, I know from listening to the interviews we’ve done with your mother she went to Chapel Hill High School. Terrence Foushee (TF): Yes. KW: What year did you graduate from Chapel Hill High? TF: 2005. KW: Okay. And what was your…

 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 his parents involvement in his education (clip)

Kathryn Wall: You had mentioned your parents and your brother. Was education something that, coming up, your family took very seriously? Terrence Foushee: Oh yes [laughter], definitely. So, my parents have never played about education and I think it’s funny that I say that because I consider myself…

 Terrence Foushee - On his parents (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): You mentioned your family being known in the community. Can you just back up and then tell us who your parents are and how long your family has been in this community? Terrence Foushee (TF): So my family has been here for a few generations. In the Foushee family, my dad, Stanley…

 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 his favorite teachers (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Did you, in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School System, have any teachers that really stand out to you? Terrence Foushee (TF): Yeah, so at the preschool level I loved my preschool teacher, her name is skipping me right now, but I just remember her being an incredibly nice teacher. One…

 Terrence Foushee - On his educational background (clip)

Terrence Foushee (TF): Alright so, first off I was educated here in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools starting at Frank Porter Graham for daycare and then transitioning to Sewell Elementary School for preschool through fifth grade. Actually through third grade, and I was part of the first class of…

 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 extracurricular activities (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Did you participate in any kind of extracurricular things in school? Terrence Foushee (TF): Yes, I played JV basketball my freshman year, I was terrible, but I was on the team so it was like one of those great moments, but I was also in a few clubs. I was in the Future Business…

 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 Durham Tech (clip)

Terrence Foushee: So, after doing two years of AmeriCorps, I came back, and I knew that I wanted to go back to school. So I would say probably within a month of me returning home I applied to Durham Tech, to transfer into Durham Tech. I think I came home in August, maybe it was the beginning of…

 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 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 Black women teachers (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Do you feel like the Black women teachers that you’ve mentioned that they were more inclined to have those relationships with your parents than some of your other teachers? Terrence Foushee: Oh yes. I think part of it – and I could be making this up it’s just a general…

 Terrence Foushee - On becoming a teacher (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): What kind of flipped that switch to make you say, “You know what, I think I’m gonna go back to school and become an English teacher.” Terrence Foushee (TF): [chuckles] A few, a few experiences. So the first experience was after I dropped out from college while I was trying to…

 Terrence Foushee - On AmeriCorps (clip)

Terrence Foushee (TF): So, after camp I applied to the Americorps program. Americorps in Triple C, the National Civilian Community Corps, which is the only team-based Americorps program, where for a year you serve in different cities, different towns across the country for about two months at a time…

Terrell’s Creek Missionary Baptist Church

Terrell’s Creek Missionary Baptist Church is located on Old Greensboro Road in Chapel Hill, NC.

 Terrance Foushee

 Ted Stone - On his childhood, values, and school integration

This interview is part of an oral history project called Southern Communities: Listening for a Change: Mighty Tigers--Oral HIstories of Chapel Hill's Lincoln High School. The interviewes were conducted from 2000-2001, by Bob Gilgor, with former teachers, staff, and students from Chapel Hill, N.C.'s…

Ted Stone

"If this [the freedom movement] is gonna work, somebody has to be the strong one, and it's gonna have to be you. ‘Cause we've struggled too hard to get you into this position and then, after listening to speeches from Dr. King about how to survive it without violence: I just sucked I up and kept…

Teachers, Artisans, and Entrepreneurs - Faith (Sen. Valerie Foushee)