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 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…

 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 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…

 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 - 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 M. Foushee

 Terrence M. Foushee - On education

“Servant leadership is, to me, learning who you are to find out what you can contribute to make your community better.” - Terrence M. Foushee Terrence Foushee is the Blue Ribbon Specialist for Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. During the interview, he reflects on his experiences navigating Chapel…

 Senator Valerie Foushee - On the influence of faith on her life and career (clip)

 Valerie Foushee - On attending segregated elementary schools (clip)

Valerie Foushee (VF): When I started elementary school I started at Northside, which has just been deconstructed. First grade at Northside, and when I went to Northside the district was preparing to close that facility and when I was there there was no cafeteria. And so for one whole year—now I…

 Valerie Foushee - On how the first students integrated Chapel Hill schools (clip)

TB: So when you went to Frank Porter Graham then, at that point was your decision to go there that at that point that it was the closest, and so it was this sort of idea of a neighborhood school— VF: It wasn’t a decision. TB: Ok, so they districted— VF: We were still segregated— TB: --still that…

 Valerie Foushee - On race relations after desegregation in junior high school (clip)

Tracey Barrett (TB) : Right. So you, I mean, you sound like you changed schools a lot, in terms of school buildings and I’m assuming also the students you were in school with changed a lot too, how did that affect the way you viewed school, or do you think that it affected your education as a…

 Valerie Foushee - On race relations at Chapel Hill High School (clip)

Valerie Foushee (VF): by the time we got through Phillips, my whole class, black and white, it was just a big friendship. We had come through a lot of those things that we went through when I was in seventh grade with boycotts at the high school that kind of like trickled down to the middle school,…

Valerie P. Foushee

 Valerie P. Foushee - Speaking about her family, career, and race

This interview is part of a project of biographical interviews, 1979-2012, with men and women in North Carolina who have made significant contributions to business, the arts, education, and politics. Topics discussed in Valerie P. Foushee's interview include : growing up in Chapel Hill, N.C.;…