In this week’s episode host Tashieanna O’Connor sat down with Ishmael Jackson, a former Teacher’s Assistant from the Bronx in New York who now works in a correctional facility for juvenile offenders in Michigan.

Ishmael’s experience in under resourced special needs classes in the Bronx contrast quite a lot with his experiences since getting to Michigan where even schools have more resources, and young offenders can get their education while in prison.

He also has fascinating perspectives on how children fall into the correctional system, and how to keep them out so tune in for this fascinating and enlightening conversation.

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On this week’s episode of “Childcare Challenges: Dilemmas in Daycare” your host Tashieanna was joined by 3 dynamic guests.

Tina Butz, Denise Cressman and Ethel Bergen are long time carers from Pennsylvania who have seen massive changes in the field.

Starting out in the 90s and going through funding cuts, economic downturns, covid and increased administrative burdens and the consequences of these on the children in their care they have valuable perspectives on insights on how the child care business needs to be changed and treated to get new people and keep quality carers who leave due to the bad conditions.

So listen in, and see their perspective.

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On this week’s episode of “Childcare Challenges: Dilemmas in Daycare” your host Tashieanna sat down on a call with Alan Troy, a former education worker who left the field in 2020.

Alan was a school aid worker who started out in the lunch room and moved on to other roles, many not strictly part of his job, and Alan’s perspective of the education field, and what drove him out are very valuable.

His experiences being overworked due to lack of budget and training for new staff, what it takes to keep kids fed and working as an assistant during Covid lockdowns give him a unique insight and perspective.

So tune in an get a different view of education and how to keep good people.

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