Fitness &Literacy Intervention: Recent Episodes
Marissa Casey
This podcast revolves around the important work of senior Tenacity members. It highlights their leadership and their approaches to running successful programming.
In this episode I interview Jemima. Jemima is a powerhouse at Tenacity. She is the Site Director and Academic Coordinator at the McCormack Middle School where she creates learning opportunities for students to discuss topics like intersectionality and identity. I reached out to Jemima with the same 5 questions to help us consider how Tenacity's fitness and literacy components work at their site. She talks about MCAS math scores, building confidence, community, poetry, her strategies for building life skills and creating lesson content, and so much more.
In this episode I chat with the amazing My. She's an experienced/seasoned coordinator at Tenacity and is the Family Engagement Coordinator at the McCormack Middle School. She has so much to say about working with students and the role we all play in their lives. I asked her 5 questions to understand her take on Tenacity's fitness and literacy component and the crucial role of family engagement within Tenacity's model. We talk confidence, self-esteem, community, healthy conversations on identity and so much more.
In this episode I talk with Drew. He was the Tennis and Fitness Director at Tenacity. We reached out to Drew because we admired his wealth of experience in making Tennis so fun for the students. We talk about ways he uses Tennis as a vehicle for building confidence and identity, how he teaches kids how to fail, how to build community, and possibly writing his own book on his fitness philosophy! Listen to hear so much more from Drew.