Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™: How to Build and Sustain Communities, Episode 4, Part 1

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Teaching and Learning Across Cultural Differences, Carol Schumer, Parent Specialist
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Contact and Bio
Email: cschumerdc@mindspring.com
Website: www.fatherssupportcenter.org
Twitter: @fatherssupport
Facebook: Fathers Support Center
LinkedIn: Fathers Support Center

​Carol Schumer, D.C., is an educator by profession and a certified facilitator of the Strengthening Families Parent-Training Program.   Holding a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a master’s in administration, she has over 30 years experience working with youth.    Since 1997, she has conducted parenting programs throughout the St. Louis metropolitan area.   Currently, she ministers at Fathers & Families Support Center, St. Louis and does spiritual formation with the Ladies of Charity of the St. Louis archdiocese.   A 1965 graduate of St. Vincent’s High School, Perryville, MO, she celebrated  54 years as a Daughter of Charity this summer.    She is the daughter of Norbert and Alma Unverferth Schumer and has a large extended family with 8 married siblings, 26 nieces and nephews and 56 greats.

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Episode 4, Part 1: Carol Schumer, Parenting Specialist, Fathers and Families Support Center

• Introduction to Podcast, Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™: How to Build and Sustain Communities
• Carol introduces the core problem for men FFSC learned early – fathers feel left out of the family picture: welfare, court, and societal systems emphasize financial support over emotional support
• Carol explains the holistic approach FFSC uses to address the full range of family needs - health, nutrition, employment, legal issues, counseling, social workers
• Carol explains her background as a principal and educator and the role she plays with the men as a parenting specialist
• Carol explains how she builds rapport as a white female working with mostly black men
• Carol explains how she uses stories and cartoons to teach men about parenting and the different kinds of parenting youth often receive from dads and moms, which can be provided in any household or any family
• Sarah and Carol share the importance to children of play in learning and connecting with loved ones
• Carol explains how welfare historically has worked against families, isolating men from families and discussion about the many layers of ramifications that has for each member of a family – what gets internalized and passed down across generations that came from a broken societal system
• Carol explains the hand up FFSC provides men and families instead of handouts and how programs are facilitated by male graduates who can say they’ve been there and come through

Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™: How to Build and Sustain Communities
Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum™ methods this podcast features

• Bridge-building communication
  • Being real, transparent, aware of differences in our backgrounds
• Classroom infrastructures
  • Creating room for collaborative learning and mentorship
  • Everyone is an expert and a teacher
  • Everyone is a learner
• Building emotional intelligence
  • Using play as a central facet of learning that is both academic, social and emotional 
  • Using the power of stories to make real-world connections to content 
  • Experiential learning that transforms us and builds our internal sense of confidence and competence
  • Rooting instruction in the local histories and systems that continue to impact our families