See the full-length, unedited video recording of our podcast episode with Mr. Pelzer.
What’s inside: In this episode, we chat with Hilderbrand Pelzer III, an award winning teacher and school leader with three decades of experience in urban education. He is author of the book Unlocking Potential: Organizing a School Inside a Prison and a speaker whose TEDx talk “What Incarcerated Youth Can Teach Teachers” addresses issues related to reading instruction, educational equity, and illiteracy in the juvenile justice system.
In this episode, we chat with Mr. Pelzer about his work in the juvenile justice system and how it informed his understanding about how important high-quality instruction is in the early grades and how schools can support their teachers (through training and systems) to provide it.