In this episode of An Imperfect Leader: Leadership in (After) Action, my guest is the Superintendent from Ferguson-Florissant, Dr. Joe Davis. In our conversation, we talk about programming for #STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math). We talk about #faith. We talk about how leaders monitor progress, and make midcourse course corrections, when needed. You can’t talk with Joe Davis and not talk about his greatest passion – mathematics. Give a listen as he deconstructs a decision he made to train teachers to be the best #math teachers.
BIO: Dr. Joe Davis has been the Superintendent of the Ferguson-Florissant School District since 2015. He began his teaching career in North Carolina where he taught middle school and high school mathematics. Dr. Davis has been an assistant principal at both the middle school and high school levels and a principal at every level K-12. In 2012, Dr. Davis joined the Chicago Public Schools as Deputy Chief of Schools and then Superintendent of the Washington County Schools District until 2015.