Reach - Then Teach

By: Derrick Brown
  • Summary

  • "Reach - Then Teach" offers host Derrick Brown's wisdom earned through life lessons learned about mentoring, mediation, and problem solving. The show uses "standup storytelling" (commentary, teaching, spoken word (poetry), rap, and song) to deliver compelling, thematic, personal narratives about love, change, equality, power, (self-)control, and purpose. Popular segments include "Dear Hannah (Letters To My Daughter)", "Fight The Good Fight", "LEarning", and "The BIG Picture." Visit reachthenteach.com to join our mailing list and sponsor our work!
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Episodes
  • Dear Hannah: LEarning (A Tribute to Lemon Street's Lewis C. Scott (2-10-2022))
    Feb 6 2025

    (Marietta, GA) Lemon Street High School's Mr. Lewis Clyde Scott taught many students ... several of whom became teachers. He has transferred his wealth (his knowledge) in ways that have personally inspired me ... without my ever having met him. I have met many of his students. Their lives and stories have told me the kind of teacher and influence he is. On 2-10-2022, I presented some of them to the public ... and they will present Mr. Scott to you from their experiences.

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    35 mins
  • Dear Hannah: LEarning (TheSeeSayShow - Hugh Grogan)
    Feb 5 2025

    The "SeeSayShow" is a short "class monologue" that shares stories powered by "real-world" LEarning. I teach my classes in a building that used to be an annex to the former segregated high school for Cobb County Blacks. Today's episode shares a story about the first Black city councilman in our city (a graduate of the segregated high school), and how a lawsuit helped to facilitate his election. I am using a "quiz bowl" gameshow shtick to engage the students.

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    20 mins
  • Dear Hannah: Fight The Good Fight (Truth, Grace & The School Board Race)
    Feb 4 2025

    Dear Hannah - Truth without grace is mean. Grace without truth is meaningless. Purpose describes what we want & need to do. Ambition describes who & what we want to be. Purpose is more important than ambition. However, humans are imperfect, conflicting blends of purpose and ambition. Who & what we think we are - and who & what we want to be - sometimes hinders what we want & need to do. Our litany of global issues must be addressed locally and long-term with creativity, strategy, synergy, and power. Power is the ability to produce efficient work - through wise and skillful use of resources, interests, communication, and expertise. Ladies and gentlemen, the easiest way to see whether I am being led by purpose or ambition is to review my work. I have to check my outputs and inputs - my achievements and activities - and my processes. See, I cannot mistake activity for achievement ...

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    47 mins

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