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Welcome to Jerry's podcasts, a series of true stories from his life. These events and interactions offer glimpses into one man's quest to understand life's truths. They provide peeks into the development of American culture from the mid 1940's to the present. Having attended eight different public schools, lived in nine states, been in the army, held multiple work positions and obtained a doctorate in school psychology, he has found his way of living in the world.
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Podcast 89, "Learning the Culture," provides examples of the importance of valuing the uniqueness of every subculture we encounter. In the case of the sub-cultural issues within the educational cooperative's school systems, it was critically important that I and the graduate assistants understand and honor their sub-cultural processes in accomplish…
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Podcast 88, "Humor in the Stress," relates the high degree of stress the providers of the psychological services encountered due to the lack of understanding of the new 1973 special education law. This lack of preparedness to implement the law produced a great deal of misunderstanding and fear in the minds of many educators. The educational coopera…
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Podcast 87, "Startling Revelations," reveals some of the things I learned about the cooperative after my employment began in July 1973. I was surprised by the reactions of a school system's staff members when I made my first in-service presentation concerning the implementation of the new special education law. There were funding issues in the begi…
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Podcast 86, "Getting Started," finds me reviewing my past experiences that had prepared me for my role of creating and implementing the psychological services delivery model for the cooperative's member school systems. This entailed delivering the bulk of the services through the use of senior doctorial level graduate students in school psychology …
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Welcome to season three of the podcast series, "Finding My Way," by Jerry Morton. Season three begins with several stories about my early years with the Little Tennessee Valley Educational Cooperative. Podcast 83, "Finding Employment After Graduation," relates my search for employment in anticipation of completing the training as a Ph.D. school psy…
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Podcast 73, "A Lot Going On," is an account from the 1970-1971 school year. It was my second year of working as a school psychologist in St. Petersburg, Florida's inner city schools and their second year of school integration. I was very busy testing children; assisting teachers to improve their classroom management skills, implementing new strateg…
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Podcast 72, "Neither Did I," is an account from the 1979-1971 school year in St. Petersburg, Florida, in which my interventions appeared to fail to produce the desired results. This was my second year of being a school psychologist. It was also the second year of the school system's integration plan. This year, black and white children were to atte…
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Podcast 71, "Struggling to Understand" is an account of encountering an unusual attempt by my school system to integrate one of my formally all black elementary schools during its second year of integration. The 1970-1971 school year found the elementary school mixing black and white children together for the first time. There were problems.…
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Podcast 70, "More of the Unexpected," is an account of several more unexpected challenges before me during the second year of being a school psychologist in seven inner city schools in St. Petersburg, Florida, during the 1970-1971 school year. This was the first year that the school system began bringing white children into the formally all black s…
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Podcast 69, "The Unexpected," is an account of being confronted with an unexpected situation I encountered in my second year, the 1970-1971 school year, as a school psychologist in the inner city schools of St. Petersburg, Florida. My seven schools had white teachers and other white professionals, such as myself, working in them for the first time …
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Podcast 68, "Year Two," is an account of my work as a school psychologist during the 1970-1971 school year in St. Petersburg, Florida. This was my second year in the school system and the second year of integration for my seven previously all black inner city schools. The first year of integration had white professionals going into the all black sc…
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Podcast 66, "Seven Schools," is an account of my first year as a school psychologists serving seven all black schools in the inner city of St. Petersburg, Florida which were being integrated for the first time. In June 1969, I left the army searching for a job. Not until that August day, the day before I began work, was I made aware of my assigned …
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Podcast 62, Searching for a New Life, is an account of the options I encountered as I prepared to become a civilian in the spring of 1969. My active duty army obligation would end in June. Since leaving graduate school in August, 1966, my life experiences had caused me to want to explore the opportunities that might be available for me in the civil…
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Podcast 61, Introduction, is the actual introduction to the Reluctant Lieutenant book. It was written by G. Kurt Piehler, a military historian. Dr. Piehler provides an excellent review of the historical development of the military draft system into the Vietnam era as well as important demographics concerning the Vietnam draftees. At the end, he rai…
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Podcast 54, Second Lieutenant Ken Strauss, is an account of Jerry's platoon in infantry OS getting a new tactical training officer (TAC) in the spring of 1967. The TAC quickly earns his respect as Jerry tries to fulfill new tasks assigned to him including being an instructor, writing a poem and filling the role of acting platoon leader.…
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Soldier Skills, part one of two parts, is an account of the army's teaching Jerry the skills required of a soldier during the eight weeks of basic training in the fall of 1966 at Ft. Dix, New Jersey. Those skills included hand-to-hand fighting and bayonet training. Jerry's frustrations produced unique behaviors.…
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