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Finding My Way: A Memoir by Jerry Morton

Mar 28, 2019

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...


Mar 10, 2019

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...


Mar 10, 2019

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...