The Way Forward with Dr. Curtis Lewis

The BMEA Podcast is back  to announce the 2023 Educators' Gala Awards Winners! A huge thank you goes out to the BMEA Community for their engagement and nominations of great people all over the region and country making tremendous impacts in the lives of students and their communities! ⁠ On tonight's episode, Dr. Curtis Lewis and Mr. Michael Payne will be joined by a dynamic community cha...

The BMEA Podcast is back  with another dynamic conversation! We are joined by a friend of the show, Principal Wellness Fellow and school leader, Mr. Anton Horton, to reflect on his year as a school leader and dive into a number of topics currently impacting our people on a national level!⁠ ⁠ Mr. Horton shares his vision of transformational leadership and gives some critical insights to how we can...

On this new episode of The BMEA Podcast we kick off SEASON 5 of the show!  We will be joined by Mr. Tyree Williams of Pillar + Pride, a family-owned health and wellness destination located in the city of Detroit! Learn about the impact Pillar and Pride is having in the community, what made Tyree take his own health and wellness more seriously, and hear the guys brainstorm ways to increase communit...

After two weeks of traveling with our Principal Wellness PLC and Teacher Wellness PLC, hosts, Dr. Curtis Lewis and Mr. Michael Payne, are back to reflect on the experiences of both trips to educational conferences as a cohort. Tonight, you will get to hear firsthand from members of both cohorts about their experience thus far in the Fellowships and hear their reflections on attending AERA 2023 in...

TONIGHT on The BMEA Podcast, we will be highlighting a truly dynamic Black Male Educator impacting lives in Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. James Clark! This is the first of many Black Male Educator spotlights for BMEA as we look to recognize and showcase Black Male educators around the country changing lives as educators! We believe that by exposing the passion, origin stories, and difference-making of edu...

The BMEA Podcast is back TO discuss the Michigan Reading Crisis and Michigan's Read by Grade Three Legislation. ⁠ ⁠ Our hosts, Dr. Curtis Lewis and Mr. Michael Payne are joined by Ms. Jametta Lilly, CEO of Detroit Parent Network, and Dr. Erica Robertson, CEO of Little Black Girl Adventures Publishing House⁠! These two dynamic women are working daily to support reading skill development and ac...

TONIGHT, The BMEA Podcast is back with another dynamic conversation with a change-maker in Detroit! We are pleased to be joined by Mr. Jerjuan Howard, Executive Director of the Umoja Debate Team!⁠ ⁠ Beyond being Executive Director of the Umoja Debate Team, Jerjuan is a community activist, leader, and exemplifies #DoingTheWork . This is a conversation you definitely want to tune into and share with...

On today's episode, we are joined by BMEA Board Member, Attorney Marcia Spivey! During the conversation, we hear about Attorney Spivey's commitment to education in her beloved hometown of Detroit, MI, and how she uses her position as an attorney to be what she describes as a "Social Engineer", leveraging resources and relationships to connect at-risk youth to programs fit for t...

We are back with a new episode of The BMEA Podcast: Lifting Our Voices! Recently on the show, we have been discussing the mindset of our youth when they leave the K12 school system. As we know, once those students leave the school system, they enter “the real world” and are considered adults. In tonight’s episode, hosts, Dr. Curtis Lewis and Mr. Michael Payne are joined by four former students to...

We are back with a new episode of The BMEA Podcast: Lifting Our Voices! In tonight's episode, hosts Dr. Curtis Lewis, Founder and CEO of BMEA, and Michael Payne, Co-Founder and Director of Membership and Community Engagement are back together to discuss the history of "Thanksgiving" in our country. They will also share the impact of standardized tests on our students, and ways we mi...

We are back with a new episode of The BMEA Podcast: Lifting Our Voices! In 2008, our founder Dr. Lewis created and successfully implemented a mentoring program for young males of color as part of a research grant, in partnership with Michigan State University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Lansing Public Schools. BMEA’s K-12 Intergenerational Male Mentoring Program is modele...

We are back with a new episode of The BMEA Podcast: Lifting Our Voices! On tonight's episode, "A Soulless Community", hosts Dr. Curtis Lewis and Mr. Michael Payne Jr. are joined by Dr. Karlin Tichenor to discuss recent violent tragedies that have rocked our communities. The gentlemen ask each other challenging questions as we seek to identify the root causes of the issues and what c...

Welcome back to Lifting Our Voices! In today's episode, hosts Dr. Curtis Lewis, Founder and CEO of BMEA, and Micael Payne, Co-Founder and Director of Membership and Community Engagement of BMEA are joined by BMEA Principal Wellness Fellow, Mr. Anton Horton to discuss Educator Wellness! Also on tonight's show, the fellas talk about a white professor at TSU insulting a student out of frust...

Welcome back to Lifting Our Voices! In today's episode, hosts Dr. Curtis Lewis, Founder and CEO of BMEA, and Micael Payne, Co-Founder and Director of Membership and Community Engagement of BMEA, discuss concepts from Dr. Joy Degruy’s phenomenal book “Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome”.  The fellas will discuss how they see the impacts of America’s history of generational oppression still existing...

Welcome back to Season FOUR of Lifting Our Voices: The BMEA Podcast! In this episode, host Mike Payne is joined by BMEA's Director of Mentoring, Joe Bush.  The two gentlemen discuss The BMEA Male Mentoring Program which launched at 2 local middle schools this week!⁠ We also sit down with Mr. Mario Lemons, Head of School at Detroit Achievement Academy - on of our partner schools for Mentoring,...

Welcome back to Season FOUR of Lifting Our Voices: The BMEA Podcast! We are finally back in person! In today's episode, hosts Dr. Curtis Lewis, Founder and CEO of BMEA, and Micael Payne, Co-Founder and Director of Membership and Community Engagement of BMEA, discuss specific actions and tips parents AND teachers should take to start this school year off on the best note! We also get an update...