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Missouri's youngest certified teacher & superintendent (> 1000), PBS American Graduate Champion & Workforce Development, BJC Guardian for Childhood & Wellness, social entrepreneur, consultant, inspiring internationally recognized education leader. EDUCATING, SPEAKING, CONSULTING, CREATING, LEADING
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Dr. Art McCoy created SAGES in 2006 to (s)ever (a)ttai
nment (g)aps (e)xisting in (s)ociety.
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He provides business, education, and community solutions across the nation. Over 100 Fortune Companies have invested more than $15 million to support Dr. McCoy's innovative initiatives:
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(1) Courageous conversations (workshops) and diversity, inclusion, and dismantling oppression programs;
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(2) Mental Health and Wellness with the support of BJC Hospitals, Mental Health America (MHA), Washington University, and others;
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(3) Workforce Development with the support of US Chamber, Missouri Chamber, Regional Business Council, Jobs for America's Graduates (JAG), and others;
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(4) Leadership (Diverse Business Leader Awardee 2016), SAGES, Education, Base 11, and more;
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(5) Poverty and Geophaphy Safety Nets with the support of IRP, the US Health and Human Services, and others.
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01/15/2024
We salute Rev. Dr. MLK Jr through service: Realizing the Dream.
To kick off the weekend, the King Family and Legacy+, which I am proud to serve as a national board director, and NFL announced a five-year commitment to Realizing the Dream (RTD), a platform created by Martin Luther King III, Arndrea Waters King and Yolanda Renee King that aims to unite more than 7 million young people, 200,000 educators, and millions of employees around the globe through a series of service initiatives focused on the tenets of social change and community impact. Over the next five years, the NFL and additional corporations will work with the King Family and Legacy+ to help fulfill Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s vision for an equitable and united America.
Realizing the Dream is a bold movement to rally communities to perform 100 million hours of service by the 100th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birt...
01/02/2024
It was an honor to be on Nine PBS and a privilege to spend time with the amazing Carol Daniel on the outstanding new .
Enjoy. Here’s to our best year yet. May 2024 will bring us more of all that we adore.
10/04/2023
Thank you for sharing with others in need of empowerment and engagement.
Local high school students were given a sneak peek at careers in healthcare and construction on Tuesday.
06/30/2023
Happy July 4th All!
On this episode of the World Game-Changers podcast, Paul and Rebecca are joined by Dr Art McCoy and Crystal Swanigan to explore the topic of foundational faith in the context of Blessed Beyond Belief and how important faith is in all its various guises and what it really means.
05/29/2023
After the massacres in and around Arkansas including Huntsville, my paternal 2x great grandfather, Samuel Roddy, enlisted, killed several Confederates, and was later placed on government grave fatigue duty of digging trenches and laying railroad tracks. This fatigue duty, for Blacks enlistees only, was harsher work and treatment than plantation slavery at the time in Arkansas, with little compensation, causing many workers to die.
While digging ditches in the deep parts of rural Arkansas, Samuel was later attacked by another more horrendous group than the Confederate Army, Bushwhackers. He evaded castration and decapitation, running for safety, on Sept. 28, 1864.
Fearing that he would be viewed as a spy of the Union Army after months of absence if he returned and abused or murdered as a Confederate POW (prisoner of war), Samuel was in a living HELL. After a few battles, near capture, and fleeing, he was one of 10,000 Arkansas soldiers who chose to go and stay in hiding, not returning until the war ended. Samuel returned for Union roll call (Company Muster Call) on August 10, 1865.
Dear Private Samuel Roddy of the Union United States Colored Troops 57th and USCI 112th & 113th, thank you for your tremendous sacrifice for freedom and for walking through the valley of the shadow of death, despite any fear or evil, experiencing a living hell before, during, and after the Great Rebellion for the sake of our freedom and country in ways that books have yet to record, fully.
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Always remember that Memorial Day was birthed by, with, and for the sacrifice of our people who fought with and for the integrity and preservation of freedom during the Civil War.
On May 5, 1868, the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a politically powerful organization of Union veterans led by Major General John A. Logan — issued General Orders No. 11 or the “Memorial Day Act.”
The Power of Hope is a new book by Economist Carol Graham, Ph.D., Interim Vice President of the University of Maryland, published by Princeton Press. This re...
05/02/2023
Power points from the Power of Hope. Check it out, just published by Princeton Press, April 27, 2023.
The Power of Hope is a new book by Economist Carol Graham, Ph.D., Interim Vice President of the University of Maryland, published by Princeton Press. This re...
05/01/2023
Our region and nation’s well-publicized challenges can be overshadowing at times. On the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic and multiple mass school shootings this school year, numerous su***de ideations, and mental health distress, our communities understand the intersectionality of these epidemics and our wellbeing. Health equity and mental health are at the heart of issues of ill-being.
Check out this article with vital takeaways from my presentations and work with the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Johns Hopkins University ALACRITY, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services summarize substantive insights and actions we must expand in our lives, homes, communities, and beyond.
Five bold actions can help us grow beyond the way things are into a future where wellbeing is commonplace.
Our region and nation’s well-publicized challenges can be overshadowing at times. Since 2017, firearm-related injuries have been the most common cause of death from injury among youth in America.
12/24/2022
From: Art McCoy, Ph.D.
To: My Facebook Network, Family, and Friends
This is my poem for each of you for all of 2023 starting this Dec. 25th, 2022:
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In each of his professional positions, he was either the first African-American, youngest or only person to hold each role.
As a trailblazer in education, Dr. McCoy is an example of excellence and someone who has severed achievement gaps STin the education of hundreds of thousands of students as well as in his own education.
Background and PK-12 Leadership
Art McCoy, Ph.D., is an inspiring champion for children and internationally recognized educator. He has served as a teacher, principal, gifted education program director, volunteer desegregation program and student services executive director, curriculum and instruction assistant superintendent, and superintendent of schools in suburban and urban schools and districts ranging from 5,000 to 23,000 students.
As an underrepresented youth, he defied all odds and became the youngest certified teacher in Missouri teaching high school mathematics in the Rockwood School District at age 19. He served as Grade Level Principal by age 22 and District Gifted Director at age 25 in Pattonville School District. After serving as an assistant superintendent, in December of 2010, he was named the youngest and first African-American superintendent of Ferguson-Florissant School District at age 33 and was a state and national leader for Harvard’s Pathways to Prosperity Initiative developing college and career pathways for secondary students. He has served on many state committees with the Department of Education as well as served as an education adviser to the House and Senate in Missouri, helping to write state laws for education equity. He has been President of SAGES, Superintendent-in-Residence of MIND Research Institute, and Chief Academic Officer of The Center for Innovations in Education DBA Base 11. He has supported over 1 million students and 2500 schools across America. In early 2016, Dr. McCoy became superintendent of schools (elect) for the Jennings School District. In 2017, Jennings was recognized for 100% graduation, career and college placement. In 2019, Jennings School District scored in the "accredited with distinction" range for the first time and was included among the highest performing in the state.
In 2006, Dr. McCoy founded SAGES, with the mission to Sever the Achievement Gap in the Education of Students and Sever Attainment Gaps Existing in Society. He has inspired scores of initiatives and served as an education leader and keynote speaker, nationwide. He authored "SAGES: Bridging Gaps of the Heart, Head, and Hand" and raised more than $20 million for students from grants and corporate donors to sustain and increase innovative initiatives. Dr. McCoy earned his doctorate of philosophy in education with an emphasis in education leadership and policy studies from the University of Missouri – St. Louis. In 2010, he became an alumnus of Harvard University’s Leadership Institute for Superintendents post-graduate program.
In 2012, he was a recipient of Community Development Block Grants Department of Economic Development Harvard's Pathways to Prosperity Innovative High Schools Grant. His district received $290,000 partnering with St. Louis Community College, Carpenters District Council of Greater Saint Louis and Vicinity and local businesses for students to earn college credit, career certifications, and gain hands-on experience in high-demand fields. Other economic development grants and curricular collaborations include over $200K from the Urban League, the Workforce Investment Act, and National Jobs for America’s Graduates Program for soft skills courses and employment of up to 1200 students annually and Federal Reserve Bank for economic literacy classes for students, parents, and educators, and St. Louis Community College.
Regional Workforce Development Leadership
As a workforce development expert, Dr. McCoy was a Breaking the Monopoly of Mediocrity Event Panelist for the Missouri Chamber of Commerce and Industry and U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute for a Competitive Workforce partnership in February 2013 for a Competitive Workforce in Jefferson City to discuss critical education reform issues. Dr. McCoy is the STL.Works Initiative Lead Educator, Key Spokesperson, and Emcee on August 6, 2019, in support of this major effort of the St. Louis Regional Business Council as a regional response to the growing workforce crisis.
Dr. McCoy led regional workforce development efforts with the Regional Business Council, as well as in Jennings School District, creating STEAM College and Career Prep Academies:
With $3 million from corporate funding and 100 partners from March 2016 to 2020, Dr. McCoy introduced in the St. Louis Metropolitan Area robust 1st to 12th-grade STEAM career pathways, with service-learning experiences, job shadowing experiences, paid and non-paid internships and apprenticeship opportunities and high-quality college and career counseling and courses up to 65 college credits on site.
Elementary students in as early as kindergarten receive enrichment and activities related to at least three career pathways: computer programming and coding, architectural building and design, health services and medicine, plus entrepreneurship and leadership.
Secondary level students receive classes for at least 7 industry-recognized certificate credentials (IRCs). Entrepreneurship programs occur at all levels—elementary, middle, and high school. See the recent KMOV Channel 4 News Story showcasing our students and a few partners in the STEAM Academy as well as one of our university partners (blog), UMSL, which showcase students working in the hard sciences in the lab as a part of our STEAM Initiative. National Awardee of NAF Model Academy.
Corporate donors and partners include AT&T, BJC, Boeing, Brown Smith Wallace, Centene, CVS, Clayco, Emerson, Express Scripts, Enterprise, IFAS, KPMG, MasterCard, McDonald’s, Regions Bank, Regional Business Council, Clayco, MTM, Monsanto/Bear, Microsoft, Niehaus, Schnucks, the Steward Family Foundation, PARIC, Target, Walgreens, UMSL, Lindenwood, World Wide Technology, Washington University, St. Louis College of Pharmacy, St. Louis University, St. Louis Community College, Lincoln University, Harris- Stowe State University, Ranken College, Georgia Institute of Technology, the Magic House, The Chess Club, the St. Louis County Police Department, the U.S.A. Boxing Commission and more under Dr. McCoy’s development of fundraising and friend-raising.
He is a NAF President's Awardee and St. Louis Executive Board Member, September 2018 onward
AT&T Believe Advisor of the philanthropy for the AT&T Missouri $1 Million to education from May 2019 onward
