{"id":529,"date":"2015-04-20T11:50:56","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T11:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/welfare.cmsmasters.net\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2019-12-18T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T17:40:07","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcuslmatthews.com\/?page_id=529","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marcus L Matthews<\/h2>\n<\/div>
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\"\"<\/a>Dr. M. L. Matthews<\/strong>\u00a0is an author, producer, and doctor of education. He overcame a tumultuous childhood in Memphis to thrive in the\u00a0Lionel Linder Journalism Camp, a high school outreach program that turned his life around. Cosponsored, among others, by the University of Memphis and Memphis City Schools, he received one of only two college journalism scholarships offered by the program and began his studies at Memphis.<\/p>\n

As an undergraduate, Matthews worked as a reporter and editor for his campus newspaper and interned for the\u00a0Birmingham Post-Herald<\/em>, the Associated Press,\u00a0The Commercial Appeal<\/em>, and the NBA\u2019s Memphis Grizzlies.He earned his bachelor\u2019s degree in journalism in 2003 and taught English, speech, contemporary issues, and African-American Literature in Memphis City Schools before receiving a master\u2019s in the art of teaching from Memphis in 2007.<\/p>\n

Ten years later, he received his doctorate in higher and adult education at Memphis, where he\u00a0coordinated the program that helped send him through college.\u00a0Matthews has also served as a literacy specialist and a behavior analyst for the Achievement School District, a state-run school district serving Tennessee\u2019s lowest performing schools. Matthews also served as a behavior specialist, instructional facilitator, and dean of students for Shelby County Schools. As a dean in a Memphis middle school, Matthews led the Response to Instruction and Intervention \u2013 Behavior (RTI2-B) Team that facilitated a 26-percent reduction in out-of-school suspensions in one school year.<\/p>\n

Today, Matthews is a school leader in Memphis and the executive director of the Matthews-Fayne Foundation, a nonprofit group that supports education initiatives for urban youth.The foundation focuses on supporting students with adverse childhood experiences, promoting access and retention in higher education for minority, underprivileged, and at-risk students, and building partnerships between corporations and educational institutions.<\/p>\n

His first book,\u00a0I Am Not the Father: Narratives of Men Falsely Accused of Paternity<\/em>, and the namesake documentary that aired on cable television were featured on the\u00a0Maury Show<\/em>\u00a0in 2012. His children\u2019s book,\u00a0Runners<\/em>, was released in 2011.<\/p>\n

As a researcher, Matthews has researched access and retention in higher education for underrepresented populations, Educational Equity, and Implicit Bias. His interests also include, lowering out-of-school suspension rates for black males, curbing chronic high school absenteeism, and teaching children traumatized by adverse childhood experiences.<\/p>\n

In terms of training, Matthews has trainer of trainers experience in the areas of Socioemotional Learning and Educational Equity and Implicit Bias. He also has been trained in Kingian Nonviolent Conflict Resolution and Restorative Justice.<\/p>\n

His third book, “Urban ACEs: How to Reach and Teach Students Traumatized by Adverse Childhood Experiences” serves as a guidebook for educators and parents who are supporting traumatized students and is scheduled to be released December 2019.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-529","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcuslmatthews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcuslmatthews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcuslmatthews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcuslmatthews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcuslmatthews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/marcuslmatthews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15398,"href":"https:\/\/marcuslmatthews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions\/15398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcuslmatthews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}