Creating Cultures of Kindness: "B Inspired" Catches Up with BASH Grad John Owen Davis

The “B Inspired” podcast features fellow retired educator, BASH graduate, Class of ’87, John Owen Davis who looks forward to a new career where he’ll use the people skills he honed as band director intent on building within his classroom a culture of “unrelenting kindness” where his students knew that, above all, he wanted them to be good people.

John’s “been around” throughout his career—Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Florida, and Australia—and made some impressively decisive moves to avoid feeling suffocated by others’ expectations, to follow his heart as a gay man, or, more recently, to feel safe from Florida’s governor and unruly students.

While some decisions were questioned by family and friends, he regrets none. In sharing the motivations for his many moves, he reveals the bedrock of his character—uncommon confidence, the importance of family and a sense of community, and a selflessness that he took from the Boyertown community, his parents, and teachers.

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