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#68 - Boosting STEM Outcomes for Students of Color w/ Caia Brown
Science! Technology! Engineering! Math! “STEM” has been all the rage in education over the last several years as schools look to prepare students for…
5 years, 1 month ago
Ethnic Studies in CA Schools, At Long Last - Passing Period #33
This Week: After 4 years of work, hundreds of thousands of public comments, and a late rush of right-wing pushback, the CA State Board of Education a…
5 years, 2 months ago
#67 - Teaching Elementary Amid Pandemic and Reopening Politics w/ Meghann Seril
This year of pandemic pedagogy has been tough on students of all ages, most notably those in the early grades. As the debate over school “reopening” …
5 years, 2 months ago
To Integrate, or Not to Integrate - Passing Period #32
This Week: Under the radar congress removed the last barrier for school districts to use federal funds on transportation services for integrating sch…
5 years, 2 months ago
#66 - Black Families and the School System w/ Tonikiaa Orange and Tunette Powell
The relationship between the public school system and Black families has a long, tenuous history. After decades of marginalization and miseducation, …
5 years, 2 months ago
The N Word Means What?!?!?! - Passing Period #31
This Week: Tik Tok strikes again, as an AP US History teacher in Florida is caught on video white washing the behavior of slave owners to a black st…
5 years, 3 months ago
#65 - Building a Revolutionary School Culture w/ Amen Rahh
How can school leaders build and sustain an effective, humanizing, and empowered school culture on their campus? To help answer this question, we tak…
5 years, 3 months ago
Black History Month Insanity, Again - Passing Period #30
This Week: It’s the first week of Black History Month, in the first celebration of this month post the racial reckoning of 2020. So you’d think we’d …
5 years, 3 months ago
#64 - Education Policy, Re-openings, & Segregation w/ Robert Cotto, Jr
With new leadership at the Department of Education and an increasingly heated national debate over opening schools for in-person learning, what shoul…
5 years, 3 months ago
Dreaming Big: School in the Spring and Summer of 2021 - Passing Period #29
This Week: Amidst the talk of “learning loss” and “COVID slide” plans are being made for what school should look like as we (hopefully) prepare for s…
5 years, 4 months ago