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Imagining What’s Possible as a New Year Begins - Passing Period #18
This week: As schools in Los Angeles are set to begin the year remotely next week, Manuel and Jeff discuss their vision for what we could do better i…
5 years, 9 months ago
#53 - Asian Americans, Education, and the Fight for Justice w/ Dr. Hsieh
The academic success of Asian American students is often propped up as proof that it only takes hard work and dedication to be successful in America …
5 years, 9 months ago
The Racial Divide: To Reopen, or Not to Reopen? - Passing Period #17
This week: As the start of the school year draws closer, state and district policies begin falling into place regarding school reopening. But recent…
5 years, 9 months ago
#52 - Anti-Racist Schooling in Minneapolis
All eyes were on Minneapolis when this summer began. What was it like to teach in the epicenter of this summer’s uprising for racial justice? And wit…
5 years, 9 months ago
The Day the Schools All Closed… Again - Passing Period #16
This week: After months of marching towards a hybrid reopening model, Los Angeles and San Diego began the wave of school districts in California, and…
5 years, 10 months ago
#51 - Too Dope Teachers and the Fight for Educational Justice
The hosts of the Too Dope Teachers and a Mic podcast join us for a super-dope conversation about the ongoing fight for justice in education! Kevin Ad…
5 years, 10 months ago
Teachers, Textbooks, and Race - Passing Period #15
This week: an EdWeek blog gins up controversy citing survey data showing “most” educators think the textbooks in America’s schools adequately address…
5 years, 10 months ago
THAT was a wild school year...now what?? Reflecting on this moment in education w/ Geneviève DeBose, Chavonne Taylor, and Alyssa Solis - S3E24
It’s our 50th full episode, and what a time to be an educator! Pandemic teaching, looming budget cuts, and calls for dismantling white supremacy and …
5 years, 10 months ago
What a week! LGBTQ+ rights, DACA ruling, reopening school, and district statements on BLM
This week: the Gorsuch - Kavanaugh Supreme Court hands down two (gasp!) rulings that are NOT evil in one week that have implications on education. Wh…
5 years, 11 months ago
S3E23 - We feel therefore we learn: The neuroscience of learning w/Dr. Immordino-Yang
We nerd out in this episode as we explore the latest developments in neuroscience and what they say about how our students’ social worlds influence a…
5 years, 11 months ago