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#11 | Project 2025, Donald Trump’s next term, and how it will affect your life as an educator - w/ Jason Biehl
Will the Department of Education really be dissolved with Donald Trump set to take office? It’s been a whirlwind of emotions and struggle for educators these past few years, between distance learning, deteriorating attention spans, Chat GPT, inflation, the politicization of every piece of curriculum… - am I missing anything? This episode is a reflection on the past election and upcoming presidency, with Jason Biehl - history teacher and antiracist educator. What is it all going to mean for your school? Your classroom? Your standing as a teacher/educator in America?
We cover:
Why embracing discomfort is vital to the education of our students and the effectiveness of our teachers
How is Project 2025 going to affect your life as a teacher? And how education is the practice of freedom.
Acts of kindness, belonging, and activism we’re seeing from students that can provide teachers with hope in these difficult times
(0:00) Class in session
(2:00) Some unfiltered grappling with the upcoming Trump presidency - in particular the censoring of education
(11:00) Jason introduces himself
(17:00) Reflecting on our “teaching personas” or “teacher masks”
(21:00) “Being present” with students is more difficult and more complicated than it sounds
(25:00) The financial challenges of being a teacher
(29:30) Project 2025, the Department of Education, and the censorship of curriculum
(34:00) Anything to keep you optimistic about public schools? And helping students feel seen - through a sense of belonging or a sense of purpose via social justice organizing
(43:00) Building a bigger coalition across differences to fight the elite and put the interests of educators and students first
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Connect with Jason Biehl:
changethenarrative.me
www.educatorsforracialjustice.com
Look out for his upcoming book, “Unicorns: A Graphic Memoir for Young White Men”
Join our Skool Community: https://www.skool.com/efc-young-mens-advocates-2345
Email us questions and comments at [email protected]
Create your own mask anonymously at https://millionmask.org/
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Connect with Ashanti Branch:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/branchspeaks/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BranchSpeaks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BranchSpeaks
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashantibranch/
Website: https://www.branchspeaks.com/
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Support the podcast and the work of the Ever Forward Club: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/branch-speaks/support
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Connect with Ever Forward Club:
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everforwardclub
Twitter: https://twitter.com/everforwardclub
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ever-forward-club/
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Will the Department of Education really be dissolved with Donald Trump set to take office? It’s been a whirlwind of emotions and struggle for educators these past few years, between distance learning, deteriorating attention spans, Chat GPT, inflation, the politicization of every piece of curriculum… - am I missing anything? This episode is a reflection on the past election and upcoming presidency, with Jason Biehl - history teacher and antiracist educator. What is it all going to mean for your school? Your classroom? Your standing as a teacher/educator in America?
We cover:
Why embracing discomfort is vital to the education of our students and the effectiveness of our teachers
How is Project 2025 going to affect your life as a teacher? And how education is the practice of freedom.
Acts of kindness, belonging, and activism we’re seeing from students that can provide teachers with hope in these difficult times
(0:00) Class in session
(2:00) Some unfiltered grappling with the upcoming Trump presidency - in particular the censoring of education
(11:00) Jason introduces himself
(17:00) Reflecting on our “teaching personas” or “teacher masks”
(21:00) “Being present” with students is more difficult and more complicated than it sounds
(25:00) The financial challenges of being a teacher
(29:30) Project 2025, the Department of Education, and the censorship of curriculum
(34:00) Anything to keep you optimistic about public schools? And helping students feel seen - through a sense of belonging or a sense of purpose via social justice organizing
(43:00) Building a bigger coalition across differences to fight the elite and put the interests of educators and students first
---
Connect with Jason Biehl:
changethenarrative.me
www.educatorsforracialjustice.com
Look out for his upcoming book, “Unicorns: A Graphic Memoir for Young White Men”
Join our Skool Community: https://www.skool.com/efc-young-mens-advocates-2345
Email us questions and comments at [email protected]
Create your own mask anonymously at https://millionmask.org/
---
Connect with Ashanti Branch:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/branchspeaks/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BranchSpeaks
Twitter: https://twitter.com/BranchSpeaks
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashantibranch/
Website: https://www.branchspeaks.com/
---
Support the podcast and the work of the Ever Forward Club: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/branch-speaks/support
---
Connect with Ever Forward Club:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/everforwardclub
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/everforwardclub
Twitter: https://twitter.com/everforwardclub
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-ever-forward-club/
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