Joe Bishop takes a closer look at Integrated Schools and Communities with educators and scholars Dr. Jennifer B. Ayscue and Dr. Erica Frankenberg. 

With segregation on the rise in the United States, Southern natives Jennifer and Erica compare the history of desegregation with the inequities between schools with segregated student bodies today. Their experiences of growing up in the South led them to research how they can change the current conditions and promote integrated schools.

Why is integration important for all American students? What sorts of policies can facilitate greater integration in schools? Find out on this episode of Our Children Can’t Wait.

Special Guest: Jennifer B. Ayscue, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development at North Carolina State University. Her research focuses on desegregation and integration in K-12 schools and federal education policy. 

Erica Frankenberg, Ed.D., is Professor of Education and Demography and Director of the Center for Education and Civil Rights at Pennsylvania State University. Her research interests focus on racial desegregation and inequality in PK-12 schools, and the connections between school segregation and other federal, state, and metropolitan policies. 

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is the Creative Director, and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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Joe Bishop investigates Environmental Hazards and Education Policy with educators and researchers Dr. Sara Grineski and Dr. Timothy Collins.

Combining their expertise in Sociology and Geography with Environmental and Sustainability Studies, Sara and Timothy have become an unstoppable team investigating how the locations of schools impact students' health and their ability to learn and are often exemplary of environmental racism.

What can we do to adopt policies to prevent pollutants from harming more generations of our kids, especially children of color? Find out on this episode of Our Children Can’t Wait.

Special Guest: Sara Grineski, Ph.D., is a Professor in the Department of Sociology and the Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program at the University of Utah. She co-directs the Center for Natural & Technological Hazards and serves as the Director of Undergraduate Studies in Sociology. Her research focuses on environmental justice and children’s health and development. 

Timothy Collins, PhD, is a Professor in the Department of Geography and the Environmental & Sustainability Studies Program at the University of Utah, where he co-directs the Center for Natural & Technological Hazards. His research focuses on environmental justice, health disparities, and social vulnerability to environmental hazards and disasters. 

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is the Creative Director, and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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Joe Bishop addresses school health with experts Alex Mays and Rochelle Davis. 

As parents and a part of the Healthy Schools Campaign, Rochelle and Alex share how they became passionate for school health. From pesticides to sports to chronic health issues, they look at how such factors directly impact students’ ability to learn.

How do we define school health? What is the role of policy when it comes to school health? Find out on this episode of Our Children Can’t Wait.

Special Guest: Rochelle Davis is the Founder of the Healthy Schools Campaign and served as its President and CEO for over 20 years. Rochelle has extensive knowledge and experience in developing cross-sector partnerships to address system level change to support healthy schools, as well as policy development and advocacy at the local, state and federal levels. 

Alex Mays was most recently the Senior National Program Director at the Healthy Schools Campaign. Her work focuses on changing policies and systems at the local, state and federal levels to advance school health and wellness. Her recent efforts include working with states and school districts across the country to strengthen their school Medicaid programs and building partnerships between school districts and health care systems to meet student health needs

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is the Creative Director, and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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Joe Bishop examines dismantling systemic racism with educator and researcher Dr. Tyrone Howard.

Rooted in his lived experiences, Dr. Howard reflects on the inequities embedded in predominantly Black communities and schools. He was taught that education was the path to transformation for himself, his community, and the country, which has informed his life work as an educator. His philosophy is that schools are where young people learn how to be citizens and have a direct impact on our society as a whole. 

What is the role of education policies in structural racism? Why do we continue to punish the most marginalized students? How can we support teachers? Find out on this episode of Our Children Can’t Wait.

Special Guest: Tyrone Howard, Ph.D. is the Pritzker Family Endowed Chair and Professor of Education in the School of Education & Information Studies at UCLA. He is currently serving as President of the American Educational Research Association for 2023. His research focuses on educational equity and access for students in urban schools. 

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is the Creative Director, and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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Joe Bishop continues his conversation around whole child education with educator, leader, and scholar Channa Mae Cook, Ph.D.

Channa’s real life experiences span states and various roles in education. She offers stories of teaching in California to opening a school in New Orleans, right after Hurricane Katrina, and how in both instances the infrastructure and systems failed the students, despite educators' efforts. Those experiences propelled Channa to focus on researching how learning happens to attend to the needs of the whole child.

How do test scores currently affect the running of a school? How can we move away from the factory model of schooling? Find out on this episode of Our Children Can’t Wait.

Special Guest: Channa Mae Cook, Ph.D., is the executive director of District & School Support at Sacramento County Office of Education. Her background spans teaching and leading in both small charter schools and large districts as well as conducting research on science of learning and development, whole child practice and policy, and deeper learning. 

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is the Creative Director, and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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Joe Bishop discusses whole child education with education scholar Dr. Linda Darling-Hammond.

Early in Dr. Darling-Hammond’s career, she taught at “big urban factory model high schools” and found that schools themselves are not designed for students to be successful. This set her on a path to work with educators and policymakers to redesign schools that empower students.

What is the science of learning? What are the pathways to stronger academic learning? How are schools being redesigned? Find out on this episode of Our Children Can’t Wait.

Special Guest: Dr. Linda Darling Hammond is President and CEO of the Learning Policy Institute and Professor of Education, Emeritus, at Stanford University. Her work, which connects issues of education policy and practice, focuses on teaching quality, school and system design, and educational equity. Among her more than 600 publications is the award-winning book, The Flat World and Education: How America’s Commitment to Equity will Determine our Future. 

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Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is a Creative Director and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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Joe Bishop takes a closer look into racial equity, testing in schools, and how issues play out differently in urban and rural America with educators and researchers Dr. Sonya Douglass and Anna Kushner.

Dr. Douglass and Anna, in many ways, have opposite backgrounds. Dr. Douglas is the product of the fifth largest school district in the country in Las Vegas, Nevada. Anna grew up in rural Virginia. However, both became educators and invested in addressing inequality. Their research focuses on communities. Much of education centers around the individual and individual achievement over community well-being, which is where equity needs to take place.

Who is the expert when it comes to education decision-making, someone with a Ph.D. or a longtime community member? What are the unintended consequences of the Brown decision? 

Special Guests: Sonya Douglass, Ed.D., is Professor of Education Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University and Director of the Black Education Research Collective. Her research focuses on education leadership, policy, and politics.

Anna Kushner is a PhD student in Education Policy at Teachers College, Columbia University. Their research interests include the politics of race, diversity, and equity in K-12 education and the role of community and student voice in education decision-making.

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is a Creative Director and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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Joe Bishop breaks down the politics of children and children's rights with researcher and policymaker Bruce Lesley.

Growing up in a family of educators, Bruce has always been involved in child policy. He saw firsthand the importance of addressing the needs of kids and how kids are neglected in our nation’s policies. It is common that if you prompt people, they will say that they care deeply about various aspects of child policy. But kids quickly become an afterthought outside of educational policies.

How can we overcome the invisibility of children in policy? What is the Child Tax Credit? And, why did Congress abandon such an important policy in 2021? 

Special Guest: Bruce Lesley is the president of First Focus of Children, a research and policy development organization focused on improvements to public policy for children and families. He worked on Capitol Hill for a dozen years and has previous experience working at state and county levels of government and for a public hospital on policy development with an emphasis on child and family policy related to health care, social services, education, early childhood, and immigration policy.

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is a Creative Director and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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Joe Bishop examines the history of the Civil Rights Movement and education with educators, policymakers and activists Arnold Fege and John Jackson.

Both Chicago natives explain how the city shaped their view on policymaking. From a young age, they both were exposed to the inequities that exists based on one's zip code and the lack of resource equity between the different parts of the city and its suburbs. 

How did the civil rights movement shape education policy in America? Does the ruling of Brown vs. Board still impact housing and employment today?

Special Guests: Arnold F. Fege is the president of Public Advocacy for Kids, a Washington, DC based organization focused solely on federal and national public education and child advocacy based on the intersection of research and practice and raising the voices of minority and low-come parents and students. Fege brings over 40 years of public and non-profit experience as a teacher, principal, director of desegregation, staff assistant to Senator Robert F Kennedy, AP Vietnam war reporter, governmental relations director for the National PTA, and director of advocacy for the Public Education Network to issues of equity, diversity, inclusion, power and voice. 

John H. Jackson, Ed.D. is President and CEO of the Schott Foundation for Public Education- a public foundation focused on resourcing racial and education justice organizations and campaigns. He is a former lecturer of Race, Gender and Public Policy at the Georgetown Public Policy Institute and a Senior Policy Advisor in the Office for Civil Rights at the US Department of Education.  

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is a Creative Director and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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Joe Bishop introduces Our Children Can't Wait podcast series about the systems and structures that keep our kids from flourishing with the help of the educator and researcher Dr. Tyrone Howard.

Dr. Howard interviews Joe about his inspiration for the book and podcast. After years of observing a professional disconnect between education issues and students’ living situations and environments, Joe wanted to create a policy playbook compiled by the top experts in the country to showcase how policy includes more than standards, teacher preparation, higher education, and accountability. 

Who are policymakers? What happens when we set standards for helping one another? Why are we scared to see ourselves as policy shapers? 

Joseph Bishop, PhD, is the executive director and co-founder of the Center for the Transformation of Schools in UCLA’s School of Education & Information Studies. His research explores the role of policy in our society, specifically its impact on historically marginalized communities in education settings. He spent the past few years writing and editing the book Our Children Can’t Wait with 25 other contributors, who you'll hear from more in future episodes. 

Special Guest: Tyrone Howard, Ph.D. is the Pritzker Endowed chair and professor of education in the School of Education Studies at UCLA. He was elected president-elect of the American Educational Research Association in 2022. His research focuses on educational equity and access for students in urban schools.

Our Children Can't Wait is a podcast by the Center for the Transformation of Schools in the School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA. Joe Bishop is the host. Elizabeth Windom is the Producer. Julia Windom is the Associate Producer. Geneva Sum is a Creative Director and Senior Producer is Jay Woodward. Our Children Can't Wait is a companion to the book of the same name, Our Children Can't Wait. Available now from Teachers College Press and Amazon. Our Children Can't Wait is produced by Windhaven Productions and Bluejay Atlantic.

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