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Black Teacher Matters
By Abdel ShakurEducation
Black Teacher Matters episodes
- Mr. Davis III: Learning to teach from Mom and the importance of capturing student imagination.
In part three of our interview, my high school teacher Hodari Davis talks about what he learned from being in his mom's class in elementary school, and what educators taught him about the role of the imagination in the classroom. Also features a clip from a KQED feature on Young Gifted and Black (https://youtu.be/6XOm3phBOBY?si=Tk6tNImUk5eqQUKL) #Blackteachermatters #BerkeleyHighSchool #blackmaleteachers
14 min - Hodari Davis Part II: When Grief is the Bee in the Classroom
In part 2 of the @mrdavis510 interview, I ask about his "bee in the classroom" moment-- , when something uncontrollable thing enters the classroom space. Mr. Davis talks about how he helped his students grieve from the death of a beloved classmate, Yaheem King, and what led him to retire from ETHS.
https://youtu.be/_GfIhtOzZss19 min - Hodari Davis Part I: School Colors
Hodari Davis was an icon not just at Berkeley High when I went there, but nationwide after the release of the Frontline documentary Berkeley High: School Colors. In part one of this interview, I talk to Mr. Davis about what it was like to be a young Black teacher in the eye of that storm, doing amazing work. #Blackteachermatters #BerkeleyHighSchool #blackmaleteachers
44 min - Mr. Davis on arming students for intellectual battle
Are y'all ready to battle? Mr. Hodari Davis on the School Colors documentary that flipped his life upside down, arming students for intellectual and spiritual battle, and creating space for Black celebration and grief at Berkeley High. Full episode debuts next week. #BHS #blackteachermatters
4 min - Dr. Micia Mosely on letting history guide our movement.
Dr. Micia Mosely talks about the importance of understanding this moment, and what we need to do next, in a historical understanding.
3 min - Teaching under Trump: Liberating classrooms in an Authoritarian Era
Dr. Micia Mosely of the Black Teacher Project talks about the ways imagination and collaboration can help teachers promote healing, liberation, and learning in classrooms even during the authoritarian era.
56 min - Black boys and The Circle of Goodness
Teaching at a summer camp taught me how important it is to discover the Good in the children I care for.
8 min - Tim Seibles reads a poem and talks about the benefits of being naive.
What does it mean to be naive? What does it have to do with being a Black child, with being a Black teacher? Tim Seibles reads his poem "Naive", Originally published in Poem-a-Day on March 19, 2024, by the Academy of American Poets.
13 min - Alexs Pate on Black teachers, Liberation, and Innocence
The special opportunity and challenge that Black teachers face when teaching Black students. Excerpt from Episode 2.
8 min - Ep 21: Sunni Ali and The Public School System Got Me F'd Up
Historic times call for historic perspectives. Dr. Sunni Ali's new book, The Public School System Got Me F'd Up helps to put the current chaos into context. Not to be missed. Find his book here: https://www.amazon.com/Public-School-System-Got-Me/dp/1965683479
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About Black Teacher Matters
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Abdel Shakur is a writer and teacher concerned with telling the stories of Black teachers. A Catalyst Chicago Classroom Story Slam winner and a 17 year veteran in the classroom, Abdel and his guests reflect on the power of Black folks engaged in the teaching art.
Holler at me @abdelshakur.bsky.social