In this episode Dr. Desiree Alexander discusses what it means to be culturally responsive in her capacity with the teachers she supports across the United States. To Desiree, being "Humanity-Centered" at the Heart of Culturally Responsive Teaching. For the past 19 years, she has worked with several different types of schools (charter, public private, district-level, middle, high) and with all kinds of teachers. She has served as a teacher, librarian, district instructional technology coach, and is currently an education consultant, dynamic speaker, and trainer.

Maurice Woods, graphic designer, and founder at Inneract Project shares how he is using design to empower Black, Brown, and underrepresented communities. Design is more than an activity, more than curriculum; it is seeing and thinking about the world critically; it is connecting the outside world to the classroom, and much more.

In this episode, Master Teacher, Instructional Coach, and Turnaround Specialist, Benita Gordon talks about the mindset and everyday moves she makes as a culturally responsive educator. With over twenty years of experience working in a variety of schools, she leverages her knowledge of how to build connections with students and how to cultivate a responsive community that meets the needs of all students.

In this episode, Kevin Cooper shares how he leads and supports students, teachers, and families through a culturally responsive, equity-centered, and advocacy-based lens. Through his role as assistant principal, he leads by example, and empowers his teachers to build authentic relationships with students, to grow and reflect in learning communities, and to disrupt deficit thinking.

In this episode, Elissa Frazier shares a way for teachers and school leaders to reflect on the relationship between intent and action and how they directly connect with the stories we tell ourselves.

In this episode, Toutoule Ntoya talks about the ways in which he brings a culturally responsive maker mentality into learning spaces. Toutoule engages his science teacher mindset, his athletic mindset, his STEM maker space mindset, his musician mindset, his teacher, student, and administrator mindset and he draws from those multidimensional intersections. And, as a culturally responsive educator, he shares practical ways to make school a place where ALL kids can thrive.

In this conversation with Marian Dingle, she shares how she develops deep connections with her students and what she does to ensure that her students don't take their cultural identity off to enter the classroom (virtual) walls.

Art Teacher, photographer, and 27-year seasoned educator Craig West shares the pain, pivots, and progress giving birth to possibility in his teaching practice. Through his love of students and his belief that we have the power to use our experiences to shape who and what we become, he enters each day of teaching through a humanizing lens.

Knikole Taylor, Instructional Technology Coach, Author & Connector, shares how she empowers teachers through centering pedagogy first. As an educator for nineteen years, she inspires through envisioning possibilities and developing human-centered relationships.

Using a "for us by us" approach, Martine Brown shares how she builds the capacity of others through instructional coaching, how she bulids relationships, and how she continues to innovate --even in these unprecedented times. Martine is a Digital Learning Facilitator in a large school district in Texas. She is also the author of 21 Lessons of Tech Integration Coaching.