This episode, we ask: What is pushing teachers of color out of the classroom? What patterns can we identify?

To answer these questions, we draw connections from interviews with 3 different teachers of color across the country who share why they chose to leave education and/or their school site as well as recent findings from the "Small, but Mighty" research project recently published by the education organization Research for Action.

Join us for the finale where we bring all of the throughlines of this season together and ask one final question: What can we do to preserve teachers of color and support all students?

What specific steps must school leaders take to retain teachers of color?

How does relational aggression harm teachers of color? When does relational aggression cross into racial discrimination? How does relational aggression uphold white supremacy?

How does white fragility turn schools into unsafe workplaces for teachers of color? How do white women position themselves as victims when committing racial harm? How do white people use exclusion as a tool to maintain inequity and punish colleagues of color?

Join us for a guest interview with our former colleague, Teacher Amber, as we explore the following questions: How does racism color professional emails? How do different racial stereotypes shape how white people engage with their Black and Asian colleagues?

How can curriculum design reinforce racism? How can student-centered pedagogy subvert white supremacy? What kind of resistance can teachers of color face when building curriculum with white teachers?

Join us for a guest interview with Teacher X as we discuss the following questions:

What do teachers of color need in order to stay? What are the tipping points that push teachers of color to leave? What do teachers of color sacrifice in order to stay in the profession?

How are teachers of color coerced into taking on diversity and equity work? What does this tokenization and additional labor look like? How does this inequitable workload contribute to burnout?

How does school culture reproduce white supremacy? What must people of color sacrifice in order to be a culture fit? How is assimilation an act of cultural suicide?

How is education pushing out teachers of color? How is the Broken Teacher Diversity Pipeline connected to the Problem Women of Color in the Workplace framework? How do schools mask their racism during the hiring process to seduce teachers of color?