eduCATE: Caring Activist Teachers for Equity

Vincent "June" Chappelle is a volunteer and researcher at the Springfield African American History Museum. June discusses his experiences as a black student in Chicago Public Schools and a wide range of other topics. Contact June at [email protected]. 

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Dr. Meghan Kessler, Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at UIS, discusses the teacher shortage. Meghan can be reached at [email protected]. View the show notes for resources related to this episode.

 Dr. Jennifer Martin's Content Area Literacy students from Spring 2019 discuss literacy best practices. View the show notes.

An interview with Gina Lathan and Stacy Grundy, two of the three co-owners of Route History, Inc. View the show notes for references and resources.

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An Interview with Kerry Poynter, UIS Director of Gender and Sexuality Student Services, about LGBTQ+ issues in K-12 schools and institutions of higher education. View the show notes for this episode.

An interview with Dr. Bettina Love about her new book on Abolistionist Teaching. View the the show notes for this episode.

In episode 2: advoCATE, FINDING GREAT BOOKS: TEACHING EQUITY, Dr. Martin and her guest, Dr. Julie Hoffman, discuss the YA novel Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds, their idea of creating critical social justice inquiry circles to respond to issues and texts, and Dr. Hoffman, [email protected], recommends more new YA books.

eduCATE thanks Peter Midtgard for his bass stylistics. You can contact him at [email protected]

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Episode 1 of eduCATE: Caring Activist Teachers for Equity provides an overview of the edTPA (education teacher performance assessment), which is a required cumulative portfolio assessed through Pearson and required in most states for prospective teacher candidates to obtain licensing. This episode is intended to demystify the edTPA assessment for new teacher candidates. 

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