Empowerment Starts Here

In this episode, the informant explores racism and sexism in higher education.

To get more of a description and access resources mentioned in the conversation, please visit our webpage: https://empowermentstartshere.net/2018/05/16/the-case-of-the-academy-and-women-of-color/

In this episode, the informant talked about dignity as a sense of mutual self-worth within the human race and race and gender as social constructs that serve to disrupt our overall sense of oneness with each other.

She also talked about blackness within global white supremacy, about multiple community membership versus single community membership, and about identity as a contested concept.

To access more information and resources shared in the episode, please visit our show notes here: https://empowermentstartshere.net/2018/05/08/the-case-of-race-and-dignity-ep30/

In this episode, the host talks about student power as a practice of teaching and learning. She makes a case that it is an essential element of student empowerment... specifically relating to learners who are disenfranchised from the learning process.

Visit the webpage to access the show notes where resources mentioned in the episode are listed: https://empowermentstartshere.net/2018/05/02/the-case-of-student-power-ep29/

In this episode, the informant talks about what happens when your life becomes the place of protest impacting your body, your home and your reputation. In it, you will learn how she handled attacks on her character, her reputation, and her inside access to local change efforts happening in her city– all as the price paid for walking in her integrity.

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In this episode, the informant talks about the unique teaching style of black female educators that comes from suffering and surviving in an inequitable society. While this case covers issues in teaching and learning, it also covers issues in the social world. The informant does a wonderful job exploring how these two areas (schooling and society) come together to create a powerful pedagogy-- the Warm Demander.

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In the recorded call, you are going to hear the informant offer four (possibly five) ways that math teachers can do social justice work in a math classroom (and beyond).

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A significant portion of this case explores race and gifted and talented programming. The case also explores issues around testing and cultural biases, digital natives and digital immigrants, Generations Y and Z, and STEM programming in k12 schools.

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In this conversation, you will learn about movement as vital to building brain cells, moving information from short-term into long-term memory, and positioning students as co-constructors of knowledge—not just mindless receivers of someone else's knowledge.

In the close out of the episode, the host talks critically about no-excuse schools that regulate students bodies as artificial forms of achievement. Such regulations have a structural impact on marginalized communities.

For more information about the Case of Learning ad Moving, please visit the show notes at Empowerment Starts Here.

This episode explores American Apartheid as a system of structures that routinely disadvantages people of color for the advantage of white Americans: wealth, housing, education, mass media, and criminal justice. To access more notes and the resources mentioned in this episode, please visit: https://empowermentstartshere.net/2018/03/13/the-case-of-city-x-ep23/

This episode is based on a song entitled Two Times written and performed by the informant (Jerry B Seus).

In the case segment of the episode, the listener will hear Jerry B talk about his writing process; about his emotional life and the gender bias he believes society holds about emotions; and about the role of failure as necessary for succeeding.

Of course there is more to the conversation than just the case. Jerry B tells us about what's going on in his current life (graduation, a football scholarship and his upcoming military career). He talks about intrapersonal power as being the most challenging in terms of taking advantage of second-chance learning. And, he talks about being a man of faith and how getting baptized a second time around was a personal decision.

In the close out of the show, the host connects Jerry B's discussion on emotions to memory and talks about the role of emotions and metacognition in the learning process.

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