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Episode 12 - Education, Grades, and Liberation with Julia E. Torres

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As a teacher/activist, Julia Torres's work is grounded in empowering students to use the Language Arts to fuel resistance and positive social transformation. Ms. Torres facilitates workshops and professional conversations about anti-racist education, social justice, and culturally sustaining pedagogies. She writes about these and other topics at at juliaetorres.blog.

Topics include:

  • How Julia uses side-by-side teaching, expert groups, and culturally relevant texts to shift traditional power dynamics in her classroom
  • How grades foster attitudes of competition, compliance, and insecurity in students of color, dividing them and pitting them against one another
  • How Julia helps students "unlearn" disempowering attitudes from past experiences
  • Why implementing progressive practices like going gradeless can be extremely difficult in urban school settings
  • Why teachers from non-urban settings should visit and learn from teachers in urban settings

    • Resources mentioned:

    • Julia's Twitter thread on grades
    • Going Gradeless in Urban Ed (Teachers Going Gradeless)
    • On Reading...and Grading (juliaetorres.blog)
    • Building Bridges (juliaetorres.blog)
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