Freedom Means...

In this episode Grace and Emma wrap up the conversation with each other as children and try to tie together these long analogies of The Deal and Seatbelt and Slippery Ice Safety. We then spend much of the episode reflecting on this series.
 
We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected].

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The music and sound design for this podcast is done by Echo Finch.

You can find the book and resource recommendations from this episode here. 

In this episode Grace and Emma move into the third of a four episode series. This episode explores engaging with children's beautiful and imperfect rendering of the stories we tell them. We talk about the harm of dividing white people in categories of "mean" and not "mean" and the complexity of safety. We continue to explore Heather McGhee's work and her reflections on the truth and myth of the Zero Sum.

We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected].

In this episode Grace and Emma continue onto part two of this four part series, responding to a white child expressing relief for being white. We expand on the idea that white people can get "slippery ice safety" IF they make a deal to hurt people of color, in active and passive ways.

We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected].

Please consider becoming a monthly supporter at www.thefullstoryschool.org/monthly-donors. It helps us reach more people if you share, follow or subscribe and leave us a review! Thank you. 

The music and sound design for this podcast is done by Echo Finch.

You can find the book and resource recommendations from this episode here. 

In this first episode of Season Two, Grace and Emma begin a four part series responding to a white child expressing relief for being white. We introduce the idea that to get safety as a white person, white people need to make a really hurtful deal.

We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected].

Please consider becoming a monthly supporter at www.thefullstoryschool.org/monthly-donors. It helps us reach more people if you share, follow or subscribe and leave us a review! Thank you. 

The music and sound design for this podcast is done by Echo Finch.

You can find the book and resource recommendations from this episode here. 

In this very special episode, we are publishing an audio story featuring the brilliant ideas and stories from three young people in Washington, DC. They are ages 6-9 and have attended The Freedom Community School for the last couple of years. They talk about freedom, the history of Black people, abolition, slavery, police, jails, reading, revision, consent and so on. 

The Full Story School publishes Freedom Means. Most episodes include Grace and Emma roleplaying a conversation related to race and racism. We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected]

The music and sound design for this podcast is done by Echo Finch.

You can find the book and resource recommendations to further explore many of the ideas brought up on the episode here. 

This mini episode, our third installment of Language Ideas, focuses on the  massacre of ten Black people at the Tops grocery store in Buffalo, New York. 

We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected]

Please consider becoming a monthly supporter at www.thefullstoryschool.org/monthly-donors. It helps us reach more people if you share, follow or subscribe and leave us a review! Thank you. 

The music and sound design for this podcast is done by Echo Finch.

You can find the book and resource recommendations here. 

This mini episode, our second installment of Language Ideas, focuses on Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson and her nomination to the Supreme Court of the United States. 

 We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected]

Please consider becoming a monthly supporter at www.thefullstoryschool.org/monthly-donors. It helps us reach more people if you share, follow or subscribe and leave us a review! Thank you. 

The music and sound design for this podcast is done by Echo Finch.

You can find the book and resource recommendations here. 

This mini episode, our first installment of Language Ideas, focuses on Russia's war against Ukraine. Unlike our regular episodes, this doesn't include role play or reflection, but simply offer small language ideas about different elements and dynamics around this war. 

 We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected]

Please consider becoming a monthly supporter at www.thefullstoryschool.org/monthly-donors. It helps us reach more people if you share, follow or subscribe and leave us a review! Thank you. 

The music and sound design for this podcast is done by Echo Finch.

You can find the book and resource recommendations from this episode here. 

In this final episode of Season One, Emma and Grace revisit a conversation Grace had with her son in the spring of 2020.  They re-enact the discussion of emotions that come from imagining a loved one being killed as a result of racial violence.  Then Emma and Grace role play this conversation to show how it might change if held between a Black child and an unrelated, loving, white adult in their life.  In the reflections, they discuss the emotional and physical toll of racial violence. Grace relays an experience of a reluctant conversation about race led by a non-black person of color in a problematic setting and Emma shares about her process of navigating this complicated talk as a white person.

Freedom Means... will be back a few weeks into 2022 with Season Two.  We will be joined by some special guest experts to help us tackle new conversations. Happy New Year! 

We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected].

Please consider becoming a monthly supporter at www.thefullstoryschool.org/monthly-donors. It helps us reach more people if you share, follow or subscribe and leave us a review! Thank you. 

The music and sound design for this podcast is done by Echo Finch.

You can find the book and resource recommendations from this episode here. 

This week we role play conversations around this question.  We begin with a brief body grounding practice to share one way to support our nervous systems before tackling a hard question.  We briefly talk about Ahmaud Arbery in his life and share some of the things his friends and family wanted the world to know about him.  We talk about what happened the day he was killed and the immediate aftermath.  We also share the determined effort put forth by thousands of people seeking justice over many months until the details of Ahmaud Arbery’s murder was heard in court.

We are community educators and work with groups of teachers, parents and caregivers. If you are interested in working with us, want to give feedback, or submit scenarios from your own lives for the podcast, you can contact us through our website: www.thefullstoryschool.org or by sending us an email at [email protected].

Please consider becoming a monthly supporter at www.thefullstoryschool.org/monthly-donors. It helps us reach more people if you share, follow or subscribe and leave us a review! Thank you. 

The music and sound design for this podcast is done by Echo Finch.

You can find the book and resource recommendations from this episode here.