Great Lakes Equity Center

In the second half of this Equity Spotlight Podcast conversation (please see Part One here), Equity Fellow Dr. David Hernández-Saca, along with his colleagues, continue to critically engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue to respond to Critical Race in Education Theorist and Teacher Educator Dr.

In this Equity Spotlight Podcast, Equity Fellow Dr. David Hernández-Saca, along with his colleagues, will critically engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue to respond to Critical Race in Education Theorist and Teacher Educator Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings’ challenge to educational stakeholders on how we should respond to the four crises in education and society: COVID-19, the California fires, violence against Black Americans, and political divisiveness. Individually and collectively, they provide their perspectives for future justice praxis.

In Episode Two of this Equity Spotlight Podcast, Educational Segregation in Spain, Dr. Federico Waitoller continues the conversation from Episode One: A Legislative Initiative Begins with returning and new scholars and activists. Will the Zubiak Eraikiz, or “building bridges" initiative be successful in garnering support to bring attention to/remediate school segregation in the Basque school system?

In Episode One of this Equity Spotlight Podcast, Educational Segregation in Spain, Dr. Federico Waitoller speaks to scholars about historical and contemporary issues surrounding school segregation, and desegregation efforts, in Spain. In this, he compares and contrasts parallel issues in the US.

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center’s— 2021 Vodcast Series. This episode will focus how one’s positionality may define what is hope, healing, and harmony for antiracism. Also, the tension of unity vs. self-determination (i.e. how to acknowledge that those who have been historically marginalized are often called to temper their pursuit of racial justice at the intersections, in efforts to unify fractured communities).

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center’s— 2021 Vodcast Series. Episode five of the MAP Center’s Antiracist Vodcast Series focuses on discussing and speaking into the vision of anti-racism in our school systems and how one might approach and/or continue to build on their work, specifically in terms of language, rhetoric, and policy.

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center’s— 2021 Vodcast Series. Episode four of the MAP Center’s Antiracist Vodcast Series focuses on Antiracism Conversations at the Intersections. This episode focuses on the importance of anti-racist practices considering other intersecting oppressed identities including national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender non-conformity, and dis/ability.

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center’s— 2021 Vodcast Series. Episode three of the MAP Center’s Antiracist Vodcast Series focuses on  A Conversation with Antiracist Leaders. In this episode, we discuss with Dr. Jerry Anderson and Dr. Anthony Lewis how they define antiracist leadership and the difference between traditional leadership practices and anti-racist leadership practices.

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center’s— 2021 Vodcast Series. This episode of our Anti-Racist Vodcast, The 20-Minute Talk, features guest speakers Perry Wilkinson, M.Ed., Education Equity & Systems Data Specialist at SE/Metro Regional Center of Excellence Southeast Service Cooperative (MN), and Toia Jones, M.Ed., Principal of Boulder Hill Elementary in Community Unit School District 308 (IL).

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center’s— 2021 Vodcast Series. Episode One of The 20-Minute Talk is an introductory discussion of the need for an Anti-Racism Vodcast Series and the MAP Center's anti-racist stance, featuring guests Dr. Seena Skelton, Director of Operations of the MAP Center, and Dr. Kathleen King Thorius, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Equity Center and the MAP Center.