Knowledge Unbound

In this special bonus back-to-school episode, Roxanna Elden, former high school teacher and author of See me after class: Advice for teachers by teachers and Adequate Yearly Progress talks to us about unpacking all the tiny things about effective classrooms that perhaps we don't always want to discuss. We hope this witty conversation provides useful tips for you as we enter into this academic year together. 

This week, in our final episode of Season 1, Dr. Mays Imad shared with us her journey from Baghdad, Iraq to Connecticut College and her internationally renowned work on trauma informed education. She implores us to think of education as opportunities for healing and growth, such that both our students and us can become more whole from the experience.

Maisha Moses, Executive Director of the Young People's Project (YPP) talks with us about the organization's founding and the ways in which it has built off of the work of civil rights leader, and her father Robert (Bob) Moses. Sprung from the Algebra Project (AP), a program that works with secondary school students who live in conditions that do not support their success, YPP helps cultivate agency among AP students who then go on to teach middle students algebra. We talk about what it means to cast your bucket, as in to go deeply into a problem with a community of students.

 Executive Director of Exchange for Change joins us to discuss providing education to the incarcerated, education as a human right, and the ways in which her life experience impacted her desire to center humanism in education. Kathie was a journalist in Haiti for 30 years and shares with us lessons from that experience that informs her current work.

In this episode we discuss the formation of an incredible partnership around teaching and the ways in which that partnership led to classroom transformation, an acclaimed book on inclusive teaching, and professional development that continues to transform campuses nationwide. Our discussion helps explore the underbelly of what it really means to teach with students fully in mind.

Dr. Eatman talks with us in this episode about the Honors Living Learning community at Rutgers University, Newark. He describes the version that led to the vision, and the ways in which the LLC is reimagining what it means to be educated.

President Bush is the co-founder and President of College Unbound. His team has developed a remarkable approach that allows us to rethink and re-recognize college's social possibilities. He talks to us here about his personal journey and path to that vision. College Unbound is based in Providence, Rhode Island.

This week Dr. Vijai Bhola, critical care and infectious disease doctor discusses his journey to international medical work, and the ways in which that work has impacted the lives of others and his own. We discuss what it means to engage in medical practice in a mindset of 'beyond', and the behaviors that makes that sustainable.

In this episode, Mekdelawit discusses the path to her doctoral work and the evolution of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam project. We discuss the aspects of her journey that led to her current work and the value of being in service of your why. Mekdelawit is from Addis Ababa Ethiopia and is pursuing doctoral studies in Earth and Environmental Sciences at Florida International University. She is also an Edward Bouchet doctoral scholar. 

In today's conversation Dr. Montgomery talks about her journey into the academy and what led to her work on inclusive mentoring. We discuss ways in which pivotal life moments taught lessons that have shaped her approach to her work. Dr. Montgomery is the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean at Grinnell College and the author of the book 'Lessons from Plants'.