Leader Lines

This episode is aimed at the role of the administrator and specific actions towards equity.  We cover topics like creating a culture and vision for equity, using multiple means of assessment and data, creating a budget for equity and hiring for equity.

This episode features an interview with a Brandman University Professor, long time educator, and current school board member from Lemoore High School Dr. Guadalupe Solis.  Topics discussed are equity in distance learning, policies for equity, master scheduling for equity, and having an assets-based mindset for equity.

This is designed for Educational Administrators, in this episode, to gain ideas on how to develop a parental guide for parents to seek resources about social justice and equity.  In this episode, I interview a teacher who is also a parent of 2 children ages 5 and 6 about how she teaches them tolerance and advocacy as well as find out about her experience as a Lebanese immigrant who faced racism and prejudice as a young teen and how she dealt with that along with her advice for those newcomer students.

What can educational leaders do at their school to promote social justice and equity?  We learn from an example of Park Day School in Oakland California as well as some of the host's experiences that tie social justice and equity with parent action groups, classroom lessons, character education, activism, and learning to help shape tomorrow's responsible, civically, and ethically minded citizens.

In this episode we look through the lens of an an educational leader at what one can do to have teachers support and encourage social justice in their classrooms.  We listen as a local 3rd grade teacher shares what she does in her classroom throughout the year to teach diversity, tolerance, and democratic classroom techniques.

This is for educational leaders like administrators, coaches, deans, advisors, or even teachers looking for ways to promote social justice and equity.  It is the first of six in a series episodes #1 and #2 cover how to promote social justice and equity through teachers.  Episodes #3 and #4 will cover how to promote it to your community like parents and students.   Episodes #5 and #6 will cover how to use your position in leadership to promote social justice and equity.  Topics covered in this episode are practices such as culturally inclusive beginning of the year projects and activities for teachers to do and training teachers about correct name pronunciation and implicit bias.