Ordinary Brilliance

We are elated to be back and for the first time in the same room recording this episode! Fully vaxxed and ready to continue our conversation regarding our Beautiful Black Children and the education system that is failing them! We are jumping right in with the assertion that good instruction creates great outcomes for all kids! This is a fallacy. Join us as we discuss:

• The importance of discomfort

• What does good instruction mean

• This assertion means Black families don't matter

• Your intentions don't matter to Black children

• How our actions are impacting Black children

• Why good instruction is Anti-Black

• The parallel of gun control and disarming ourselves in education

• The job of a teacher needs to shift drastically

• What teachers need to experience to see things differently

• Standard testing is not equitable

• The power of decision making

• Good instruction does NOT lead to equity

• Being defined as a "good parent" in a Black family

• How a reality show proved a true equitable outcome

• Neutrality is a farce

Honorable Mentions

Big Brother Crowns 1st Black Winner

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Ordinary Brilliance is sponsored by Sable Mensah Fulmore who owns Equitable Outcomes, LLC. To learn more about Sable and her company, find her here: https://www.equitableoutcomesllc.com.

Ordinary Brilliance is also sponsored by Brooklynn Pham. To learn more about Brooklynn, find her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynn-pham-m-a-28247820/.

We want to hear your experiences with your own Ordinary Brilliance or your children's ordinary brilliance! Connect with us on social media and share with us your stories:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordinarybrilliance/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Brilliance-108191858134393/?ref=pages_you_manage

LinkedIn Group -https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13967629/

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Did our brilliance resonate with yours? If so, please share this episode with a friend and leave a 5-Star review and a comment wherever you listen to the podcast. We love to hear how this reached you and our community. 

Song Credit: Sweet Talk by Tyra Chantey 

This is a Crackers In Soup Production 

Have you ever…. 

• Implemented classroom management strategies that didn’t sit right with you, or didn’t even feel humane? 
• Questioned if these strategies were actually necessary for learning? Even more so, are they actually a part of our journey for liberation? 
• Wondered why we feel so comfortable treating Black children this way? 

…all to save time for learning? Teaching “Grit” is a cornerstone of character education across many schools serving Black children. It is promoted and endorsed as a legitimate method for closing academic achievement gaps. However, in today’s episode, we discuss how prioritizing the moral character development and grit of Black children is problematic.
Join us as we discuss:

1. How the idea of Black children needing grit reinforces anti-blackness. 
2. Why "grit" absolves teachers and schools from being accountable for actual instructional practices
3. How "grit" dismisses our ancestors’ 400 year legacy of survival and resistance 
4. How Brooklynn felt in her K-12 educational years when it came to the topic of slavery 
5. What opened Sable's eyes and made her feel empowered in her educational experience
6. State-wide statistics around the disproportionate suspension rates between Black children and white children 

Honorable Mentions
California Suspension Data
Haim Ginott's Congruent Communication Theory in Classrooms

Ordinary Brilliance is sponsored by Sable Mensah Fulmore who owns Equitable Outcomes, LLC. To learn more about Sable and her company, find her here:

https://www.equitableoutcomesllc.com.

Ordinary Brilliance is also sponsored by Brooklynn Pham. To learn more about Brooklynn, find her here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynn-pham-m-a-28247820/.

We want to hear your experiences with your own Ordinary Brilliance or your children's ordinary brilliance! Connect with us on social media and share with us your stories:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordinarybrilliance/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ordinarybrilliance
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ordinary-brilliance/
Did our brilliance resonate with yours? If so, please share this episode with a friend and leave a 5-Star review and a comment wherever you listen to the podcast. We love to hear how this reached you and our community. 

Song Credit: Sweet Talk by Tyra Chantey 

This is a Crackers In Soup Production 

This past year with COVID, we have seen equity grow within our Black children in classrooms. Because of schools transitioning to virtual learning, virtual learning has impacted our children in so many ways and hindered the ability to bring about higher quality instruction. Today on the podcast, we dive deep into how we can bring ordinary brilliance to our classrooms in the upcoming year with facts, feedback, and growth. Listen to this incredible podcast to learn more of how you can implement strategies to encourage equity. 

In this episode, our brilliance focuses on:

• How virtual learning is connected to anti-Blackness 

• Why schools are struggling to take curriculums online and how virtual learning is lacking support to learning

• Giving ourselves permission to acknowledge facts

• How can you use facts to give feedback

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Ordinary Brilliance is sponsored by Sable Mensah Fulmore who owns Equitable Outcomes, LLC. To learn more about Sable and her company, find her here: https://www.equitableoutcomesllc.com.

Ordinary Brilliance is also sponsored by Brooklynn Pham. To learn more about Brooklynn, find her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynn-pham-m-a-28247820/.

We want to hear your experiences with your own Ordinary Brilliance or your children's ordinary brilliance! Connect with us on social media and share with us your stories:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordinarybrilliance/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Brilliance-108191858134393/?ref=pages_you_manage

LinkedIn Group -https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13967629/

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Did our brilliance resonate with yours? If so, please share this episode with a friend and leave a 5-Star review and a comment wherever you listen to the podcast. We love to hear how this reached you and our community. 

Song Credit: Sweet Talk by Tyra Chantey 

This is a Crackers In Soup Production 

Welcome to another episode of Ordinary Brilliance. Today, Brooklynn and Sable discuss whether proximity to Black children equates to working towards equity. This episode should really bring you the opportunity to observe how you feel with what we are saying and if you are feeling uncomfortable, we invite you to take note of what you’re feeling and engage in the work. 

In this episode, our brilliance focuses on:

1. Why ‘equity' without Black voices or representation, it is not equity at all

2. How resistance to owning our impact perpetuates inequity for Black children 

3. How to regain agency + expand your locus of control in creating equitable outcomes for all Black children

How to connect with us?

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordinarybrilliance/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Brilliance-108191858134393/?ref=pages_you_manage

LinkedIn Group - https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13967629/

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Ordinary Brilliance is sponsored by Sable Mensah Fulmore who owns Equitable Outcomes, LLC. To learn more about Sable and her company, find her here: https://www.equitableoutcomesllc.com.

Ordinary Brilliance is also sponsored by Brooklynn Pham. To learn more about Brooklynn, find her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynn-pham-m-a-28247820/.

We want to hear your experiences with your own Ordinary Brilliance or your children's ordinary brilliance! Connect with us on social media and share with us your stories:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordinarybrilliance/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Brilliance-108191858134393/?ref=pages_you_manage

LinkedIn -https://www.linkedin.com/company/ordinary-brilliance

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Did our brilliance resonate with yours? If so, please share this episode with a friend and leave a 5-Star review and a comment wherever you listen to the podcast. We love to hear how this reached you and our community. 

Song Credit: Sweet Talk by Tyra Chantey 

This is a Crackers In Soup Production 

Ordinary Brilliance is the brainchild of Sable and Brooklynn. This is a podcast about reclaiming the brilliance of Black children as common, normal, and simply ordinary. We break down and analyze what popular ed reform policies and practices have (and have not) done for Black children. And provide you with concrete action steps you can take to start creating equitable outcomes for all Black children, today.

Together, we are going to show how to identify + disrupt the anti-Black racism manifesting in your school system. Throughout this journey, you’ll also learn how to give yourself permission to act on what you know creates access for all Black children and how to protect your capacity to do so.

In this episode, our brilliance focuses on:

1. The relationship between remediation and anti-Blackness

2. How language around remediation + unfinished learning relinquishes our instructional power

3. The beliefs we must reject + actions we must take to create access for all Black children

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Ordinary Brilliance is sponsored by Sable Mensah Fulmore who owns Equitable Outcomes, LLC. To learn more about Sable and her company, find her here: https://www.equitableoutcomesllc.com.

Ordinary Brilliance is also sponsored by Brooklynn Pham. To learn more about Brooklynn, find her here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brooklynn-pham-m-a-28247820/.

We want to hear your experiences with your own Ordinary Brilliance or your children's ordinary brilliance! Connect with us on social media and share with us your stories:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ordinarybrilliance/

Facebook:https://www.facebook.com/Ordinary-Brilliance-108191858134393/?ref=pages_you_manage

LinkedIn Group -https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13967629/

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Did our brilliance resonate with yours? If so, please share this episode with a friend and leave a 5-Star review and a comment wherever you listen to the podcast. We love to hear how this reached you and our community. 

Song Credit: Sweet Talk by Tyra Chantey 

This is a Crackers In Soup Production 

Sable & Brooklynn are two Black women who believe that Black children deserve high-quality instruction from teachers that believe in their ordinary, not exceptional, brilliance. Designed to provoke thought, dialogue, and action, this series will help educators across the globe to envision and create Black liberation in our classrooms and schools. Our goal is to help cultivate a sense of belonging and make listeners feel like they are pioneers in this with us/ are OG members of the Ordinary Brilliance (OB) fam!