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Supporting college readiness for high school students is essential for their future success. Here are three ways parents can help prepare their children for college:

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In this episode of Our Classroom, Jenny Suriel, educator and owner of Amor y Azucar Bakery, drops by to discuss her road to becoming an educator, the inception of her bakery business, and her experiences with restorative justice.

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In this episode of Our Classroom we continue to reflect on the fascinating developments in Florida that are greatly impacting education.

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New development in Florida

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Teaching for Black Lives in Florida

Are you a Florida teacher who wants to resist the politics and still teach truth for empowerment through love? Are you ready to take the risk of learning in community in spite of the people seeking to knock us down? Come through. 

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In this episode of Our Classroom Lorena German joins me to discuss Florida's Black History Curriculum.

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Lorena Germán is a two time nationally awarded Dominican American educator focused on anti racist and anti bias education. She has taught English Language Arts from 6th through 12th grades in both public and private schools. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, NCTE’s journals, ASCD, and more. She’s a co-founder of #DisruptTexts through which she encourages teachers to work toward an inclusive ELA curriculum. As Co-Founder and Academic Director at Multicultural Classroom she leads professional development for teachers and creates teaching materials with and for leading literacy organizations. Lorena is also the Chair of NCTE’s Committee Against Racism and Bias in the Teaching of English. She lives in Tampa, Florida.

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In this episode of Our Classroom Kareem Farah of the Modern Classrooms Project joins me to discuss Emotional Dysregulation.

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Kareem Farah spent his teaching career as a high school math educator in Hawaii and Washington, DC. He earned his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and later received a master’s degree in secondary education at Johns Hopkins University. Instead of using a traditional lecture model, Kareem taught mathematics through a blended model where students accessed content through his self-made videos. The cornerstone of his classroom was the ability for students to work through the content at their own pace and Kareem’s ability to employ mastery-based grading to evaluate student learning. In 2018, Kareem received the DC Public Schools Award for Classroom Innovation and was featured in Edutopia and CBS News for his work. 

In an effort to scale his classroom model, Kareem co-founded a nonprofit, Modern Classrooms Project. As the CEO of the Modern Classrooms Project, Kareem and his team train and support teachers who seek to redesign their classrooms around blended, self-paced, mastery-based learning to better meet all students’ unique needs. 

Kareem tweets regularly about education at @KareemFarah23.

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In this episode of Our Classroom Kassie Infante and Dr. Marianela Rivera of the HomePlace Collective join me to discuss Raising Activists.

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Dr. Marianela Rivera and Kassie Infante, MEd, co-founders of HomePlace Collective, are Lawrence MA-based scholar-activists, community organizers, and former elected school committee members. They both believe in the power of activism as a tool for social change and a mindset for developing hope.

Dr. Rivera is a physical therapist and has focused the majority of her career on serving students receiving special education services. Her experiences while working for Lawrence Public Schools revealed systemic issues impacting her students and their families, which motivated her to run and win a last-minute write-in campaign for the Lawrence School Committee in 2015.

Ms. Infante earned her B.S from the University of North Carolina Wilmington and has extensive experience working in the non- profit, educational development/philanthropy and political advocacy field. Her studies and interest lie in advancing progressive education policy, community organizing and critical participatory action research as methods to disrupt and dismantle systemic racism.

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In this episode of Our Classroom Jan “J.E.” Thomas joins me to discuss her forthcoming book Control Freaks.

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Jan "J.E." Thomas is the author of CONTROL FREAKS, a debut middle grade novel that will be published by Levine Querido on June 13. CONTROL FREAKS recently received a starred review from Booklist in which it was compared to Newbery Medal–winning author E.L. Konigsburg's novel, THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY.

Jan has bachelor of arts degrees in mass communications and political science and a master of arts degree in public communications.

She started writing full-time in 2021. Prior to that, she had a long career in corporate, health care and education communications. She was also an award-winning freelance journalist, earning a Clarion Award for Article Writing from Women in Communications; a Gold Award for Feature Writing from the International Academy of Communications Arts & Sciences; a Silver Award for Writing from the Society of National Association Publications; and a Public Relations Professional of the Year Honor from the Colorado Association of Black Journalists, among others.

She is the product of an urban Catholic elementary school and an independent high school. She concluded her communications career by serving as communications director and a member of the administrative team for the same independent school she attended years before. 

Her debut novel is dedicated to three women who changed her life by recognizing her potential and encouraging her to step out of the crowd. Those women are, Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek's original Uhura; Helen Yeager, Jan's ninth grade English teacher; and Laura Pegram, founder and executive director of Kweli Journal and the Kweli Color of Children's Literature Conference in New York.

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In this episode of Our Classroom we go From Tupac to QPOC w/ Annie Tornabene as she offers some practical strategies to grapple with shifting racial categories as a “Questioning Person of Color”.  Different voice, different content, same energy.

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Annie Tornabene, MEd, owns and provides educational therapy services at AMP Educational Therapy LLC in Southern California. She has previously served as the Director of Student Support, Middle School Learning Specialist, and DEI Coordinator at a K-12 independent school in California. Recently, Annie joined the beloved ed tech company, BrainPOP, helping school districts across the U.S. provide rich online learning experiences to students and teachers. She holds a BA in Psychology from Princeton University, a Certificate in Educational Therapy from UC Riverside, and a Masters in Education from the University of San Diego. Annie has presented at national conferences on topics related to racial/ethnic identity and neurodiversity.

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In this episode of Our Classroom, Tiffany Jewell returns to discuss magnet schools, a topic she addresses in her upcoming book Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in Schools.

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Tiffany Jewell is the Black biracial #1 New York Times bestselling and #1 Indie bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid. She is a twin sister, first-generation American, cisgender mama, and anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator who has been working with children and families for two decades. She lives on the homeland of the Pocumtuc and the Nipmuck with her two young storytellers, husband, a turtle she’s had since she was nine years old, and a small dog with a big personality.

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In this episode of Our Classroom, Tiffany Jewell joins to discuss her upcoming book Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in Schools. In part 1 of this conversation, Tiffany provides an update on the book and then shares some of her experiences with racism when she was in grade school.

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Tiffany Jewell is the Black biracial #1 New York Times bestselling and #1 Indie bestselling author of This Book Is Anti-Racist and The Antiracist Kid. She is a twin sister, first-generation American, cisgender mama, and anti-bias antiracist (ABAR) educator who has been working with children and families for two decades. She lives on the homeland of the Pocumtuc and the Nipmuck with her two young storytellers, husband, a turtle she’s had since she was nine years old, and a small dog with a big personality.

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