Host Dr. Margaret Vaughn interviews Dr. Judith Green, a UC Santa Barbara education professor known for research on teaching-learning relationships, socially constructed disciplinary knowledge, and classroom discourse, and founder of the Santa Barbara Classroom Discourse Group focused on equity and access. Green recounts growing up in an intergenerational, bilingual Yiddish-English home, formative school experiences including a sixth-grade teacher who shifted her academic trajectory, and how the Sputnik-era move toward skills-based instruction affected her brother’s reading support. She describes her teacher education at Berkeley, work across diverse schools, development of “pull-in” reading support, critique of standardized testing that ignored classroom language diversity, and graduate study comparing discourse frames with traditional observation systems.