On today’s episode: Educators Leah and Rena Dunbar

Leah and Rena Dunbar are twin sisters and educators, committed to community building, listening, and engaging in Courageous Conversations about race, gender, and class. Leah is a language arts and social studies specialist at the Lane Education Service District and Rena is a project specialist at the University of Oregon and works with indigenous communities.

Topics:

• 02:17 Creating a Courageous Conversations course
• 05:30 The “circle” of time and the backlash to discussions around race
• 09:30 Developing ethnic studies in Oregon
• 14:08 Community building around art and words
• 18:23 Disrupting the school-to-prison pipeline
• 25:51 Restructuring classrooms to encourage collaboration