The Critical Teacher Podcast

When Teachers Strike is a 4- part series on what teachers do to protect the communities they serve.  In Episode 2 we look at the myths and truths of teacher unions and discover it is an incredibly nuanced thing. 

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Here is Dr. Jennifer Berkshire's latest book A Wolf at The Schoolhouse Door.  Also listen to her on the podcast Have You Heard.

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When Teachers Strike is a 4- part series on what teachers do to protect the communities they serve.  In Episode 1 we look at New Orleans and what happened to the teacher union after Hurricane Katrina. 

Rethink Nola- its mission is to support youth of color in becoming thoughtful and capable leaders through the process of critically rethinking our educational experiences and taking action to create transformative systemic change. Please click link to donate

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On this month's episode of Saturday Sips I sit down with Samantha Greenleaf who works with and organization called Educators in Solidarity in Austin, Texas.  We discuss what it looks like for educators to love and support the community they serve in order to build more equitable schools. 

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Welcome to the first episode of the Critical Teacher Podcast in 2021.  This episode I had the privilege of siting down with Dr. Derrick Robinson to discuss teacher effectiveness.  

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In this month's episode of Saturday Sips I interview Larissa Gregory of LGed Consulting and we begin to answer the question of how can we make schools healthier places to work and learn. 

Saturday Sips is an extension of the Podcast Five Minute Fridays, A podcast where I, a current doctorate student at the University of Memphis pursuing a degree in Education Policy talk about  an educated related topic for 5 minutes.  On Saturday sips I hope to balance the academic and scripted format of Five Minute Fridays with an interview structured podcast that platforms people’s experiential knowledge.

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In this last episode of 2020 I reflect on how schools are dehumanizing places but can also be places of healing. 

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Schools are a product of what society values.  They are petri dishes for societal ills to fester.  I am being overly pessimistic with this statement.  Schools and the people in them can be disrupters, but in my pessimism I want it to be clear that policy and the values behind the policies drive society. Society as a whole follows the path of least resistance without much thought, and policies often times offer frictionless funnels to the masking of the unethical with commonplace. 

So instead of asking what are schools for? It is better to ask what is driving or influencing the policy affecting schools.

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This week on Five Minute Fridays we look at the cost of professional development and how it is a consequence of schools been seen as businesses. An excerpt is below as well as a link to a book I reference throughout the episode. 

I turned in my last grad school assignment last week for the semester, which means I am leisurely reading a book entitled A Wolf at The Schoolhouse Door. It is about the marketization of public education or more simply put how policy is taking the public good of education and making it private. Reading this book made me think of several stats I catalogued throughout the semester. The first of which is that 50 largest districts across the United States spend 8 billion Dollars annually on professional development for teachers.

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Saturday Sips is an extension of the Podcast Five Minute Fridays, A podcast where I, a current doctorate student at the University of Memphis pursuing a degree in Education Policy talk about  an educated related topic for 5 minutes.  On Saturday sips I hope to balance the academic and scripted format of Five Minute Fridays with an interview structured podcast that platforms people’s experiential knowledge.

On this months Episode I have Becca Niiha share the impact of a history filled with colonization on public education for Indigenous people, as well as the hope and healing she has seen working in New Mexico.

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It is Indigenous People’s month and I want to platform their perception of schooling and their struggle to reclaim and reindigenize schools.  Tomorrow an extended interview will be published with Becca Niiha, an indigenous Women working in New Mexico with Teach For America and new teachers as they enter into indigenous communities to teach.

Settler-colonialism is a framework that begins with the historic context of the colonizer taking up residence and announcing his citizenship and sovereignty of and over the land. From that historic reality, those who gained power and continue to have power due to the colonization of land and indigenous people will work to destroy and replace narratives that threaten their stolen power. Schooling in the theoretical framework is a device or tool that helps the powerful perpetuate the colonizer’s narrative.

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