Welcome to episode 49 of The Equity Experience Podcast!

One of the things I often hear from educators is that they need support in having 'difficult' conversations with their colleagues, parents, or students regarding topics of race, diversity, belonging, etc. I offer a reframing of 'difficult' conversations to that of 'courageous' conversations to shift our thinking so that we show up more courageous, more authentic, more boldly, and even more vulnerable in conversations that may not be easy to have. 

 In this podcast, I reflect on Glenn Singleton's framework of 'courageous conversations' in my work as I support educators' and leaders' growth in becoming more equitable and inclusive individuals. 

You are invited to tune in with an open mind and an open heart :)

Source: Glenn Singleton's, "Courageous Conversations about Race".

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and strategy planning services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com for more information.

Welcome to 48 of The Equity Experience Podcast!  

In this episode, Dr. Karla addresses a question that is often asked within the diversity, equity, & inclusion space: What is the return on investment (ROI) with implementing DEI initiatives?  What are the short-term and long-term financial incentives with successfully implementing a diversity, equity, and inclusion program? 

Understanding the ROI on an organization's DEI initiative can help to:

In this podcast, I take a deep dive into this topic to share 3 ways that school district leaders can see a return on their investment concerning DEI.  

Tune in for more ideas and conversation!

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and strategy planning services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com for more information.

Welcome to a New Year and welcome to episode 47 of The Equity Experience Podcast!

In this podcast, we offer our reflections on the 5 ways that school administrators can expand their educational equity initiatives for this new year. We break down strategies related to system-wide needs assessments, more inclusion of student voices in schools' decision-making processes, along with considerations of health & environmental equity.

Tune in for more ideas and conversation!

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and strategy planning services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com for more information.

Welcome to episode #46 of The Equity Experience Podcast! On today's show, we have an invigorating conversation with Dr. Tracey Benson.  Dr. Tracey is best known for his Anti-Racism Leadership Institute, a comprehensive program designed to help education leaders build knowledge, skills, and ability while developing a plan of action to increase racial equity.  Dr. Tracey is a certified school building principal and school superintendent; he is a consultant, speaker, district trainer, and author of the book Unconscious Bias in Schools: A Developmental Approach to Exploring Race & Racism in Schools. 

In this podcast, we unpack the following the questions:

For more information about Dr. Tracey Benson and to learn more about his Institute, visit https://traceyabenson.com

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and strategy planning services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com for more information.

Good day and welcome to The Equity Experience Podcast!  On today's show, we discuss 7 action steps for building inclusive-centerd capacity with K-12 principals, superintendents, and central admin staff.  The action steps that I recommend and break down in this episode can help to strengthen one's bandwitdth for building an inclusive school, district, or organization. 

Thanks for tuning in and we hope this episode can offer resources and tools to support you in building equitable and inclusive schools. 

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and curriculum development services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com for more information.

Good day to you and welcome to The Equity Experience Podcast!  In episode #44, we have an amazing conversation with Drs. Angel Nash & Nakia Gray-Nicolas and their research findings based on their 2021 research publication in Race, Ethnicity, and Education titled "First things first: Black women situating identity in the first-year faculty experience".  

In this podcast, we engage in the following topics of dialogue:

About our guests:

Angel Miles Nash, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Leadership Education at Chapman University. Angel taught and led in K-12 schools in Washington, DC, California, and Virginia, experiences which galvanized her research endeavors examining the emboldening of Black girls and women in K-20+ education, the professional intersectional realities of Black women in education, and the ways that educators and leaders support underserved students in STEM education. Her research and scholarship published in peer-reviewed journals and books collectively reify her belief in educators’ influence on the historically underserved communities she champions and her development of the intersectional leadership framework.

Nakia M. Gray-Nicolas is an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at Queens College, CUNY. Her professional experiences and research are informed by her personal upbringing and focus on equity and access across the K-20+ pipeline. Her research examines college readiness and access, and persistence of traditional marginalized students; distributed leadership and community engagement; and the intersectionality and experience of Black women in academia. Her work has been published as book chapters and journals such as the Journal for School Leadership, Education Policy Analysis Archives, and Race Ethnicity Education. She recently co-edited the book (Re)Building Bi/Multilingual Leaders for Socially Just Communities.

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and curriculum development services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com for more information.

Welcome to the Equity Experience Podcast! In this solo episode, I share 3 professional development training topics for supporting Black boys in K-12 schools. These topics are ideal for K-12 educators and school administrators who need support in remedying educational inequities with Black boys in their school or district.  Tune in for ideas, recommendations, and thought pieces for creating educational equity and inclusion for Black boys/males.  Thank you for supporting The Equity Experience Podcast!

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and curriculum development services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com for more information.

How can we create inclusive spaces for Black male educators to share ideas, connect, and build a community?

In this podcast, we have an exciting conversation with Mr. Ayodele Harrison, a community leader and an educational consultant who created a platform that reflects his passion of bringing together Black male educators. We discuss the issues and challenges surrounding Black males educators in the classrooms, such as difficulty in navigating relationships and being able to freely express themselves and their creativity in a teaching environment.  In this podcast, we discuss BMEsTalk (Black Male Educators Talk)– a suite of professional learning opportunities designed to engage Black Male Educators. The mission of BMEsTalk is to create and curate safe, rich spaces for Black Male Educators to connect, grow and lead. His professional learning communities centers Black male affinity, self care, equity-centered leadership development practices, digital connectedness, and diverse career pathways within the education profession.

About Mr. Ayodele Harrison:  Ayodele Harrison is a trained engineer turned international math educator, facilitator of equity-centered learning experiences, and educational consultant. Ayodele has over 20 years teaching and leading in public, private and international schools.  Currently, as Senior Partner of Education with CommunityBuild Ventures, Ayodele works with schools, nonprofits, government agencies and businesses to remedy and reverse the educational inequities our students, parents, caregivers, teachers, staff and community members experience everyday.  Ayodele Harrison is from Seattle, Washington. He holds a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from Howard University and University of California, Berkeley, respectively. Ayodele is married to Natasha and has beautifully, brilliant children, Ajani and Ifetayo.

To connect with Mr. Ayodele Harrison, please visit https://bmestalk.com or connect with him on LinkedIn via https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayodeleharrison/

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and curriculum development services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com for more information. 

How can Art therapy and Color therapy can be used to improve student learning and student achievement?

In this podcast, we have an exciting conversation with Ms. Tamika Albertini, a holistic wellness practitioner who categorizes herself as a healer, a teacher and an artist. She used her passion of working with children, creating art, and wellness and built two platform brands - Fruiggie and Sacred Color Healing. In this conversation, we highlight the following topics:

Highlights from this podcast include:

TaMiKa Albertini is an intuitive healer, teacher and artist.  The work she does stems from her intuitive self healing modalities that developed from Haitian and Kemetic cultural medicinal practices and Indian influences. Tamika’s 10+ years of experience comes from studying with many healers such as Queen Afua, going through the Sacred Woman Rights of Passage, certifying as a Womb Yoga Dance and Sacred Woman Practitioner, Womb Hydrotherapy, and Emerald  Green product specialist. Tamika is also certified as a Karma yoga instructor, Holistic nutritionist, Wholistic Health Practitioner,  Therapeutic Art practitioner, and a Color therapist.

TaMiKa can be contacted via Instagram @fruiggie or www.sacredcolorhealing.com

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and curriculum development services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com

How can K-12 educators and principals mentor young Black women in their schools and lead them closer towards success?

In this podcast, we have an exciting conversation with Ms. Jamila Trimuel, the Founder and CEO of Ladies of Virtue (LOV). Her Chicago-based non-profit organization stands in the gap for Black girls, from ages 9 to 18, who may not have positive role models and need a support system. The main goal of Ladies of Virtue is to mentor, support and prepare girls and young women for leadership in three ways:  character development, career readiness, and civic engagement. We discuss the benefits of young Black women having the access to a mentoring and leadership program that is gender focused and also culturally relevant in their lives.

Highlights from this podcast include:

● Research shows that only 39% of Black girls do not have any adverse childhood experiences, compared to 60% of White girls, 49% of Hispanic girls, and 75% of Asian girls who also have not had any adverse childhood experiences. 

● Black girls are viewed as needing less support.

● Mentoring will gradually lead to future success stories.

● Speak life into young women and love on them.

About Ms. Jamila Trimuel: 

From the south side of Chicago, Jamila Trimuel is a results-driven leader and encourages others to pursue purpose at all costs. She is the Founder of Ladies of Virtue, an award winning mentoring program that has empowered over 1,000 girls to become confident and purpose-driven leaders.As a mentor, social entrepreneur, and philanthropist, Jamila Trimuel has over ten years of experience in strategic planning and community engagement for nonprofit organizations. Jamila has a Bachelor of Science in Community Health from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a Master of Science in Health Systems Management from Rush University.  She also holds a Masters of Education in Educational Leadership from The Broad Center for Management of School Systems.  For more information about the Ladies of Virtue, visit www.lovchicago.org

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The Equity Experience Podcast is brought to you by Dr. Karla Manning, Founder & CEO of The Equity Leadership Group, LLC.   We are a team of educators, scholars, and consultants dedicated to helping educators and school leaders achieve educational equity with our training, coaching, and curriculum development services. Schedule a discovery call today! https://calendly.com/karlamanning/discoverycall20mins or visit www.equityleadershipgroup.com