The Liberated Educator

It's been a busy season for the the Liberated Educator Podcast crew. Books, Keynotes, Production events, you name it, but it was an honor to set down with the one and only Yaritza Villalba to create to enjoy a little CPT of our own.

Enjoy the conversation.


President and Founder of YV Educational Resources Inc. 501(c)3, Yaritza Villalba has twelve years of experience in education. She started her career teaching Social Studies to high school students in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York.  Throughout the years she has developed culturally relevant resources for teachers and parents. She later became an Assistant Principal of an Expeditionary Learning School where she furthered her knowledge of project based learning and mastery based assessments. Yaritza is currently an Educator Innovation Lead (EIL) at Flipgrid, Microsoft. Her overall mission is to provide an array of strategies and resources that spark critical thinking and meaningful conversations in and out of the classroom. 

Website: https://www.mckenziesadventures.com/
Twitter: @inc_yv  |   @M_Time_Machine

Since we have all been traveling, we just picked up the phone and just chopped it up over what we were looking at. This conversation just happened to be a reaction the the Juwan Howard, the Head Coach Basketball Coach at Michigan, being suspended for... well, you'll have to look it up. 

Welcome back to the pod, Ken and Dee finally catch up after traveling to spread the liberation gospel and hop on to have another classic conversation over coffee while breaking down. 

C: Catching Up
P:  Part of the reality
T:  Trouble the narrative

Troubling the narative is what they do and they end up talking about it in most conversation among friends. In this episode, Ken and Dee pick up the phone and have a CPT convo over...

C: Carter Woodson
P: Pause
T: Time

Please enjoy!

Happy New Year! Yeah, we are just now saying it to you all. But it's like we always say, we not late talking about it, you're just late hearing it. So, this is the first of many episodes for 2022. Please enjoy another casual CPT convo between Ken and Dee as they pontificate

C: Continuation
P: Progress
T: Tenacity

Books referenced in this episode:
Native Son - Richard Wright
12 Million Black Voices - Richard Wright
Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison
Letters From a Birmingham Jail -Martin Luther King Jr.
The Sword and The Shield -  Peniel E. Joseph
The Eyes Are Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Narrated by Laurence Fishburne

Guides to use for MLKJr Studies: Civil Rights Edition  https://flipgrid.com/87756af3 

Where do you draw the line?

Resident host, Victoria Thompson joins Dee and Ken to have a CPT convo on
Chaos, Perturbed, and Trouble in the water.

Victoria also provides some tips to help you step away for a bit to put yourself in your own calming room.

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One reason why Dee and Ken are able to easily have compelling conversations is because they genuinely care about one another. So, for this episode, the fellas talk about men's health and health in general in regards.

C: Care
P: Propping Up
T: Time for a check up.

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Part Deux or Due of Season 2 opening CPT conversation, CPT Part Two. This part of the conversation, Dee and Ken look at the conflation of CRT as many mix Critical Race Theory with Culturally Responsive Teaching with the dubbed Chris Rufo Theory.

Take a ride around the globe as the brothers use language to tie in the part 2 discussion.


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After some much needed time off, Ken and Dee are back for season 2 of the Liberated Educator Podcast produced by Brian Romero Smith Sr of 4:13Media.

In this episode, the CPT in centered around the misconceptions around CRT and using the Riverside High School teacher viral video as a catalyst to analyze the truths behind the current argument in schools.

This is part 1 of 2 conversations around the subject. Listen and learn as we continue to grow toward collective liberation.

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Our resident host, Victoria Thompson is back to close out Season 1 of The Liberated Educator Podcast. She joins Dee and Ken in a personal CPT conversation over: 

C:Cryptic
P: Platitudes
T: Takeaways
And yes, there is a Real Housewives reference...