Check out the Teaching While White Podcast Hosted by Jenna Chandler-Ward: https://www.teachingwhilewhite.org/podcast

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Test Anxiety Toolkit ($4): https://black-on-black-ed.kit.com/products/pre-testing-toolkit?promo=OFFER

• 3 practical tools to help students recognize anxiety and build strategies that actually work for them.

The Ten Toes Down Summer Mastermind ($44): 

• A low-commitment space to see my work is really for you, with 10 self-paced audio trainings, a revolutionary teaching workbook, and two 90-minute live coaching calls in July.

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• 12 video modules breaking down the revolutionary teaching framework. If this episode touched you, jump in and start with identity embodiment and self-work.

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• A membership community with two live coaching calls per month, 40+ audio trainings, and ongoing support.

Email or DM me about Custom one-on-one coaching designed for exactly where you are.

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This is a raw, off-the-cuff episode I felt called to record on my drive to work after choosing a slow morning. It is exactly what you need to hear if you're crumbling under the weight of a system that was never built for you or your students.

Summer vacation along won't fix it, choose where you want to start your Revolutionary Teaching Journey:

The Revolutionary Reaching Toolkit ($14.44): https://black-on-black-ed.kit.com/products/the-revolutionary-teaching-toolkit?promo=ACCESS&step=checkout

•  Eight ready-to-use community-building resources for end-of-year connection and reflection.

Test Anxiety Toolkit ($4): https://black-on-black-ed.kit.com/products/pre-testing-toolkit?promo=OFFER

• 3 practical tools to help students recognize anxiety and build strategies that actually work for them.

The Ten Toes Down Summer Mastermind ($44): https://black-on-black-ed.kit.com/products/the-ten-toes-down-summer-mastermind?promo=POD&step=checkout

• A low-commitment space to see my work is really for you, with 10 self-paced audio trainings, a revolutionary teaching workbook, and two 90-minute live coaching calls in July.

The Revolutionary Teaching Course ($104): https://black-on-black-ed.kit.com/products/revolutionary-teaching-course?promo=%24104&step=checkout

• 12 video modules breaking down the revolutionary teaching framework. If this episode touched you, jump in and start with identity embodiment and self-work.

The Liberation Library ($44/month): https://black-on-black-ed.kit.com/products/liberationlibrarycommunity?step=checkout

• A membership community with two live coaching calls per month, 40+ audio trainings, and ongoing support.

Email or DM me about Custom one-on-one coaching designed for exactly where you are.

• Email: [email protected]
• DM me: https://www.instagram.com/blackonblacked/

In this episode, Jazmine Jackson and I get real about the gap between what the education system says it values and what kids actually experience in classrooms shaped by stress, compliance culture, and adult ego.

This conversation digs into the brain science every revolutionary educator needs if they’re serious about building liberatory spaces.

What We Talked About

• How misunderstanding the brain leads to mislabeling Black and Brown students as “defiant,” “unmotivated,” or “low.”

• Why true equity work can’t exist without understanding how stress, safety, and belonging shape learning.

• The failure of data-driven systems that ignore the nervous system.

• What it looks like to shift from control to connection in order to build classrooms where students actually thrive.

Join the Waitlist for the Radical Retreat: Becoming the Educator of Your Dreams

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• LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/evalaurenejean-charles

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• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gardenfairy_frolicking/

This week on The Resistance: An Underground Educators Podcast, I sit down with Dr. Jamila Lyiscott, a poet, scholar, and truth-teller working to dismantle one of education’s biggest lies: that the way our students speak, think, and move is something that needs to be fixed.

This episode is not for the faint of heart. It’s for the educators ready to count the cost, reclaim the classroom as sacred space, and restore dignity to the voices and cultures schools have tried to erase.

Stay Connected:

• Follow Dr. Jamila Lyiscott – https://www.instagram.com/jamila_lyiscott/
  

• Meet me on Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/blackonblacked/
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This week on The Resistance: An Underground Educators podcast, I interviewed Akosua Harvey, an educator, author, and my friend, to discuss her journey in education, the importance of community, storytelling, and authenticity in teaching. We explore the challenges educators face, the power of affirmations, and the need for a supportive environment for both teachers and students. This conversation emphasizes the significance of seeing students as whole individuals and the role of educators in shaping the future.

Mentioned in the Episode:

• Big Classroom Energy: The Standard Is You (feat. Eugene Banks): https://creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/blackonblacked/episodes/Big-Classroom-Energy-The-Standard-Is-You-feat--Eugene-Banks-e346rem

Connect With Our Guest:

• Follow Ms. Ako on IG: https://www.instagram.com/ms.akosroom/
• Pre-order Why the Birds Fly Back: https://www.stirredstories.com/buy/p/why-the-birds-fly-back
• Subscribe to her Newsletter: https://akosuaharvey.substack.com/

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This week on The Resistance, I had the absolute honor of sitting down with Michelle Pianim aka the Olivia Pope of Special Education. We went deep on what it really means to fix broken school systems while empowering parents to reclaim their agency in the special education process. If you’ve ever wrestled with the tension between holding schools accountable and supporting families, this episode is for you.

Connect with Michelle:

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• Liberation Library (our educator community): https://black-on-black-ed.kit.com/products/liberationlibrarycommunity

This week I'm just checking in after over a month of missing y'all. This is the break down of what to expect as I come on back to the pod.

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In this episode of The Resistance: An Underground Educators Podcast, I’m breaking down the three steps to becoming the educator you’ve always dreamed of being, without burning out or selling out. We’ll talk about how to get quiet and connect to your joy, how to build unshakable confidence, and how to get in community so your fire for this work never goes out.

Grab and pen and start defining the educator of your dreams:

• When was the last time you felt alive in your classroom?
• What were you doing?
• What were your students doing?

Write it down. Those are the moments that define the educator of your dreams, keep them close, because we’ll use them next week to build your pedagogy statement (make sure you sign up for the newsletter for a breakdown of how PS help you become the educator of your dreams & the step-by-step of how to write one).

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In this episode, I had the absolute honor of sitting down with Dr. Daphne Chamberlain and Benjamin Saulsberry, two freedom fighters whose work is rooted in truth, history, and justice. We went deep on the role young people have always played in liberation movements and what it means for us as educators today. Spoiler alert: Our students aren’t waiting to be empowered, they’ve always had power. It’s on us to stop underestimating them and start making space for them to lead.

We talked about the story of Emmett Till, and his mother Mamie Till-Mobley, the 1946 student-led bus boycott in Jackson, Mississippi, the activism of high schoolers long before the names we usually uplift, and the mindset shift educators must make to truly center student voice. If you’ve ever felt the urge to do school differently, this one is for you.

Resources I Mentioned

• The Emmett Till Interpretive Center Events (August 2025): https://www.emmett-till.org
  

• Book Shoutouts: Local People: The Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi by John Dittmer & Mississippi, Conflict and Change: A New Edition by James W. Loewen

• Join the Liberation Library: This is where we go beyond inspiration and actually build revolutionary classrooms together. Weekly trainings, monthly live group coaching, and a community to walk in the work with you.

Reflection Prompt: Where in my current practice am I dimming student voice instead of amplifying it?

This episode of The Resistance: An Underground Educators Podcast is your permission slip to use some time this summer to reconnect with the revolutionary that lives inside of you. I’m breaking down what a Radical Retreat really looks like and no, it's not a luxury vacation, but a radical act of reclaiming your joy, creativity, and purpose as an educator. Whether I’m in the park with a book or finally returning to the practices that bring me alive, I’m inviting you to join me in resisting burnout by committing to what truly nourishes your spirit. If you’re tired of just getting by and ready to get free, this episode is your next step.

Links + Resources Mentioned:

• Join the Liberation Library

• Sign up for the Ten Toes Down Summer Mastermind

• Support the show

• Book: Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks

• Book: Rest Is Resistance by Tricia Hersey

• Book: The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

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