IT IS OUR 50TH EPISODE, Y’ALL. FITTY! The boyz are back, checking in after a hard few weeks. We discuss the new bad weather policy in the district, the impending school ratings, and adopting a mindset of solidarity with our students as we navigate accountability measures within a political climate that has no doubt elevaned ... Read moreFITTY.

It’s Back to School night for the fellas, and before we meet parents and members of our larger community, we reflect on the first month of the 2019-2020 school year. What are we discovering? What are we as a community not yet good at? Also, get a sneak preview of the stuff we’re gettin into, ... Read moreEpisode 49: Back to Skool!

The boyz are back, can you believe it? Neither can they. The summer is over, and the new school year has hit us like a freight train! But through the mayhem of understanding the school focus, making sense of a post- (and maybe pre-) strike world, and a teaching world that calls upon us to ... Read moreEpisode 48, the Season 4 Premiere! School Daze…

A very special guest, on the heels of a rousing and inspirational performance at the end of the NEA Conference on Racial and Social Justice, Taina Asili has been refining her music and her community activism for decades. The child of artist-educator-activists, she embodies the life well-lived: advocacy for your community, solidarity with communities in ... Read more#TooDope #Revolutionaries #Mixtape Track 8, Episode 48: Taina Asili

When the system fails to meet the needs of our young people, we have a choice to make. But sometimes their needs are so invisible to people in power that we need to go it alone. Meet the courageous Freedom Educators of the MAPSO Freedom School, in the joint South Orange-Maplewood School District, serving two ... Read moreTrack 7, Episode 47: The MapSO Freedom School

Sometimes the struggle finds us and we have a decision to make. Meet Jesyca Mathews, Language Arts teacher out of Flint, Michigan, who has not only engaged in the fight for clean water, a basic human need, but has also helped her students to raise their voices and power to fight. Though things have improved ... Read more#TooDope #Revolutionaries #SummerMixtape Track 6, Episode 46: Jesyca Mathews, Flint Educator and Activist

During Track 3 of our summer #Revolutionaries #Mixtape series, we chop it up with Karen Reyes-Lozano, DACA teacher from Austin, Texas. She speaks openly and honestly about the importance of sharing our narratives and advocating for systemic and ideological change in the treatment and opportunities we expose our undocumented youth to. This is an episode ... Read more#TooDope #Revolutionaries Mixtape Track 5, Episode 45: Undocumented and Unafraid, with Karen Reyes Lozano

The fellas take a breather after a morning of incredible conversations with revolutionary educators, whose work is redefining what it means to be an engaged educator, public intellectual, and public servant. You will hear previews from some conversations, reviews of others, and we attempt to synthesize what it all means for us in our work ... Read more#TooDope #Revolutionaries Mixtape Track 4, Episode 44: Lunch Interlude

Our summer #Revolutionaries #Mixtape rolls on with our conversation with Terry Jess and Micah Kruser, who will discuss effective and disruptive white allyship, as well as the roll that white educators may play in supporting students of color. We all aspire to the level of collaboration and partnership modeled by Terry and Micah, don’t miss ... Read more#TooDope #Revolutionaries #Mixtape Track 3, Episode 43: Terry Jess and Micah Kruser

Sorry to Bother You, but our summer mixtape rolls on! This track features the incredible revolutionary artist Boots Riley! Best known for the landmark film Sorry to Bother You, Boots has been a mainstay in grassroots movements all over the world. Raised by community-minded revolutionaries, Boots eventually became identified with the rebel hip hop collective ... Read more#Revolutionaries #Summer #Mixtape Track 2, Episode 42: Boots Riley!