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Diseducation
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Mignon Combs and Quynh Van are traumatized teachers of color. They're also funny, fearless, and fired up. Diseducation explores the Broken Teacher Diversity Pipeline and other crises in education with a focus on teachers as experts. With biting insight and hilarious chemistry, they're carving out the rot of white supremacy in U.S. schools, one episode at a time.
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S1E10 How Teachers of Color are Fleeing Education...
Mar 12, 202400:48:05Tap to summarizeThis episode, we ask: What is pushing teachers of color out of the classroom? What patterns can we identify?To answer these questions, we draw connections from interviews with 3 different teachers of color across the country who share why they chose to leave education and/or their school site as well as recent findings from the "Small, but Mighty" research project recently published by the education organization Research for Action.Join us for the finale where we bring all of the throughlines of this season together and ask one final question: What can we do to preserve teachers of color and support all students?
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S1E9 How School Admin Can Save Teachers of Color...
Mar 5, 202400:24:10Tap to summarizeWhat specific steps must school leaders take to retain teachers of color?
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S1E8 How Teachers of Color are Excluded from the Teachers' Lounge...
Feb 27, 202400:28:24Tap to summarizeHow does relational aggression harm teachers of color? When does relational aggression cross into racial discrimination? How does relational aggression uphold white supremacy?
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S1E7 How White Fragility Harms Teachers of Color...
Nov 14, 202300:33:35Tap to summarizeHow does white fragility turn schools into unsafe workplaces for teachers of color? How do white women position themselves as victims when committing racial harm? How do white people use exclusion as a tool to maintain inequity and punish colleagues of color?
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S1E6 How Racist Team Dynamics Harm Teachers of Color...
Nov 7, 202300:50:51Tap to summarizeJoin us for a guest interview with our former colleague, Teacher Amber, as we explore the following questions: How does racism color professional emails? How do different racial stereotypes shape how white people engage with their Black and Asian colleagues?
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S1E5 How Racist Curriculum Harms All...
Oct 31, 202300:40:32Tap to summarizeHow can curriculum design reinforce racism? How can student-centered pedagogy subvert white supremacy? What kind of resistance can teachers of color face when building curriculum with white teachers?
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S1E4 How Teachers of Color Decide Whether they Leave or Stay...
Oct 24, 202300:34:23Tap to summarizeJoin us for a guest interview with Teacher X as we discuss the following questions:What do teachers of color need in order to stay? What are the tipping points that push teachers of color to leave? What do teachers of color sacrifice in order to stay in the profession?
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S1E3 How Teachers of Color are Set Up to Fail...
Oct 17, 202300:29:07Tap to summarizeHow are teachers of color coerced into taking on diversity and equity work? What does this tokenization and additional labor look like? How does this inequitable workload contribute to burnout?
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S1E2 How Racist School Culture Harms All...
Oct 10, 202300:19:46Tap to summarizeHow does school culture reproduce white supremacy? What must people of color sacrifice in order to be a culture fit? How is assimilation an act of cultural suicide?
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S1E1 How Untransparent Hiring Harms Teachers of Color...
Oct 3, 202300:32:26Tap to summarizeHow is education pushing out teachers of color? How is the Broken Teacher Diversity Pipeline connected to the Problem Women of Color in the Workplace framework? How do schools mask their racism during the hiring process to seduce teachers of color?
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