Human Restoration Project

Transcripts can be found via our website, humanrestorationproject.org.In today's conversation we're joined by Tesha Fritzgerald,. Tesha is an urban education expert who currently serves as a district level leader in an urban school district in Ohio. She is a Martha Holding Jennings Foundation Scholar who has a passion for UDL and culturally responsive teaching, which has led her to publishing her recent book, Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success.I invited Tesha on to talk about pairing UDL and antiracist teaching, with a specific focus on:Demanding excellence in progressive, human-centered classrooms.Clarifying what UDL actually is.Clarifying how UDL and antiracism can coexist, when UDL has been critiqued for upholding a traditionalist lens.And actions we can take to build anti-racist, UDL-driven classrooms.GUESTSTesha Fritzgerald, an urban education expert who focuses on UDL, culturally responsive teaching, anti-racist teaching, and author of Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to SuccessRESOURCESAntiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success by Tesha FritzgeraldBuilding Blocks of Brilliance (Tesha Fritzgerald's website)Follow Tesha on Twitter!Article: Making Room for Asset Pedagogies by Benjamin DoxtdatorFURTHER LISTENINGPlanning Period Podcast - Episode 147: Tesha Fritzgerald73: School and the Carceral Network w/ Dr. Connie Wun

Transcripts can be found via our website, humanrestorationproject.org.Today we're joined by Dr. Tanu Biswas and Dr. John Wall. Dr. Biswas is a doctorate of pedagogy who focuses her research on children's civil disobedience for climate justice, and showcasing the richness that children and childhood have to offer adults. Dr. Wall is a theoretical ethicist who focuses on the idea of a moral life centered on language, power, culture, and childhood. His upcoming book, Give Children the Vote: How to Democratize Democracy argues for voting rights regardless of age.Our conversation centers on combatting adultism, or the power adults have over children and the discrimination of young people, which is more than present in society but in my opinion, amplified in the classroom. We talk about what adultism and childism mean, how to promote democracy, and the importance of civil disobedience.GUESTSDr. Tanu Biswas, doctorate of pedagogy and researcher focused on civil disobedience, children, and the intersection of climate justiceDr. John Wall, theoretical ethicist centered on language, power, culture, and childhoodRESOURCESThe Childism Institute (Rutgers)Children's Voting ColloquiumUpcoming Event!: Exploring Children Across Disciplines by (Jan 22, 2021 @ 8AM ET)Children’s Civil Disobedience in the Minority World & its Potential for Re-imagining the Educational by Tanu BiswasWhy Children Should Have the Right to Vote: An Argument for Proxy-Claim Suffrage by John WallFURTHER LISTENING34: Restoring Humanity to Education (Critical Pedagogy)

Transcripts can be found via our website, humanrestorationproject.org.Today we are joined by Dr. Jennifer Berkshire and Dr. Jack Schneider. Dr. Berkshire is a journalist and educator who focuses on podcasting and labor organizing at Boston College and Umass Amherst respectively, and Dr. Schneider is an education historian focused on reform and school accountability. Jennifer and Jack co-host the wonderful Have You Heard Podcast, which is focused on hot button issues in educational policy and current events, and both Chris and I highly recommend checking it out if you aren’t listening already.Our discussion today is going to cover a lot of ground but center on education reform, innovation, labor rights, unions, and change. There’s an odd dichotomy between progressive education and the assault on public education: a cognitive dissonance between the necessity for systemic reform while ensuring a free and accessible public education for the future and recognizing the need for organized labor as a path to a strong working class, that teacher unions are among the largest and most powerful in the country. Yet, there is a narrative - real or not - that unions are resistant to the change that many progressive educators want, and more recently, the notion that they have become the major roadblock to school reopenings in 2020.GUESTSDr. Jennifer Berkshire, journalist and educator focused on podcasting and labor organizing at Boston College & UMass AmherstDr. Jack Schneider, education historian centered on reform and school accountabilityRESOURCESA Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door by Dr. Berkshire & Dr. SchneiderReview: A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door by Nick CovingtonHave You Heard Blog/PodcastFURTHER LISTENING80: Pandemic Pods, School Choice, and Combating Inequity w/ Dr. Jon HaleThis Podcast Will Kill You: COVID-19 Chapter 10: SchoolsThis is Hell!: 1263: The end of public school / Jack Schneider + Jennifer Berkshire