The Critical Teacher Podcast: Recent Episodes
Blake Barber
The Critical Teacher is a weekly podcast that delves into the topic of education in the United States. Join me and my interview guests as we discuss the current events, the history, and the policies that have shaped and continues to shape education in the United States. If you have a question and would like to be featured in one of the episodes you can leave a voice message at https://anchor.fm/the-critical-teacher.
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When Teachers Strike is a 4- part series on what teachers do to protect the communities they serve. In Episode 2 we look at the myths and truths of teacher unions and discover it is an incredibly nuanced thing.
Here is Dr. Melissa Arnold Lyon's Most Recent Publication
Here is Dr. Jennifer Berkshire's latest book A Wolf at The Schoolhouse Door. Also listen to her on the podcast Have You Heard.
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When Teachers Strike is a 4- part series on what teachers do to protect the communities they serve. In Episode 1 we look at New Orleans and what happened to the teacher union after Hurricane Katrina.
Rethink Nola- its mission is to support youth of color in becoming thoughtful and capable leaders through the process of critically rethinking our educational experiences and taking action to create transformative systemic change. Please click link to donate
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On this month's episode of Saturday Sips I sit down with Samantha Greenleaf who works with and organization called Educators in Solidarity in Austin, Texas. We discuss what it looks like for educators to love and support the community they serve in order to build more equitable schools.
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Welcome to the first episode of the Critical Teacher Podcast in 2021. This episode I had the privilege of siting down with Dr. Derrick Robinson to discuss teacher effectiveness.
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In this month's episode of Saturday Sips I interview Larissa Gregory of LGed Consulting and we begin to answer the question of how can we make schools healthier places to work and learn.
Saturday Sips is an extension of the Podcast Five Minute Fridays, A podcast where I, a current doctorate student at the University of Memphis pursuing a degree in Education Policy talk about an educated related topic for 5 minutes. On Saturday sips I hope to balance the academic and scripted format of Five Minute Fridays with an interview structured podcast that platforms people’s experiential knowledge.
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In this last episode of 2020 I reflect on how schools are dehumanizing places but can also be places of healing.
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Schools are a product of what society values. They are petri dishes for societal ills to fester. I am being overly pessimistic with this statement. Schools and the people in them can be disrupters, but in my pessimism I want it to be clear that policy and the values behind the policies drive society. Society as a whole follows the path of least resistance without much thought, and policies often times offer frictionless funnels to the masking of the unethical with commonplace.
So instead of asking what are schools for? It is better to ask what is driving or influencing the policy affecting schools.
Find out more in this week's episode.
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This week on Five Minute Fridays we look at the cost of professional development and how it is a consequence of schools been seen as businesses. An excerpt is below as well as a link to a book I reference throughout the episode.
I turned in my last grad school assignment last week for the semester, which means I am leisurely reading a book entitled A Wolf at The Schoolhouse Door. It is about the marketization of public education or more simply put how policy is taking the public good of education and making it private. Reading this book made me think of several stats I catalogued throughout the semester. The first of which is that 50 largest districts across the United States spend 8 billion Dollars annually on professional development for teachers.
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Saturday Sips is an extension of the Podcast Five Minute Fridays, A podcast where I, a current doctorate student at the University of Memphis pursuing a degree in Education Policy talk about an educated related topic for 5 minutes. On Saturday sips I hope to balance the academic and scripted format of Five Minute Fridays with an interview structured podcast that platforms people’s experiential knowledge.
On this months Episode I have Becca Niiha share the impact of a history filled with colonization on public education for Indigenous people, as well as the hope and healing she has seen working in New Mexico.
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It is Indigenous People’s month and I want to platform their perception of schooling and their struggle to reclaim and reindigenize schools. Tomorrow an extended interview will be published with Becca Niiha, an indigenous Women working in New Mexico with Teach For America and new teachers as they enter into indigenous communities to teach.
Settler-colonialism is a framework that begins with the historic context of the colonizer taking up residence and announcing his citizenship and sovereignty of and over the land. From that historic reality, those who gained power and continue to have power due to the colonization of land and indigenous people will work to destroy and replace narratives that threaten their stolen power. Schooling in the theoretical framework is a device or tool that helps the powerful perpetuate the colonizer’s narrative.
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This week’s topic Hope and how to keep it
Paulo Freire, a founder of something called critical pedagogy, wrote in his book Pedagogy of Hope, “ The idea that hope alone will transform the world, and action undertaken in that kind of naïveté, is an excellent route to hopefulness, pessimism, and fatalism. But to attempt to do without hope, in the struggle to improve the world, as if that struggle could be reduced to calculated acts alone, or a purely scientific approach, is a frivolous illusion.”
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On this week's episode we say goodbye to Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and talk about future Secretary of Education possibilities.
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Once a month I will be releasing an interview based podcast in addition to my five minute Episodes on Fridays.
This week I had the privilege of interviewing a friend and discussing the intersection of queer identity and schooling.
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My Cup of Tea
Key Words: LGBTQ+, Schooling, Education, Policy, Podcasts,
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Pearson is a curriculum publishing and scholastic assessment service. In fact, they are the company that makes Tennessee's K-12 state tests. They are also the company that creates what is called the praxis tests and EdTPA, Praxis tests are standardized tests preservice teachers take andEdTPA is a portfolio that must be completed and passed if teachers are to get their certification.
Pearson with so much influence and with so much profit to gain compromises democracy within education.
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The project, authored by Nikole Hannah Jones, and the new curriculum use what is called critical race theory to analyze history and explain why the present is the way that it is. There a myriad of Critical theories: Critical Marxist theory, Critical Gender theory, and settler colonial theory are just few and each are simply acknowledging that the present is not made up rational individual choice, but that there structures and patterns at play that cause the world, and in the case of the 1619 project, this nation, to be that way that it is. Now you may disagree with a particular critical theory but the idea that there are patterns and structures at play that cause humans to act in a subconscious way doesn’t need to be controversial.
Keywords: 1619 Project, Curriculum, Education, Podcast
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EDreports - A Website that evaluates curriculums
Parent Blog- Even during online learning high quality curriculum and materials should be accessible to your child.
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In honor of Ruth Bader Ginsberg this weeks topic is Education Law. Specifically, The decision of Brown v. Board of Education.
Oliver Brown, a Black Man, wanted to enroll his daughter in a neighborhood elementary school. The school refused to admit his daughter because she was black and was to be bussed to a segregated elementary school. Oliver Brown with twelve other families filed a class action law suit that went all the way to the Supreme court. On May 17, 1954 The Supreme Court in a 9 to 0 decision ruled in favor of the Browns. This overturned Plessy v. Ferguson ending segregation in public schools.
The end
What a great story.
Well it actually isn’t because laws don’t actually matter.
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The profession of teaching is the fascinating nexus individual beliefs, historic moments, policies, and ideologies. Each of these streams play a significant role in how teachers see themselves, their jobs, the communities they teach in, and the students the interact with.
On this week's Episode I discuss how ideologies define what is good in policy making as well as how teachers are impacted by it.
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In this episode I focus is answering the question of what is policy? What are some criteria for good policy? And where can we start creating and supporting good policy making in education?
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Each week we will explore an education related topic, but today I wanted to explain the whys behind making a weekly five minute podcast and the fears that I have in broadcasting my ideas for others to hear.
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