Talking To Myself: Recent Episodes
Malcolm Harvin-Wyche
Talking To Myself is where Blackness + Education intersect. This is a platform for the voices of black male educators and educators to authentically discuss their roles + ideals in the classroom and the world.
Hosts Malcolm & Malcolm discuss their experiences teaching summer school in D.C. The summer was a preview of what’s to come in the fall and helped build their anticipations and worries moving forward.
Hosts Malcolm & Malcolm have completed their residency year of Urban Teachers. Now we’re the lead teachers preparing for summer school. We talk to ourselves about what we’re worried about, looking forward to, and how we can use what we’ve learned in everyday classroom scenarios.
For episode 8, Malcolm & Malcolm sit down with Dr. Courtney Robinson to discuss the school-to-prison pipeline, radical education, and working to close the many gaps in education.
Hosts Malcolm and Malcolm reflect on completing their first year of grad school and discuss how the theory has impacted their practice.
For episode 6, hosts Malcolm and Malcolm take time to discuss various classroom management strategies and their opinions on what it means to discipline students.
For episode 5, hosts Malcolm and Malcolm discuss teacher burnout and what it takes to be committed to radicalizing education.
Hosts, Malcolm & Malcolm, discuss the importance of the language we use in the classroom when we speak to our students and when we teach our lessons. The discussion of language in the classroom makes us reflect on how we can reverse the systems of oppression that exists inside schools and create safe, engaging learning environments.
For episode 3 of Talking To Myself, hosts Malcolm & Malcolm discuss their life as student teachers. They talk about their experiences and how they envisioned the process working out and what happened in reality. The conversation then shifts to a discussion of bringing culturally relevant pedagogy to the classroom and how they can be culturally relevant through their language and actions in the classroom.
This episode hosts Malcolm and Malcolm talk more about their background as educators as they investigate and reminisce about their first experiences as teachers and what it means to truly lead a classroom. This conversation takes them more in-depth at their role and what they want to contribute to children as they continue to engage more and more students.
For the inaugural episode of Talking To Myself, hosts Malcolm & Malcolm discuss their definitions of education, how they came to be in the field of education, and the purpose for the podcasts.