Teaching While White Podcast: Recent Episodes
Teaching While White
Over 80% of teachers in the U.S. are white. But most don’t know that their whiteness matters. TWW seeks to move the conversation forward on how to be consciously, intentionally, anti-racist in the classroom. Because "white" does not mean a blank slate. It is a set of assumptions that is the baseline from which everything is judged; it is what passes for normal. This means if you are not white or don’t adhere to those assumptions, you are abnormal or less than. TWW wants to have conversations about those assumptions: what they are, how they impact our students, and how we can confront our assumptions to promote racial literacy.
What does Cross racial solidarity look, sound and feel like? Elizabeth and Liza speak with Dr. Howard Stevenson about the need to acknowledge racial stress so that we can be authentic and antiracist in our cross racial relationships.
In this episode, Jenna and Liza talk with a cross racial team, Dr. Tabitha Moore and Erin Maguire, from Vermont public schools, about how they have been able to build a successful collaboration across race to effect greater change.
(Ep 24) Kevin Welner and Prudence Carter, Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance.
(Ep 25) John Diamond and Amanda Lewis, Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools
Edutopia: Moving Beyond Status in Math Class
Detracking, AVID atmosphere may improve students’ health, psychosocial outcomes
https://corp.smartbrief.com/original/2023/05/detracking-psychosocial-outcomes
NCTM: Catalyzing Change in Middle School Mathematics
Radical Math
The Algebra Project
Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers
Despite The Best Intentions
Learning for Justice Article
Detracking.com
Voices for Racial Justice
Integrated Schools
Episode Resources:
Prudence Carter and Kevin Welner, Closing the Opportunity Gap: What America Must Do to Give Every Child an Even Chance
Carol Burris and Delia Garrity, Detracking for Excellence and Equity
Jeannie Oaks, Keeping Track
American Progress report, Closing Advanced Coursework Equity Gaps for All Students
Learning for Justice, “How one school stopped tracking students”
Parent organizations:
Integrated Schools
Jenna spoke with Ellen Guettlet about her decision to move her children out of a predominantly white school in Minneapolis.
There are plenty of great resources out there. Gere are some to get started.
Social Justice Kids
Raising Race Conscious Children
Beyond the Golden Rule
Here is the music from City Love that we featured at the end!
To learn more about Kimberland Jackson and her work:
www.kimberlandjackson.com
IG: www.instagram.com/kimberlandj
www.mindingmyblackassbusiness.com
IG: www.instagram.com/mindingmyblackassbusiness
www.TheWholeChild.tv
In this episode, Jenna sat down with Nicole Post, an elementary school teacher from St. Louis. Nicole describes how she met with and challenged the resistance she faced from administrators and parents when teaching about race in her classroom.
Elizabeth sat down with Thu Anh Nguyen to discuss how the pandemic has highlighted white supremacy in schools.
Thu Anh Nguyen (she/her) is an educator and writer whose work centers around equity and justice. Thu Anh has led workshops and writes essays about cultural competence and literacy. She is also a poet. Her writing has been published in Literacy Today, Southern Humanities Review, Cider Press Review, and Crab Orchard Review. Make sure to read Thu’s blog as well. Thu can be reached through her website, www.thuanhnguyen.com .
Elizabeth sits down with author and coach, Elena Aguilar to talk about how race shows up in teaching coaching relationships.
A follow up from, To Teach or To Kill a Mockingbird, in this episode we hear from a group of multiracial students about their experiences studying this iconic text in schools
In this episode, Jenna speaks with William Yepes, a Spanish teacher in Cambridge, MA who is originally from Columbia. William talks about the false notion of "remaining neutral," and how his journey to becoming a US citizen defined his identity and his teaching practice.
Founders of Teaching While White Elizabeth Denevi and Jenna Chandler-Ward join third space to discuss white privilege, white allyship, white saviorism and more.
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Listen to "Examining White Privilege ft. Elizabeth Denevi and Jenna Chandler-Ward" on Spreaker.
Join us as we interview Shelly Tochluk and Christine Saxman who have been investigating white supremacist organizations and their tactics for recruiting white youth as new members, and what teachers and parents can do about it.
In this episode, we speak with Claudia Fox Tree, a Native American teacher, about the ways we teach about Indigenous Peoples in school- or don't.
In this episode, we learn about Project Lit, which was started by teacher Jarred Amato and his students at Maplewood High School. We hear from Jarred and his former student/Co-founder, Jakaylia about the need to rethink how we create readers and writers. Jarred has since switched schools and Jakaylia is now a Freshman in College, but Project Lit is still going strong.
Who decides what books are worthy of study and which voices are included in the literary canon? Interviews with Tricia Ebarvia and Jack Hill.
We spoke with Rosetta Lee and Nathan Tanaka to uncover some of what is behind the myth and it's realtionship to whiteness.
Our season launch continues with an interview of John Biewen- host of the series, Seeing White on the podcast Scene on Radio. Biewen reflects on the evolution of his podcast, exposing historical myths, and making whiteness visible.
In this episode, we hear from Peggy McIntosh, author of, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, and also Debby Irving, author of Waking Up White. Both guests reflect on why they feel it is important to make whiteness visible.
What price are we paying for racial segregation in the classroom and what role can white teachers play in solving the problems that come with racial isolation in schools? Interviews with Ralph Wales, Dr. Eddie Moore Jr., and Alethea White.