Topic: Racism

Bob and Liz join us today in the wake of both a rise in incidents and increased coverage of anti-Asian hate crimes and racism in the past weeks, months, and year.

Schools can take steps to increase student racial diversity--but sometimes putting policies into practice is more complicated than it should be.

The Heinemann Podcast is celebrating four years and 200 episodes!

How do we go beyond the cosmetic fixes of racial inequality in education and go further?

Three years ago, we started this episode of the podcast by saying; not talking about racism is not a solution. We sought to have a conversation about dismantling racism in education after a Heinemann Fellows panel on the subject. As we listen to this conversation through the lens of 2020, it’s now not enough to talk about dismantling racism, rather we must take actions to be anti-racist.

This week on the Heinemann Podcast, we’re handing things over to Heinemann Fellow, Minjung Pai.

Bob Kim explores his work around what he calls 'discipline disparity' and the school to prison pipeline.

If we accept that discomfort is inevitable but silence is not a strategy, what practices or systems in your school can you examine in order to confront and change outcomes for students of color?

PLC Series: Decentering Our Perceptions of Language

PLC Series: Advocacy, Not Neutrality

Today we discuss the responsibility we have as educators to strive for social justice.