This episode is a recording of my presentation session titled “Reviving Black History: Decolonizing Ontario Curriculums.” The Ontario Alliance of Black School Educators (ONABSE) Annual conference was such a joy to be a part of. I am sharing the recording of my presentation in hopes that you find something to take from my presentation! The discussion was rich, and I am so glad that people took something away from my lesson and presentation.

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Equity-focused leadership focuses on entry to leadership specifically in school systems but this conversation is applicable across sectors!

Jennifer Cheatham is a senior lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on education and co-chair of the Public Education Leadership Project, and the faculty co-chair of the Education, Leadership, Organizations and Entrepreneurship (ELOE) Program. Jennifer’s focus has been on leading for equity and transformational change in urban school districts.

In this episode, we talk about how Jen became interested specifically in equity-focused leadership, what that means for her and then we get into some specific details and examples of what equity focused leaders do, how they engage with their communities, and what is important for entry to leadership in polarizing times.

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This is part 2 of a two-part episode! The second half discusses how the content of what he taught turned into something he had not expected, and ultimately led him to be a consultant.

Jaiman, a leadership consultant, and former teacher talks about his background as a musician and teaching in a diversity of contexts. He dives deeper into his teaching experiences in India, and the Bronx, and how his classroom teaching has informed who he is today.

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Asher is on the Policy Team at the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL). He believes deeply in the power of public policy serving to improve the experiences of students, educators, and families. He shares his opinions and understanding of the current landscape and issues arising in the United States around SEL and how it has also gotten wrapped up in broader culture wars. Listen in for this insightful episode!

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This is a two-part episode! It was so difficult to title today's episode because one sentence does not cover our introspective musings around teaching and education in this episode.

Jaiman, a leadership consultant, and former teacher talks about his background as a musician, and his roots as a teacher in what he now sees as "adult teaching" (aka consulting). His leadership facilitation and consulting takes him around the world and we think about how our students have formed us into the people we are today.

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Sit tight for today’s episode! There was no holding back in our conversation about education, school systems, government, and the community’s role in bringing education to a better place. What is it going to take to change education? The answers in this episode were all over the place in the best way. The answer may have less to do with the education sector than we think.

Some questions we considered are as follows:

• What was schooling in its inception has it changed today in its purpose?

• How do the other public sectors of society directly affect and respond to the education sector?

• What do we understand about teenagers in schools, what drives them?

• What lies have Gen Z seen in pursuing careers that have led their trajectory differently than ours?

• How involved should the community be in public education?

  
  

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This week Megan and I co-host to discuss the new Ontario mandate to include Black history in grades 7, 8 and 10. Long overdue, but will we be disappointed? What do we speculate the differences to be in the curriculum, and are teachers uncomfortable teaching histories that aren’t their own? Listen to catch the answers to this and so much more!

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Join me in this episode as I speak with Safa Babikir, the product of an international education herself, and educator who has a breadth of knowledge on a range of topics in education. Listen to our musings about international education’s goals, and conditions. We pick apart the buzzwords, and reality on the ground of what international education means in most parts of the world. We answer questions about how international education could respond better to the changing world.

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