Changing Course: Reimagining Education for America's Students
Teach For America's One Day Studio, Pod People
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Back for Season 2, Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America’s One Day Studio that explores what’s possible within education. This season focuses on efforts by educators and activists to attract and retain BIPOC teachers and the critical impact on classroom learning and students. Host Jonathan Santos Silva (South Dakota ‘10)—a former teacher and principal and host of the podcast The Bored of Ed—speaks with students, teachers, and administrators at innovative nonprofits to find out how they break down barriers and improve student outcomes.
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Apr 11, 2023
Not Just Another Building
During an educators' meeting in Memphis, KeAsia Norman, a BIPOC educator and aspiring school leader said, “If a school isn’t actively engaged in the community, it’s just another building.” In this special live episode, host Jonathan Santos Silva is joined by a panel of innovative BIPOC educators and Teach For America alumni passionate about radically re-imagining the role of school within communities. Through their unique insights, we learn how to transform school buildings into vital community spaces that better reflect their students’ and staff’s needs.
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Featured speakers include:
Tony Delarosa, Educator, Writer, and Thought Leader
Ebony Payne Brown, Founder and Executive Director at PEACE Academy Charter
Christopher Sandoval, Performing Arts Teacher & Department Head at Kipp Comienza Community Prep
Each of these educators have been featured in One Day Studio’s video storytelling. To learn more about their work please check out the following resources:
Ebony Payne Brown: Starting an Afrocentric School like PEACE Academy Charter
Tony DelaRosa: Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and Teaching AAPI Narratives
Christopher Sandoval: When Spirits Dance: Exploring Identity Through Día de los Muertos Traditions
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Mar 28, 2023
Investing in Education’s Future: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with Teach for America leaders about the importance of investing in BIPOC educators and the work TFA is doing to remove the barriers that keep them out of the classroom.
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Resources:
Teach For America
Joining Teach For America
TFA’s Black Community Alliances
TFA’s Native Community Alliances
TFA’s AAPI Community Alliances
TFA’s Latinx Alliances
TFA’s National Prism Alliances
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Mar 14, 2023
Investing in Native Leadership
In this special bonus episode, we hear from guest host Kayla Camacho, a 2014 Teach For America Dallas-Fort Worth alum, and leaders across Teach for America’s network who are innovating culturally relevant methods for recruiting and supporting Native educators to better serve Native students' success.
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Resources:
TFA’s Native Community Alliances
National Indian Education Association
Leading Educators through Alternative Pathways (LEAP)
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Feb 28, 2023
Nuestra Comunidad (Our Community): Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with Amanda Fernandez, CEO and Founder of Latinos for Education (L4E) in Boston, MA, and Jay Alvarez, a high school educator in Houston, TX, and participant in L4E’s Latinx Teachers’ Fellowship, about the impact of increasing opportunities for Latinx educators.
As the first Latinx-founded and led nonprofit dedicated to creating leadership pathways for emerging Latinx leaders, Latinos for Education is committed to building an ecosystem of Latinx advocates by infusing Latinx talent into positions of influence. By developing, placing, and connecting essential Latinx leaders in the education sector, L4E strives to break down barriers to educational opportunities for the next generation of Latinx students.
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
Resources:
Latinos for Education
TFA’s Latinx Alliances
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Feb 14, 2023
Healed Teachers Heal Students: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with Dr. Wenimo Okoya, Founder of Healing Schools Project. Based in Newark, New Jersey, the non-profit intentionally centers the experience of BIPOC educators, believing that when interventions are built around those furthest away from systemic privilege, educators and students of all backgrounds benefit. Healed teachers heal students.
Healing Schools Project helps educators from around the country collectively address toxic school cultures that cause burnout and steer them out of the classroom. By creating school cultures that value community care over self-care, Healing Schools Project helps teachers and students thrive by build healthy and sustainable school environments.
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Jan 31, 2023
A Black Man’s Classroom: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with leaders and educators from Brothers Liberating Our Communities (BLOC) in Kansas City, Missouri, about making teaching a sustainable career for Black men. Inspired by the work of Sharif El-Mekki from the Center for Black Educator Development (featured in Episode 201), BLOC began curating professional development specifically for Black men in education. Through connection, development, and engagement, the team has retained 100% of BLOC members. Founder Cornell Ellis and the team at BLOC hope that one day all students will have access to equal representation and revolutionary Black male educators.
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Jan 17, 2023
Homegrown Leaders: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with leaders and educators from Nashville Teacher Residency (NTR) in Nashville, Tennessee, to explore how the next generation of teachers may already be working within our schools.
Nashville Teacher Residency is a one-year program focused on rebuilding the teacher pipeline using Tennessee’s “Grow Your Own” model. By sourcing teacher candidates already working within local schools (e.g., cafeteria workers, paraprofessionals, or behavior interventionists), the program provides financial resources to help residents transition into the education field and earn their teaching licenses. With support from highly effective mentor teachers, NTR positions passionate teachers with diverse professional experiences to become high-performing full-time educators who enrich the lives of the students they are already committed to.
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Jan 3, 2023
The Purest Form of Activism: Elevating BIPOC Educators (S2)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with leaders and educators from The Center for Black Educator Development in Philadelphia, PA, about how to create safe spaces that value and invest in young Black leaders. The Center is the first teaching academy in Philadelphia dedicated to investing in the next generation of Black teachers, starting as early as high school. Guided by the lens that excellent education is a political act, Sharif El-Mekki and his team at the Center demonstrate how restoring education to disenfranchised students is the purest form of activism.
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Jan 3, 2023
Changing Course Season Two: Elevating BIPOC Educators
Changing Course, a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio, is back with Season Two! Host Jonathan Santos Silva (South Dakota ‘10) will sit down with innovative nonprofits from across the country that are committed to attracting, training, and retaining BIPOC educators. Each episode will feature thoughtful conversations about how organizations are investing in and providing careers where BIPOC staff can flourish. Season Two of Changing Course is back in January 2023.
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Dec 14, 2022
Introducing: Untextbooked
Bonus Episode in Partnership with UnTextbooked: Gavin Scott, currently a Sophomore at Columbia University, interviews Dr. Brenda Child, author of the book Boarding School Seasons: American Indian Families 1900-1940 and his Great Aunt Babe. They talk about Native boarding schools across North America and how they affected the lives of the students that attended them (some of which were Gavin’s ancestors). It offers a look at a particular set of experiences at Native boarding schools and is not meant to be reflective of all boarding schools across the U.S. and Canada at all moments in history.
About UnTextbooked: United by their curiosity and a thirst for knowledge that extends beyond the classroom, the UnTextbooked podcast is a global student-led search for truth. UnTextbooked is not affiliated with Teach For America.
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Jul 5, 2022
Seated at the Table: Students Take Their Seats at the Table (S1)
In this special bonus episode, host Jonathan Santos Silva gathers students and educators from season one of Changing Course for a live roundtable discussion about the power of student-staff partnerships, the impact of diversity and authentic cultural representation, and the importance of failure.
Featured speakers include:
Hailey Ho (Student) - DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach, Hawaii
Katie (Alum) - The MET School, Rhode Island
Jamilah Bullock (Lead Designer)- North Phillips School of Innovation, North Carolina
Andrew Spector (Co-founder/Program Director)- TulsaChangemakers, Oklahoma
Dana Haukaas (Principal) - Todd County Middle School, South Dakota
Changing Course is a podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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May 17, 2022
Rooted in Relationship: Students Take Their Seats at the Table (S1)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva rounds out the season with a return to his old stomping grounds in South Dakota, where he speaks with staff and students at Todd County Middle School about how practices from Lakota culture help foster an inclusive environment and help build healthy student-staff relationships.
Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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May 3, 2022
Better Together: Students Take Their Seats at the Table (S1)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with staff and student activists from West High School in Denver, CO, about how they mobilized to successfully reunite their school years after it was split in two.
Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Apr 19, 2022
Young Changemakers: Students Take Their Seats at the Table (S1)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with the students and leaders of Kendall-Whittier Elementary in Tulsa, OK, about how students in the Tulsa Changemakers program are finding their voice and learning skills that are helping them make change in their communities.
Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Apr 5, 2022
Culture, Community, and Care: Students Take Their Seats at the Table (S1)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with the students and leaders of DreamHouse ‘Ewa Beach in Kapolei, HI, about how leadership engagement begins with embracing your identity as an individual and a community. Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Mar 22, 2022
The Gift of Unlearning: Students Take Their Seats at the Table (S1)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with students and educators at The MET School in Providence, Rhode Island, about how designing a curriculum around a student’s unique passions and unlearning traditional academic expectations helps every student become their own valedictorian. Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Mar 8, 2022
Microschool, Major Changes: Students Take Their Seats at the Table (S1)
Host Jonathan Santos Silva speaks with the students and leaders of North-Phillips School of Innovation in Tarboro, N.C., about what it looks like to partner with and design a school based on the needs of its most important stakeholders: the students and the community they serve. Changing Course is a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio.
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Feb 22, 2022
Changing Course Season One: Students Take Their Seats at the Table
Introducing Changing Course, a new podcast from Teach For America's One Day Studio. Host Jonathan Santos Silva will bring you conversations from six schools across the country that are reinventing education with students at the center. Each episode will feature stories about how teachers are partnering with students and what that can teach us about the future of education. Changing Course launches Spring 2022.
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