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S2E1 - "Who is centered, and who is this costing?" - How Julie Ruble talks about race and sexuality in class

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English - July 27, 2020 22:09 - 53 minutes - 73 MB - ★★★★★ - 18 ratings
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Next Episode: S2E2 - "You can't do this alone": La Junta Collective on "calling in" and collective healing

Full episode transcript here


Notes and references:


Part 1: First Aid (starts 7:15)


10:57 The GLSEN activity about using "gay" as an insult is here


14:49 Julie uses this video from Jay Smooth to help students understand why not to use the n-word


20:54 The book Jean is reading is We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love


Part 2: Design and Planning (21:30)


22:04 The person who gave Julie the idea to start from data is Ayo Heinegg Magwood. Follow her on Twitter at @UprootingInequi


22:54 The teacher who shares data about the Cross-Bronx Expressway is Edrick Macalaguim. Follow him on Twitter at @EdrickMac


24:38 The article Julie reads with her students Philando Castile is here


28:40 Julie worked with Nuvia Ruland to create the Social Justice Project Think Tank as a tool for project design


29:14 Here are the Stanford D. School Liberatory Design Cards


29:24 Ana de Almeida Amaral and Izadora McGawley, co-founders of High Tech High Chula Vista’s Ethnic Studies program, created this Culturally Responsive Project Tuning protocol


32:36 Read more about the poet Natasha Hooper here


38:35 The book Julie’s reading is Not Light but Fire by Matthew R. Kay


39:41 The University of Michigan activity about identities is the Social Identity Wheel


42:57 You should read the comment piece that High Tech High Chula Vista Ethnic Studies co-founder Ana de Almeida Amaral wrote for the San Diego Union Tribune


47:28 To find out more about student consulting, read For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood (And the Rest of Y’All Too) by Chris Emdin, and Engaging Students as Partners in Learning and Teaching by Alison Cook-Sather, Catherine Bovill, and Peter Felten


50:10 The book Julie’s talking about is The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander


Part 3: The Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) (43:50)


43:51 GLSEN has great resources for starting your own GSA here


51:46 Follow Julie on twitter at @julieruble


52:12 Follow Zaretta Hammond (@readyforrigor) and Cornelius Minor (@MisterMinor) on twitter


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