Episode 9 Parts 1 and 2 Reimagining School with Special Guests Drs. Raina Leon and Mary Raygoza

Greetings (Un)hidden Voices, family welcome to episodes 9
parts 1 and 2. These next two episodes were filmed in one long
2-hour conversation that I had with my friends and co-authors
of Humanizing Online Teaching,
Raina Leon and Mary Raygoza. These women are faculty at Saint
Mary's College of California in the Single Subject Teacher
Education Program. They have been doing the work of humanizing
education. I really have a lot of admiration for both of them.
So, we sit down and we talk about how we reimagine school. It’s
this idea that we can’t go into our schools with the same
concepts that we had before because too much has happened. We’ve
lost too many people. We’ve lost nearly 200,000 people. Can you
imagine that? Nearly 200,000 people have died since school ended
last semester. We also have a pandemic of antiblackness that
caused the death and harm to Black folks and a movement for Black
lives. I figured out how to breathe over the course of this
summer. And part of my breathing is my recognition that as long
as I have a breath in my body I can make a contribution to the
movement for Black lives. And that’s what this episode is. That’s
what this podcast does. We really appreciate you for listening,
for learning, and for amplifying. Join our movement. Check us out
unhiddenvoices.org. Let’s keep learning and growing and breathing
together.