Hearken to the interview with Shane Safir, Jamila Dugan, Araceli Leon, and Amanda Liebel (transcript):
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A couple of 12 months and a half in the past, I did an interview with two educators, Shane Safir and Jamila Dugan, about their new e book, Road Knowledge. The e book is in regards to the strategy they’d developed for serving to faculties rework. As quickly as I learn the e book, I knew it was one thing I wished all faculties to listen to about, as a result of for the primary time, I felt like I had discovered one thing that would really resolve a number of the greatest issues we’ve got with actually assembly our college students’ wants equitably and authentically.
What I completely love in regards to the Road Knowledge strategy is that it’s sort of messy. It presents no fast fixes. In contrast to so many different options that we suggest for fixing the large, deep, complicated issues that plague our training system, Road Knowledge is totally completely different, as a result of at its core, it depends on sitting down with the scholars and different stakeholders on the margins, those that usually by no means get a voice, and easily listening to them to study what they want with the intention to be extra profitable in school.
And “profitable” means one thing completely different within the Road Knowledge lexicon: As an alternative of specializing in check scores, grades, and different metrics that we usually use to measure success, their standards for fulfillment are far more holistic, with pupil well-being as the final word purpose. And I don’t know if there has ever been one other time in historical past when it’s been extra obvious that lots of our college students will not be effectively.
I used to be so blown away by the Road Knowledge strategy that after we completed our interview in October of 2021, I proposed that we take it additional: As a lot as I felt that their e book might assist educators change faculties in ways in which they desperately wanted to be modified, I frightened that the e book by itself might not be sufficient, that academics who actually wished to do that work wanted extra help. Whereas Jamila and Shane do work immediately with faculties by way of this course of, they’re solely two folks and may solely attain so many colleges by being bodily with them. So I proposed that we discover just a few faculties who can be keen to have their Road Knowledge cycle videotaped, then share their course of with the world.
And that’s precisely what we did. From February to November 2022, academics from two faculties — one in British Columbia in Canada, and one other in San Francisco, California — met eight occasions over Zoom, going step-by-step by way of the Fairness Transformation Cycle outlined in Road Knowledge.
The results of that work is a nine-video collection that we’re releasing on YouTube at this time. The primary six movies can be found proper now, and the remaining three might be launched over the subsequent few weeks. The quickest strategy to discover the playlist is thru the URL cultofpedagogy.com/streetdataseries.
My hope in producing this collection is that teams of educators will use it along with the e book to work by way of the fairness transformation cycle at your individual faculty.
Within the podcast interview above, I discuss in regards to the collection with Shane and Jamila, together with two academics, Araceli Leon and Amanda Liebel, academics who participated within the challenge.
The video under introduces the collection:
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Discover the complete video collection at cultofpedagogy.com/streetdataseries.
Discover Shane Safir at shanesafir.com or on Twitter at @shanesafir.
Discover Jamila Dugan at jamiladugan.com or on Twitter at @jamiladugan.
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