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Hosts, Andrew, a White dad from Denver, and, Val, a Black mom from North Carolina, dig into topics about race, parenting, and school segregation. With a variety of guests ranging from parents to experts, these conversation strive to live in the nuance of a complicated topic.
Unearthing Joy: Gholdy Muhammad on Teaching with Love
The Integrated Schools Podcast
54 minutes
6 months ago
Unearthing Joy: Gholdy Muhammad on Teaching with Love
"If we're not centering children’s humanity through love, there's no strategy, no professional book or instructional method in the world that can prepare the teacher to elevate the child." - Dr. Gholdy Muhammad
Identity, skills, intellectualism, criticality, and joy. These are the five pursuits that Dr. Gholdy Muhammad argues are key to education. Our educational system focuses most of its attention on skills while often overlooking the other pursuits to the detriment of all kids. All people need to know who they are and whose they are, need to put the knowledge they gain into action, need to learn to distinguish between truth and lies, and to critically examine the stories we are told, and everyone needs joy. An education system, not to mention a society, that focuses on all five pursuits has the possibility of bringing out the genius in all of us. Underlying all of these pursuits is love.
Dr. Muhammad joins us to discuss what teaching, parenting, and being part of community can look like with a focus on these pursuits.
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Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy - https://bookshop.org/a/18658/9781338594898
Unearthing Joy: A Guide to Culturally and Historically Responsive Curriculum and Instruction - https://bookshop.org/a/18658/9781338856606
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Music by Kevin Casey.
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The Integrated Schools Podcast
Hosts, Andrew, a White dad from Denver, and, Val, a Black mom from North Carolina, dig into topics about race, parenting, and school segregation. With a variety of guests ranging from parents to experts, these conversation strive to live in the nuance of a complicated topic.
