Great Lakes Equity Center

In this Equity Spotlight Podcast, Dr. Payno-Simmons and Dr. Skelton introduce the concept of rightful presence as it relates to education; discuss the importance of shifting towards policy and practice with respect to this concept; and offer practical examples, actions, and implications associated with embracing a spirit of rightful presence.   Suggested Resources:

Learning to Living Together is a four-part podcast series about inclusion and school integration in the twenty-first century. Across the four episodes, we delve into the meanings, tensions, and practices of integration and inclusion in today's context. 

Learning to Living Together is a four-part podcast series about inclusion and school integration in the twenty-first century. Across the four episodes, we delve into the meanings, tensions, and practices of integration and inclusion in today's context.

Learning to Living Together is a four-part podcast series about inclusion and school integration in the twenty-first century. Across the four episodes, we delve into the meanings, tensions, and practices of integration and inclusion in today's context.

Learning to Living Together is a four-part podcast series about inclusion and school integration in the twenty-first century. Across the four episodes, we delve into the meanings, tensions, and practices of integration and inclusion in today's context.

embRACE is a series of conversations between scholars, teachers, and students that are committed to demystifying and eliminating the fear and hesitancy around discussing race in schools. Our goal is to understand how race serves as an intellectual area of knowledge that can help us deconstruct and develop ideas in hosts of content areas. embRACE works to help educators share instructional approaches that utilize race in constructive ways as we also examine how learning can advance social justice efforts to eliminate racism.

On March 19th 2020, COVID-19 forced schools to abruptly close and shift to online and hybrid learning, uprooting the lives of caregivers, students, and all school personnel. This podcast series will center the voices of caregivers, students, and school staff members as they discuss their online and hybrid learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this podcast series, multiple stakeholders will gain first-hand insight into the various ways caregivers, students, and school staff members navigated and continue to navigate schooling during a pandemic.

On March 19th 2020, COVID-19 forced schools to abruptly close and shift to online and hybrid learning, uprooting the lives of caregivers, students, and all school personnel. This podcast series will center the voices of caregivers, students, and school staff members as they discuss their online and hybrid learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this podcast series, multiple stakeholders will gain first-hand insight into the various ways caregivers, students, and school staff members navigated and continue to navigate schooling during a pandemic.

On March 19th 2020, COVID-19 forced schools to abruptly close and shift to online and hybrid learning, uprooting the lives of caregivers, students, and all school personnel. This podcast series will center the voices of caregivers, students, and school staff members as they discuss their online and hybrid learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this podcast series, multiple stakeholders will gain first-hand insight into the various ways caregivers, students, and school staff members navigated and continue to navigate schooling during a pandemic.

On March 19th 2020, COVID-19 forced schools to abruptly close and shift to online and hybrid learning, uprooting the lives of caregivers, students, and all school personnel. This podcast series will center the voices of caregivers, students, and school staff members as they discuss their online and hybrid learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this podcast series, multiple stakeholders will gain first-hand insight into the various ways caregivers, students, and school staff members navigated and continue to navigate schooling during a pandemic.

On March 19th 2020, COVID-19 forced schools to abruptly close and shift to online and hybrid learning, uprooting the lives of caregivers, students, and all school personnel. This podcast series will center the voices of caregivers, students, and school staff members as they discuss their online and hybrid learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this podcast series, multiple stakeholders will gain first-hand insight into the various ways caregivers, students, and school staff members navigated and continue to navigate schooling during a pandemic.

On March 19th 2020, COVID-19 forced schools to abruptly close and shift to online and hybrid learning, uprooting the lives of caregivers, students, and all school personnel. This podcast series will center the voices of caregivers, students, and school staff members as they discuss their online and hybrid learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this podcast series, multiple stakeholders will gain first-hand insight into the various ways caregivers, students, and school staff members navigated and continue to navigate schooling during a pandemic.

On March 19th 2020, COVID-19 forced schools to abruptly close and shift to online and hybrid learning, uprooting the lives of caregivers, students, and all school personnel. This podcast series will center the voices of caregivers, students, and school staff members as they discuss their online and hybrid learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this podcast series, multiple stakeholders will gain first-hand insight into the various ways caregivers, students, and school staff members navigated and continue to navigate schooling during a pandemic.

On March 19th 2020, COVID-19 forced schools to abruptly close and shift to online and hybrid learning, uprooting the lives of caregivers, students, and all school personnel. This podcast series will center the voices of caregivers, students, and school staff members as they discuss their online and hybrid learning experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. Through this podcast series, multiple stakeholders will gain first-hand insight into the various ways caregivers, students, and school staff members navigated and continue to navigate schooling during a pandemic.

In Episode Two of this Equity Spotlight Podcast, Educational Segregation in Spain, Dr. Federico Waitoller continues the conversation from Episode One: A Legislative Initiative Begins with returning and new scholars and activists. Will the Zubiak Eraikiz, or “building bridges" initiative, be successful in garnering support to bring attention to/remediate school segregation in the Basque school system? And how do these circumstances compare to the US context?

In Episode Three of this Equity Spotlight Podcast, Educational Segregation in Spain, we delve deeper into the causes of school segregation in Spain. We examine the causes advanced by the ILP, and we talk to the experts, to researchers, to see how they align or not with research findings. We conclude this episode comparing the causes of school segregation in Spain with the US.

In this fourth and final episode Educational Segregation in Spain, we delve into the solutions for school segregation proposed by the ILP and compare them to those advanced by research. We also find out if the Basque Parliament took up school segregation as an issue to debate. A final twist leaves the door open for what is to come. 

In Episode One of this Equity Spotlight Podcast, Educational Segregation in Spain, Dr. Federico Waitoller speaks to scholars about historical and contemporary issues surrounding school segregation, and desegregation efforts, in Spain. In this, he compares and contrasts parallel issues in the US.

In the finale episode of That's All Folx Noelle, Katy, and Erin reflect on the process of creating the podcast, and the power of using pop culture TV shows as an entry point towards critical conversations to increase critical self-analysis and reflection.

In this Equity Spotlight Podcast, Equity Fellow Dr. David Hernández-Saca and other scholars critically engage in an interdisciplinary and intersectional counter-storytelling about what counts as truth, how we come to truth, and how these processes impact dis/abled, Black, Indigenous, and youth of Color students individually, interpersonally, structurally, and politically within the K-16 education.

In the second half of this Equity Spotlight Podcast conversation (please see Part One here), Equity Fellow Dr. David Hernández-Saca, along with his colleagues, continue to critically engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue to respond to Critical Race in Education Theorist and Teacher Educator Dr.

In this Equity Spotlight Podcast, Equity Fellow Dr. David Hernández-Saca, along with his colleagues, will critically engage in an interdisciplinary dialogue to respond to Critical Race in Education Theorist and Teacher Educator Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings' challenge to educational stakeholders on how we should respond to the four crises in education and society: COVID-19, the California fires, violence against Black Americans, and political divisiveness. Individually and collectively, they provide their perspectives for future justice praxis.

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center's— 2021 Vodcast Series. Episode One of The 20-Minute Talk is an introductory discussion of the need for an Anti-Racism Vodcast Series and the MAP Center's anti-racist stance, featuring guests Dr. Seena Skelton, Director of Operations of the MAP Center, and Dr. Kathleen King Thorius, Executive Director of the Great Lakes Equity Center and the MAP Center.

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center's— 2021 Vodcast Series. This episode will focus how one's positionality may define what is hope, healing, and harmony for antiracism. Also, the tension of unity vs. self-determination (i.e. how to acknowledge that those who have been historically marginalized are often called to temper their pursuit of racial justice at the intersections, in efforts to unify fractured communities).

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center's— 2021 Vodcast Series. Episode five of the MAP Center's Antiracist Vodcast Series focuses on discussing and speaking into the vision of anti-racism in our school systems and how one might approach and/or continue to build on their work, specifically in terms of language, rhetoric, and policy.

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center's— 2021 Vodcast Series. Episode four of the MAP Center's Antiracist Vodcast Series focuses on Antiracism Conversations at the Intersections. This episode focuses on the importance of anti-racist practices considering other intersecting oppressed identities including national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender non-conformity, and dis/ability. 

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center's— 2021 Vodcast Series. Episode three of the MAP Center's Antiracist Vodcast Series focuses on  A Conversation with Antiracist Leaders. In this episode, we discuss with Dr. Jerry Anderson and Dr. Anthony Lewis how they define antiracist leadership and the difference between traditional leadership practices and anti-racist leadership practices.

This EquiLearn Podcast Series, The 20-Minute Talk, is a podcast repurpose of the Midwest and Plains Equity Assistance Center (MAP Center)—a project of the Great Lakes Equity Center's— 2021 Vodcast Series. This episode of our Anti-Racist Vodcast, The 20-Minute Talk, features guest speakers Perry Wilkinson, M.Ed., Education Equity & Systems Data Specialist at SE/Metro Regional Center of Excellence Southeast Service Cooperative (MN), and Toia Jones, M.Ed., Principal of Boulder Hill Elementary in Community Unit School District 308 (IL).

Expanding on the Racial Opportunity Cost framework, as presented in a previous Equity Spotlight Podcast, Dr. Venzant Chambers invited a panel of professors, parents, and students to discuss their experience with Racial Opportunity Costs, particularly in relation to the Black Lives Matter movement.

This Equity Spotlight Podcast is based on the authors’ qualitative research paper, in which they synthesized studies from 2006 to 2018 about students' experiences. Specifically, the authors discuss students' experiences, how students made sense of their disability labels within the education system, and how they negotiate—and potentially challenge—these labels within school settings.

  In this Equity Spotlight Podcast, the authors discuss the experiences that Joyce has had as a Black mother whose son is in Special Education. We highlight the intersectional issues of disability and race when advocating for fair treatment of Black youth in the K-12 public school system. Coming from different positions allows us to confirm that these occurrences are not situational, but common within the education systems, violating regulations of the education system.

The purpose of this Equity Spotlight Podcast is to counter the pervasive stereotypes about Black fathers, specifically as it relates to their lack of involvement in their children's education. The goals of this podcast are to discuss: (1) Black fathers’ relationships with schools; (2) how Black fathers engage in K-12 schools; and, (3) how schools create barriers for Black fathers.

This Equity Spotlight Podcast highlights issues of school choice and the ways that cases like Benton Harbor can help school districts understand the historical constraints that explain relevant contemporary educational issues.

This Equity Spotlight Podcast, a follow-up conversation to the Virtual Roundtable of the same name, explains the origins of open enrollment; discusses the implications of open enrollment for de/segregation in urban and suburban schools; and addresses questions raised from the preceding Virtual Roundtable about open enrollment/school choice and de/segregation.   

During this Equity Spotlight podcast, Dr. Crystal Morton and Dr. Daniella Cook discuss the role of community engagement and organizing in urban education reform. Further, they discuss the meaning of community engagement and organizing and factors that support and hinder community engagement and organizing.

In this Equity Spotlight podcast, Dr. Federico Waitoller interviews two special education teachers about their experiences and perspectives with being special education teachers in charter schools—and the preceding teacher strike that led to shifts in policy.

In this podcast, Ms. Mauldin interviews Dr. Venzant Chambers on how to support high achieving students of Color through the reduction of Racial Opportunity Cost (ROC). Through the ROC framework, Dr. Venzant Chambers highlights students’ experiences and educators’ roles in addressing these costs to support safe and inclusive school cultures that foster student engagement and academic achievement.   

In this podcast, Mary Catherine Miller talks with four experts in children’s literature about how they use the books featuring LGBTQ characters to explore issues surrounding gender and sexuality and its representation in children’s and young adult literature, biases, microaggressions, and, ultimately, empathy.

This podcast explores the meaning of culturally sustaining pedagogies, and its implications for classroom practice.

This podcast discusses what it means to be a black girl in today's mathematics classroom, and how the experiences of black girls and mathematics can help inform how educators can create more equitable mathematics learning opportunities for black girls. 

School districts play critical roles in creating diverse educational environments. The podcast is intended to serve as a resource for those engaged in efforts around school desegregation, which is particularly important at a time when political, judicial, and legislative support for such efforts are waning and public schools are increasingly racially, economically, and linguistically segregated.

This Podcast is part of a three part series that discusses centering equity and culturally responsive and sustaining learning environments for Muslim students.

This Podcast is part of a three part series that discusses centering equity and culturally responsive and sustaining learning environments for Muslim students.

This Podcast is part of a three part series that discusses centering equity and culturally responsive and sustaining learning environments for Muslim students.

In this episode, Mr. Brian Jackson, a member of the Lac du Flambeau band of Lake Superior Ojibwe, speaks openly about issues that affect American Indian communities and the education of American Indian students. He discusses ways school systems can center equity in educational practices with American Indian students, including some examples of experiential learning rooted in Native history and addressing mascot logos in public schools.

Listen in as Dr. Blackburn talks about specific actions educators can take to ensure that Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender and Queer (LGBTQ) students feel safe and supported in school communities. In this episode, Dr. Blackburn shares challenges LGBTQ youth face in school, explains the importance confronting heteronormativity and discusses how actions at the policy-making and administrative levels can support equitable practices for LGBTQ students. Lastly, Dr. Blackburn describes ways educators can be allies to LGBTQ students in their school communities.

Great Lakes Equity Center's Director kicks off our new Equity Spotlight podcast series by discussing what it means to center equity in conversations about educator effectiveness.

Dr. Sharon Radd talks about the importance of critical consciousness for transformative professional learning.

Today we have Erin Macey here with us. Erin, along with Dr. Kathleen King Thorius and Dr. Seena Skelton, are the authors of today’s featured brief titled “Engaging School Communities in Critical Reflection on Policy”.

Today I’m talking with Dr. Paulo Tan, lead author of the Equity by Design brief, “Using Peer-Mediated Learning to Advance Equity for All Students.”