Podcast appearances and mentions of dena simmons

What do you do when your job is burning you out, but you can't really *care less* about it? When children need teachers and vulnerable populations need social workers and hospitals need nurses-- how can you walk away? Dena Simmons, founder of LiberatED, joins host Anne Helen Petersen to answer listeners' questions about how to make caring professions more sustainable.Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.

Dr. Dena Simmons, the founder of LiberatED, a collective focused on developing school-based resources at the intersection of social and emotional learning, racial justice, and healing joins Elena in an uplifting conversation about healing, authenticity, imposter syndrome, hope and play. This is an episode for BIPOC educators who have been made to feel like they don't belong.  Mentioned in this episode: The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, Gabor MatéDena's TED Talks The Ways of White Folks, Langston HughesAtlantaAbbot Elementary Dena's forthcoming book, White Rules for Black People Visit https://brightmorningteam.com/podcasts/ for links to everything we mention on the show. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram Receive weekly wisdom and tools from Elena delivered to your inbox! Sign up at https://brightmorningteam.com/newsletter/  Support us 

LiberatED founder Dena Simmons is back for part 2 of her riveting conversation with Danielle Moodie, in which they discuss how we can wake people up and get their heads out of the sand...before it is too late. Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and hundreds more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Dena Simmons is the founder of LiberatED social-emotional learning group, and she joined Danielle Moodie for an engaging two-part conversation about growing up Black in a culture dominated by white social standards. Check back tomorrow for part 2 - you won't want to miss it! Support Woke AF Daily at Patreon.com/WokeAF to see the full video edition of today's show, and hundreds more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A simple question with loaded answers.  On today's episode, we unravel a few of those knots with Courtney Martin and Dr. Dena Simmons, whose interracial friendship has weathered distance, accountability, academic rigor, heartbreak, and mutual support. They met over a decade ago when Courtney profiled Dena for her book about young activists, Do It Anyway. At the time, Dena was a classroom teacher. Since then she has earned her PhD and is writing her own book about breaking up with whiteness, the forthcoming White Rules for Black People. Dena also gave Courtney notes on a subsequent book, Learning in Public, about Courtney's decision to send her white child to her neighborhood school in Oakland, rather than seeking a private school or other public school that centered whiteness. Dena's notes and questions to Courtney are included in footnotes and strikeouts in the main text.  This is a conversation about building better schools, deeper community, and how friendship can be at the heart of our activism.  Learning in Public by Courtney Martin Dena's website Courtney's website See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

We're continuing our “Learning through Leadership” journey today as our own Denise Ward talks to Superintendent Melvin Brown about his own leadership journey. Melvin is currently the Superintendent of Reynoldsburg City Schools, which is just outside of Columbus. Our colleagues in Region 8 may remember Melvin from his time as Deputy Superintendent of Cuyahoga Falls City Schools. In today's episode, Ieading with passion is a recurring theme: listeners will clearly hear how passionate Melvin is about doing what is best for children, how he builds a network of connections with leaders who inspire him, and how emerging leaders should seek new opportunities that align with their own professional passions. Co-host: Denise Ward, Educational Consultant Additional Resources Caste by Isabel Wilkerson (book | audiobook) Check out some of Melvin's favorite leading thinkers and speakers, including Dena Simmons, Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., and Wes Moore

A conversation with Bettina Love, Gholdy Muhammad, Dena Simmons and Brian Jones about abolitionist teaching and antiracist education. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What would freedom look like in our schools? How can abolitionist educators make the most of this moment to fight for humane, liberatory, anti-racist schooling for black youth and for all youth? The coronavirus pandemic has transformed the US education system overnight. The antiracist rebellion in the streets has shown a light on the deep racial inequality in America. Educators and activists who have nurtured radical dreams for public schools now face an unprecedented moment of change, and the challenge of trying to teach and organize online in the midst of unfolding crises. Scholar and author Bettina Love's concept of abolitionist teaching is about adopting the radical stance of the movement that ultimately overthrew slavery, but persisted and insisted on freedom long before that victory. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and the Athletic Association Endowed Professor at University of Georgia. She is the author of We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. Dr. Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad is an Associate Professor of Language and Literacy at Georgia State University. She also serves as the director of the GSU Urban Literacy Clinic. Dr. Muhammad's scholarship has appeared in leading educational journals and books. Some of her recognitions include the 2014 recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English, Promising New Researcher Award, the 2016 NCTE Janet Emig Award, the 2017 GSU Urban Education Research Award and the 2018 UIC College of Education Researcher of the Year. She is the author of Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy. Dena Simmons, Ed.D., is an activist, educator, and student of life from the Bronx, New York. She is the Assistant Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center. She writes and speaks nationally about social justice and culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy as well as creating emotionally intelligent and safe classrooms within the context of equity and liberation. She is the author of the forthcoming book, White Rules for Black People (St. Martin's Press, 2021). Brian Jones is the Associate Director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He writes about black education history and politics. Co-sponsored by: Haymarket Books: https://www.haymarketbooks.org The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture: https://www.nypl.org/locations/schomburg Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/uJZ3RPJ2rNc Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

"So You Want to Talk about Race" by Ijeoma Oluo (2018) (http://bit.ly/3aZiqLW) "When somebody asks you to ‘check your privilege' they are asking you to pause and consider how the advantages you've had in life are contributing to your opinions and actions, and how the lack of disadvantages in certain areas is keeping you from fully understanding the struggles others are facing and may in fact be contributing to those struggles. It is a big ask, to check your privilege. It is hard and often painful, but it's not nearly as painful as living with the pain caused by the unexamined privilege of others" (p. 63). References: Ijeoma Oluo (https://twitter.com/IjeomaOluo) Dr. Dena Simmons (https://twitter.com/DenaSimmons) "How students of color confront impostor syndrome" - Dena Simmons TED Talk (http://bit.ly/3acA6nU) LiberatED (https://linktr.ee/liberated_sel) #HipHopEd (https://twitter.com/TheRealHipHopEd) Jane Elliott (https://youtu.be/1mcCLm_LwpE) Michael Lipset of PassTell Stories (http://www.michaellipset.com/) Connect: Twitter (https://twitter.com/mjcraw) Website (https://www.mjcraw.com) Music from Digi G'Alessio CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 (https://bit.ly/2IyV71i)

Emmanuel discusses the importance of affirmations and dealing with impostor syndrome in this penultimate episode of Season 1! Additional show notes below: Tabitha Brown https://www.iamtabithabrown.com/ Dena Simmons' Ted Talk "How Students Of Color Confront Impostor Syndrome": https://ed.ted.com/lessons/Av9dyPkO TIME article about dealing with Impostor Syndrome: https://time.com/5312483/how-to-deal-with-impostor-syndrome/ Affirmations examples: Winnie the Pooh (actually, Christopher Robin but yeah): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tRepZdoRmY Jay-z https://open.spotify.com/track/34KUIBsIUiPV7oCIzSdDAU Kendrick Lamar: https://open.spotify.com/track/5d8yMIlqJH78lwOUP7T3oF Prince: https://open.spotify.com/track/2soBvUQBf5rbMj9HIyhzzK The Lox/Jadakiss: https://open.spotify.com/track/3FYSNSTUCqAZGfwEd8ui4l Call And Response: What has been your favorite episode of No Wednesday so far and why? Send in your response to nowednesdaypod@gmail.com and I'll read it on the show! #IncreaseYourLexicon: "Obsequious” (adj): excessively deferential or submissive. Joyful Noise: "Concorde" by Gregory Porter: https://open.spotify.com/track/1SJGHveCOfrS364qHbBAS8 Join the mailing list here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfVlwF4FCTzqXOxHit3_1zAHWJ-lLXp5ekLTyuiOfkzhB8ysw/viewform No Wednesday has theme music produced by Causmic. Background music for interludes is by The Mini Vandals. --- --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/nowednesdaypod/support

Bettina L. Love is an award-winning author and the Athletic Association Endowed Professor at University of Georgia. She is the author of We Want To Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom and Hip Hop's Li'l Sistas Speak: Negotiating Hip Hop Identities and Politics in the New South. Dr. Gholnecsar (Gholdy) Muhammad is an Associate Professor of Language and Literacy at Georgia State University. She also serves as the director of the GSU Urban Literacy Clinic. Dr. Muhammad's scholarship has appeared in leading educational journals and books. Some of her recognitions include the 2014 recipient of the National Council of Teachers of English, Promising New Researcher Award, the 2016 NCTE Janet Emig Award, the 2017 GSU Urban Education Research Award and the 2018 UIC College of Education Researcher of the Year. She is the author of Cultivating Genius: An Equity Model for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy. Dena Simmons, Ed.D., is an activist, educator, and student of life from the Bronx, New York. She is the Assistant Director of the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence and an Associate Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center. She writes and speaks nationally about social justice and culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogy as well as creating emotionally intelligent and safe classrooms within the context of equity and liberation. She is the author of the forthcoming book, White Rules for Black People (St. Martin's Press, 2021). Brian Jones is the Associate Director of Education at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He writes about black education history and politics.

In this episode, discover how Dr. Bertrand and Dr. Porcher conceptualize Surviving vs. Thriving in the Black community. They make connections to the work of Dr. Dena Simmons and Dr. Bettina Love, by exploring the connections between post-traumatic stress disorder, Black respectability politics, and anti-Blackness. They provide preaching points about how Black people shift from surviving to thriving, by supporting ALL Black people at every stage and level. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/black-gaze/support

What does it mean to be judged before you walk through the door? What are the consequences? This week, TED speakers delve into the ways racism impacts our lives, from education, to health, to safety. Guests include poet and writer Clint Smith, writer and activist Miriam Zoila Pérez, educator Dena Simmons, and former prosecutor Adam Foss.

I imposed an expectation on my student that I would have realized was inappropriate had I not lost touch with my past. Follow @DenaSimmons @jonHarper70bd @bamradionetwork Dena Simmons is an educator, activist, and lifelong learner from the Bronx, NY. She currently serves at the director of education at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence.

In far too many cases, schools do not support students of color in ways that help them grow to their full potential. My guest, Dena Simmons, shares four specific things teachers could be doing in their classrooms to change this.

브롱크스의 험한 지역 출신 흑인 여성으로서 학문적 명성을 얻기 위한 길을 걸으며 자라온 디나 시몬스(Dena Simmons)는, 유색인종 학생들에게 있어서 학업적 성공이란 때때로 자기 자신으로서의 삶을 희생하는 것임을 알고 있습니다. 이제 교육자가 된 그녀는, 어떻게 모든 학생들이 스스로를 자랑스럽게 느낄 수 있는 교실을 만들 수 있는지에 대해 이야기합니다. 그녀가 말합니다. "모든 모든 아이들은 피부색에 관계없이 안전하게 배울 수 있음을 보장하는 교육을 받을 자격이 있습니다."

As a black woman from a tough part of the Bronx who grew up to attain all the markers of academic prestige, Dena Simmons knows that for students of color, success in school sometimes comes at the cost of living authentically. Now an educator herself, Simmons discusses how we might create a classroom that makes all students feel proud of who they are. "Every child deserves an education that guarantees the safety to learn in the comfort of one's own skin," she says.

Como mujer negra de una parte dura del Bronx que se educó para ir alcanzando todos los marcadores de prestigio académico, Dena Simmons sabe que para los estudiantes de color, el éxito en la escuela a veces está condicionado a no vivir de forma auténtica. Ahora siendo ella misma educadora, Simmons aborda cómo poder crear un aula que haga que todos los estudiantes se sientan orgullosos de quienes son. "Cada niño merece una educación que garantice la seguridad para aprender en la comodidad de su propia piel", dice.

En tant que femme noire originaire d'une zone difficile du Bronx ayant obtenu de nombreux titres académiques prestigieux, Dena Simmons sait que pour les étudiants de couleur, le succès scolaire se fait parfois au prix d'une vie authentique. Enseignante elle-même aujourd'hui, elle discute des façons de créer une classe qui rende tous les élèves fiers de ce qu'ils sont. « Chaque enfant mérite une éducation garantissant la sécurité d'apprendre tout en restant lui-même, » dit-elle.

Como uma mulher negra de uma parte difícil do Bronx que cresceu para ganhar todos os títulos do prestígio acadêmico, Dena Simmons sabe que, para estudantes negros, o sucesso na escola às vezes vem ao custo de viver com autenticidade. Agora uma educadora, Dena Simmons discute como podemos criar uma sala de aula que faz com que todos os estudantes sintam orgulho de ser quem são. Ela diz: "Toda criança merece uma educação que garanta a segurança para aprender no conforto da própria pele".