Diseducation

Mar 12 2024 10 ep. 34 mins 4

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Mignon Combs and Quynh Van are traumatized teachers of color. They're also funny, fearless, and fired up. Diseducation explores the Broken Teacher Diversity Pipeline and other crises in education with a focus on teachers as experts. With biting insight and hilarious chemistry, they're carving out the rot of white supremacy in U.S. schools, one episode at a time.

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S1E10 How Teachers of Color are Fleeing Education...

Mar 12 2024 48 mins

This episode, we ask: What is pushing teachers of color out of the classroom? What patterns can we identify?To answer these questions, we draw connections from interviews with 3 different teachers of color across the country who share why they chose to leave education and/or their school site as well as recent findings from the "Small, but Mighty" research project recently publishe

S1E9 How School Admin Can Save Teachers of Color...

Mar 05 2024 24 mins

What specific steps must school leaders take to retain teachers of color?

S1E8 How Teachers of Color are Excluded from the Teachers' Lounge...

Feb 27 2024 28 mins

How does relational aggression harm teachers of color? When does relational aggression cross into racial discrimination? How does relational aggression uphold white supremacy?

S1E7 How White Fragility Harms Teachers of Color...

Nov 14 2023 33 mins

How does white fragility turn schools into unsafe workplaces for teachers of color? How do white women position themselves as victims when committing racial harm? How do white people use exclusion as a tool to maintain inequity and punish colleagues of color?

S1E6 How Racist Team Dynamics Harm Teachers of Color...

Nov 07 2023 50 mins

Join us for a guest interview with our former colleague, Teacher Amber, as we explore the following questions: How does racism color professional emails? How do different racial stereotypes shape how white people engage with their Black and Asian colleagues?

S1E5 How Racist Curriculum Harms All...

Oct 31 2023 40 mins

How can curriculum design reinforce racism? How can student-centered pedagogy subvert white supremacy? What kind of resistance can teachers of color face when building curriculum with white teachers?

S1E4 How Teachers of Color Decide Whether they Leave or Stay...

Oct 24 2023 34 mins

Join us for a guest interview with Teacher X as we discuss the following questions:What do teachers of color need in order to stay? What are the tipping points that push teachers of color to leave? What do teachers of color sacrifice in order to stay in the profession?

S1E3 How Teachers of Color are Set Up to Fail...

Oct 17 2023 29 mins

How are teachers of color coerced into taking on diversity and equity work? What does this tokenization and additional labor look like? How does this inequitable workload contribute to burnout?

S1E2 How Racist School Culture Harms All...

Oct 10 2023 19 mins

How does school culture reproduce white supremacy? What must people of color sacrifice in order to be a culture fit? How is assimilation an act of cultural suicide?

S1E1 How Untransparent Hiring Harms Teachers of Color...

Oct 03 2023 32 mins

How is education pushing out teachers of color? How is the Broken Teacher Diversity Pipeline connected to the Problem Women of Color in the Workplace framework? How do schools mask their racism during the hiring process to seduce teachers of color?