About Learning Liberation: The Ethnic Studies Podcast
Learning Liberation: The Ethnic Studies Podcast is produced by the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies (CLES).
Learning Liberation episodes will feature Ethnic Studies practitioners across the U.S. to share reflections and best practices in the classroom and share lessons gained through their praxis, grassroots advocacy, and more.
Working collectively with grassroots movements, CLES lifts up principles, policies, practices, and pedagogies that center—the knowledge, narratives, experiences, and wellness of—Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC) communities so that liberation of all peoples, and relations, are realized.
Original podcast illustration created by artist and illustrator Rob Liu-Trujillo.
Publisher
The National Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies
CLES co-founder Jody Sokolower and Ethnic Studies educator Brian Batugo explore how to create liberatory and inclusive K-12 classrooms for LGBTQIA2SMahu+ students, prioritizing their voices and experiences in the Ethnic Studies movement.
9 Dec 2024
Season 1 Episode 4: Black Lives Matter at School
Teachers Kailee Lewis and Christina Mitchell discuss the curriculum and framework for Black Studies courses with chanel hurt of National Black Lives Matter at School, promoting racial justice in education.
17 Oct 2024
Season 1 Episode 3: Teaching Palestine
It’s been one year since the beginning of the genocide in Palestine. With over 42,000 Palestinians murdered, 17,000 of them children. Now more than ever it’s important that we are teaching Palestine. Joining us on this two-part special episode are Samia Shoman and Rifk Ebeid, interviewed by Jody Sokolower.
Samia Shoman and Jody Sokolower are co-coordinators of the Teach Palestine Project at the Middle East Children's Alliance. Samia is a California native with Palestinian roots who has dedicated her career in public education to promoting racial and social justice in the classroom and in broader educational organizations. A long-time high school social science teacher with a special love for working with English learners, she currently serves as an administrator in her school district.
Jody is a long-time political activist, educator, writer, and editor. She is the author of "Determined to Stay: Palestinian Youth Fight for Their Village" and is also a cofounder of our Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies. As managing editor of "Rethinking Schools" magazine, she also coedited the award-winning "Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality" in 2016 and edited "Teaching the Wars in the Middle East" in 2013. Jody has taught middle and high school students, adult English language learners, and teachers.
Rifk Ebeid is a Palestinian American Muslim writer, attorney, and pediatric speech language pathologist. She is the author of three children’s picture books about Palestine: "Birthday Kunafa," "You Are the Color," and "Baba, What Does My Name Mean? A Journey To Palestine," which was nominated for the 2020 Palestine Book Awards. She is also the producer of "I Am From Palestine," an animated short film about the Palestinian-American experience in school.
We encourage new listeners to our podcast to start with Season 1 Episode 0 to help orient you and provide context to our liberated Ethnic Studies movement.
For resources from this episode head to our website: ethnicstudies-coalition.org/podcast
22 Sept 2024
Season 1 Episode 2: Ethnic Studies in Elementary Schools
Welcome back to another school year teaching and learning liberation! This second episode of the season features interviewers Kate Frazier and Dr. Ronnie Gordon, both Co-Assistant Directors at Whole Child, within the Tacoma Washington Public Schools.
Kate and Ronnie had the opportunity to interview Dena Harris, who is currently teaching 5th Grade Ethnic Studies in North Thurston Public Schools (in Lacey, Washington). Prior to this, she served as a District Instructional Coach and developed and recorded over 150 ELA lessons for elementary teachers to use during remote learning instruction. All the lessons were aligned with the Social Justice Standards and highlighted diverse cultural perspectives. She is also the author of www.teachinghumanity.org, an online resource for curated children's books, educator resources, recent book reviews and recommendations, and a guide to choosing anti-racist books that address social justice.
We encourage new listeners to our podcast to start with Season 1 Episode 0 to help orient you and provide context to our liberated Ethnic Studies movement.
For resources from this episode head to our website: ethnicstudies-coalition.org/podcast
10 Jun 2024
Season 1 Episode 1: Native American & Indigenous Studies
Our first official episode is dedicated to highlighting Native American & Indigenous Studies. Interviewers, Anita Chikkatur and Sarah Garton, are joined by guests, Nathaniel (Nate) Taylor and Sylvia Fred. All four are situated in the greater Red Lake community, in what is now known as Minnesota, providing texture to the local context that has birthed Endazhi-Nitaawiging Charter School, a community-built school led, and implemented with, culturally relevant, rooted, and responsive Ojibwe curriculum and pedagogy.
We encourage new listeners to to our podcast to start with Episode 0 to help orient you and provide context to our Liberated Ethnic Studies movement.
For resources from this episode head to our website: ethnicstudies-coalition.org/podcast
2 May 2024
Season 1 Episode 0: The Ethnic Studies Movement
To kick off this podcast’s pilot episode, we’re joined by our very own co-host Juana Teresa Tello, as well as Anita Fernández, and Jason Ferreira. In this episode they’ll share more about the origins of the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies, which was established in 2021, but has collaborative origins and lessons that span well beyond this timeline.
We encourage new listeners to our podcast to start with this episode to help orient you and provide context to our liberated Ethnic Studies movement.
For resources from this episode head to our website: ethnicstudies-coalition.org/podcast (https://ethnicstudies-coalition.org/podcast/)
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