Street Data Pod: Imagining the Next Generation of Education

About Street Data Pod: Imagining the Next Generation of Education

Opens a window into stories of school transformation. Using the bestselling book Street Data as a frame for discussion, these inspiring hosts crack the world of education and data wide open. Through compelling interviews with thought leaders, administrators, students, and teachers, we hear how education can be transformed as we move beyond our fixation on big data as the supreme measure of equity and learning and toward data that is humanizing, liberatory, and healing.

Publisher

Street Data

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

30 Sept 2022

Latest episode

18 Jun 2026

Latest episodes

2 of 53 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   18 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Episode 40: "Changing the World Is Possible" with Deborah Meier and Matt Alexander

   Host Shane and Alcine interview education icons Deborah Meier and Matt Alexander about democratic schooling's past, present, and future, emphasizing relationships as the foundation for hope and transformation.

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   4 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT

   [RE-RELEASE] Episode 10: “Learning in the Most Delicious Sense”: The Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning

   Host Alcine and guest Shane interview Drs. Linda and Kia Darling-Hammond about their book, exploring how civil rights and deeper learning intersect to create equitable schools.

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   7 May 2026

   Episode 39: "Black People Keep Showing the World How Brilliant We Are”: Anti racist literacy with Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul

   In this episode, we sit down with the brilliant Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul — founder of Red Clay Educators, co-director of the Institute for Racial Equity and Literacy, and author of the bestselling Anti-Racist Reading Revolution — for a conversation that is equal parts fire and tenderness. Sonja shares how growing up in Brooklyn shaped her expansive understanding of literacy and community, why she's "irrevocably salty" about the science of reading movement, and how she approached adapting Stamped for Kids and How the Word Is Passed for young readers without watering down the truth. We also explore the dandelion framework at the heart of Anti-Racist Reading Revolution, the deep resonances between Sonja's work and Pedagogies of Voice, and what educators can do right now — even in the most constrained environments — to center student voice, honor the full humanity of Black and Brown children, and keep fighting for the books and histories that belong in every classroom. For Further Learning: To learn more about Dr. Sonja Cherry-Paul’s work, visit her online at sonjacherrypaul.com or Red Clay Ed To order any of the following books, visit the publications page on her website: Antiracist Reading Revolution How the Word Is Passed (Adapted for Young Readers): Remembering Slavery and How It Shaped America Stamped (For Kids) Breathing New Life into Book Clubs Flip Your Writing Workshop Teaching Interpretation Here is the podcast with Dr. Milner Episode 7: Science of Reading Interview With H. Richard Milner IV Read the Executive Summary of Fact-Checking the Science of Reading by Rober J Tierney and P. David Pearson

Inside a recent episode

Episode 40: "Changing the World Is Possible" with Deborah Meier and Matt Alexander

Published 18 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] And my memory is that your family was fairly secular when you were growing up. I don't know if that's correct. But I wonder if... Do you see a connection between the emphasis on like argument and critical discourse or anti-authoritarianism and being part of a Jewish secular family? I do. You know, in fact, while we were secular, my mother was at one point the president of the Council of Jewish Women, the international local and American and international council of Jewish women. And my father was, for all his adult life, the director of the Federation of Jewish Philanthropies. Wow. You know, we were very involved. […]

Who has been a guest on Street Data Pod: Imagining the Next Generation of Education

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Deborah Meier
• Matt Alexander
• Linda Darling-Hammond
• Kia Darling-Hammond
• Dr Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

Reach and audience

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

32 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

18 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 34 / 100

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Quality

35

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

85

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