Seventy years after the Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment: How far have we truly come? While our schools today are more diverse than ever, recent studies reveal a hars...

Join host Keiyonna Dubashi as she sits down with Dr. Ronda Taylor Bullock of We Are (Working to Extend Anti-Racist Education) and how she is thinking about what it will take to move our institutions in No...

We’re doing something a little different for the next few episodes. I’ll be stepping aside while my friend Keiyonna Dubashi, founder of Profound Ladies, temporarily hosts the podcast an...

All instruction is culturally responsive. The question is: to whose culture is it responsive? The idea that public schools should focus on nothing but "the basics" of reading, writing, and arithmetic is not only wrong morally, but it's wrong sc...

Asian Americans have long occupied a precarious position in American society; they are just as likely to be valorized as the so-called "model minority" as they are ostracized and seen as perpetual foreigners. During this episode, we take a deep...

The Washington School is likely the oldest continually-operating public school in the city of Raleigh, since we can trace it's beginnings all the way back to the 1860s. During Part 1, we learned about the school's origins and the critical commu...

Full Episode drops Tuesday January 11th! 

The Washington School is now an elementary magnet school within the Wake County Public School System, but the origins of Washington go all the way back to the late 1860s.  The building that stands today was built in 1923 and was Raleigh's ...

North Carolina has more Rosenwald Schools than any other state but today, Rosenwald Schools are something of an endangered species. Many of them have been destroyed and most that are still standing remain in disrepair. How many of us are standi...

Renowned educator Gloria Ladson Billings who mainstreamed the idea of cultura...

Determining what our kids learn in schools can be a hotly contested and controversial process, and politics almost always have a way of influencing the outcome. This week, we'll dive into student perspectives on creating more relevant, socially...

What does it mean to be community responsive and why does it matter for educators and school leaders? In this episode we'll ground this project in place and purpose. Join host Michael Parker West, Assistant Principal ...

Lessons on Place, Context, and School Leadership