In an emotional Episode 6, Alcine and Shane get real with author and educator Young Whan Choi, witnessing his personal story of marginalization in school and how it took another Asian man–during college orientation–to help him see himself for the first time in American history. Together, they explore ways of being and leading in education that truly center students. Young Whan implores us to “marginalize” standardized testing, or at least push it to the periphery, as he offers a vision of authentic, community-based, performance assessments that demonstrate what students know and are able to do. He exposes the irony that, while many new leaders evoke the principle of being “student-centered”, students themselves are often painfully absent from professional learning agendas, except perhaps as an aggregated data point. And finally, Young Whan helps us rethink where knowledge lives and where power exists within the system.
For Further Learning
Episode 10: “Learning in the Most Delicious Sense”: The Civil Rights Road to Deeper Learning
EP 9 SEASON 1 REFLECTION: “What is your thing” to own as an educator?
Episode 8: “Connecting Present to Past”: The Impact of Critical Pedagogy
Episode 7: ”Leading Like a Teacher”: The Role of Deep Listening in School Transformation
Episode 5: “Tear Down the Schoolhouse” with Melissa Biggerstaff
Episode 4: “What Does it Mean to Freedom Dream?”: Disrupting Traps and Tropes with Dr. Jamila Dugan
Episode 3: ”Walking Shoulder to Shoulder with Children” with Denise Augustine and Jamila Dugan
Episode 2: ”You Are Somebody’s Ancestor: Teach Like it” with Dr. Chris Emdin
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