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Ethical Schools

Ethical Schools

Amy and Jon talk with educational innovators about creating ethical learning environments, helping students overcome the effects of trauma, and empowering young people to make change. Tune in weekly.

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Anna Allanbrook on Brooklyn New School: Centering...

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2019/08/14

We speak with Anna Allanbrook, longtime principal of Brooklyn New School (BNS). Learning at BNS is inquiry-based and cross-disciplinary. As well, BNS is known as the “opt-out school” because 95% of families opt out of standardized testing. The school offers no test preparation. The post Anna Allanbrook on Brooklyn New School: Centering children, marginalizing tests first appeared on Ethical Schools.

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00:24:30

David Kirkland on New York’s State’s Culturally...

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2019/08/07

We speak with Dr. David E. Kirkland, Executive Director of NYU’s Metropolitan Center for Research on Equity and the Transformation of Schools. A leading voice in culturally responsive and sustaining education, the Metro Center helped write New York State Education Department’s new Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework. The Framework is founded on a view of education that regards culture as a critical component of learning. Multiple expressions of diversity, including race, ethnicity,

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00:37:45

Norman Fruchter on the pioneering alternative high...

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2019/07/31

We speak with Norm Fruchter, long-time educational activist and thought leader, about Independence School, an experimental high school where the ideal was that someone walking into a classroom couldn’t tell the teacher from the students. We discuss lessons learned – and perhaps forgotten – about supporting students whose original schools failed them. Among the school’s... The post Norman Fruchter on the pioneering alternative high school he and colleagues built in Newark in the 1970s first appeared

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00:54:45

Soledad Hiciano on nurturing and educating immigrant...

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2019/07/24

We speak with Soledad Hiciano, executive director of Community Association of Progressive Dominicans (ACDP), a multi-service community organization in Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. She describes the challenges of supporting children who may have experienced multiple traumas, including homelessness and the deportation of close relatives. The post Soledad Hiciano on nurturing and educating immigrant children in an age of deportation and deprivation first appeared on Ethical Schools.

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00:25:00

David C. Bloomfield on why we need a revolution in...

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2019/07/17

We speak with Dr. David C. Bloomfield, Professor of Education Leadership. Law & Policy at Brooklyn College. David Bloomfield condemns the social Darwinism and “hoarding” mentality of our education systems. He explains how school resource allocation exacerbates segregation and inequality, a process deliberately abetted by the proliferation of school districts around the country. Education policy and financing reinforce an us against them view of schools. Until we start thinking of the nation’s

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00:21:45

Silvia Canales on Relationship-Based College Counseling

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2019/07/10

We speak with Silvia Canales, who coordinates the college advisory program at Brotherhood/Sister Sol, an organization that provides comprehensive and holistic support services to underserved youth. Silvia talks about fully integrating college counseling into a program environment in which adults know young people well and students engage in systematic self-reflection. Find more about Silvia and... The post Silvia Canales on Relationship-Based College Counseling first appeared on Ethical Schools.

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00:33:30

Scarlett Lewis on the Jesse Lewis Choose Love...

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2019/07/03

“Nurturing, Healing Love” was the message that Scarlett Lewis found on her kitchen chalkboard shortly before her son, Jesse, was murdered in his first-grade classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School. In order to become part of the solution to the violence, Scarlett founded The Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement with a mission to ensure that... The post Scarlett Lewis on the Jesse Lewis Choose Love Movement: A Sandy Hook parent’s SEL program first appeared on Ethical Schools.

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00:31:33

Adán Vásquez on The Washington Heights Community...

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2019/06/26

We talk with Adán Vásquez, executive and artistic director of the Association of Dominican Classical Artists and the Washington Heights Community Conservatory of Fine Arts, a unique free classical and folk music education program for the youth of Upper Manhattan. Adán Vásquez, a harpist, is an educator, an acclaimed classical musician, and a community activist. He talks about making Latin American and European classical music and Latin American folk music accessible to low-income young people of

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00:24:00

Kids learn through relationships: A conversation with...

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2019/06/19

We talk with Dr. Pedro Noguera about public school models that work for students, parents and teachers, and how to build a social movement for a progressive education agenda. He talks about the social dimensions to learning and the mismatch between students' needs and teachers' skills. He argues that an obstacle to making change in schools is that we deal with education as individuals rather than collectively. Pedro Noguera is a Distinguished Professor of Education at the Graduate School of

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00:39:00

Jason Warwin on The Brotherhood/Sister Sol: Building...

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2019/06/12

Jason Warwin is the Co-Founder and Associate Executive Director of The Brotherhood/Sister Sol, an organization that provides comprehensive, holistic and long-term support services to youth who range in age from eight to twenty-two. Located in Harlem (NYC), Bro/Sis also has programs dedicated to developing Black and Latinx youth in Africa, Latin America and The Caribbean. Jason is a specialist in the design of transformative experiences and we talked about how the Bro/Sis model leads young people to

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00:34:00

Stephanie Carnes on post-traumatic growth and...

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2019/06/05

We talk with Stephanie Carnes, a trauma-focused bilingual school social worker in a large public high school in New York’s Hudson Valley. Stephanie worked as the lead clinician in a federally-funded shelter program for unaccompanied children from Central America and as a consultant she challenges the districts and agencies with whom she works to re-envision the meaning of an inclusive community. We talk about the necessity to normalize mental health care, how to create safe environments for

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00:27:30

Mark Gordon on the Friends and Relationships Course:...

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2019/05/29

We talk with Mark Gordon, founder of the Friends and Relationships Course, a program in New Mexico that provides classes for adults with intellectual disabilities who want to learn how to form intimate and other relationships. He talks about what he’s learned over 15 years of teaching sexuality classes, learning along with his son about the ongoing necessity for interdependence. We also discuss society’s failure to welcome and accommodate people with developmental disabilities. The post Mark Gordon

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00:30:30

Zoe Weil on humane education: The world becomes what...

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2019/05/22

We talk with Zoe Weil, the co-founder and president of the Institute for Humane Education. She talks about providing young people with the knowledge, tools, and motivation to address our pressing challenges in order to transform unsustainable and unjust systems into ones that are humane, healthy, and peaceful. The post Zoe Weil on humane education: The world becomes what we teach first appeared on Ethical Schools.

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00:19:31

Deborah Meier on Public Education and Democracy: What...

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2019/05/15

We talk with MacArthur "genius" award winner Deborah Meier, a founder of the small schools movement, about what makes a good school. She talks about how to build and maintain trust and mutual respect among students, teachers, and families. The post Deborah Meier on Public Education and Democracy: What makes an ethical school first appeared on Ethical Schools.

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Eva Lopez on Act4Change: Applying Theatre of the...

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2019/05/08

We talk with Eva Lopez about Act4Change, a Theatre of the Oppressed project in the Bronx. Eva Lopez uses theater techniques to invite children and youth to envision liberation and to empower them to resist oppression. Audiences become spect-actors to examine root causes of bullying, domestic violence and other personal/societal crises. The post Eva Lopez on Act4Change: Applying Theatre of the Oppressed to building social justice in The Bronx first appeared on Ethical Schools.

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00:42:47

Shirley Edwards on EBC High School: Building an...

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2019/04/23

We talk with Shirley Edwards about EBC High School for Public Service and the creation of an intentional educational community of students, teachers, parents, and East Brooklyn Congregations. Shirley Edwards was the founding principal. She came with a background as a teacher and a parent coordinator, and responded to parents’ desperation for a high school that would lead their children to success. The post Shirley Edwards on EBC High School: Building an educational community in Bushwick first

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