6.10: Anti-Racist Education at Home and in the Classroom
First Name Basis Podcast
Jasmine Bradshaw
5 • 629 Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2022
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
We want our children to embrace anti-racist education both at school and at home, but what does that actually look like?
We’re talking about anti-racism in the classroom for the second week in a row because it’s such an important topic to be thinking about right NOW. It might be a little early to be in full-on “back-to-school mode,” but it’s not too early to be contacting school administrators and teachers to let them know you’re committed to helping create an anti-racist culture for your kiddos.
In this episode I interview Alexandria Scott — founder and editor-in-chief of Ditto Kids Magazine, an anti-racist magazine for kiddos — about everyday anti-racism in the home and in the classroom. Alex is a dear friend of mine, and she’s a mom and professional who knows her stuff when it comes to anti-racism.
In this episode, we talk about:
- How to incorporate anti-racism into our everyday interactions with our kiddos.
- How parents and teachers can partner in teaching anti-racism.
- Concrete steps for talking to your children’s teacher about creating an anti-racist and inclusive environment.
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Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode
Ditto Kids’ website
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 6, Episode 10, Anti-Racist Education, |
| 0:07.2 | at home and in the classroom. |
| 0:15.9 | Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home. |
| 0:24.0 | First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your |
| 0:29.0 | family and a changemaker in your community. Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the |
| 0:35.2 | answers to create the world we want, a world that reflects |
| 0:39.2 | our values of inclusion, compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so |
| 0:46.9 | excited to be on this journey with you. Hello, First NameBasis fam. I am so glad you are here. I don't know if you can hear it on the |
| 0:58.4 | recording, but I'm sitting in my very empty bedroom, like completely empty and it feels super echoey. |
| 1:06.6 | So I hope that it's not bothering you as much as it's bothering me. But as many of you know, |
| 1:12.0 | my family is gearing up to move across the country. We are moving from Phoenix, Arizona, |
| 1:18.5 | specifically Mesa. We live in Mesa, Arizona, but for those of you who are like, Arizona, |
| 1:23.9 | what? Phoenix is the place that most people usually know. We're moving from Phoenix, |
| 1:28.3 | Arizona all the way to Washington, D.C. We're moving to a suburb outside of Maryland. And today is the |
| 1:35.3 | day we are finishing, packing up our pod. Tomorrow morning they are coming to take our stuff away |
| 1:40.5 | and ship it across the country. So there's nothing in this room. It's me and my computer |
| 1:45.7 | sitting on the floor. But if you listen to our episode with last week, the interview with Patrick Harris, |
| 1:53.1 | you'll notice a little bit of a theme. We have been focusing a lot on anti-racism in the classroom. |
| 1:59.4 | And I want you to start thinking about this before you even |
| 2:02.7 | get into back-to-school mode because it's so important that we start these conversations with our |
| 2:08.2 | school leaders early on. We don't want to wait till the last minute and have them feel so stressed |
| 2:13.2 | because they've got so much going on with curriculum and getting everything ready. So if we can reach out to people now, it would be so powerful. |
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