EP20 Speaking out about race, poverty, riots, and our students
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 May 2015
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I'm digging deep into the systemic issues and misplaced outrage that are holding back our youth in impoverished communities. Learn what you can do to make sense of what's happening and educate your students about it, too. These issues affect ALL of us, and we all have the ability (and responsibility) to work for change.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 20 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth |
| 0:10.0 | into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to share some thoughts on race, poverty, and our students. |
| 0:20.0 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript and links to recommended resources |
| 0:25.4 | and also to share your thoughts on the show. In this week's episode I'm |
| 0:31.9 | taking on a topic that is by far the most controversial |
| 0:35.8 | that I've ever attempted. |
| 0:37.6 | And it's a longer episode than ever before because this is just too important and too complex to tackle in a couple of minutes. |
| 0:45.0 | The issues that I'm talking about today are the ones that keep me up at night, |
| 0:51.0 | especially since this latest incident of rioting in Baltimore after Freddie |
| 0:55.6 | Gray's funeral. |
| 0:57.8 | I've seen things on the news and things shared on social media that make me sick to my stomach. I can't sit back and not say |
| 1:06.1 | anything any longer. If I'm not speaking up then what am I doing with this |
| 1:11.4 | blog and with this podcast? |
| 1:14.0 | It's one thing not to get into arguments with strangers on Facebook, |
| 1:18.0 | but it's another thing to have a platform |
| 1:21.0 | and not to use it for the things that really matter. |
| 1:25.0 | I'm talking about all the other issues that are destroying our schools on this podcast, |
| 1:29.0 | all these other things that interfere with teachers being able to teach the way they need to |
| 1:34.0 | teach but I'm not talking about poverty I can't feel good about that and I haven't |
| 1:42.0 | even been staying silent because I care about offending people. |
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