S3 Ep21: Black Educator Takeover: Let's Discuss Race, Equality, and Equity in the Classroom
Teachers Off Duty
Bored Teachers
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 February 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Get ready for a special episode of Teachers Off Duty as we hand over our platform and pass the mic to three black educators, advocates, and leaders to talk about teaching while black and issues black teachers face in the classroom. Taking over as hosts, Deonna Smith, Alfred 'Shivy' Brooks, and Ms. M have a very important and very necessary conversation to kick off the first weekend of Black History Month!
With a mix of humor, heart, and advocacy, this dynamic trio of educators shares their experiences as black educators, as well as some hilarious tales from their time in the classroom.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi guys, welcome back to Teacher's Off-Duty podcast for this very special episode of Teacher's Off-Duty. |
| 0:06.7 | We are so excited because we have some special guests for you. |
| 0:10.0 | With the start of Black History Month, we thought it would be a great idea to |
| 0:14.0 | pass our platform off and our mic to a group of Black educators. So we have Mrs. Amin's closet, |
| 0:20.7 | we have Deanna Smith, and we have Shibi here with us today. We're doing this in an effort that we |
| 0:25.2 | can hopefully continue to do more Black panels and hopefully promote and an understanding of what |
| 0:30.8 | it means to uplift Black educators and continually advocate for ourselves to be anti-racist. |
| 0:37.2 | We hope that you enjoyed this week's episode and enjoy the dialogue and the conversations |
| 0:41.8 | and learning the different tools that we can use to support Black educators. |
| 0:46.0 | Welcome to Teacher's Off-Duty. We are about to take this thing over. |
| 0:57.0 | We're taking it over today. It's going to be so lit. We got so many great discussions for you. |
| 1:01.4 | Let's get into our intros. My name is Shibi Brooks. I am an educator in the Metro-Atlanta area. |
| 1:08.6 | Man, I'm excited to be here with you all and sharing space with you all. |
| 1:12.0 | Sister, you want to tell the people who you are? Yes. Hey, y'all. My name is Dr. Deanna Smith, |
| 1:16.4 | and I am also an educator from the LA area, and I'm here to just tap into this fabulous conversation. |
| 1:23.7 | Yo, so y'all, my name is Ms. Amin. I'm a comedian out here, but I'm also a teacher out here in DC. |
| 1:29.4 | Make sure you're following me on at Ms. Amin's underscore closet on Instagram and TikTok. |
| 1:34.5 | We have the opportunity to take over the platform here at Board Teachers. |
| 1:40.8 | I think it's a really lit opportunity for folks to hear our voices and learn a little bit more |
| 1:48.5 | about us. What do you think is part of the secret sauce or the thing that the teacher community |
| 1:55.6 | might be missing when they don't get to catch our voices, when they don't get to hear |
| 2:01.1 | from folks from our community? We end up with incidents like the Capitol. We end up with |
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