It's the end of the year and I talk about the most important job a Black teacher has around this time: landing the daggone plane. Plus, I talk to Carlos Thomas, a fellow English teacher and phenomenal basketball coach, about the importance of standing on your square and helping students find their own. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more

How do you use your authority to share power with your students so they can grow their own authority? Ganae talks about the Democratic Classroom Leadership philosophy. Find out more here: https://fullcircleleadership.org/democratic-classroom-leadership/ --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more

Why Black children are our business. In the classroom or in the hallway. And I talk to my colleague Tamie Holmes about creating organic communities of care in her classroom. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more

Exiled from Ms. Agawa's class, I visit on-campus suspension. And get punched by a teacher. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more

I was a high school junior, getting sent out of English class because I had a "cavalier attitude" towards my education. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more

One of the most profound critical moments I had at the University of Minnesota was Alexs Pate leading us through an exercise around stereotype, threat, and Blackness. He breaks it down in this excerpt. This is an outtake from episode 2. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more

What's it like being a Black educator whose responsible for helping everyone else's kids learn while you're also trying to make sure your kids get the education they deserve. Ganae talks about the lessons she's learned helping her son navigate racism in school. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more

Does mindfulness make you anxious? Do you struggle with perfectionism, correction-ism? Boy do I have a story for you. I also talk to Dr. Sunni Ali, one of my OG educators and author of Lessons Learned: Critical Conversation in Hip Hop.  --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more

A child should know the literary context of their people.  Alan Miller talks about recruiting Black students for advanced placement courses and the soul-nourishment he wants to cultivate in these spaces. This is an outtake from Episode 1. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more

What do White students need from Black teachers? Crystal Wilkinson talks about the importance of Black teachers on the lives and outlooks of White students. This is an outtake from Episode 3. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/abdel-shakur6/message ..read more