86: Developing Anti Racist UDL w/ Tesha Fritzgerald

Transcripts can be found via our website, humanrestorationproject.org.

In today's conversation we're joined by Tesha Fritzgerald,. Tesha is an urban education expert who currently serves as a district level leader in an urban school district in Ohio. She is a Martha Holding Jennings Foundation Scholar who has a passion for UDL and culturally responsive teaching, which has led her to publishing her recent book, Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success.

I invited Tesha on to talk about pairing UDL and antiracist teaching, with a specific focus on:

• Demanding excellence in progressive, human-centered classrooms.
• Clarifying what UDL actually is.
• Clarifying how UDL and antiracism can coexist, when UDL has been critiqued for upholding a traditionalist lens.
• And actions we can take to build anti-racist, UDL-driven classrooms.

GUESTS

Tesha Fritzgerald, an urban education expert who focuses on UDL, culturally responsive teaching, anti-racist teaching, and author of Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success

RESOURCES

• Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success by Tesha Fritzgerald
• Building Blocks of Brilliance (Tesha Fritzgerald's website)
• Follow Tesha on Twitter!
• Article: Making Room for Asset Pedagogies by Benjamin Doxtdator

FURTHER LISTENING

• Planning Period Podcast - Episode 147: Tesha Fritzgerald
• 73: School and the Carceral Network w/ Dr. Connie Wun