(Re)Teach

This will be the last podcast for the foreseeable future.  I need to engage the work of ethnic studies in my work, at my college, and in my community.  It has truly been a blessing to serve you and I…

Ethnic studies, at its heart, must be about intersectionality, tying current events to multiple disciplines for analysis, and making a positive social change.  If your class is not doing this, then i…

I cover 2 of the 5 core competencies in this episode.  It is not enough to talk about culture or history to be considered an ethnic studies class.  You must focus your class on power and how people l…

Ethnic Studies is in high demand in California.  The California State University system has made it a requirement and this directly affects the community college system.  Ethnic Studies is even being…

What I talked about in this episode:
1) Research some textbooks to get a feel for patterns
2) Start with what you are good at
3) Put your best stuff in the book!
4) Keep equity at the center

I talk about my personal journey on pricing my textbook and how I went from zero cost to charging, back to zero cost.  I then talk about the pluses and minuses of using iBook author to create my text…

Embracing being awkward means fighting against systematic racism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativism.  However, we are not fighting against the center to become the center.  We are fi…

Will you accept my late work?  Many of us do not take late work from students, but will you accept mine?   In this episode, I reflect on all of the emotions that I am going through right now in my li…

Some very real reasons to write you own textbook:
1) You will never think more about your teaching
2) Imagine being in sync with your textbook
3) Focuses on what you like
4) It will be organized the way …

Three things helped me to understand that I was in the beginning phase of writing a textbook:
1) I found out that textbooks matter
2) I was spending a LOT of time developing my own examples because I d…

Part 2: I focused on teaching others how to teach others:
- Looked at the power dynamic involved in teaching teachers versus teaching students
- The difference between teaching beginning versus experie…

I use the old adage about giving someone a fish versus teaching them how to fish and relate it to how we teach students.  I talk about how our society undervalues giving people fish when that may be …

This episode focuses on how to bring your teaching philosophy and equity-minded practices under the unifying theme of student equity.  In other words, I am teaching the students about equity versus j…

This episode focuses on teaching statistics using a lot of equity-minded practices:
- Free Workbook
- Grading that focuses on effort and/or process
- Purposeful small groups
- Interactive learning embedd…

This is the first episode in a three-part series regarding how I teach my Statistics for Sociology class.  The highlights for this episode are:
1) Teaching statistics as a language
2) Focus on mathemat…

In order to build relationships with your students and show them that you care, tell them your story!  Four things that you definitely want to talk to your students about:
1) How did you chose your ma…

This three-part podcast is a collaboration between S.A.F.E. Topics and (Re)Teach.  In this episode, we all focus on the work that needs to be done to create an anti-racist campus.