(Re)Teach

I talk about an email that a professor posted in a sociology group chat that I belong to.  The student asked, "Will I miss anything important?"  I reflect on why this question seems so offensive to p…

This poem is a continuation of the episode, The Need for Black Excellence.   Excellence is not big enough to explain and quantify black excellence. This discussion touches on how history needs to exp…

I commentate on a poem that I wrote about black excellence to give a deeper understanding of this concept and why it is so important.  Excellence is not big enough to explain and quantify black excel…

As I find myself frustrated about how my hybrid Camry is grading me, I use this experience to reflect on how we can apply an equity lens to the way we grade our students.  The three things that my Ca…

Community building and connecting students to the services on campus it the focus of this episode.  I talk about a quick and effective ice breaker that I use and then I walk the students around campu…

In this episode, I go over four key elements that you want to make sure you accomplish on your first day of school.  You need to let students know the "flow" of your class.  Tell the students things …

Although there may be a reason to give students a cumulative final, I argue, that these types of exams are an abomination to student learning.  In this episode, I explain how cumulative finals punish…

Looking at group work projects through an equity lens helps us understand that students who are dependent on their jobs are at a huge disadvantage if we do not fully integrate this assignment into ou…

Do we assume that students know how to write a research paper?  Do we assume that students will be able to figure out how to write a research paper if we assign one?  This assumption negatively affec…

In this episode, I looked at how I used to grade classroom participation through an equity lens.  I noticed that I overvalued students that talked in class, which made it unnecessarily difficult for …

In this episode, I talk about 4 topics that I wanted to give some quick (relatively speaking) equity-inspired advice about.  Those topics are classroom participation, final papers/presentations, grou…

This episode focuses on how having a STEM professor with a fixed mindset could affect how they teach and what they communicate to their students.  Believing and perpetuating a culture of genius may f…

New research has found that ALL students do worse in STEM classes where the professor has a fixed mindset, which means that professors believe that a student's intelligence is fixed and that there is…

I talk about white teachers that I had at MiraCosta College and UC, San Diego and the things that they said or did to change my life.  Some things were very big, but most things that were done were r…

In this episode, I speak about two specific events in high school that socialized me to believe that I was a bad writer.  Later at UCSD, a white teacher helped to undo much of that trauma by grading …

Again, I talk about how white teachers have changed my life.  This episode is a constant reminder to all of us that we all need to contribute to closing student equity gaps.  This episode emphasizes …

In this episode, I give alternative interpretations of why students may seem "out of it" in our classrooms.  I talk about how a student's lack of engagement may be the result of going through high st…

Have you ever told students to move up to the front of the class as a learning strategy?  Although we give this advice all the time, Sean and I argue that doing this creates a "ghetto" in your classr…

In the battle for student-equity battle, I acknowledge how this may be alienating to white people in general and white teachers specifically.  So in this episode, I talk about how three white element…

I revisit the trauma I endured in 3rd grade that socialized me to not try hard at school.  I remind listeners that historically-marginalized groups have these experiences socially, economically and i…