The Equity Hour
Welcome to The Equity Hour, a Dragonfly Rising podcast where we delve into powerful conversations on social justice, equity, education, and personal growth. Join your host, Dr. Tami Dean—an experienced leader, coach, speaker and facilitator with over 25 years of expertise—as she offers practical tips, resources, and actionable strategies to help you integrate equity into learning and working environments. Whether it’s a solo episode filled with insights or an engaging discussion with passionate educators, thought leaders, and change-makers, each episode is designed to inspire and empower you to create more inclusive and equitablespaces. Tune in each week to explore the challenges and successes of fostering diversity, inclusion, and cultural competence in schools and beyond.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 41
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
Elevating Equity and Joy in Education
Welcome to another thought-provoking episode of "The Equity Hour" with your host, Dr. Tami Dean. Today, we delve into the pervasive impact of standardized testing on education, explorin…
Equity in Education: Transforming Classrooms through DEI Practices
In this week's enlightening episode, join Dr. Tami for a candid conversation with Brandon as we explore practical strategies for integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) prin…
Language & Social Justice
In this week's episode, Dr, Tami shares key concepts about how we use language inside learning spaces as a social justice and DEI issue. Connecting back to Episode 16, she shares key a…
Nurturing Curiosity, Equity & Social Change in the Classroom
In this week's episode of Equity Hour, Dr. Tami is joined by Gabriell Gater, Founder and CEO of The Innovative Learners. Dr. Tami and Gabriell discuss the essential elements of fosteri…
Exploring Diverse Texts
In today's episode, Dr. Tami Dean welcomes listeners to another episode of "The Equity Hour," focusing on diverse texts and their importance in education. Dr. Tami discusses what makes…
Cultural Competency & Building Equitable Learning Environments
Join Dr.Tami on another engaging episode of the Equity Hour, where we delve into the critical topic of culturally competent teaching. In this episode, we explore what it truly means to…
Empowering Educators: Integrating Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Classroom
In this episode, Dr. Tami connects back with Kelly Schrems from Episode 2 to follow up on her use of the graphic novel, Wake, with her students. A timely connection for Women's History…
Equity in Education: Building Awareness and Taking Action
In this episode, Dr. Dean announces an exciting shift in focus for the podcast, diving deeper into equity in education. With a commitment to posting weekly episodes, Dr. Dean aims to pr…
Empowering Equity: Scripted Curriculum Disrupts Culturally Responsive Literacy Learning
In this episode, Dr. Tami talks with Dr. Katrena Leininger, a literacy professor from UW-Oshkosh. Join them as they delve into the heart of education and how current initiatives such as…
Equity and Literacy Learning: Addressing Bias in Literacy Assessments for Multilingual Learners
In today's episode, Dr, Tami talk with Dr. JaNiece Elzy- Palmer, an assistant professor at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas. Listen in as Dr. Palmer delves into her fascinatin…
The Equity Recap: 2023
As we wrap up 2023 and the first 5 months of The Dragonfly Rising Podcast, we're celebrating the top 3 episodes!!
- E6: Equity Unveiled: The Importance of Culturally Responsive Leadership …
Unveiling Collective Memory: Teaching Equity Through History
In this thought-provoking podcast episode, join us as we dive into the transformative work of educators dedicated to promoting equity and social justice. Join Dr. Tami in her conversati…
Empowering Education: Building Student Awareness and Agency
Join Dr. Tami as she talks with Kate Pole, a high school History teacher from Illinois. In this thought-provoking episode as we unravel the layers of equity and social justice in educa…
Equity Unleashed: Transforming Education with Social Justice (Part 2 of 2)
Get ready to be inspired and empowered. In the first part of this two part episode, Dr. Tami talks with her guests, Dr. Bre Evans-Santiago & Dr. J. Kevin Taylor. These teacher educators…
Equity Unleashed: Transforming Education with Social Justice (Part 1 of 2)
Get ready to be inspired and empowered. In the first part of this two part episode, Dr. Tami talks with her guests, Dr. Bre Evans-Santiago & Dr. J. Kevin Taylor. These teacher educators…
Equity Unveiled:The importance of Culturally Responsive Leadership
In today's episode Dr. Tami is talking with Dr. Gabrielle Wallace. Gabrielle is an education coach and doctoral candidate . Dr. Tami and Dr. Gabrielle discuss her research on cultura…
Agency & Next Steps
In today's episode Dr. Tami is talking with Amy Reiman. Amy is a high school teacher from Normal, IL . Dr. Tami and Amy discuss the process of uses Restorative Justice practices in he…
Equity in Action: Awareness and Building and Equity Community
In this episode, Dr. Tami shares some reflections and next steps to consider and implement to support building an equitable learning community. We discuss how awareness of self is a st…
Equity in the Classroom: Cultivating Minds, Inspiring Change, Building Community
In today's episode Dr. Tami is talking with Kelly Schrems. Kelly is a high school teacher from Bloomington, IL. Dr. Tami and Kelly discuss the dual credit class where Kelly is plannin…
Meet Dr. Tami
Meet Dr. Tami! In this episode we will learn more about Dr. Tami and her journey as an educator. She will share some of her experiences as an equity educator. She will also highlight …