SchoolHouse: Equity in Education
SchoolHouse is a podcast created by the Communities for Just Schools Fund and hosted by Allison R. Brown. SchoolHouse shares stories about how young people, their families and communities, and other advocates and activists are working in and around schools to make them healthy, safe, and equitable places for children to be. In SchoolHouse, we will learn together about the global implications of local movements for change in our schools.
Episodes
August 2, 2020 • 42 mins
Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.
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August 2, 2020 • 44 mins
Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.
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June 18, 2020 • 57 mins
(CJSF) hosts a town-hall style discussion of the global movement for education justice in this coronavirus moment. Organizers from South Africa, Puerto Rico, Toronto, and Honduras share their perspectives about the education justice movement.
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December 20, 2019 • 55 mins
During a visit to Kimball Elementary School in Washington, DC, CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with principal Johann Lee and local Education Council Chair Eboni-Rose Thompson about how educators must lead with love in support of students and their families.
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November 8, 2019 • 35 mins
CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to the President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, Fatima Goss Graves, about the Center's report on school dress codes in Washington, DC, and the ways dress codes are used to stifle expression and control children.
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October 8, 2019 • 37 mins
Social justice teachers Cierra Kaler Jones and Rosalie Reyes join CJSF's Allison R. Brown in conversation about how to nurture and embrace all students, all of the people who walk into the classroom with their children, and all of those who walked before.
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September 8, 2019 • 57 mins
CJSF’s Allison R. Brown goes to school with professor Dr. Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education. They discuss how capitalism requires and perpetuates racial and socioeconomic segregation.
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November 27, 2018 • 50 mins
CJSF’s Jaime Koppel and Thena Robinson Mock welcome CJSF partners and Andrus Family Fund to recap EASJ2018 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and explore together why global solidarity is necessary for justice in Puerto Rico and justice everywhere.
Mercedes Martínez, President of the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico Twitter: @FMPRLucha Andrea Colon, Community Engagement Organizer, Rockaway Youth Task Force Twitter: @Rockaway...
Mercedes Martínez, President of the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico Twitter: @FMPRLucha Andrea Colon, Community Engagement Organizer, Rockaway Youth Task Force Twitter: @Rockaway...
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June 28, 2018 • 36 mins
The School to Prison/School to Deportation Pipelines are ugly. CJSF’s Jaime Koppel speaks with Ricardo Martinez from Padres Y Jovenes Unidos and Erika Almiron from Vamos Juntos about shifting our nation’s priorities.
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April 29, 2018 • 59 mins
CJSF’s Alexis J. Smith welcomes Exec. Dir. Allison Brown, as one of a 5-member panel of "well women" to define, support, and insist that wellness be an unapologetic component to success and wealth building strategies in community organizing and beyond.
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March 26, 2018 • 32 mins
CJSF’s Gabriel L. Matthews speaks with Hashim Jabar, Executive Dir. of Racial Justice NOW! and Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, National Field Organizer and Co-Founder of Racial Justice NOW! about the increasing divestment from West Dayton schools and the community.
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February 22, 2018 • 42 mins
CJSF’s Thena Robinson Mock speaks with Toronto community organizers and officials about the powerful community organizing that led to the end of Toronto’s School Resource Officer (SRO) Program in 2017.
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November 30, 2017 • 28 mins
CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks with Tia Martinez of Forward Change Consulting and Jessica Nowlan of the Young Women's Freedom Center about how they use data as a tool to equip young women to communicate, organize, and advocate to fight systemic injustice.
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November 23, 2017 • 22 mins
CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to Miami’s Power U. Center for Social Change and Advancement Project about their new report, The Hidden Truth, which reveals the educational inequities for Black and Brown Miami students.
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September 8, 2017 • 37 mins
CJSF’s Allison R. Brown is joined by Eva Paterson, Founder and Director of the Equal Justice Society. They discuss the historic victory a group of civil rights organizations won when they settled a bias case against Kern H.S. District in Bakersfield, CA.
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September 1, 2017 • 45 mins
Is the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville symptomatic of America’s addiction to racial hatred? CJSF’s Allison R. Brown explores the illness that is addiction with psychiatrist and addiction expert Dr. Nzinga Ajabu.
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August 18, 2017 • 39 mins
CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with Lisa Thurau, Executive Director of Strategies for Youth, about the troubling presence of police in schools, the need for training, and states’ failure to regulate police in their interactions with young people.
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August 11, 2017 • 33 mins
CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorney Monique Lin-Luse about a case in Alabama in which a white community has been permitted by a court to continue with plans to secede from a predominantly black school system.
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August 4, 2017 • 31 mins
CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Donna Mazyck, Executive Director of the National Association of School Nurses, about the role of school nurses and how they can contribute to a positive, healthy, and equitable learning environment for students.
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July 27, 2017 • 34 mins
CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with Elmo Gomez of the Labor Community Strategy Center & Ivelyse Andino of Radical Health about their work to build a movement for radical health and equity in education.
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