Episode 9 Parts 1 and 2 Reimagining School with Special Guests Drs. Raina Leon and Mary Raygoza

UnHidden Voices

Greetings (Un)hidden Voices, family welcome to episodes 9 parts 1 and 2. These next two episodes were filmed in one long 2-hour conversation that I had with my friends and co-authors of Humanizing Online Teaching, Raina Leon and Mary Raygoza. These women are faculty at Saint Mary's College of California in the Single Subject Teacher Education Program. They have been doing the work of humanizing education. I really have a lot of admiration for both of them. So, we sit down and we talk about how we reimagine school. It’s this idea that we can’t go into our schools with the same concepts that we had before because too much has happened. We’ve lost too many people. We’ve lost nearly 200,000 people. Can you imagine that? Nearly 200,000 people have died since school ended last semester. We also have a pandemic of antiblackness that caused the death and harm to Black folks and a movement for Black lives. I figured out how to breathe over the course of this summer. And part of my breathing is my recognition that as long as I have a breath in my body I can make a contribution to the movement for Black lives. And that’s what this episode is. That’s what this podcast does. We really appreciate you for listening, for learning, and for amplifying. Join our movement. Check us out unhiddenvoices.org. Let’s keep learning and growing and breathing together.