Welcome back to another school year teaching and learning liberation! This second episode of the season features interviewers Kate Frazier and Dr. Ronnie Gordon, both Co-Assistant Directors at Whole Child, within the Tacoma Washington Public Schools.

Kate and Ronnie had the opportunity to interview Dena Harris, who is currently teaching 5th Grade Ethnic Studies in North Thurston Public Schools (in Lacey, Washington). Prior to this, she served as a District Instructional Coach and developed and recorded over 150 ELA lessons for elementary teachers to use during remote learning instruction. All the lessons were aligned with the Social Justice Standards and highlighted diverse cultural perspectives. She is also the author of www.teachinghumanity.org, an online resource for curated children's books, educator resources, recent book reviews and recommendations, and a guide to choosing anti-racist books that address social justice.

We encourage new listeners to our podcast to start with Season 1 Episode 0 to help orient you and provide context to our liberated Ethnic Studies movement.

For resources from this episode head to our website: ethnicstudies-coalition.org/podcast

Our first official episode is dedicated to highlighting Native American & Indigenous Studies. Interviewers, Anita Chikkatur and Sarah Garton, are joined by guests, Nathaniel (Nate) Taylor and Sylvia Fred. All four are situated in the greater Red Lake community, in what is now known as Minnesota, providing texture to the local context that has birthed Endazhi-Nitaawiging Charter School, a community-built school led, and implemented with, culturally relevant, rooted, and responsive Ojibwe curriculum and pedagogy.

We encourage new listeners to to our podcast to start with Episode 0 to help orient you and provide context to our Liberated Ethnic Studies movement.

For resources from this episode head to our website: ethnicstudies-coalition.org/podcast

To kick off this podcast’s pilot episode, we’re joined by our very own co-host Juana Teresa Tello, as well as Anita Fernández, and Jason Ferreira. In this episode they’ll share more about the origins of the Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies, which was established in 2021, but has collaborative origins and lessons that span well beyond this timeline.

We encourage new listeners to our podcast to start with this episode to help orient you and provide context to our liberated Ethnic Studies movement.

For resources from this episode head to our website: ethnicstudies-coalition.org/podcast