Socially Just Us Socially Just Us

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About the Host

Music

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Guiton Sketch" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Episode Two

Two incidents at a K-8 school raises some issue about LGBTQ students. In one incident, students were denied forming a LGBTQ organization as it was deemed "too inappropriate" while the other case a student was forced to change her project about LGBTQ Pride to Teen Pregnancy.


Articles:
https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/arizona-public-school-accused-of-mistreating-lgbtq-students-11392194


https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/norterra-canyon-lgbtq-gay-lgbt-principal-mineer-student-pride-11398099


Resources:
Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network 2017 National School Climate Survey
https://www.glsen.org/sites/default/files/2019-10/GLSEN-2017-National-School-Climate-Survey-NSCS-Full-Report.pdf


Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete by Jeffery M.R. Duncan-Andrade
http://www.sjsu.edu/people/marcos.pizarro/courses/185/s1/DuncanAndradeHOPE.pdf


About the Host

Nolan Deal is a high school math teacher in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He recieved his B.S. in Secondary Education with a focus in Mathematics from the University of New Mexico. He is currently enrolled in the Secondary Education Graduate Program at The University of New Mexico.


Music

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Guiton Sketch" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Episode

A teen wrestler in Texas is forced to wrestle girls when he identifies as male.


Works Cited:
https://go-gale-com.libproxy.unm.edu/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=albu78484&id=GALE%7CA483233876&v=2.1&it=r&sid=ebsco


About the Host

Patrick Corr is an 8th grade language arts teacher in Albuquerque. He received his bachelor's in Languages and is completing his masters in Secondary Education at the University of New Mexico. He is also a ski and snowboarding coach at Ski Santa Fe and enjoys spending time with his two daughters.


Music

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Guiton Sketch" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Episode Four

Dylan McCabe had to recieve permission from her school to wear her traditional clothing to her graduation and was partially approved. Her dress was accepted because it wouldn't be seen, but her moccasins and wrappings were not. Dylan argued her point and eventually created a petition on Change.org while also communicating with local news. This resulted in the school changing their stance and approving the moccasins.


Article: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/native-american-student-graduation-moccasins
Petition: https://www.change.org/p/support-navajo-girl-to-wear-her-moccasins-for-high-school-graduation


About the Host

Eli S. Antonio, who goes by Toni, has taught middle school and high school Social Studies for three years. He is currently working as an Early Pre-K teacher while completing a masters program in Secondary Education. Toni has a BA in Sociology with a minor in English from the University of New Mexico. He began his teaching through the Teach for America program and is a 2016 TFA Alumn.


Music

Music from https://filmmusic.io "Guiton Sketch" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Episode Five

Wolf Point High School, in Montana, is currently under investigation by the Civil Rights Office for discrimination. Native American students talk about being invisiable in a school district where the Native students make up 52% of the school population. Ruth, a seventeen year old Junior from Fort Peck reservation tells her story of discrimination.


Article: https://www.propublica.org/article/education-discrimination-montana-reservation-schools-favor-whites-over-native-americans Book: Love, Bettina (2020).


We Want To Do More Than Survive:Abolitionist teaching and pursuits of educational freedom.


S.I.:BEACON https://projects.propublica.org/miseducation/district/3028620


About the Host

Ronalda Warito-Tome is currently in the Graduate Program for Race and Social Justice. She has been an advocate for Native American children with disabilities for 20 years. She was raised on the Navajo reservation in a community called Crownpoint NM. Ronalda has a BA in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Special Education from the University of New Mexico. Ronalda has been a change-agent within Native communities and schools for a life-time. She is a mother, mentor, motivational speaker and spiritualist.


Music

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Guiton Sketch" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Episode

A group chat of teachers from Ashford High School, Alabama, leaked and revealed boastful messages about their students. Screenshots of the chat revealed racist and sexist comments, leading to the suspension of at least six high school teachers.


About the Host

Claudia Gila is currently studying at the University of New Mexico as an international student. She was born and raised in Vienna, Austria, and got her Bachelor's degree in Elementary Education from the Pädagogische Hochschule Wien. Now in the U.S., she is completing her Master's degree in Elementary Education while teaching English as a Second Language to foreign college students at the Center for English Language and American Culture at UNM.


Music

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Guiton Sketch" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)