Diseducation

Diseducation

Mignon Combs and Quynh Van are traumatized teachers of color. They're also funny, fearless, and fired up. Diseducation explores the Broken Teacher Diversity Pipeline and other crises in education with a focus on teachers as experts. With biting insight and hilarious chemistry, they're carving out the rot of white supremacy in U.S. schools, one episode at a time.

Episodes

  1. S1E10 How Teachers of Color are Fleeing Education...

    03/12/2024

    S1E10 How Teachers of Color are Fleeing Education...

    This episode, we ask: What is pushing teachers of color out of the classroom? What patterns can we identify? To answer these questions, we draw connections from interviews with 3 different teachers of color across the country who share why they chose to leave education and/or their school site as well as recent findings from the "Small, but Mighty" research project recently published by the education organization Research for Action. Join us for the finale where we bring all of the throughlines of this season together and ask one final question: What can we do to preserve teachers of color and support all students?

    48 min
  2. S1E9 How School Admin Can Save Teachers of Color...

    03/05/2024

    S1E9 How School Admin Can Save Teachers of Color...

    What specific steps must school leaders take to retain teachers of color?

    24 min
  3. S1E8 How Teachers of Color are Excluded from the Teachers' Lounge...

    02/27/2024

    S1E8 How Teachers of Color are Excluded from the Teachers' Lounge...

    How does relational aggression harm teachers of color? When does relational aggression cross into racial discrimination? How does relational aggression uphold white supremacy?

    28 min
  4. S1E7 How White Fragility Harms Teachers of Color...

    11/14/2023

    S1E7 How White Fragility Harms Teachers of Color...

    How does white fragility turn schools into unsafe workplaces for teachers of color? How do white women position themselves as victims when committing racial harm? How do white people use exclusion as a tool to maintain inequity and punish colleagues of color?

    34 min
  5. S1E6 How Racist Team Dynamics Harm Teachers of Color...

    11/07/2023

    S1E6 How Racist Team Dynamics Harm Teachers of Color...

    Join us for a guest interview with our former colleague, Teacher Amber, as we explore the following questions: How does racism color professional emails? How do different racial stereotypes shape how white people engage with their Black and Asian colleagues?

    51 min
  6. S1E5 How Racist Curriculum Harms All...

    10/31/2023

    S1E5 How Racist Curriculum Harms All...

    How can curriculum design reinforce racism? How can student-centered pedagogy subvert white supremacy? What kind of resistance can teachers of color face when building curriculum with white teachers?

    41 min
  7. S1E4 How Teachers of Color Decide Whether they Leave or Stay...

    10/24/2023

    S1E4 How Teachers of Color Decide Whether they Leave or Stay...

    Join us for a guest interview with Teacher X as we discuss the following questions: What do teachers of color need in order to stay? What are the tipping points that push teachers of color to leave? What do teachers of color sacrifice in order to stay in the profession?

    34 min
  8. S1E3 How Teachers of Color are Set Up to Fail...

    10/17/2023

    S1E3 How Teachers of Color are Set Up to Fail...

    How are teachers of color coerced into taking on diversity and equity work? What does this tokenization and additional labor look like? How does this inequitable workload contribute to burnout?

    29 min
  9. S1E2 How Racist School Culture Harms All...

    10/10/2023

    S1E2 How Racist School Culture Harms All...

    How does school culture reproduce white supremacy? What must people of color sacrifice in order to be a culture fit? How is assimilation an act of cultural suicide?

    20 min
  10. S1E1 How Untransparent Hiring Harms Teachers of Color...

    10/03/2023

    S1E1 How Untransparent Hiring Harms Teachers of Color...

    How is education pushing out teachers of color? How is the Broken Teacher Diversity Pipeline connected to the Problem Women of Color in the Workplace framework? How do schools mask their racism during the hiring process to seduce teachers of color?

    32 min
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About

Mignon Combs and Quynh Van are traumatized teachers of color. They're also funny, fearless, and fired up. Diseducation explores the Broken Teacher Diversity Pipeline and other crises in education with a focus on teachers as experts. With biting insight and hilarious chemistry, they're carving out the rot of white supremacy in U.S. schools, one episode at a time.

Information

  • Creator
    Diseducation
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2024
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Mignon Combs and Quynh Van
  • Show Website
    Diseducation