82: Build a New Future: Teaching Action and Coalition Building w/ Dr. Kevin Gannon

What this episode covers

Transcripts can be found via our website, humanrestorationproject.org. Our conversation today will center on teaching organization and collective activism. Essentially, we find ourselves at an important crossroads, as the administration shifts to new policies - teachers will be at the whim of new federal (and likely, state) policies that will have massive ramifications on classrooms, especially during COVID-19. And I hope out of this conversation, we'll be able to address - what should I be concerned about? What problems may exist? And then, okay...what can I do to actually mitigate these problems and demand an equitable education system? GUESTS Dr. Kevin Gannon, the Director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning and a Professor of History at Grand View University in Des Moines, Iowa, and author of Radical Hope: A Teaching Manifesto. Further, Gannon actively writes and teaches on the science of learning, racism and race in education, and building inclusivity online and offline. You can learn more on his website, TheTattooedProf.com and on Twitter @TheTattooedProf. RESOURCES * The Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door by Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire [https://thenewpress.com/books/wolf-schoolhouse-door] * Pedagogy of Hope by Paulo Freire [https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/pedagogy-of-hope-9781472533401/] * Radical Hope by Kevin Gannon [https://wvupressonline.com/node/823] * HRP Book Review: Radical Hope [https://writing.humanrestorationproject.org/june-can-2020-be-the-year-of-radical-hope/] FURTHER LISTENING * ThinkUDL with Kevin Gannon: Radical Hope for Online Teaching [https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/radical-hope-for-online-teaching-with-kevin-gannon/id1445933224?i=1000479353211]