S6E3 - Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford: What improvers can learn from civil rights organizers

Episode Notes Stacey Caillier and Curtis Taylor talk to Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford about what Septima Clark, Ella Baker, and Bayard Rustin can teach us about continuous improvement. Learn more about Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford’s work here Brandi’s other episodes on this podcast: Dr. Brandi Hinnant Crawford, Improvement as a Tool for Our Collective Liberation (High Tech High Unboxed podcast) Dr. Brandi Hinnant-Crawford & Dr. Luke Wood at Gates CoP NSI (High Tech High Unboxed podcast) Articles, books, and people referenced in this episode: “ImproveCrit: Using Critical Race Theory to Guide Continuous Improvement,” by Brandi Hinnant-Crawford, Ericka Lytle Lett, and Shamella Cromartie, appears in Continuous Improvement: A Leadership Process for School Improvement Septima Clark, “Literacy and Liberation” Robin D. G. Kelley, Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination Bettina Love, Punished for Dreaming: How School Reform Harms Black Children and How We Heal Adrienne Marie-Brown, Octavia’s Brood Decoteau J. Irby, Stuck Improving The Interrelationship Digraph (Stacey’s favorite protocol) Amanda Meyer has two articles on Unboxed, both very much worth reading! Improvement as a Journey and Swimming Against the Current: Resisting White Dominant Culture in Improvement Work Khalifa, M. A., Jennings, M. E., Briscoe, F., Oleszweski, A. M., & Abdi, N. (2014). Racism? Administrative and community perspectives in data-driven decision making: Systemic perspectives versus technical-rational perspectives. Urban Education, 49(2), 147-181. To learn more about QuantCrit, look out for this piece (once it is published): Castillo, W., & Gillborn, D. (2022). How to “QuantCrit:” Practices and questions for education data researchers and users. Manuscript under review. Louis Gomez is a professor at UCLA Learn more about the High Tech High Graduate School of Education