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EWBpod - Educating While Black Podcast
by Supermahrio
A place for Black educators to share their stories in a ‘virtual staff room', created and run intentionally by a Black Educator.Adding diverse voices in storytelling, by focussing on the Black educator experience and providing an unrestricted opportunity to reflect on their experience.#ewbpod
Episodes
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'The learning journey', In conversation with Adrian R
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Adrian (@adrian_rollins - twitter // @adrian.rollins - instagram) reflect on Adrian's dual-career life; first as a professional cricketer and then as a highly regarded leader in education. Adrian's familial links to both sports and education...
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'Disrupting the System', In conversation with Matthew
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Matthew (@callmemrmorris - twitter // @matthewrmorris - instagram) have an illuminating and reflective conversation about how identity intersects with and shapes experiences - particularly of Black men within the educational landscape.…
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'Stereotypes are limiting', In conversation with Jason Bradshaw
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Jason Bradshaw (@JBradshaw01) have a brilliant conversation about how the spectrum of Blackness expands far beyond the extremities its often given by both Black and non-Black people alike. Right from the start, we talk about Jason's love for...
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'This is Civil Rights work', In conversation with Dr. Melissa Wilson.
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Dr Melissa Wilson (@Drawn2Intellect) have a blast talking about the ways in which the work of anti-oppression is both beneficial for our immediate selves and is at the same time, bigger than us. In a different direction from other podcasts...
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'Systems and Students’, a conversation with Cleon.
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Cleon (@inperspectiveuk) have an overdue redo of what would have been EWB's first conversation! Honing in on Cleon's interest in coaching and development, we talk about how early career exposure to this, (via a HR role in the police service)...
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'On that journey to being brave’, a conversation with Craig.
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Craig (@MrCunninghamEDU) have an intersectional conversation about their experiences in the classroom. We talk about how going into teaching for Craig was a bit of an inevitable career choice, despite the length of time he was able put it…
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'Black lives still matter’, a conversation with Karl.
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Karl (@actionheroteacher) have a wide ranging conversation about education. We talk Karl's reflections that led him to write his book Action Hero Teacher - the angle of which was intentionally written for teachers, 'in a friendly voice that...
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'Taking and passing the baton’, a conversation with Manny.
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Manny (@Mannyawo) have an EXTENDED conversation about the legacy of the education system inherited by the previous generation as well as the hopes of correcting some of the harmful impacts endured throughout their own. We talk about how...
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‘Embrace your Blackness’, a conversation with Mekel.
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Mekel (@MekelHomer) have a conversation about the identity in education and how it shapes interactions and long term experiences. We talk about the impact of being a man, working with infants - who we as a society teach to be wary of strange...
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'Coming out as Black', a conversation with Chantelle
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Chantelle (IG - @Chantelle38 / 🐦 - @_ChanRaq) have a conversation that is as much a journey of self reflection as it is one that is a reflection of working within the education system at various levels. We talk about reflections of working...
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‘We should just be calling it reparations', a conversation with Jess
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Jess (IG - @JessOddy) reminisce on the experience of university, (both formally and informally) and how that informed the decision to pursue different paths within education as a profession. We talk about the colonialist confines of being...
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‘Put respect on my name', a conversation with La-Keshia.
Trigger warning: This episode speaks about La-Keshia's past witnessing of violent language and physical actions involving Black students. On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and La-Keshia (IG - @She_Writes86) have a conversation about the importance of growing one's own personal...
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‘You have to be able to live with yourself’, a conversation with Ish
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Ish (@madre_ejima) have a conversation about the lessons learned from having many different roles in the development and experience of school students. ⠀ We talk about formative experiences of picking up on the acute needs of students with...
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‘We are, just like you are', a conversation with Genna
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Genna (@gengenics) have a conversation about finding a place of comfort and contentment in the world in an education. ⠀ We talk about a decision to throw caution to the wind by upping sticks and moving to Qatar and the confirmation of self,...
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‘You’re getting all of it', a conversation with Susan
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Susan (@MsSkyers - 🐦) have a conversation about getting hip to the ‘game’ of whiteness after having a childhood free of its direct existence/impact. We talk about the ‘appearance’ of happiness being more important than it actually being…
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‘Committed to Who I Am', a conversation with Jess
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Jess (@HelloJessBoyd) have a conversation about taking steps to develop yourself, for yourself. ⠀ We talk about the reflections from two early experiences that involved exposure to new cultural settings both at home and abroad and how these...
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‘I’m f-ing clever', a conversation with Steph
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Steph (@Badass.Shaldas) have a conversation about possessing enough discernment to appreciate the difference between knowing 'your sh--' and 'you're sh--'. ⠀ We discuss how diversity *is* a hireable competency, the need to be pragmatic and...
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‘Watch them, gas them', a conversation with Jo
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Jo (@Jo_Sa_Pheen) geek out on all this history teaching (while Black). ⠀ We discuss our initial reactions to meeting each other as Black educators in similar positions of leadership, the navigation of being 'the face' of history education…
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‘Café au Lait', a conversation with Jess
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon @SuperMahrio and Jess @JessAndohThayre discuss what it means to pop up in different countries across the globe and leave having learned as much from the experience as was formally taught in classrooms.⠀ ⠀ We discuss what temporary immersion into a host culture...
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‘A Change is as Good as a Rest’, with Yansé
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Yansé (@CooperYanse) recount moments on the journey of growing into radicalism. We talk about having integrity in ones own actions and the blatant hypocrisy of a system that creates and upholds a sense of those who deserve empathy in times…
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‘The Audacity of Taking Up Space’, with Shari
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Shari (@ShariForTheCulture) bring a Canadian flavour to the conversation of understanding and utilising your identity to uplift yourself and others. We talk about the freedoms - and the underlying sense of self-awareness - associated with...
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'Acting Up', a conversation with Martha
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Martha (@MarthaDaCosme) discuss formative and memorable moments of teaching in the UK and abroad. The discussion includes being unapologetically Black, the paradox of simultaneously being graded as 'inadequate' yet consistently achieving the...
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'Bashment to Boardroom', a conversation with Chantelle
On this episode from @ewbpod, Mahlon (@SuperMahrio) and Chantelle (@MsCocoLondon) look back on some of her most formative experiences of being a Black educator. A long time friend and accomplished teacher in her own right, Chantelle gives a brilliant recount of her educational experience to date....
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Pilot
When your teacher training provider sets up a series of networking events called ‘cock-up clubs’ (which were described both as ‘events focus[sed] on individual challenges that leaders have overcome that have informed their development as a successful leader’ and ‘meetings with successful leaders...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A place for Black educators to share their stories in a ‘virtual staff room', created and run intentionally by a Black Educator.Adding diverse voices in storytelling, by focussing on the Black educator experience and providing an unrestricted opportunity to reflect on their experience.#ewbpod
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