PODCAST · education
S.A.F.E. Topics
by safetopics
A safe podcast where students and faculty can dialogue over the dangerous topics impacting teaching and learning experiences in community college.
Episodes
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Sean Goes to a Punk Show
Sean and curry take a break from talking about books to explore the learning (and moshpits) modeled at punk rock festivals.
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Prepping for the Punk Rock Show
Sean and curry talk about NoFX's "180 Degrees" song to prepare to attend a punk rock show. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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Critical Comforts in the Land of Digital Pedagogy
Sean teases curry's lack of stimulating course design as they discuss ”Digital Critical Pedagogy" from An Urgency of Teachers. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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WritingwithMachines: Valuing Biliterate Brains
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I reflect on the literacy skills and reading processes we teach in our...
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Inclusive? Mechanized? Teaching. Our part 2 response to ”Not Enough Voices”
Sean and curry take a second attempt to discuss Sean Michael Morris' ”Not Enough Voices," in An Urgency of Teachers. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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WritingwithMachines: Reading, Attention, and Thinking-about-Thinking
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore how our experiences reading in different modalities form our...
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WritingwithMachines: Voice, Bias, and Templates
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore the writer’s voice, technique, and materials that encode values,...
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Not Enough Time for ”Not Enough Voices”
Sean and curry discuss Sean Michael Morris' ”Not Enough Voices," in An Urgency of Teachers. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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WritingwithMachines: Surfaces, Tools, and Affordances
Welcome to another crossover episode with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. In this WritingwithMachines conversation, my colleagues and I explore technologies in history that have shifted the way writers process...
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WritingwithMachines: BYO Article on ChatGPT
Hey Safe Topics listeners. This episode is a crossover with WritingwithMachines, a rad group of English teachers who get together to discuss technology, teaching, and composition. Our content needs a new home, and Sean and I feel the issues and pedagogies we talk about in WritingwithMachines fits...
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curry Goes to Jiu Jitsu
Sean and curry take a brief break from talking about books to explore the teaching and learning (and choke-holds) modeled in Jiu Jitsu training.
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Classrooms of Possibilities, our concluding response to Teaching to Transgress
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Confronting Class," "Eros, Eroticism..." and "Ecstacy" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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We Have Bodies; We Work in the Classroom, our Part 2 response to ”Building a Teaching Community”
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Building a Teaching Community" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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A Project We Work On Together, our Part 1 response to ”Building a Teaching Community”
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Building a Teaching Community" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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Languages We Use, our response to bell hooks’chapters 9 and 11
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapters ”Feminist Scholarship” and "Language" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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The Voices and How We Listen, our response to bell hooks’chapters 7 and 8
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter ”Holding My Sister's Hand” and "Feminist Thinking" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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Layers, our response to bell hooks’ ”Essentialism and Experience”
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter ”Essentialism and Experience” in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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There’s No Place Like Theory, our response to bell hooks’ ”Theory as Liberatory Practice”
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter "Theory as Liberatory Practice" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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Tapestry Thinking, our response to bell hooks’ ”Paulo Freire”
Sean and curry discuss bell hook's chapter "Paulo Freire" in Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected]
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Why Go to College?
In this episode, Sean and curry share their stories about going to college and discuss how their experiences may be similar and different for people thinking about college in a post-pandemic era. We will return to our conversation on bell hook's Teaching to Trangsress soon. Next chapter, "Paulo...
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Values and Change, Our Ongoing Convo about bell hook’s Teaching to Transgress
Sean and curry finish discussing bell hook's "A Revolution of Values" and "Embracing Change," Teaching to Transgress. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your thoughts with us on Twitter https://twitter.com/safetopics or email [email protected] Thanks for listening!
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Vulnerability and Self-actualization, Our Part 2 Response to bell hook’s ”Engaged Pedagogy”
The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about bell hook's "Engaged Teaching," Teaching to Transgress. Sean and curry finish discussing the chapter as they strive to know and think about how to apply hook's call to vulnerability and self-actualization. Please...
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”Teaching as a Practice of Freedom,” Our Part 1 Response to bell hook’s ”Engaged Pedagogy”
The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about bell hook's "Engaged Teaching," Teaching to Transgress. Sean and curry can barely make it through a few pages as they grapple with hook's call to "teaching as a practice of freedom." Please rate this episode and...
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A Pedagogy of Being and Becoming from bell hook’s ”Introduction,” Teaching to Transgress
The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about bell hook's Teaching to Transgress, starting with her "Introduction." Sean and curry reflect on what it means to be and become engaged in the classroom. Please rate this episode and subscribe! And share your…
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A.I. is(n’t) a Cheating, Writing Tool
The goal of this episode is to have an authentic and unscripted conversation about an NYT article by Kevin Roose titled, "We Need to Talk About How Good A.I. Is Getting," because websites that write papers for students is alarming and because websites that write papers for students is amazing.…
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HyFlexing - WTF was HyFlex? Students Speak!
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking with Sean's students about their experiences and ideas about teaching and learning in flexible, hybrid modalities.
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HyFlexing: Approaching Finals
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about lessons learned in content delivery and building community in parallel modalities.
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HyFlexing: Midsemester
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about the student experiences with content and the teacher experiences with assessment at the midsemester moment.
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HyFlexing: The First Few Weeks
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about what class community looks like and what role assessment plays when you teach this shit for the first time.
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HyFlexing: Assessing Assessment
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about contract grading, rubrics, and the roles teachers play as coaches and building inspectors.
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Unlearn Grading to Ungrade Learning: Part 1
In this episode, the SAFE Topics team had a conversation with faculty members on the topic of ungrading. We explore ideas like deconstructing traditional grading, assessment being a conversation, meeting resistance, and self reflections. Join hosts Sean and curry alongside Joe Salamon (Physical...
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HyFlexing: Cultivating Community
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about how to tend community-spaces in synchronous and asynchronous activities.
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HyFlexing: Creating Content
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about instruction, media, and student generated content they have planned for their fall courses.
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Down with Spring Break
In this episode, the SAFE Topics team host a debate among with MiraCosta students and faculty over spring break. We ask why about the value of breaks and the costs of interruptions. We share the realities of workloads carried into breaks. And question what exactly it is we need a break from in…
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HyFlexing: What‘s Sean Gonna Teach?
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about what tools, methods, and creative solutions seem doable this first go-around.
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HyFlexing: WTF is HyFlex?!
…and how do you spell it? Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about research, common practices, and what seems worth trying.
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Why Ethnic Studies?
In this episode, the SAFE Topics team has a conversation with faculty leaders at MiraCosta who are charged with developing an Ethnic Studies program. We ask why about the political context, the timing, and the salient characteristics of Ethnic Studies, and how an Ethnic Studies department will...
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Hyflexing: The COR of Your Class
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by talking about the course outline of the record.
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HyFlexing: Designing a New Course
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing by thinking first about the awesome learning moments we design for (in any course we teach).
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A New Mini-Series: HyFlexing
Sean and curry try to figure out this new HyFlex teaching thing, starting with how to make a podcast about our process.
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Back to Campus! Kinda...
The SAFE Topics team is back! We are kicking off season 3 with a series of interviews with some folks around the MiraCosta College campus. The team interviewed students, staff and faculty about their experiences about what’s making them happy to be on campus and some of the realities we’re still...
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Student Voices with Mana and Kayla
In this finale episode, we end the season with student voices discussing the good and bad of the distant learning experience during the past year. Our host Mana is joined by an Associated Student Government (ASG) colleague, Kayla, to talk about online learning in the past year and the challenges...
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Linguistic Bias - Part 2
On this episode, the SAFE Topics team continues its conversation with faculty on the topic of linguistic bias! The question we started with was: how do we welcome diverse voices and prevent privileging one dialect over the other? Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with Maria Figueroa…
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Linguistic Bias - Part 1
In this episode, the SAFE Topics team has a conversation with faculty on the topic of linguistic bias! The question we ask is how do we welcome diverse voices and prevent privileging one dialect over the other? Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with Maria Figueroa (English), Denise…
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Live Show with ASE Leaders
In this episode, the SAFE Topics Podcast team went live during the Equity Online day put on by the C3 Teaching and Learning Center and Online Education and were joined by leaders from the Academic Success and Equity (ASE) program to talk about their experiences and adjustments over the last year....
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All the Cs - A Visit From the Cultural Curriculum Collective, Part 2
In part two of this episode, “All the C’s - A Visit from the Cultural Curriculum Collective,” the SAFE Topics Podcast team continues the one word conversation about classrooms. Join our hosts Sean, curry and Mana as they get into the topic of classrooms with Shawntae Mitchum (Sociology), JahB...
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All the Cs - A Visit From the Cultural Curriculum Collective, Part 1
In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, we are joined by faculty members from MiraCosta’s Cultural Curriculum Collective (CCC) to have a one word conversation about classrooms. Join our hosts Sean, curry and Mana as they get into the topic of classrooms with Shawntae Mitchum (Sociology), JahB...
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Space for ASE Students to Set the Pace: Creating Culture in the Classroom, Part 2
Part two is here! Our latest episode with students was so good that once again we had to split it into two parts. Continuing on in this episode, we are joined by students from various Academic Success and Equity (ASE) Programs to talk about creating culture in the classroom! Our hosts Sean, curry...
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Space for ASE Students to Set the Pace: Creating Culture in the Classroom, Part 1
The student voices are back! In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, we are joined by students from various Academic Success and Equity (ASE) Programs to talk about creating culture in the classroom! Our hosts Sean, curry and Mana are joined by several students including Helen Leinani...
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Cameras On vs. Cameras Off: Blank Boxes & Framing Faces
In this episode of the SAFE Topics Podcast, the team goes into the topic of anonymity in the classroom. Join hosts Sean, curry, and Mana along with our special guests, Tyrone Nagai (Letters and Pre-Transfer), Krista Byrd (Psychology), and David Bonds (Mathematics) as they get into the topic of...
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