PODCAST · education
Wide Ruled
by Brainroot Light and Sound
Wide Ruled highlights stories of teachers innovating in their classrooms while contextualizing these stories in the wider education system, past and present. In addition to the podcast, see Wide Ruled’s Facebook page for articles, questions, and Live Streams of Wide Ruled events.
Episodes
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S2, EP11: GIFT-giving with Brandon Calloway and Cornell Gorman
Two of the co-founders of GIFT explore how their organization is doing the most with donor dollars. GIFT is an organization dedicated to building wealth in the Black community through...
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S2, EP10: Unpacking Latinx Identity with Edgar Palacios
Founder and CEO of the Latinx Education Collaborative Edgar Palacios unpacks how he came to identify as Latinx in this episode of Wide Ruled. The Latinx Education Collaborative is doing...
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S2, EP9: Keep the BLOC Hot with Cornell Ellis
The presence of Black male educators in the classroom benefits everyone. For Black students, it means seeing yourself in a position of power and leadership. For other students, it means...
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S2, EP6: #TeachTruth with Carmaletta Williams, Ph.D, Executive Director of the Black Archives
Be anti-anti-CRT; in other words, teach truth. The history of the United States is the history of racism. It’s the history of the constant evolution of a constructed idea of...
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S2, EP5 BONUS: Over-involvement, Grades, and Homework
Lucas Vincent and Stephanie Alderman-Oler talk about the challenges students face when juggling homework, grades, and involvement in all sorts of extra-curricular activities. This bonus episode extends the conversation from...
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S2, EP5: Magnets, How Do They Work? with Lucas Vincent and Stephanie Alderman-Oler
Magnet schools are most well-known as a half-hearted remedy to the foibles of post-Brown integration. The concept is still alive, however, in the form of specialty programs that allow students...
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S2, EP4: Self Care for Teachers with Elizabeth Kaufman, M.S., LCMFT
While teaching has long been a profession fraught with burnout and laden with stress, COVID 19 made it worse: heaping onto the camel’s back the need for teacher’s to become...
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S2, EP3: Alex Ochoa – Debt-Free College Graduate
In episode 3 of season 2 of Wide Ruled, Alex Ochoa shares his journey to $0 in college debt. His decision to go debt free was one of guts, persistence,...
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S2, EP2: Brian Dolezal – It’s Dangerous to Go Alone!
Brian Dolezal is Assistant Principal at Sumner Academy in Kansas City, Kansas. He was about to go on vacation in spring break of 2020 when things hit the fan. A...
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Wide Ruled S2, EP1: David Muhammad
David Muhammad is an educator, sensei and rapper. In this episode of Wide Ruled, Nathaniel and David talk about school demographics, how planning and resources led to differential school reactions...
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Wide Ruled – Season 2 Coming Soon!
Season 2 of Wide Ruled is coming soon! Become a patron on Patreon if you'd like to support!
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 018: Diversity Talks
Starting with a chance meeting, Taliq Tillman, Taiwo Demola and Kiara Butler aim to take an incredible new notion of professional development from idea to reality. This entrepreneurial journey will not be without its struggles.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 017: What English Words Can’t Describe
Diane Mora explains why standardized testing disproportionately affects English Language Learners.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 016: Thinking Through Art
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is partnering with local schools to teach Visual Thinking Strategies. But student outcomes go way beyond just aesthetic development.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 015: Literacy’s Leading Men
The Leading Men Fellowship is connecting recent graduates of color with pre-K kids to write a new narrative about men of color.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 014: You’ve Got the Power
Marquitta Fields tells her story of growing up in Detroit and demonstrates the power of context and awareness.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 013: Minnesota is FIRE: Fighting Inequality and Racism in Education
Minnesota’s statewide teachers union staff and members tell the story of how they’re fighting racism by making it personal.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 012: House Bill 7069 is Not a Test
Florida educators allege that recent legislation in Florida comes as part and parcel of an ongoing onslaught on our kids.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 011: And the Two Shall Become One School
PAC Superintendent Joe Kramer and former KCMSD Assistant Superintendent Mary Esselman talk about school consolidation in rural and urban settings
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 010: Every SpEd a GenEd
Two rural educators discuss the long journey to equity for students with disabilities.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 009: What the Heck is May Term?
Students and teachers in rural Iowa talk about their innovative approach to the final weeks of the school year
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 008: Kansas School Redesign: A Little Crazy, a Little Nuts
Kansas Commissioner of Education Randy Watson talks about the Kansas School redesign initiative, Kansans Can, and inequity in Kansas education.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 007: 13 Players on the Pitch
Coach Chris Graham and an Olathe Northwest alumnus tell the story that compelled the district to take new measures to care for the mental health of their students.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 006: Charters to the Rescue!
Community organizer Andrew Johnson and executive director Kristin Droege tell the story of the Citizens of the World KC charter school.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 005: The Charter Conspiracy
Lora McDonald, executive director of MORE2, tells the story of how her organization discovered and disrupted collusion between the MO Board of Ed and a local foundation
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 004: Alta Vista, Assemble!
Assistant principal Devon Teran and two of his students tell the story of how their school has responded to President Trump.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 003 : Racism and the IQ Test
Lashauna Guy tells the story of her experience with the education system and the nefarious origins of the IQ test.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 002: Don’t go Loco, go Local
Katie Boody and Aditya Voleti of the Lean Lab offer recommendations for what you can do to engage with education in your neighborhood.
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Wide Ruled – Ep. 001: The Education Problem
A teacher in Kansas City, Kansas talks about the events leading up to and following his shift from accepting the status quo to being dedicated to innovating within a broken system.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Wide Ruled highlights stories of teachers innovating in their classrooms while contextualizing these stories in the wider education system, past and present. In addition to the podcast, see Wide Ruled’s Facebook page for articles, questions, and Live Streams of Wide Ruled events.
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Brainroot Light and Sound
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Wide Ruled highlights stories of teachers innovating in their classrooms while contextualizing these stories in the wider education system, past and present. In addition to the podcast, see Wide Ruled’s Facebook page for articles, questions, and Live Streams of Wide Ruled events.
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