Episode 7

In this episode we look at the issues surrounding a high school teacher in Jacksonville, Florida's reaction to students in his classroom not standing for the pledge of allegiance.

Please check out the following resources mentioned in this episode:

• White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson-White
• We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
• "Note to Educators: Hope Required When Growing Roses in Concrete" from the Harvard Education Review by Jeffrey M. R. Duncan-Andrade

About the Host

Dani Belvin is a New Mexican theatre artist, educator, and arts administrator who is driven by the desire to make a positive impact in Albuquerque through spreading her lifelong love of learning and art. She holds an M.F.A. in Theatre (Asian Performance) from the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and a B.A. in Theatre Education and Asian Studies from the University of New Mexico. Before that she studied Early Childhood Education at TVI (now CNM). As an educator, she has worked with students of all ages in New Mexico, Hawai’i, Japan, and China which has instilled in her the joy of using the diversity of human experience as an education resource in creating curriculum and teaching. She currently teaches theatre at the college level and works in arts administration where she oversees art education programing for ages 3 through adulthood. She is currently pursuing a graduate certificate from UNM in Race and Social Justice. Dani also produces and co-hosts a podcast about race and gender, Biracial Unicorns.

Music

Music from https://filmmusic.io "Guiton Sketch" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)