Street Data Pod: Imagining the Next Generation of Education

[RE-RELEASE] Episode 35: “Critical love is always needed”: Exploring Archeologies of Self with Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz

Are you ready for another re-release? Season 5 closes with a tender and inquiry-centered conversation between Alcine, Shane, and the luminous Dr. Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz who shares that “Critical love is a profound and ethical commitment to the communities you’re serving… to the human flourishing of those young people in your classroom.” Dr. Sealey-Ruiz discusses her powerful Archeology of Self framework, quoted in Shane’s forthcoming book Pedagogies of Voice (PoV), making deep and seamless connections to Street Data and PoV. She invites us into the “Warrior Work” of solidarity, explaining how these respective bodies of work speak to each other, specifically how the 10 toxins in Pedagogies of Voice intersect with her racial literacy development framework. And the conversation ends with an emotional conversation about the 2024 election and the need to “name the suffering” as a condition for healing while also “hospicing grief to make room for something new to be birthed.” Don’t miss this episode, which ties together so many threads of our Season 5! For Further Learning:  * Pre-order  your copy of the Archaeology of Self: The Introspective Educator’s Guide to Racial Literacy [https://www.routledge.com/Archaeology-of-Self-The-Introspective-Educators-Guide-to-Racial-Literacy/Sealey-Ruiz/p/book/9781032822525] * Read the article “ An Archaeology of Self™ for Our Times [https://publicationsncte.org/content/journals/10.58680/ej202231819]” by Dr. Sealey-Ruiz * Enroll in Dr. Sealey-Ruiz’s virtual Archaeology of Self Certificate Program [https://www.acostainstitute.com/Archaeology-Self-Certificate-Program]at the Acosta Institute (Sundays, May 31st-June 28th, 2026) * Learn more about The Acosta Institute: https://www.acostainstitute.com/ [https://www.acostainstitute.com/] * Watch Dr. Sealey-Ruiz’s TEDTalk: Truth, Love & Racial Literacy [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-V_GdpVR6NI&t=23s] * Read Dr. Sealey-Ruiz’s recent titles:  * All About Black Girl Love in Education: bell hooks and Pedagogies of Love, 2024 [https://www.routledge.com/All-About-Black-Girl-Love-in-Education-bell-hooks-and-Pedagogies-of-Love/Griffin-Sealey-Ruiz/p/book/9781032620251?srsltid=AfmBOoq1cqrTiEMd0H7EWoK68HcTP8wYXd59IwEXD8ndLGQJ94ipbY4Z] * Advancing Racial Literacies in Teacher Education: Activism for Equity in Digital Spaces. 2021 [https://www.amazon.com/Advancing-Racial-Literacies-Teacher-Education/dp/0807765503/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2UO1QTL1KWCK1&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.KrQNvT3VK0psvn0wJnCuuZC4m4zuyXy-gd3_fvUcUK5xsslawKzUC8XRWfHcHn-l1GFJAmAfSar3IGubdch6tg.GCaaWu8FCPI_oyZkD1_OlTxqAufVuf48IHULO_H1KAE&dib_tag=se&keywords=advancing+racial+literacies+in+teacher+education&qid=1734915176&sprefix=advancing+racial+literac%2Caps%2C110&sr=8-1] * The Peace Chronicles, 2021 [https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-peace-chronicles-yolanda-sealey-ruiz/17270356?ean=9781949949032] * Love from the Vortex & Other Poems, 2020 [https://bookshop.org/p/books/love-from-the-vortex-other-poems-yolanda-sealey-ruiz/15453364?ean=9781949949025]

Episode 38: "Inclusion shouldn't be radical, it should just be" with special education scholars Drs. Leyton Schnellert and Shelley Moore

In this energizing conversation, Alcine and Shane sit down with Canadian educators Dr. Shelley Moore and Dr. Leyton Schnellert to explore how their lived experiences with disability shaped their paths as educators. Shelley shares how Leyton was her art teacher in an innovative 90s middle school — a class where she, as a neurodivergent adolescent, finally felt a sense of belonging. Years later, Leyton — raised in the Canadian disability rights movement as the child of blind parents who fought for curb cuts and community-based education — became her mentor and helped her earn her doctorate in special education. Today, both champion radically inclusive, asset-based pedagogy that affirms the brilliance of every learner, especially students with disabilities. Leyton connects radical inclusion, intersectionality, and the First Peoples’ Principles of Learning. Shelley offers a sharp analogy — comparing test prep to preparing for a red-eye flight — as she pushes back against standardization.Their message: there’s nothing radical about inclusion, because inclusion just is. For Further Learning:  * Click HERE [https://edcp.educ.ubc.ca/leyton-schnellert/] or HERE [https://ubc.academia.edu/LeytonSchnellert] to learn more about Dr. Leyton Schnellert  * Watch this info video about Dr. Leyton’s Change Projects, Equality, Co-creation [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T93ZUfoywcU] * Watch this info video about Dr. Leyton’s Schnellert’s work in Rural Education [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf1WD1P2YVU] * To learn more about Dr. Shelley Moore * Visit her website [http://www.drshelleymoore.com] and reach out if you’d like to work with her * Learn about her work here www.outsidepinconsulting.com [http://www.outsidepinconsulting.com] * Subscribe and hit notifications for Dr. Shelley Moore’s YouTube channel [https://www.youtube.com/c/FiveMooreMinutes] * Listen to The Five Moore Minutes Podcast [https://fivemooreminutes.podbean.com/] with Dr. Shelley Moore * Facebook: Five Moore Minutes with Dr. Shelley Moore * Read the short article “Which Should Be Defended: Inclusion or Segregation [https://nebula.wsimg.com/02b71bb2074813f1b6f8de3650d03501?AccessKeyId=9D6F6082FE5EE52C3DC6&disposition=0&alloworigin=1]?” by Kathie Snow * Read the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines 3.0 [https://udlguidelines.cast.org/]

[RE-RELEASE] Episode 28: “All the Data is Story”: Taking a Pause with Wayi Wah Educator and Author Jo Chrona

Get ready for another re-release! In this beautiful conversation with BC-based education leader Jo Chrona, we step into Jo’s childhood as a voracious reader with a love of the land. We visit Jo on the bone-shaped, forested island of Haida Gwaii where she first learned the value of taking a pause to breathe in and out. From there, we visit the First People’s Principles of Learning, which Jo helped to author and describes as a “framework” for instructional decision-making. We engage in an important conversation about how to best use large-scale standardized data as a mechanism for moving toward equity, in which Jo offers guiding principles: it must not be high-stakes or negatively impact students’ wellbeing, and it must be a way to hold ourselves accountable for racialized disparities. We explore the interconnectedness between various parts of the education system, including teacher prep, curriculum, and student learning, accessing a window into the future from BC’s forward-moving approaches. Through this dynamic conversation, Jo helps us reframe the “achievement gap”, emphasizing that it is about the system, not the learner. Finally she challenges us to ensure we never homogenize groups of students, but rather get to know who our learners are through their stories. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss this enlightening glimpse of the future!   For Further Learning: * Visit https://luudisk.com/ [https://luudisk.com/] to learn more about Jo Chrona’s work. * Explore the First Peoples Principles of Learning (FPPL) [https://firstpeoplesprinciplesoflearning.wordpress.com/]  * Other podcasts featuring Jo Chrona: * Brave New Teacher, Ep. 159 [https://www.bravenewteaching.com/home/episode159] * Free Range Humans, Ep 57 [https://free-range-humans.simplecast.com/episodes/57-chrona-MaHbfmXB] * Additional Professional Learning Resources for Learning In Indigenous Education: * Continuing Our Learning Journey [https://www.openschool.bc.ca/indigenoused/]: A professional learning experience (videos and workshop facilitator's guide) for educators on how to include authentic Indigenous knowledge, perspectives, and content in BC’s curriculum. * Pulling Together:  [https://bccampus.ca/projects/archives/indigenization/indigenization-guides/]A series of resource guides developed to support systemic change in post-secondary education

Episode 37: "Teaching is a Political Act": Disrupting the Pedagogical Statu Quo with Nolan Fossum and Emmanuel Medina

In this Season 6 episode of Street Data Pod, Shane and Alcine sit down with veteran math educators Nolan Fossum and Manny Medina for a grounded, urgent conversation about what it means to teach—and to teach math—in this moment. Nolan reflects on decentering teacher voice, redesigning classroom space into circles to disrupt hierarchy, and resisting grading as harm, while Manny shares how he teaches as a proud immigrant and “ambassador” for students navigating hostile systems, building belonging through micro-affirmations, math autobiographies, and joyful translanguaging that turns multilingual students into co-teachers. Together they connect classroom moves to larger political realities—math as a historical gatekeeper, teacher learning as an agency-building practice, and professional development that must be rooted in choice, trust, and safety—culminating in a powerful closing truth: teaching is a political act, and to pretend otherwise is to preserve the status quo.   For Further Learning:  * Read more about Nolan Fossum’s classroom and work in Chapter 5: Pillars & Practices from the 2022 NCTM Publication Success Stories from Catalyzing Change [https://www.nctm.org/Store/Products/Success-Stories-from-Catalyzing-Change-(ePub)/]. * Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework [https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/cultivating-genius-an-equity-framework-9781338594898.html]by Gholdy Muhammad * Unearthing Joy [https://shop.scholastic.com/teachers-ecommerce/teacher/books/unearthing-joy-9781338856606.html] by Gholdy Muhammad

[RE-RELEASE] Episode 32: Navigating the “Groan Zone” of Pedagogical Transformation with Marlo Bagsik and Nina Finci

Get ready for another re-release! Get to know transformational teacher leaders Marlo Bagsik and Nina Finci in this beautiful conversation and new episode! Co-hosts Shane and Alcine explore with their guests what it means to “choose the margins” of our classrooms as they hear about Marlo and Nina’s development of a districtwide Humanizing instructional framework. Together, they unpack how to create the conditions for belonging as a core domain of Student Agency for students at the margins. And they conclude with a poignant moment of witnessing Marlo’s experience of collaborating with Shane, Sawsan, and Crystal to develop Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency, the sequel to Street Data which will be on the shelves the first week of August!   For Further Learning:  * Pre-order your copy of Pedagogies of Voice: Street Data and the Path to Student Agency today HERE [https://www.corwin.com/pedagogies-of-voice] * Watch this powerful video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YQtfyh0Es4] of educators from across the country sharing their thoughts about about student and teacher agency. * Learn more about the Bridge Program [http://bridge.smuhsd.org/], where Nina teaches * Learn more about the Youth Legacy Project [https://www.legacyyouthproject.org/] by Carlos Hagerdon, where Nina first learned about the Heartifacts task * Visit your local library or bookstore to find some of Marlo Bagsik + Nina Finci’s favorite books that have help them teach and lead from the heart: * Everything We Never Had- Randy Ribay  * On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous – Ocean Vuong * The Bluest Eye – Toni Morrison  * All About Love – bell hooks  * Community at Work - Sam Kaner * Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning – Andratesha Fritzgerald