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(Re)Teach
This podcast will focus on becoming a more culturally-responsive and economically-responsible professor at the community college level. I will discuss specific teaching techniques, give practical classroom management advice and engage in meaningful dialogues about teaching and learning so that we may positively affect student-equity groups.
Episodes
66 episodes
Ethnic Studies: The Teaching
This will be the last podcast for the foreseeable future. I need to engage the work of ethnic studies in my work, at my college, and in my community. It has truly been a blessing to serve you and I look forward to the next iteration...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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35:49
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Ethnic Studies: 5 Core Competencies (pt2)
Ethnic studies, at its heart, must be about intersectionality, tying current events to multiple disciplines for analysis, and making a positive social change. If your class is not doing this, then it is not an ethnic studies class. ...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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26:50
Ethnic Studies: 5 Core Competencies
I cover 2 of the 5 core competencies in this episode. It is not enough to talk about culture or history to be considered an ethnic studies class. You must focus your class on power and how people liberate themselves from oppressive ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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35:01
Ethnic Studies: The Requirement and How We Got Here
Ethnic Studies is in high demand in California. The California State University system has made it a requirement and this directly affects the community college system. Ethnic Studies is even being offered at the high school level.&...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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31:32
How to Write a Textbook, pt2
What I talked about in this episode:1) Research some textbooks to get a feel for patterns2) Start with what you are good at3) Put your best stuff in the book!4) Keep equity at the center
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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28:00
How to Write a Textbook, pt1
I talk about my personal journey on pricing my textbook and how I went from zero cost to charging, back to zero cost. I then talk about the pluses and minuses of using iBook author to create my textbook. I finish by talking about ho...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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28:21
Embracing Awkward
Embracing being awkward means fighting against systematic racism, white supremacy, patriarchy, and heteronormativism. However, we are not fighting against the center to become the center. We are fighting to establish a world that ac...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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28:36
My Late Work
Will you accept my late work? Many of us do not take late work from students, but will you accept mine? In this episode, I reflect on all of the emotions that I am going through right now in my life and how they have led me to...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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23:54
Writing a Textbook: Why should you do it
Some very real reasons to write you own textbook:1) You will never think more about your teaching2) Imagine being in sync with your textbook3) Focuses on what you like4) It will be organized the way you like it5) You can put...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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33:19
Writing a Textbook: The Beginning
Three things helped me to understand that I was in the beginning phase of writing a textbook:1) I found out that textbooks matter2) I was spending a LOT of time developing my own examples because I did not like my textbook3) I was d...
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Season 2
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Episode 15
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35:55
Teaching Students How to Fish (pt2)
Part 2: I focused on teaching others how to teach others:- Looked at the power dynamic involved in teaching teachers versus teaching students- The difference between teaching beginning versus experienced teachers- Consulting in a on...
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Season 2
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Episode 14
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34:44
Teaching Students How to Fish (pt1)
I use the old adage about giving someone a fish versus teaching them how to fish and relate it to how we teach students. I talk about how our society undervalues giving people fish when that may be the thing that gets them interested in y...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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36:50
Teaching Statistics pt3
This episode focuses on how to bring your teaching philosophy and equity-minded practices under the unifying theme of student equity. In other words, I am teaching the students about equity versus just using equity-minded practices. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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40:11
Teaching Statistics pt2
This episode focuses on teaching statistics using a lot of equity-minded practices:- Free Workbook- Grading that focuses on effort and/or process- Purposeful small groups- Interactive learning embedded throughout the course
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Season 2
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Episode 11
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34:52
Teaching Statistics pt1
This is the first episode in a three-part series regarding how I teach my Statistics for Sociology class. The highlights for this episode are:1) Teaching statistics as a language2) Focus on mathematical thinking3) Using statis...
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Season 2
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Episode 10
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31:41
Tell Your Students About Yourself!
In order to build relationships with your students and show them that you care, tell them your story! Four things that you definitely want to talk to your students about:1) How did you chose your major?2) Who was the teacher that ...
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Season 2
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Episode 9
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38:14
Executive Order pt.2
In part two, I focus on the following items of the order:E) an individual's moral character is necessarily determined by his or her race or sexF) an individual, by virtue of his or her race or sex, bears responsibility for actions co...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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34:46
Executive Order Pt.1
The current administration issued an executive order that put major restrictions on diversity and equity training at federal institutions and places that receive federal funding, "in order to promote unity in the federal workforce, and to comba...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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27:36
Anti-Racist: The Hope (PT 3)
This three-part podcast is a collaboration between S.A.F.E. Topics and (Re)Teach. In this episode, we focus on what gives us hope as we all try to move MiraCosta College towards being anti-racist
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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40:24
Anti-racist: The Work (PT 2)
This three-part podcast is a collaboration between S.A.F.E. Topics and (Re)Teach. In this episode, we all focus on the work that needs to be done to create an anti-racist campus.
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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39:16
One Word: Antiracist (PT 1)
This three-part podcast is a collaboration between S.A.F.E. Topics and (Re)Teach. Sean Davis, curry mitchell, and I co-host a discussion with Denise Stephenson (Director of the Writing Center), Chad Tsuzuki (Professor of English and Chair...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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35:25
Zoom: Teaching
Some tips on how to be a more effective, equity-minded teacher on Zoom:1) Be more direct (2:31)2) Teacher in shorter segments (9:15)3) Be more hands-on (15:13)4) Record and post your lectures (20:32)
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Season 2
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Episode 3
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32:11
Zoom: Using the Chat Feature
This episode gives a step-by-step process to using the chat feature to create a space for spontaneous conversations. Doing this will help build the communities that equity groups, especially Black and Brown students, need to help them suc...
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Season 2
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Episode 2
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28:38