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SchoolHouse: Equity in Education

Communities for Just Schools Fundwww.cjsfund.org
SchoolHouse is a podcast created by the Communities for Just Schools Fund and hosted by Allison R. Brown. SchoolHouse shares stories about how young people, their families and communities, and other advocates and activists are working in and around schools to make them healthy, safe, and equitable places for children to be. In SchoolHouse, we will learn together about the global implications of local movements for change in our schools.
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Episodes

SchoolHouse: Mississippi Roots of Education Justice (part 1)

Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.

Aug 02, 202043 min

SchoolHouse: Mississippi Roots of Education Justice (part 2)

Mississippi organizers and education justice advocates reflect on the long struggle to end Mississippi’s school-to-prison pipeline and discuss police-free schools, abolition, and the radical imagination necessary to win education justice in Mississippi.

Aug 02, 202045 min

SchoolHouse: Educating with Love, on Principle

During a visit to Kimball Elementary School in Washington, DC, CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with principal Johann Lee and local Education Council Chair Eboni-Rose Thompson about how educators must lead with love in support of students and their families.

Dec 21, 201955 min

SchoolHouse: Dress Coded - Policing Black Girls Through Clothing

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to the President and CEO of the National Women's Law Center, Fatima Goss Graves, about the Center's report on school dress codes in Washington, DC, and the ways dress codes are used to stifle expression and control children.

Nov 08, 201936 min

SchoolHouse: Leading While Following: A Social Justice Teachers Guide

Social justice teachers Cierra Kaler Jones and Rosalie Reyes join CJSF's Allison R. Brown in conversation about how to nurture and embrace all students, all of the people who walk into the classroom with their children, and all of those who walked before.

Oct 08, 201937 min

SchoolHouse: More Than A Building

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown goes to school with professor Dr. Noliwe Rooks, author of Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education. They discuss how capitalism requires and perpetuates racial and socioeconomic segregation.

Sep 08, 201957 min

SchoolHouse: Pa’lante (Forward) in Puerto Rico

CJSF’s Jaime Koppel and Thena Robinson Mock welcome CJSF partners and Andrus Family Fund to recap EASJ2018 in San Juan, Puerto Rico and explore together why global solidarity is necessary for justice in Puerto Rico and justice everywhere. Mercedes Martínez, President of the Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico Twitter: @FMPRLucha Andrea Colon, Community Engagement Organizer, Rockaway Youth Task Force Twitter: @RockawayYouth Karen "kg" Marshall, Executive Director, Rethink Twitter: @RethinkNOLA ...

Nov 27, 201850 min

Classroom Not Cages: Shifting our Nation’s Priorities

The School to Prison/School to Deportation Pipelines are ugly. CJSF’s Jaime Koppel speaks with Ricardo Martinez from Padres Y Jovenes Unidos and Erika Almiron from Vamos Juntos about shifting our nation’s priorities.

Jun 29, 201836 min

#HealthIsWealth: Protecting Our Frontlines and Reserves!

CJSF’s Alexis J. Smith welcomes Exec. Dir. Allison Brown, as one of a 5-member panel of "well women" to define, support, and insist that wellness be an unapologetic component to success and wealth building strategies in community organizing and beyond.

Apr 29, 201859 min

Shuttered Doors: The Depletion of Black Dayton

CJSF’s Gabriel L. Matthews speaks with Hashim Jabar, Executive Dir. of Racial Justice NOW! and Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, National Field Organizer and Co-Founder of Racial Justice NOW! about the increasing divestment from West Dayton schools and the community.

Mar 26, 201833 min

SchoolHouse: Using Data for Young Women's Freedom

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks with Tia Martinez of Forward Change Consulting and Jessica Nowlan of the Young Women's Freedom Center about how they use data as a tool to equip young women to communicate, organize, and advocate to fight systemic injustice.

Dec 01, 201728 min

SchoolHouse: The Hidden Truth in Miami

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to Miami’s Power U. Center for Social Change and Advancement Project about their new report, The Hidden Truth, which reveals the educational inequities for Black and Brown Miami students.

Nov 24, 201723 min

A Victory Against Implicit Bias

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown is joined by Eva Paterson, Founder and Director of the Equal Justice Society. They discuss the historic victory a group of civil rights organizations won when they settled a bias case against Kern H.S. District in Bakersfield, CA.

Sep 08, 201737 min

America’s Addiction to Hate

Is the white supremacist violence in Charlottesville symptomatic of America’s addiction to racial hatred? CJSF’s Allison R. Brown explores the illness that is addiction with psychiatrist and addiction expert Dr. Nzinga Ajabu.

Sep 01, 201745 min

Regulating Police... in Schools

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with Lisa Thurau, Executive Director of Strategies for Youth, about the troubling presence of police in schools, the need for training, and states’ failure to regulate police in their interactions with young people.

Aug 18, 201740 min

Secession in the South

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks to NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund attorney Monique Lin-Luse about a case in Alabama in which a white community has been permitted by a court to continue with plans to secede from a predominantly black school system.

Aug 11, 201733 min

School Nurses: A Remedy to Education Inequity?

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Donna Mazyck, Executive Director of the National Association of School Nurses, about the role of school nurses and how they can contribute to a positive, healthy, and equitable learning environment for students.

Aug 04, 201731 min

Education as Radical Health

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks with Elmo Gomez of the Labor Community Strategy Center & Ivelyse Andino of Radical Health about their work to build a movement for radical health and equity in education.

Jul 28, 201734 min

Social Engineering for Justice

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Damon Hewitt, civil rights attorney & Director of the Executives’ Alliance for the Support of Boys & Men of Color, about equity in education, the Black lawyer’s role in fighting for justice, and finding moral clarity.

Jul 20, 201748 min

Restorative Justice in Schools

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks to Jonathan Stith (Alliance for Educational Justice) and Robert Spicer (Restorative Strategies LLC) about restorative practices in schools - how it is used to address conflict between students.

Jul 14, 201732 min

Policy and Budgets: Making Sense of It All

Join CJSF’s Allison R. Brown in a conversation with Kisha Bird, Director of Youth at CLASP (Center for Law and Social Policy), about public policy - what it really is, how it is changing today, and how communities can and should be involved in shaping it.

Jun 30, 201727 min

The Black Church and Justice Movements

CJSF's Allison R. Brown talks with Rev. Dr. Delman Coates, President of the Black Church Center for Equality and Justice and Senior Pastor of Mt. Ennon Baptist Church, about the role of the Black church in today's justice movements.

Jun 22, 201740 min

Black Girls Matter

CJSF's Allison R. Brown spends some time with organizers who are part of the Miami Black Girls Matter Coalition - Ruth Jeannoel (Power U Center for Social Change), Wakumi Douglas and Logan Meza (S.O.U.L. Sisters Leadership Collective).

Jun 02, 201732 min

Mass Incarceration and Education

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown talks to Ronald Simpson-Bey of JustLeadership USA about his work to end mass incarceration, his own powerful story, and the connections between criminal justice and education justice.

May 26, 201726 min

Cuba! - A Dialogue on Health and Justice

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Rosie Balbaran of Coleman Advocates, Chandra Grayson of Families and Friends of Louisiana’s Incarcerated Children, and Juan Padilla of Communities United and VOYCE about their experiences traveling to Cuba as part of a health and justice delegation.

May 19, 201735 min

Black Boys and School Pushout

CJSF's Allison R. Brown speaks with Zakiya Sankara-Jabar, national field organizer for the Dignity in Schools Campaign, and Dr. Howard Stevenson, Director of Forward Promise, about their work to ensure the education of young Black boys.

May 12, 201732 min

Teacher Activists

CJSF’s Allison R Brown speaks with Keith Catone of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform about his new book (The Pedagogy of Teacher Activism) profiling four teacher activists, including Kari Kokka, who also joins the show.

Feb 24, 201738 min

Philanthropy Roundtable

CJSF’s Allison R. Brown speaks with Nat Chioke Williams of the Hill-Snowdon Foundation and Liz Sak of the Cricket Island Foundation about the role of philanthropy in supporting community-driven work in this moment in history.

Feb 17, 201744 min
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