The Network expands into the midwest this week as we have an outstanding chat with Tony Dugas, (pronounced doo-gah), principal of O'Keefee Middle School in Madison, Wisconsin. Tony communicates the need for the educational system to have a clear mission for addressing the needs of all children.
Instagram: @tonyrdugas
Facebook: Tony Rivera Dugas
Current reading/Recommended Reads:
- Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own by Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
- We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom by Bettina Love
- Stamped from the Beginning :The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram Kendi
- All God’s Children and the Boskett Family and American Tradition of Violence by Fox Butterfield
- White Fragility by Robin DiAngelo
- Locking Up Our Own by James Forman Jr.
- The Adventure Gap: Changing the Face of the Outdoors by James Edward Mills
- Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain : Zaretta Hammond
- Find Your Fire by Terri Broussard--It comes out soon and she has done so much and she has a winning formula
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Currently listening/Recommended Music:
- R & B, Euro Soul, Neo Soul, HIP hop, fusion, Jazz, 80s Pop Rock
- Robert Glasper
- Kaytranada
- Thundercat
- Slakkah The Beat Child
- Outkast
- Goldlink
- Incognito
- J Rawls
- Little Brother
- Ninth Wonder
- Foreign Exchange
- Boom Clap Batchelors
- Jill Scott
Recommended Podcasts:
- Black Oxygen- Angela Russell out of Madison WI
- Living a Triggered Life Podcast– Keith and Roxanne Mascoll out of Boston MA
Finally, "You Didn't Ask," but..."Travel and Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable."
