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The Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew WilnerHolistic Nutritional Health with Courtney Cowie, LBTDr. Wilner would love your feedback! Click here to send a text! Thanks!Many thanks to Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner Courtney Cowie, LBT, NTP, FDN-P, PN2-MHC, for joining me on the Art of Medicine with Dr. Andrew Wilner. Courtney is a nutrition health coach who specializes in helping people with gastrointestinal distress or excessive weight gain when conventional medical approaches fail. Courtney is certified in functional diagnostic nutrition testing. These tests assess adrenal health, hormone balance, and oxidative stress, and can help explain chronic, disagreeable gastrointestinal symptoms. Courtney has...
2025-10-1230 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastSeason 12 Kick Off: What Now?As we launch Season 12 of the podcast, Dr. Val and Andrew reflect on the start of the school year. With big personal transitions, and the country in a state of deep uncertainty, we ask, what now? How can we acknowledge the current state of eduction and find ways to act for justice.LINKS:Parents as Partners: Building Antiracist School Communities - Dr. Val and Andrew on the Raising Antiracist Kids PodcastBig, Beautiful Monstrosity . . . And a call to action - Blog post from this summer about the budget bill creating a national voucher program.Vi...
2025-09-2431 min
The Code: A Guide to Health and Human Performance187. Walk: Your Life Depends On It | Dr. Courtney ConleyWalking begins with the foot, and Dr. Courtney Conley shows why building strength, mobility, and healthy gait mechanics is essential for lasting wellness.
Dr. Andrew Fix speaks with Dr. Conley, the founder of Gait Happens and a leading authority on foot health, about why our feet are the true foundation of human movement. From her early struggles with pain as a dancer and triathlete to her groundbreaking work helping patients worldwide, Dr. Conley shares how shifting the focus from orthotics and surgeries to natural function and strength creates lasting results.
Together, Dr...
2025-08-261h 00
Unlocking Real Estate: Colibri Real Estate PodcastFrom Finance to Phoenix Focus: Courtney Bullock’s Rookie Real Estate Success📝 DescriptionIn this episode of My First Commission from Unlocking Real Estate by Colibri Real Estate, we speak with Courtney Bullock, a Arizona native with a 25‑year finance career turned RE/MAX Cornerstone agent in Cave Creek/Phoenix. After transitioning into real estate in 2023, Courtney was named an RISMedia Rookie of the Year finalist and quickly turned her organization and people skills into a successful real estate practice. She dives into:What motivated her to leave a stable finance job and launch a new careerHow she partnered with community and education to bui...
2025-07-0625 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastReflections on Season 11As Season 11 comes to a close, we wanted to spend some time reflecting on the lessons we've learned from this season and what we hope for in Season 12. We'll be off for the summer with a few possible bonus episodes, and back for real in the fall. In the mean time, we want to express our deepest appreciation for a number of people who make this podcast run. Firstly, to all of our guests, thank you for joining us, for sharing your stories and your wisdom with us. Being in conversation with each of you is a true...
2025-06-1130 min
Always at WarVietnam Syndrome with Andrew BacevichIn this episode of Always at War, we examine the Vietnam War on the 50th anniversary of its effective conclusion (April 30, 1975) and explore how it established the template for America's subsequent "forever wars."Through powerful imagery and historical analysis, hosts Courtney Rawlings and Alex Jordan, joined by scholar Andrew Bacevich, trace the direct connections between Vietnam and the War on Terror, revealing how both conflicts shared similar patterns of mission creep, civilian casualties, unclear objectives, and inevitable American withdrawal.###See how the iconic rooftop helicopter evacuations of Saigon and Kabul, separated by nearly 50...
2025-04-3057 min
Bold Moves, Confident ChoicesNormalizing Bipolar: The Bold Journey of Andrew DeGoodWhat does it take to lead with empathy and transform workplace culture? In this episode, we sit down with Andrew DeGood, a seasoned leader in the finance and technology industries, who shares his powerful journey from struggling with bipolar disorder to building a successful career. As an advocate for mental health and a builder of things that matter, Andrew discusses how he used his experiences to create an open and supportive work environment. Throughout this episode, Andrew emphasizes the importance of vulnerability and transparency in leadership, especially when normalizing mental health struggles in the...
2025-02-1933 min
The Bleeders: about book writing & publishingWriting a Revealing Book About Your Day Job: Andrew Bomback on "Doctor"Welcome, writers and book lovers. The Bleeders is a podcast about book writing and publishing. Make sure you subscribe to the companion Substack: https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcomeToday's guest is Andrew Bomback, author of Doctor and Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting. Follow Andrew on Instagram @andrewbomback and Twitter @asbomback.>>> Watch the full interview with Andrew on YouTube: https://youtu.be/boHDw5bhBYE?si=iBmDPjhWsPSFF8c4The Bleeders is hosted by Courtney Kocak. Follow her on X/Twitter and Instagram @courtneykocak. For more, check out her website courtneykocak.com.
2025-02-1007 min
The Insurance Buzz310. January 2025 TCPA Update: How to Navigate Internet Lead Changes with Andrew Filar"The changes coming in January will close the lead generation loophole. Consumers will now have to choose who they want to hear from—this is a game-changer for the industry." Andrew FilerTransform your Life Insurance sales in just 5 days! HEREWhat’s in this episode:In this episode of The Insurance Buzz, Michael and Courtney Weaver welcome Andrew Filer, an agency owner and lead generation expert, to discuss the significant changes coming to lead generation laws in January 2025. Andr...
2024-12-3038 min
Roll Play Grow: A TTRPG Business Podcast093: Bringing historical magic to game development with Andrew of Shewstone PublishingIn this episode of Roll Play Grow, Courtney chats with Andrew Gronosky, the creative director of Shewstone Publishing, about his historical research for the game Magonomia, and the upcoming Kickstarter for his monthly publication, Drinterra. They delve into the importance of lore and world-building in game development and discuss Andrew's gaming background and his influences from Call of Cthulhu and Ars Magica. Andrew also provides insights into starting and funding a TTRPG project, including selecting a game system, crowdfunding, and building a diverse design team.Find Andrew:Drintera KickstarterWebsiteMagonomiaSupport the show
2024-12-1753 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastReflections on the 2024 ElectionIn the wake of the election results, Dr. Val and Andrew sit down to reflect on what it means for ourselves, for the Integrated Schools movement, and for the institution of public education. Join our Patreon to support this work, and connect with us and other listeners to discuss these issues even further.Let us know what you think of this episode, suggest future topics, or share your story with us – IntegratedSchools on Facebook, or email us podcast@integratedschools.org.The Integrated Schools Podcast was created by Courtney Mykytyn and Andrew Lefkowi...
2024-11-1330 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastReflections On Season 10Nineteen episodes later, Season 10 comes to an end, and we are reflecting on an incredible season. Our themes for the season were the importance of public schools, the power of storytelling, the importance of community, and stamina, and we had 19 incredible episodes going deep on all of those themes, and more. Plus, we had our first ever live show!
Thanks to everyone who makes the Integrated Schools work possible, from our Board of Directors, to our chapter and network contacts, our leadership team, and bookclub moderators, we are so grateful to all of you. Special thanks to Darci and Jennifer for help...
2024-06-1234 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastA Tipping Point for Change 70 Years After Brown v BoardMay 17th, 1954 the Supreme Court handed down its famous decision in the Brown v Board of Education of Topekacase. So much of the work of Integrated Schools is about trying to live into the promises made through that unanimous decision. On May 17th, 1973, a girl was born in Woodbridge, Virginia. That girl, Courtney Everts Mykytyn, would go on to found Integrated Schools in 2015, calling in parents and caregivers with privilege to work towards fulfilling the vision extolled by the court nineteen years to the day before she was born.
Tragically, Courtney was struck by a car and killed on Dec 29th, 2...
2024-05-1720 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastLocal Stories of Desegregation: DENVER (Part 3)PART 3 of 3
In 1954’s Brown v Board decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separate was inherently unequal. However, the Brown II decision a year later said that fixing our separate education system should happen with “all deliberate speed.” The deliberate speed in most places was glacial, leading many local communities to file law suits demanding action. These local desegregation cases happened across the country following similar patterns, but varying due to local contexts. We are going to dive into several of these local stories in the coming months, and we are starting today with Denver, CO.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in favor...
2024-03-2059 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastLocal Stories of Desegregation: DENVER (Part 2)PART 2 of 3
In 1954's Brown v Board decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separate was inherently unequal. However, the Brown II decision a year later said that fixing our separate education system should happen with "all deliberate speed." The deliberate speed in most places was glacial, leading many local communities to file law suits demanding action. These local desegregation cases happened across the country following similar patterns, but varying due to local contexts. We are going to dive into several of these local stories in the coming months, and we are starting today with Denver, CO.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in f...
2024-03-1358 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastLocal Stories of Desegregation: DENVER (Part 1)In 1954's Brown v Board decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separate was inherently unequal. However, the Brown II decision a year later said that fixing our separate education system should happen with "all deliberate speed." The deliberate speed in most places was glacial, leading many local communities to file law suits demanding action. These local desegregation cases happened across the country following similar patterns, but varying due to local contexts. We are going to dive into several of these local stories in the coming months, and we are starting today with Denver, CO.
In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of t...
2024-03-0634 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastParenting to Create the World We WantWe are fortunate to have many guests whose work is focused on research, policy, and the broader school integration movement. However, we know that most of our listeners are parents and caregivers, and many of our favorite episodes share the perspectives of those raising kids and making decisions about how to show up in schools, in communities, and in the country. Today's conversation with Jon Tobin (and his wife Amanda) is just that - an exploration of how one family continually finds ways to make decisions that reflect their values, that support their kids, and that work to make the wo...
2024-02-2152 min
The Thing with Feathers: birds and hope with Courtney Ellis53: Renaming the birds with Andrew WalshPublic health professional Andrew Walsh writes on the intersections between faith and science. Join us for a conversation ranging from West Nile virus to the multiverse.Links from Andrew's show:Science Corner: Improper Names (Emerging Scholars Blog)Andrew's book: Faith Across the MultiverseLinks birding links:Merlin Bird IDe-BirdFollow The Thing With Feathers:TTWF on TwitterTTWF on InstagramTTWF on Facebook...
2024-01-2941 minThe Insurance Buzz200: $32 Million Playbook: Building and Managing a Top-Performing Remote Insurance Team with Andrew FilarThe 5-Step Sales System to Produce 100 Policies a Month as a Sales Agent!FREE Webinar Register Here:What's in this episode:- Managing a remote sales team- Balancing growth and profitability - Promoting from within- Meeting with your team- Setting and reinforcing expectations About Andrew:Andrew Filar is the owner and CEO of Peachy Insurance. Andrew and his team have grown over $32 million in premium in only 5 years! He is also co-founder of Next Call Club, offering consulting services to help...
2023-12-0742 min
Everybody Pulls The TarpTARP REPLAY: Courtney Banghart - On The Other Side Of Adversity Is GrowthThis week’s episode is a TARP REPLAY. Andrew re-shares his conversation from August 2021 with University of North Carolina Women’s Basketball Head Coach Courtney Banghart. Courtney just kicked off her 5th season at UNC and 17th as a head coach. She’s led her team to three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, including a trip to the Sweet Sixteen in 2022. Prior to her time at UNC, Courtney was the head coach at Princeton University where she completely transformed the program. In 2015, she led Princeton to a 30-0 season and was named the 2015 Naismith National Coach of the Year. Fortune Magazi...
2023-11-2229 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastTaking Just Action for Integration with Richard and Leah RothsteinLike many of you, we were blown away by Richard Rothstein's The Color of Law for the ways it unveiled institutionalized racial segregation and its lingering impacts on our country. His methodical unmasking of the explicitly racist policies that led to the creation of the suburbs, the wealth gap, educational disparities and more helped expose the idea of "de facto" segregation, or segregation that occurs naturally, as a myth. The ways that we are segregated today were caused by intentional governmental policies, and we have yet to redress the harm caused.
While The Color Law presented compelling stories about how we g...
2023-11-151h 07
Uncharted CareersAndrew McKenzie's Journey to Being a Professional MusicianAndrew McKenzie is living the dream, having turned his passion of playing music into his full-time career. On this episode of Uncharted Careers, Andrew joins Courtney to talk about how he started playing guitar at a young age and started to take paid gigs in High School. He continued to play music on the side while working in technology sales, and then within the past three years decided to make music his full-time job. You'll learn about how to set yourself apart as a professional musician and his tips for networking and finding new gigs. If you're...
2023-11-1331 min
RealfoodologyDetect Cancer Early + Disease Prediction | Andrew Lacy of Prenuvo167: This episode is a must-listen as we're joined by Andrew Lacy, the inspiring founder and CEO of Prenuvo. Andrew brings us inside the high-tech world of Prenuvo, a game-changing full-body MRI screening service that detects a stunning 500 conditions – all with a strong focus on early cancer detection. If you want to get scanned, you can get $300 off of a whole body scan by going to http://Prenuvo.com/CourtneyTopics Discussed:
0:01:22 - Exploring the Benefits of Prenuvo Scans
0:07:59 - Discussion on Early Detection of Aneurysms
0:11:31 - Diagnosing Cancer and Blood-Borne Cancers
0:14:49 - Positive Me...
2023-10-111h 02The Insurance Buzz182: How To Crush It In Commercial Insurance Even In This Hard Market with Andrew MahoneyWhat's in this episode:- Attracting and keeping A-players- Navigating the current hard market- Importance of relationships and how to establish them- Working with underwriters in commercial insurance- Doubling down on retention- Creating a buy-in for your teamAbout Andrew:Andrew Mahoney joined CCIG in 2014 as an insurance advisor working primarily with upper middle-market commercial real estate and construction clients. Over time, he led the firm’s Commercial division as the Director of Sales, then served as CCIG’s Executive Vice President. Prom...
2023-10-0541 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastThe Demands and Promises of Integration with John BlakeThe son of a Black father and a White mother, John Blake grew up in a deeply segregated, Black neighborhood in Baltimore with a great mystery - who was his mom? Until he was 17, all he knew about her was that she was White, her name was Shirley, and her family hated Black people. Meeting her, at age 17, began a journey of racial understanding and changed his life. Mr. Blake has been writing about race and religion as a reporter for over 25 years, and over those years he has come to discover that facts don't change people, relationships do. His rel...
2023-10-041h 06
SoCal Restaurant ShowRestaurateur Courtney Kaplan of OTOTO, Echo Park, Los Angeles Part One
OTOTO in Echo Park is operated by the dynamic team of Courtney Kaplan and Chef Charles Namba (wife and husband) is Los Angeles’ premier sake bar, the little brother to Tsubaki located next door. It opens at 5:00 p.m. nightly and it’s walk-ins only.
“OTOTO, launched in 2019, offers 50 plus sakes by the glass with an enticing full menu of creative and classic Japanese dishes. A standout item is the Chicken Katsu Sando which is a fried chicken sandwich with snowy cabbage, pickled jalapenos, katsu sauce, kewpie and served on toasted milk bread.”
OTOTO was the reci...
2023-08-0811 min
SoCal Restaurant ShowRestaurateur Courtney Kaplan of OTOTO, Echo Park, Los Angeles Part Two
OTOTO in Echo Park is operated by the dynamic team of Courtney Kaplan and Chef Charles Namba (wife and husband) is Los Angeles’ premier sake bar, the little brother to Tsubaki located next door. It opens at 5:00 p.m. nightly and it’s walk-ins only.
“OTOTO, launched in 2019, offers 50 plus sakes by the glass with an enticing full menu of creative and classic Japanese dishes. A standout item is the Chicken Katsu Sando which is a fried chicken sandwich with snowy cabbage, pickled jalapenos, katsu sauce, kewpie and served on toasted milk bread.”
OTOTO was the reci...
2023-08-0813 min
The Bleeders: about book writing & publishingWriting a Revealing Book About Your Day Job: Andrew Bomback on "Doctor"Summer school is officially in session, Bleeders! Today's instructor is Andrew Bomback, author Doctor and Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting. Follow Andrew on Instagram @andrewbomback and Twitter @asbomback. SUBSCRIBE TO THE NEW BLEEDERS YOUTUBE CHANNEL FOR FULL-LENGTH INTERVIEWS. https://www.youtube.com/@bleederspodcastWelcome, writers and book lovers. The Bleeders is a new podcast about book writing and publishing. Make sure you subscribe to the companion Substack: https://thebleeders.substack.com/welcomeThe Bleeders is hosted by Courtney Kocak. Follow her on Twitter and Instagram @courtneykocak. For more, check...
2023-07-1008 min
The Profluence Pod 🌐#54: Courtney Jeffries - CEO, VRTL | Virtual Menus for Teams | Understanding Sports Fan Engagement | Business of Live Entertainment | Overview of Sports x AI, Web3, AR/VRBefore jumping into the founder seat, Courtney Jeffries worked for the Oakland Raiders, MSG, and was the Chief Operating Officer of Satisfi Labs.
VRTL, Virtual, was previously known as Virtual Tables and participated in Techstars, Minnesota Twins program.
They are the first virtual fan engagement platform that delivers a live autograph experience combining both streaming and video chat functionality.
VRTL also have segmentation capabilities to scale the event to different tiers of fans, and full production support equipped with queue management and event execution.
Chapters:
(01:15) Rebranding to V...
2023-06-2733 min
The Book of the DeadChapter 35: Spree Killer Andrew Cunanan Pt. 2: The MurdersLast week, we told you all about the life of Andrew Cunanan leading up to the murders. Today, we tell you about the murders and give you some background on each one of his victims. we may never know the true motive behind why Andrew took the lives of 5 innocent people, but what we do know, is that deserve to be remembered and they deserved to live their lives to the fullest, but Andrew took that away from them. Andrew Cunanan. (n.d.). Crime+Investigation UK. https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/andrew-cunananCBS Minnesota. (2022, April 28). 25 Years Later, Questions...
2023-04-091h 05The Book of the DeadChapter 34: Spree Killer Andrew Cunanan Pt. 1When people hear the name Andrew Cunanan, most people think of the murder of Gianni Versace, but Gianni was not Andrew's only victim. in Part 1 we discuss Andrew's life growing up, and some key players in this horrific case. Andrew Cunanan was wicked smart, charismatic, and ridiculously handsome, and he could have had it all until he threw it all away and took 5 innocent lives in the process. For a full list of sources please email us at bookofthedeadpod@gmail.comAnderson-Minshall, D. (2017, September 22). 12 Crimes That Changed the LGBT World. Advocate.com. https://www.advocate.com...
2023-04-0244 min
The Heal/Create PodcastEpisode 7: HEAL | Dreaming and Creating After Loss with Andrew HeiligenthalCourtney chats with Andrew Heiligenthall, a fellow life coach about his journey of finding a way back to dreaming and creating after experiencing profound loss. Andrew brings us into his process of moving through grief, finding resource and support through beauty and recalibrating to an internal state of safety. Andrew's story is incredibly inspiring and this episode will be a support to those who find themselves in a season of grief, loss or hardship.
You can find Andrew via his website here or Instagram here.
You can find Courtney on Instagram here and...
2023-03-2452 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBack to School Transitions - Season 9 Kick Off!We’re back!! Kicking off Season 9 with a conversation between Val and Andrew about transitions.We have just transitioned back to school, and this year feels the most “normal” in quite some time. Additionally, we both have kids who have transitioned to new schools, including the transition to middle school for Andrew’s oldest, and high school for Val’s oldest. We reflect on new forms of parent engagement in these new schools, how we are thinking about empowering our kids to make their own choices while still upholding our family values, and the importance of continuing conversatio...
2022-09-2854 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastParenting to Win: Who Pays for the Helicopter? (FROM 2019)FROM 2019Intensive Parenting – helicopter, lawnmower, snowplow, free-range – is often pursued by White and privileged parents as a way to protect kids from failure and to ensure that they end up on the “winning” side of the vast economic inequality in our country. However, the ways that White and privileged parenting norms impact entire school communities often end up perpetuating existing disparities.We’re joined by Dr. Jessica Calarco, Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, who studies inequity in family life and education. Her recent book, Negotiating Opportunity: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School, highlig...
2022-08-2452 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBetween We and They - Part 5 (Re-Release)FROM 2019: Beth is a mom of two grappling with race, parenting and her own privilege in America. Looking back over the past year, we follow Beth as she learns how the choices she makes for her daughters’ schooling shapes how she lives in her city… where she belongs, who she calls “WE.”Part 5 finds Beth starting her second year at the school across the interstate. Meanwhile, her district, like many across the country, is in the midst of some upheaval – declining enrollment, school closures, consolidation. Being a part of the new school community has allowed Beth a different v...
2022-08-0351 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBetween We and They - Part 4 (Re-Release)FROM 2019: Beth is a mom of two grappling with race, parenting and her own privilege in America. Looking back over the past year, we follow Beth as she learns how the choices she makes for her daughters’ schooling shapes how she lives in her city… where she belongs, who she calls “WE.”Beth and her daughters reflect back on the year at their new school — the challenges, the differences, the joys. The transitions may not have been easy, but they all have felt a personal growth… and are learning about different ways to be.Let us know what...
2022-07-2734 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBetween We and They - Part 3 (Re-Release)FROM 2019: Beth is a mom of two grappling with race, parenting and her own privilege in America. Looking back over the past year, we follow Beth as she learns how the choices she makes for her daughters’ schooling shapes how she lives in her city… where she belongs, who she calls “WE.”In part 3, we look back at a year that has been transformative for Beth — but not necessarily in the ways she expected. From thinking about her role in the PTA, to her racial identity, to how she relates to her former school community, Beth finds herself ver...
2022-07-2025 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBetween We and They - Part 2 (Re-Release)FROM 2019: Beth is a mom of two grappling with race, parenting and her own privilege in America. Looking back over the past year, we follow Beth as she learns how the choices she makes for her daughters’ schooling shapes how she lives in her city… where she belongs, who she calls “WE.”In part 2, we find Beth two months into the school year grappling with the differences between the new school and the former one, trying to make sense of how she and her family fit into these two communities.Let us know what you think of...
2022-07-1333 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBetween We and They - Part 1 (Re-Release)FROM 2019: Beth is a mom of two grappling with race, parenting and her own privilege in America. Looking back over the past year, we follow Beth as she learns how the choices she makes for her daughters’ schooling shapes how she lives in her city… where she belongs, who she calls “WE.”In Part 1 – Something feels very wrong… Beth wonders about her choice to send her two kids to the highly sought after school in her neighborhood. What does it mean for one family to make a different kind of decision?Let us know what you think of...
2022-07-0632 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastRace, Class, and Power in Our Schools: Mark and Max from School ColorsLargely considered to be one of the most diverse places in the world, Queens is heralded by its residents for the multitudes of ethnicities, languages, cultures and ways of life that exist there. But diversity isn’t the whole story, especially not in District 28.Mark and Max are back with Season 2 of School Colors. Season 1 was set in Central Brooklyn and focused on gentrification, Black self determination, and dug deep into the history of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Season 2 finds Mark and Max in Queens and School District 28, a district with a very distinct North side and South side- the furthe...
2022-06-241h 01
The Integrated Schools PodcastReflections on Season 7As Season 7 comes to close, Val and Andrew reflect on 17 episodes and share our most valuable takeaways and thoughts from this season, then we get into some juicy listener questions, as well as some announcements! Spoiler alert! Val has agreed to return for Season 8!!As we reflect on the season, we have to take a moment to say thank you to a bunch of people who have made this season possible. First of all, all of our guests, who have shared their research, their stories, and their personal reflections. We are humbled to be in conversation with yo...
2022-05-2536 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastUnpacking the Racial Hierarchy in School ChoicesDr. Chantal A. Hailey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin. Her research is at the intersections of race and ethnicity, stratification, urban sociology, education, and criminology. She is particularly interested in how micro decision-making contributes to larger macro segregation and stratification patterns and how racism creates, sustains, and exacerbates racial, educational, and socioeconomic inequality.Her recent paper, Racial Preferences for Schools: Evidence from an Experiment with White, Black, Latinx, and Asian Parents and Students uses the New York City High School Admissions Process as a case study to un...
2022-04-131h 07
The Integrated Schools PodcastYear End: Listener QuestionsListeners regularly reach out with questions – things that they are seeing in their own neighborhoods, things that we haven’t addressed, but should, etc. For the final episode of 2021, we thought we’d answer as many as we could. Thank you to everyone who sent in questions. If we didn’t get to your question, or if there is something else on your mind, let us know so we can include it in a future “mailbag” episode – hello@integratedschools.org.As we enter the holiday season and folks are thinking about year-end giving, we’d like to ask for your sup...
2021-12-1554 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastTeacher Check-In RevisitedBack in April of 2020 we had a conversation with two teachers, Kara in the Minneapolis area, and Zoe in Philadelphia. They shared their struggles with shifting to remote school, trying to reach their students to provide devices, hot spots, and food, and the challenge of supporting the students with the greatest needs through the early days of the COVID crisis.Today, it’s easy for parents to feel like things are almost back to normal in schools. However, in many ways, teachers are feeling the cost of the crisis more acutely now than at any point in th...
2021-12-0149 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastMoving and Choosing A SchoolThe very first episode of the Integrated Schools Podcast featured a conversation between our late founder, Courtney Mykytyn, and two mothers who were early in their journeys toward anti-racist school integration. Since then, Anna and Sarah have continued to be influential members of the Integrated Schools community, and both found themselves moving over the past 18 months. While both of their families had moved in the past, this was the first time they engaged in that process with a deep commitment to anti-racist school integration.They share their process, and the challenges they faced, as they grappled with what...
2021-10-0659 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastNew Season, New Perspectives . . . New Co-Host!!In 2016, Val Brown recognized a silence in the education community regarding issues of race, and a gap in learning opportunities for educators. In response she founded #ClearTheAir, a platform for educators to learn about the intersections of history, racism, and education.In 2019, she reached out to Integrated Schools to see if we might walk this road towards anti-racist school integration together. However, she had a question – as a Black mom, she asked, “do I belong at Integrated Schools? Is there a place for me?”This is a question we have been wrestling with internally for some time. ...
2021-09-2232 minEverybody Pulls The TarpCourtney Banghart: On The Other Side Of Adversity Is GrowthNamed one of the World’s 50 Greatest Leaders in 2015 by Fortune Magazine, University of North Carolina Women’s Basketball Head Coach Courtney Banghart has a proven track record of stretching the limits of what people and teams think is possible. Banghart, the 2015 Naismith National Coach of the Year, joins Andrew and shares important lessons on overcoming the fear of failure, growing through adversity, and why setting well-rounded goals for yourself is one of the keys to unlocking your full potential. A few show highlights:1:28 - How to stretch the limits of what seems possible3:26 - Helpi...
2021-08-1227 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastLearning In Public with Courtney MartinFrom the time Courtney Martin strapped her daughter, Maya, to her chest for walks around her neighborhood, she was curious about Emerson Elementary, a public school down the street from her Oakland home. She learned that White families in their gentrifying neighborhood largely avoided the majority-Black, poorly-rated school. As she began asking why, a journey of a thousand moral miles began.Courtney journey led her to Integrated Schools and our founder, Courtney Everts Mykytyn, who told her: “people like you do things like this.” Integrated Schools, and a friendship between the two Courtneys, became a support system as Mart...
2021-08-041h 10
The Integrated Schools PodcastBvB@67- Greg and Carol RevisitedIn the fifth episode in our Brown v. Board at 67: The Stories We Tell Ourselves series, we step away from scholarship to take a moment to listen. I Hope They Hear it in Our Voices is a conversation with two Black parents who live in different parts of the U.S. and who have had very different — yet very similar — school experiences. Greg and Carol tell us a lot about how far we have come since Brown v. Board, about how much work we still have to do, and the very real costs of “access to resources”. With deep gratitude fo...
2021-05-1453 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBvB@67 - David Hinojosa RevistedFor the fourth episode in our Brown v. Board at 67: The Stories We Tell Ourselves series, we talk with Civil Rights attorney David Hinojosa. School segregation is too often painted as binary issue between Black and White people; learning other histories shows that this is far from true. Complicating the picture of what preceded and came as a result of Brown v. Board, Mr. Hinojosa shares a history lesson on the segregation of Latinx communities across the US since the late 1800s. We discuss the politics of race and language, the importance of shared experiences and the deep fights for...
2021-05-1343 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBvB@67 - Amanda Lewis RevisitedDr. Amanda Lewis (Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools, co-authored with John Diamond) joins us for this third episode of our Brown v. Board at 67: The Stories We Tell Ourselves series. Dr. Lewis’s research takes her to a school that is desegregated on paper but segregated within the building. It is a school, like many, with “race neutral” policies that hide the very real racialized practices in the building. Add to that a dose of opportunity hoarding, and equitable policies become very difficult to institute. Brown v. Board focused on desegregating schools rather than integr...
2021-05-1245 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBvB@67 - Noliwe Rooks RevisitedFor the second episode in our Brown v. Board at 67: The Stories We Tell Ourselves series, we talk with Dr. Noliwe Rooks (Cornell). Her book, Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education, as well as some of her more recent research around the pushback to school desegregation from communities of color and the decimation of the Black teaching corps following Brown v. Board, provide context in which to understand the full range of outcomes from the court decision.While Dr. Rucker Johnson, in part 1, showed us some of the many benefits of desegregation, Dr. Rooks...
2021-05-1137 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBvB@67 - Rucker Johnson RevisitedAs we approach the 67th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), we are revisiting our series looking at the stories we tell ourselves about Brown v. Board. The way we understand this case and its legacies do the work of making sense of our past and mapping out our future.In this first episode, we are joined by Dr. Rucker Johnson (UC Berkeley). Dr. Johnson shares some of the research and findings in his book, Children of the Dream: Why School Integration Works. Using a longitudinal study of the children and grand...
2021-05-1035 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastThe Power of Privilege: WPLN's The PromiseSeason 2 of WPLN’s The Promise takes on one of the contentious topics in america, what has been deemed as the “Great Equalizer”, but more and more feels like the Greate Divider: public eductaion.In May of 1963, President Kennedy addressed the graduates of Vanderbilt University (a full year before they would admit their first Black student), and said, “I speak to you … not of your rights as Americans, but of your responsibilities… They do not rest with equal weight upon the shoulders of all. For, of those to whom much is given, much is required.”More than 55 years...
2021-03-031h 03
The Integrated Schools PodcastEPIC's "Nothing About Us": Youth Theater on IntegrationThe Epic NEXT Program tasks 15-20 high school students with researching, writing, and performing a play about a social issue, usually related to educational justice. The idea, is that those most impacted by the system, are those most likely to come up with meaningful solutions, and that theater can be used as tool for social change.Back in 2018, New York Appleseed, an advocacy organization fighting for integrated schools and communities, commissioned EPIC to create a show about school segregation. The result was Nothing About Us, a 30 minute stage play written and performed by high school students.Th...
2021-02-171h 05
The Integrated Schools PodcastSaying Goodbye to Season 5On November 13th, 2019, we started Season 5 of this podcast. Our definition of “season” has pretty much always just meant as many episodes as we can make before we need a break, and we haven’t really taken a break since last November. This episode, the 23rd of the season is admittedly a bit of self-referential navel gazing, but I wanted to take just a bit of your time to wrap up the season before we, finally, take a break.It is an all-volunteer team that helps put these episodes together. From Molly, who makes our transcripts, to Courtney...
2020-10-2210 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastCongressman Bobby Scott on Strength in DiversityThe Strength in Diversity Act passed the House of Representatives on Sept 15th, 2020. Coming out of The Committee on Education and Labor, chaired by Congressman Bobby Scott, the bill aims to assist localities that want to attempt voluntary desegregation plans, do that constitutionally. Since the Supreme Court's decision in the Parents Involved case from 2007, many districts have avoided desegregation plans for fear of running afoul of that ruling. The Strength in Diversity Act provides grants to states to plan programs that can decrease segregation, while also remaining legal.We're joined by Chairman Scott do discuss the bill, and...
2020-09-3026 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEquity According to Angela Glover BlackwellFor Angela Glover Blackwell, a brief stint at the Rockefeller Foundation brought to light a fundamental difference in how we think about driving positive change, and fighting for justice abroad versus here at home. The international focus was on equity – what are the outcomes we hope to achieve, and how do we back into the inputs required? The national focus was on equality – how do we make sure that everyone gets the same inputs to start with.Through the work of her organization, PolicyLink, she has spent the past 20 years pushing for equity to be our North Star. Call...
2020-09-1658 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastICYMI: School ColorsBrooklyn Deep is the media arm of The Brooklyn Movement Center, a Black-led, membership-based organization of primarily low-to-moderate income Central Brooklyn residents. They work to build power and pursue self-determination in Bedford-Stuyvesant & Crown Heights by nurturing local leadership, waging campaigns and winning concrete improvements in people’s lives.In 2019, Brooklyn Deep released an 8-part podcast documentary called School Colors. Spanning 150 years of history, it looks at race, class and power through the schools of Bedford-Stuyvesant. It features well researched history, compelling story telling, and provides a nuanced look at many of the educational debates happening in cities today...
2020-09-021h 02The Integrated Schools PodcastRevisiting Not In My Suburbs: Milliken v Bradley @46July 25th will mark the 46th anniversary of the SCOTUS ruling on the Milliken v. Bradley case. Today, we revisit our episode from a year ago about this important and under-appreciated case. Joined by Michelle Adams, Constitutional Law Professor at Cardozo School of Law, who is writing Soul Force: Detroit, The Supreme Court, and the Epic Battle for Racial Justice in America, we discuss the case and its implications for today.Based in Detroit, the Milliken decision functionally halted the promise of Brown v Board of Education at the city limits, allowing all-White suburbs (created through policies like re...
2020-07-2247 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastIntegrateNYC: Youth Voice for Real IntegrationWe’re joined by Karla and Jedidah – two high school students in New York City who are leaders at IntegrateNYC. This youth led organization fights for integration and equity in all NYC schools. From protest to policy, they center student voice because students are the ones most directly impacted by the segregation, and the ones with the most at stake.Recognizing that desegregation alone isn’t enough to solve for equity, IntegrateNYC developed the 5 Rs of real integration. They are:Race and EnrollmentResourcesRelationshipsRestorative JusticeRepresentation of teachers and staffThey argue that schools need to address all 5 Rs t...
2020-07-0939 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastWhite Supremacy and Black Educational Excellence: Hidden Stories of the Integration MovementWhite Supremacy and Black Educational Excellence: Hidden Stories of the Integration MovementThe National Coalition for School Diversity serves as the hub of the school integration movement. While their annual conference was postponed due to COVID, the keynote panel was held virtually. A conversation conceived in honor of Integrated Schools founder and former podcast co-host, Courtney, it offers a chance to better understand the history of desegregation so that we might better conceive of how to move forward. A chance to know better, so that we might do better.Through a conversation facilitated by journalist Dani M...
2020-06-101h 00The Integrated Schools PodcastRaising White Kids with Jennifer HarveyThe Reverend, Dr. Jennifer Harvey is a parent, a writer, an educator, and an activist. Her 2018 book Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America offers age-appropriate insights for teaching children how to address racism when they encounter it and tackles tough questions about how to help white kids be mindful of racial relations while understanding their own identity and the role they can play for justice.We discuss the book, but also her personal journey from elementary school, where she was bussed under a court ordered desegregation plan to a predominately Black school, to he...
2020-05-2158 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastBrown v Board at 66 (BONUS)Last year, leading up the 65th anniversary, we put together a 6 part mini-series called “The Stories We Tell Ourselves – Moving From Desegregation to Integration”. It is in no way a comprehensive history, but hopefully it complicates the stories we tell about Brown v Board. These stories and others about our past desegregation efforts have a huge impact on how we interact with school today, Our hope is that a more honest assessment of the history can be a first step towards real integration.LINKS:Part 1 – With Rucker Johnson, author of Children Of The Dream: Why School Integration Wo...
2020-05-1703 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastCOVID-19: Matt Gonzales on EquityMatt Gonzales is an educational justice advocate and Director of the Integration and Innovation Initiative at the NYU Metro Center. We are incredibly fortunate to have him as a member of the Integrated Schools Advisory Board. We had a chance to sit down with Matt this week and talk to him about the implications of COVID-19, what building equity could look like now and in the future, and why anti-racist integration matters now more than ever.LINKS:Grading for Equity Recommendations – inspired by Joe Feldman and his bookIntegrateNYC with the 5Rs of Real IntegrationPaulo Friere – Author of Pedagogy of th...
2020-05-1351 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastCOVID-19: Teacher Check-InTeaching with an equity mindset is a challenge in the best of times, but this crisis has added another layer of challenge to an already daunting task. We’re joined by two high school teachers – Zoe from Philadelphia, and Kara from Minneapolis. They discuss the challenges of moving to online learning while trying to keep equity at the forefront.We discuss the ways that White and/or privileged parents can be helpful in this moment, and how we might think about what comes when this is all over.LINKS: For more on Zoe’s school –...
2020-04-2255 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastCOVID-19: Finding Community in IsolationGiven the reality of social distancing, how do we reconcile a desire for educational justice, a drive for anti-racist education, with the fact that we’re stuck at home trying, or maybe not, to educate our kids in vastly inequitable circumstances. This is not a How-To guide, but a conversation about trying to live our values in challenging times. Garrett Bucks joins us, along with Anna, to talk through how we are thinking about this moment, for ourselves, our kids, and our communities. What do we want our kids to remember from this time, and how can we focus our a...
2020-04-0350 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastAll I Want for Christmas is 3.5%The work of creating a multiracial democracy – a democracy where power is truly shared, and equity is real – can feel overwhelming, depressing, futile even. But what if the tipping point for creating lasting change is only 3.5%? Dr. Chenoweth (Harvard University) found that no civil resistance campaign across the globe over the last century “failed after they had achieved the active and sustained participation of just 3.5% of the population.”Now we are at a unique historical moment to harness changing mindsets, to build a 3.5% of actively engaged white and/or privileged parents practicing antiracist integration.Join our Patre...
2019-12-1821 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastGifts We Didn't Expect: Family, Faith, and IntegrationAlbert is a Taiwanese American father of three from Oakland, CA. His parents immigrated to the United States to give him “best” education they could. As he came to terms with the school options his privilege afforded him, he found himself in crisis. How to honor his family and all they sacrificed, while also honoring the ways his faith called him to justice – called him to do something about the broken systems we live in.He shares his journey through a broadening definition of family, a conviction that love comes close, that kids are resilient, and that all co...
2019-12-1152 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastParenting to Win: Who Pays for the Helicopter?Intensive Parenting – helicopter, lawnmower, snowplow, free-range – is often pursued by white and privileged parents as a way to protect kids from failure and to ensure that they end up on the “winning” side of the vast economic inequality in our country. However, the ways that white and privileged parenting norms impact entire school communities often end up perpetuating existing disparities.We’re joined by Dr. Jessica Calarco, Associate Professor of Sociology at Indiana University, who studies inequity in family life and education. Her recent book, Negotiating Opportunity: How the Middle Class Secures Advantages in School, highlights many of the challenge...
2019-11-2752 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastGentrification and School SegregationWe’re joined by Dr. Kfir Mordechay, Assistant Professor at Pepperdine University and a research fellow at the UCLA Civil Rights Project to talk about gentrification and school segregation. This kick of to season 5 is a return to our usual podcast format of casual conversations, and this is one we’ve been wanting to tackle for quite some time. Gentrification comes up in discussions of school segregation all the time and we are fortunate to have Dr. Mordechay to help us think about the possibilities and pitfalls.Join our Patreon to support this work, and connect with us and oth...
2019-11-1345 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastBusing: The Terms of the Debate (BONUS)We’re joined by Matt Delmont. He’s the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of History at Dartmouth College, and he wrote the book on busing – 2016’s Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation. Given the prominence “busing” has had in discussions about school desegregation, particularly in light of the exchange between Kamala Harris and Joe Biden at a recent democratic presidential primary debate, we thought we’d take a break from taking a break, and talk about “busing”.LINKS:–Why Busing Failed: Race, Media, and the National Resistance to School Desegregation – Dr. Delm...
2019-07-1742 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastICYMI: Seeing White (BONUS)The Duke Center for Documentary Studies produces as podcast called Scene On Radio. From February to August of 2017, they released a 14 part series called Seeing White. Many discussions of race focus on anyone who isn’t White, leaving Whiteness as the default, or the norm. This series, as they say, turns the lens around to look at Whiteness directly – what does it mean? where did it come from?We are thrilled to present some highlights from their series here, with some additional discussion of how these topics relate more directly to school integration. We highly recommend listening to the e...
2019-07-1058 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastICYMI: The Miseducation Podcast (BONUS)While we are off preparing for a new season starting in the fall, we wanted to share a few of our favorite podcasts, so you don’t forget about us. We regularly hear that we should include student voices, and, while we are working on that for a future episode, in the mean time, we’re thrilled to be able to bring you an episode of The Miseducation Podcast. This is a student driven podcast from New York City, and we’ve been blown away by the insight these students have on the issues of segregation.Huge thanks...
2019-06-2628 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastEp 23 - Grappling with Brown v. Board (BvB@65)In this final episode of the series Brown v. Board at 65: The Stories We Tell Ourselves, we take some time to grapple with the stories we have heard. Reflecting on what our guests have shared (Dr. Rucker Johnson, Dr. Noliwe Rooks, Dr. Amanda Lewis, David Hinojosa, Greg and Carol), we talk with Anna about what we have learned and where we go from here. For the path forward, why does it matter to distinguish between desegregation and integration, to decenter Whiteness, and to think about the interactions between policy and cultural shifts?LINKS:Children of the Drea...
2019-05-2250 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastEp 22 - I Hope They Hear It In Our Voices (BvB@65)In the fifth episode in our Brown v. Board at 65: The Stories We Tell Ourselves series, we step away from scholarship to take a moment to listen. I Hope They Hear it in Our Voices is a conversation with two Black parents who live in different parts of the U.S. and who have had very different -- yet very similar -- school experiences. Greg and Carol tell us a lot about how far we have (not) come since Brown v. Board, about how much work we still have to do, and the very real costs of “access to re...
2019-05-1551 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastEp 21 - Beyond Black and White with David Hinojosa (BvB@65)For the fourth episode in our Brown v. Board at 65: The Stories We Tell Ourselves series, we talk with Civil Rights attorney David Hinojosa. School segregation is too often painted as binary issue between Black and White people; learning other histories shows that this is far from true. Complicating the picture of what preceded and came as a result of Brown v. Board, David shares a history lesson on the segregation of Latinx communities across the US since the late 1800s. We discuss the politics of race and language, the importance of shared experiences and the deep fights for edu...
2019-05-0849 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastEp20 - Amanda Lewis on Desegregation Without Integration (BvB@65)Amanda Lewis (Despite the Best Intentions: How Racial Inequality Thrives in Good Schools, co-authored with John Diamond) joins us for this third episode of our Brown v. Board at 65: The Stories We Tell Ourselves series. Dr. Lewis’s research takes her to a school that is desegregated on paper but segregated within the building. It is a school, like many, with “race neutral” policies that hide the very real racialized practices in the building. Add to that a dose of opportunity hoarding, and equitable policies become very difficult to institute. Brown v. Board focused on desegregating schools rather than integrating...
2019-05-0148 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastEp 19 - Segrenomics, Black Teachers, and Noliwe Rooks (BvB@65)For the second episode in our Brown v. Board at 65: The Stories We Tell Ourselves series, we talk with Dr. Noliwe Rooks (Cornell). Her book, Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education, as well as some of her more recent research around the pushback to school desegregation from communities of color and the decimation of the Black teaching corps following Brown v. Board, provide context in which to understand the full range of outcomes from Brown v Board.While Dr. Johnson, in Ep 18, showed us some of the many benefits of desegregation, Dr. Rooks remind...
2019-04-2447 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastEp 18 - Rucker Johnson and the Grandchildren of Desegregation (BvB@65)As we approach the 65th anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court case, Brown v. Board of Education (1954), we are pleased to present a special series looking at the stories we tell ourselves about Brown v. Board. The way we understand this case and its legacies do the work of making sense of our past and mapping out our future. With the brilliance of some amazing guests, we unpack some of these popular narratives and the ways in which they have undermined our ability to deal with racial and educational injustice.In this first episode, we are joined by...
2019-04-1845 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 17 - Public Schools, Private MoneyFor the finale of Season 2, we’re joined by Dr. Shelly Arsneault, Professor of Political Science & Public Administration at California State Fullerton, who is collaborating on an upcoming book called Our Kids, Our Money, and Our Schools: The Persistence of Inequality in Public School Finance. We discuss the many ways in which private money is funneled into public schools – which schools get it, what they use it for, and what the impact is on the overall system of public education.From PTAs to booster clubs, to education foundations, we see resources flowing into the schools with the leas...
2019-03-2046 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 16 - Too Bad, Just Fine, and Whiteness CenteredIn this episode we bring Anna back to grapple with a few things that have been on our minds of late. We discuss the David Kirkland episode (Ep. 14 — be sure to listen if you haven’t!) and answer some listener questions. Dr. Kirkland cautioned us around the centering of Whiteness in the work of integration. We dig in to that, as well as discuss the power of language in this work. Taking on a few listener questions, we grapple with whether a school is ever “too bad” and whether our kids being “just fine” is good enough.LINKS:Desp...
2019-03-1347 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 15 - Gifted, Talented and SegregatedDr. Allison Roda (Molloy College) joins us to discuss Gifted and Talented programs and segregation. Gifted programs (sometimes called G/T, GATE, TAG, etc) have long been criticized for serving a disproportionately large percentage of White and/or privileged students. Dr. Roda’s research looks at how access to these programs is often ‘gamed’ by White/privileged families. In this episode, we discuss this research along with the the perceived importance of the label of “gifted” (and the stigmas of not acquiring the label). We talk about the challenges that gifted programs create for educational justice and what Dr. Roda sugges...
2019-03-0640 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 14 - Kirkland on IntegrationA thought leader on educational justice, Dr. David Kirkland (NYU) joins us for a meta discussion around school integration. He shares a powerful vision of integration from a racial justice framework; it is one that is grounded in democratic participation and the sharing of resources and one that involves us all in the deliberation of what counts as knowledge, the language of curriculum, and the fundamental design of education.Dr. Kirkland also encourages us to consider that integration is about fundamentally asking if we can organize our society in a different way, where our differences are seen as...
2019-02-2755 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 13 - Hopes and Hazards of Dual LanguageDual Language programs are exploding in popularity across the country — and particularly among White &/or privileged families in gentrifying communities. In this episode, we talk with Dr. Sofia Chaparro about her research following the establishment of one such program. Providing some overview of Dual Language issues, this conversation looks at the potential for these spaces as well as the ways in which things can go wrong.LINKS:Connor Williams on white families in bilingual schools.The Washington Post on dual language and gentrification.Dr. Chaparro’s ResearchJoin our Patreon to support this work, and connect...
2019-02-2046 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 12 - Whiteness vs Rightness: A Conversation on ColonizingIn this episode we’re joined by Kelly from NYC to talk about how we as white &/or privileged families show up in integrating schools. What does ‘colonizing’ mean in this context and, most importantly, how can we be thoughtful about not centering whiteness? We dig in to some of the ways integration can go sideways because of how integrating parents see things as “right” when they are often just “white” (&/or privileged). And we talk, of course, about nachos.LINKS:Tema Okun on White Supremacy CultureWendy Mogul – The Blessing of a Skinned KneeJoin our Patreon to s...
2019-02-1351 min
The Integrated Schools PodcastEp 11 - White Women and the Politics of White SupremacyProfessor and author, Dr. Elizabeth McRae, discusses her new book - Mothers of Massive Resistance: White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy. This is a compelling history of the everyday work that White women have undertaken to promote and reinforce racial segregation in America’s public schools. While legislation dominates the discourse, Dr. McRae reveals the many ways that White women have been segregation’s “constant gardeners”We talk with Dr. McRae about what her research tells us about contemporary school segregation -- and the hope her work gives for it’s dismantling.Use these link...
2019-02-0644 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 10 - Why My Choice Matters: Taking Back the PlaygroundWe’re back! After a break over the holidays, we’re kicking off Season 2 of the Integrated Schools Podcast with a basic question – why does one person’s choice matter? What impact does your choice have for your kid, for your school, and for the system. We’ve got Denise from Santa Fe back, and we try to dig in – does your choice change anything? If so, for whom? Is it integration when we are talking about ONE kid? And if it moves the needle towards integration, why does that even matter?It also brought up something we’ve heard...
2019-01-3045 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 9 - The Only One (Part 2): SMOGLast week we talked about the fear we often hear around your kid being the “Only One” from the perspective of parents with kids who are currently in that position. In this episode, we look at it a little differently. Andrew looks back on his experience as the Only One White kid in his elementary school in a conversation with Erin, who reflects upon her experiences as the Only One Black kid in her schools. The discussion, as adults with the perspective of time, highlights the ways that race impacts that experience, and the ways that having been through that...
2018-12-1942 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 8 - The Only One (Part 1): SMOGThe Smog – is all of the things that we hear and say about schools and parenting that push us towards greater segregation. “I don’t want my kid to be the only one” is one of these. It’s a tricky subject, so we’re going to break it up into two parts. Part 1- today’s episode – is from the perspective of parents with kids who are currently the Only One. It can be challenging to navigate. We talk with Lauren from Pennsylvania about the experience for her, her two kids, and her family. It’s not always easy, but there are...
2018-12-1242 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 7 - Vicky and The SaviorsGood intentions don’t always feel so good. In this episode, we talk with Vicky, a Mexican mom whose kids attend an integrated school in a gentrifying neighborhood. Vicky shares what it feels like to be “saved” by some of the White &/or privileged families at her kids’ schools (spoiler: not so great). Relationships are hard and trust takes time to build. And privilege, especially privilege unexamined, shows up in unexpected places.Join our Patreon to support this work, and connect with us and other listeners to discuss these issues even further.Let us know what you thin...
2018-12-0545 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastBONUS - An Update on Integrated SchoolsWe couldn’t pull off a full episode this week, but we did want to update you on all the other things happening at Integrated Schools.The Two Tour Pledge – sign on here.Mapping of how White &/or Privileged Families Interact with School Integration – our video overview.Parent to Parent Program – get connected with someone who is sending their kids to an integrating school.Or, just visit our website.Join our Patreon to support this work, and connect with us and other listeners to discuss these issues even further.Let us k...
2018-11-2805 minThe Integrated Schools PodcastEp 6 - The Hidden GemThere are lots of great schools without many White kids, however, when White parents start to integrate a global majority school because they think they've found a hidden gem, it can lead in some troubling directions. Anna from LA (you may remember her from Ep 1) joins us to discuss the problems that arise when we come to integration just looking for a hidden gem. We touch on the narrative around what makes a "good" school, and we discuss how the Hidden Gem story encourages resource hoarding and can pave the way for colonizing.Join our Patreon to s...
2018-11-2133 min