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The White Architects of Black Education

Watkins

2001

A history of the shaping of Black education to define "acceptable" social change by white wealthy elites.

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Tegan Morton A white woman with long brown hair and glasses.

Tegan is a science teacher and equity educator based in NYC. In addition to finding ways big and small to liberate education from oppressive systems.

An image of the lighthouse with the text Third Coast Learning Collaborative.

Reimagining public middle schools in Western Michigan.

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Listening and learning from 400+ young people & educators.

Developing Anti Racist UDL w/ Tesha Fritzgerald

February 14, 2021

Pairing a universal design for learning with anti-racism work.

In today's conversation we're joined by Tesha Fritzgerald,. Tesha is an urban education expert who currently serves as a district level leader in an urban school district in Ohio. She is a Martha Holding Jennings Foundation Scholar who has a passion for UDL and culturally responsive teaching, which has led her to publishing her recent book, Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success.

I invited Tesha on to talk about pairing UDL and antiracist teaching, with a specific focus on:

Demanding excellence in progressive, human-centered classrooms.
Clarifying what UDL actually is.
Clarifying how UDL and antiracism can coexist, when UDL has been critiqued for upholding a traditionalist lens.
And actions we can take to build anti-racist, UDL-driven classrooms.

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Guest

Tesha Fritzgerald, an urban education expert who focuses on UDL, culturally responsive teaching, anti-racist teaching, and author of Antiracism and Universal Design for Learning: Building Expressways to Success