Ep. 110: Back to School-- Love It Or Leave It Edition

EQ: What did you LOVE from the 20-21 school year you’re going to keep doing this year? What are you happy to LEAVE behind?

In this episode, Hope and Megan continue the conversation that they started in Ep. 109. This time focusing on what lessons do they want to take with them from the last 18 months of pandemic teaching, and what do they want to leave behind in the past? Once again the ladies use listeners’ thoughts, ideas, and opinions to help shape the conversation in this episode. The conversation covers topics such as Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in the classroom, creative approaches to teaching content, what the benefits were of being forced to use technology, and the relationships that are built within the walls of a school building. Throughout the episode they also discuss the idea of not wanting to “go back to normal” and rather re-define what a post pandemic education could look like.

Do Your Fudging Homework:

• Hope: Reach out for support/help/ideas. Find the experts that are doing this well and use them to help, especially in times of stress and anxiety.

• Megan: Make your own love it/leave it list for yourself and with your fam. Reflect and be intentional with what you don’t want to carry with you anymore, and what lessons you have learned from this that you want to take forward.

Ep. 108: Hot Reader Summer

EQ: What can woke-aspiring individuals do to have a hot reader summer (hint: read books)?

Megan and Hope are joined by Lincoln High School Librarian, Kristen Sierra. They sit down to discuss all of the best reads and what has been at the top of their list. From easy vacation reads, books to read as a family, and books to push your thinking and learning, they cover it all in this episode! Check out a previous conversation with Kristen about Decolonizing Your Bookshelf.

Vacay Reads/Easy Reading:

• Furia, Yamile Saied Mendez

• Leviathan Wakes (Expanse Series), James A Corey

• Rodney Scott’s New Cookbook - Rodney Scott’s World of BBQ

• Roar, Cecilian Ahern. Short stories separate so something you can read and put down/pick up easily.

• A Wicked Kind of Husband, Mia Vincy (romance)

• The Lovely War, Julie Berry (highly recommend the audiobook on Libro.fm)

• Firekeepers Daughter, Angeline Boulley

• Patron Saints of Nothing, Randy Ribay

Young Adult:

• Grown, Tiffany Jackson

• White Smoke, Tiffany Jackson

• Blackout, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk, Nicola Yoon

• Clean Getaway, Nic Stone 

• Dear Justice, Nic Stone

• From Little Tokyo, With Love, Sarah Kuhn (silly YA Romcom)

• Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas (especially the audiobook)

• Emergency Contact, Mary Choi  (YA romcom)

• Walk Two Moons, Sharon Creech

• On the Come up, Angie Thomas

• Concrete Rose, Angie Thomas

Nonfiction Favs:

• What Unites Us: The World Citizen Series, Dan Rather

• (Several Channel 253 members recommended) How the Word is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America, Clint Smith

• March, John Lewis

• How We Get Free: Black Feminism & the Combahee River Collective, Keeanga Yamahtaa Taylor

• Treatise on investing mutual funds. Stock picking is like picking a needle in a haystack with index fund investing, you buy the whole haystack: The Little Book of Common Sense Investing, John Bogle

• Know my Name, Chanel Miller (was a #nerdfarmreads book)

• Unrig, Dan G. Newman

• Fault Lines in the Constitution: The Framers, Their Fights, and the Flaws that Affect us Today, Cynthia Levinson and Sanford Levinson

• Caste: The Origins of our Discontent, Isabel Wilkerson

• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, Marjane Setrapi, Mattias Ripa

• After the Fall: Being American in the World We’ve Made, Ben Rhodes

• Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington

• Yes Please, Amy Poehler

• Bossypants, Tina Fey

• A Promised Land, Barack Obama

Something You Can’t Help But Love

• The Once & Future Witches, Alix E Harrow 

• The Pale Horse, Agatha Christie

• Open Book, Jessica Simpson

• Green Lights, Mathew McConnaghy

Something Every Teacher Should Read:

• “These Kids Are out of Control: Why We Must Reimagine Classroom Management for Equity”, Milner, Cunningham, et al

• We do this Till We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice, Mariame Kabe (the science & art of organizing)

• Kristen Sierra’s book “Core Values in School Librarianship”

• Pillars of the Republic: Common Schools and American Society, Carl F. Kaestle

• The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Ronald A. Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, Marty Linsky

• Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work, Akila S. Richards

• Silencing the Past, Michel-Rolph Trouillot 

Things to Read as a Family:

• I survived (series), Lauren Tarshis

• Percy Jackson (series), Rick Riordan

• Babysitters Club (newer series), Jordan Silver

Ep. 107: Hot Teacher Summer

EQ: What are you doing for YOUR hot teacher summer?

The 3 Interchangeable White Ladies are back together and in studio for the first time since pre-Covid times! Hope and Megan are joined by none other than the amazing Annie, who gives an update on her life and the major changes that have happened since the last time that she was on the Podcast. The ladies discuss how Covid provided time and space to reflect on your own happiness, and also learn how to honor the things that serve you and let go of the things that don’t. The back half of the episode is dedicated to celebrating the time honored tradition (can something be called a tradition if it’s the first time we are doing it?!) of Hot Teacher Summer! They talk about what they are doing to relax and unwind and have the best summer after a hellish year!

Champagne and Real Pain:

🥂Seattle Cancer Care Alliance

🥂Nurses and Doctors who are putting in all of the work 

🥂People who are fighting hard to be empathetic coming out of Covid and people who are fighting to advocate for people experiencing housing insecurity

Do your Fudging HW:

Hope

• Stakes Is High: Race, Faith, and Hope for America - Michael W. Waters

• Reading While Black: African-American Biblical Interpretation As An Exercise in Hope, - Esau McCaulley

• First Comes Like - Alisha Rai

• Dial A for Aunties - Jesse Q. Sutanto

• Legendary - HBOMax
  

Annie

• The Space Between Worlds - Micaiah Johnson

• This is How You Lose the Time War - Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone

• Upright Women Wanted - Sarah Gailey

• The Priory of the Orange Tree - Samantha Shannon

• Passing Strange: A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line - Martha A. Sandweiss

• Giddeon the 9th - Tamsyn Muir

• The Last Night at the Telegraph Club - Malinda Lo 

• The Sublime and Spirited Voyage of Original Sin - Colette Moody