This Week: A study out of the UK suggests that the “best” way to teach might look differently from subject to subject. Shocker, we know. But the interesting part is that the results might be counterintuitive in this era of common core math, and more progressive pedagogy aimed at achieving college readiness for all. Also, this week the Biden administration announced plans to fix administrative flaws in the income driven repayment plans for federal student loan borrowers, automatically crediting them with payments the system previously missed, and forgiving billions in debt. It’s great… and it’s just really, really hard to understand. Manuel and Jeff discuss.  Click here to register for the Human Restoration Project’s Conference to Restore Humanity 2023!  Use the code AOTA at checkout and save $25, plus, you’ll be supporting this show! Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com  Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes.  Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA   Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

The Ethnic Studies dopeness keeps on coming! In our latest look at the growth and implementation of K-12 Ethnic Studies, we explore a university-school partnership focused on preparing current classroom teachers for excellent high school Ethnic Studies implementation. We’re joined by Dr. Jason Kim-Seda, a researcher, instructor, and program designer for the College of Education at CSU Los Angeles whose work includes building capacity of Ethnic Studies teacher teams. He speaks with us about Ethnic Studies pedagogy and an innovative new program to support teachers in the Los Angeles area with implementation of Ethnic Studies called the Sal Castro Academy for Urban Teacher Leaders! But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a survey detailing teacher’s views on school safety and an attempt in Oklahoma to legitimize religious charter schools. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 7:48 - Teachers split on guns on campus 20:24 - Religious charter schools incoming? 35:19 - Dr. Jason Kim-Seda on Ethnic Studies prep 1:18:44 - Incarcerated college scholars DO-NOW STORIES: Teachers Agree on Most School Safety Issues, Except Guns RAND Survey: Teachers' Views on School Safety Approval of Nation’s 1st Religious Charter School Will Spark Legal Battle SEMINAR: Dr. Jason Kim-Seda Sal Castro Academy for Urban Teacher Leaders CLASS DISMISSED: Officials from the University of New Haven and Yale held a special graduation ceremony inside a maximum-security prison in Connecticut. Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

From low compensation, rising costs of living, and the tragic reality of school shootings to book bans, critical race hysteria, and threats against “woke” teachers–this sure seems like a hell of a time to decide to enter the teaching profession. And yet, a whole new generation of teachers are spending this summer getting ready to start their credentialing programs or prepping for their first year of teaching. How do we support and sustain this aspiring group, and what’s their outlook on the state of the teaching profession? This week we’re joined by Bryant Odega, a super-dope young educator who is about to begin his credentialing journey in the Teaching and Teacher Leadership program at our alma mater, the Harvard Graduate School of Education! He speaks with us about the Gen Z view of teaching and what it will take to cultivate more young, talented, and super-dope teachers. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a private school hiking its tuition to cash in on school vouchers and an interesting look at social media’s benefits for LGBTQ youth. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 6:43 - Private school targets voucher money by hiking tuition 20:24 - LGBTQ youth and social media 34:02 - Gen Z enters teaching w/ Bryant Odega!! 1:08:10 - 18yr old school board member DO-NOW STORIES: Florida’s new voucher law allows private schools to boost revenue For One Group of Teenagers, Social Media Seems a Clear Net Benefit SEMINAR: Bryant Odega on Twitter Bryant Odega on IG Teaching and Teacher Leadership Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

Why am I doing this? Is this still right for me? Why am I not finding the same type of joy and meaning in my work that I once did? These are a few of the questions that many educators grapple with when experiencing burnout. In a profession that is especially grueling for justice-oriented folks, how do we sustain talented, dedicated, super-dope educators who are questioning whether they still have it? This week we’re joined by Rebekah Shoaf and Meredith Matson–authors of Educating with Passion and Purpose: Keep the Fire Going Without Burning Out–to explore burnout and sustainability. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a high school graduation being postponed for its lack of graduates and a downright awful move by Michigan to address chronic absenteeism. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 7:51 - Not enough grads for graduation? 19:35 - Punishing families for absent students 33:45 - Avoiding burnout with Rebekah Shoaf and Meredith Matson! 1:06:13 - Congrats to the Class of 2023!! DO-NOW STORIES: Texas high school delays its graduation, after only a handful met diploma requirements How Michigan punishes its poorest families for their students’ low attendance SEMINAR: Educating with Passion and Purpose: Keep the Fire Going Without Burning Out Rebekah Shoaf website Meredith Matson website Bookshop.org Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: It’s Pride Month, and there’s some not good news coming out of the city of LA, where a group of hateful community members showed up to protest a Pride Month assembly at a local elementary school. And, we dig into a fascinating story from NPR on new teacher mentoring, rooted in rural Alaska, where a mentor takes 3 planes and a snowmobile to mentor new teachers in remote villages.  Manuel and Jeff discuss the role and effectiveness of mentoring and reflect on their own experiences as new teachers.   Click here to register for the Human Restoration Project’s Conference to Restore Humanity 2023!  Use the code AOTA at checkout and save $25, plus, you’ll be supporting this show! Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com  Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes.  Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA   Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

California’s high school class of 2030 will be the first statewide cohort in the nation required to pass an ethnic studies course in order to graduate. Although this groundbreaking step stands in sharp contrast to the banning and censorship efforts taking place in states like Florida, California’s ethnic studies mandate is not without its critics and detractors. This week we sit with Dr. Theresa Montaño and Lupe Cardona to explore the promise and the pushback around offering ethnic studies at every high school in the state. Dr. Montaño is a professor of Equity and Diversity in Schools and Chicano Education at California State University Northridge and sits on the CSU Council of Ethnic Studies. Guadalupe Cardona is a veteran ethnic studies teacher who serves as chair of the Association of Raza Educators (LA) and is a member of the Ethnic Studies Now Coalition. Before our discussion, Jeff and Manuel first take a look at recent headlines in education including a surprising boost in enrollment at California’s most controversial community college and a renewed push to ban Native American-themed mascots in schools. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 10:50 - Online CC sees enrollment jump 20:30 - Renewed calls to ban Native-themed mascots 33:50 - Ethnic Studies grad requirement w/ Theresa Montaño & 
Lupe Cardona!! 1:07:40 - Year-end performance assessments DO-NOW STORIES: Calbright’s star is rising: California’s online community college is adding, keeping more students As schools face calls to drop Native American mascots, some could lose state money SEMINAR RESOURCES: CA Assembly Bill 101 CA Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum Guadalupe Carrasco Cardona Website AOTA: Ethnic Studies with Roxana Duenas AOTA: Ethnic Studies and Teacher Preparation with Harvard’s Dr. Christina “V” Villarreal Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: The notion that “throwing more money at schools” isn’t a serious policy solution has dominated the policy landscape for decades, thanks in significant part to one Eric Hanushek.  His work has been cited in court cases, and public discourse since the 80s to suppress efforts at more just and equitable funding for schools. Well, turns out that even Hanushek's own research now supports the very idea he has spent a career opposing.  Maueul and Jeff discuss the religious pseudoscience of conservative economics in education, and share thoughts on Hanushek’s Columbus-like discovery of the obvious.    Click here to register for the Human Restoration Project’s Conference to Restore Humanity 2023!  Use the code AOTA at checkout and save $25, plus, you’ll be supporting this show! Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com  Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes.  Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA   Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: we got a bunch of hood stuff to get into today! Manuel’s students present their ethnic studies genius, AOTA listener Mike chimes in on last week’s episode on teacher pay with an interesting debate, a MN school district buys bulletproof whiteboards for kids to fend of school shooters, and one person files more than 7k civil rights complaints to the US Dept of Ed all by themselves last year. Manuel and Jeff discuss! Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com  Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes.  Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA   Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: The 2022 NAEP 8th grade civics scores are out, and the clickbait headlines are flowing. But what does the data really mean, and how should we feel about the lack of progress?  Also, Manuel and Jeff weigh in on an age-old debate - should teachers who work in hard to staff schools, or schools serving marginalized communities, be paid more? Is the opposition from unions just entrenched politics of the past that preserve an unfair system? Are these policies a temporary band aid that won’t actually move the needle on teacher retention and sustainability? Or worse, a poison pill that could further undermine public schools and a substantive equity agenda? Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com  Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes.  Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA   Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: It’s a growing annual tradition, schools celebrating college decision day with fanfare, pomp and circumstance. With that backdrop in mind, Manuel and Jeff explore a record setting senior who was admitted to 125+ colleges and earned more than $9M in scholarships, and students in CA who got into their dream school, got max financial aid awards, and still can’t afford to go. Plus, the College Board backtracks on their capitulation to white supremacists, but is it enough to resolve the scandal over AP African American Studies? Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com  Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes.  Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA   Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

It’s an age-old question: Why aren’t my students as excited about this super-awesome lesson plan as I am?? Of course, it would be wonderful if every student arrived to class with deep, passionate motivation to learn each day. Seeing as how that’s not quite the reality in our schools, this week we explore what role teachers play in creating the conditions for students to develop an intrinsic motivation for learning. We’re joined by veteran teacher and author extraordinaire Larry Ferlazzo to examine the issue of motivation and discuss his new project, The Student Motivation Handbook. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a study about the apparent benefits of high grading standards and a UCLA study that found a sharp decline in violence at California secondary schools. Guess which study Manuel likes more… → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube (and give a thumbs up!) AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 8:20 - Does tough grading boost achievement? 22:40 - California schools see sharp drop in violence 36:51 - Student motivation w/ Larry Ferlazzo! 1:14:24 - Students and parents protest gun violence DO-NOW STORIES: Tough Love: Study Shows Kids Benefit from Teachers With High Grading Standards UCLA study finds sharp decline in violence at California middle and high schools Steep Decline in Day-to-Day School Violence More from our guest: Ferlazzo’s Blog The Student Motivation Handbook 1st Edition CLASS DISMISSED: Uvalde students walkout to protest gun violence: 'I'm scared of dying every day’ Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: Manuel heads to Sacramento to hang out with all the most brilliant educators in CA working on teacher diversity, and a new piece in The 74 cites federal data showing, surprisingly, a bump in enrollment in teacher prep programs throughout much of the country. Could this mean the beginning of the end of the teacher shortage crisis? Or is this just a blip on an otherwise downward trending graph? Manuel and Jeff discuss.   Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com  Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes.  Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA   Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: College enrollment overall has been on the decline for several years now, but with enrollment down nearly 40% in the nation’s community colleges, big questions arise - where are the students going? Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? What’s not working in our 2 year schools that needs fixing? What should we do about it? Manuel and Jeff dig into the complex issues driving students away from 2 year public schools, and the importance of these institutions in a society that claims to want equal opportunity for all.   Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com  Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes.  Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA   Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

Those of us educators and advocates outside of the state of Florida have been looking at the repressive and dangerous actions of the state government in shock. As the Republican leadership in Florida passes bills fundamentally altering the landscape of education, how are educators and the communities they serve being impacted? This week we’re joined by Florida-based author, educator, and super-dope returning guest Lorena Germán to examine the impact and responses to the bans, restrictions, and political attacks on marginalized perspectives in her state. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a story about a disturbing deepfake video of a principal and a move by political leaders in Texas to take over Houston Independent School District. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 10:42 - Students make disturbing deepfake of principal 24:25 - Texas takes over Houston school district 37:42 - The view from Florida w/ Lorena Germán! 1:23:42 - MN students get universal free lunch! DO-NOW STORIES: High Schoolers Made a Racist Deepfake of a Principal Threatening Black Students Texas has taken over the Houston school district. Educational outcomes  More from our guest: Florida Rising Florida Freedom to Read Project Lorena on Twitter Multicultural Classroom website 'The Stop WOKE Act': HB 7, Race, and Florida's 21st Century Anti-Literacy Campaign CLASS DISMISSED: Gov. Walz signs universal school meals bill into Minnesota law Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: After a three day strike, with SEUI and UTLA joining forces to demand sharp raises in pay and benefits for LAUSD’s lowest paid workers, an agreement was announced with a historic 30% raise, guarantees of better working hours, and an expansion of health care coverage for employees and their dependants. Meanwhile, Texas continues the march towards right wing dystopia with a fanatical bill that under the guise of “parental rights” aims to shift public funding to religious schools, eliminate LGBTQ people from history class, and enshrine a chilling effect that will prevent schools from providing a culturally responsive education to marginalized students. Manuel and Jeff discuss.   Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com  Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes.  Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA   Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

Equity gaps in education aren’t limited to the confines of the traditional school day. Out-of-school and extracurricular enrichment experiences deliver thousands more hours of learning to kids from wealthier backgrounds than children living in marginalized communities. How might this be addressed, and where does this issue fit in the larger context of educational equity? Dr. Charli Kemp joins us this week to help us explore equity gaps in what takes place after the bell rings! Dr. Kemp is the founder of Change the Tune, a nonprofit that partners with schools, businesses, and community leaders to expand student learning experiences beyond the traditional school day. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a call from students for more support and compassion in the college admissions process and new data about the number of teachers leaving the profession. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 7:05 - Mental health and college apps 22:25 - New teacher turnover data 35:16 - Extracurricular Ed w/ Dr. Charli Kemp 1:08:09 - FL students protest book ban DO-NOW STORIES: Amid youth mental health crisis, teens ask for a kinder college admissions process Teacher turnover hits new highs across the U.S. More about our guest: Change the Tune Website Liberating Learners Outside of School President’s Innovation Challenge taps students’ ingenuity CLASS DISMISSED: Florida students protest their school district's book ban Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: Three years ago the educational world came to a virtual standstill as COVID 19 would close school house doors, and reshape the experience of a generation. And, a story from NBC News profiling families of LGBTQ students who are choosing to opt out of attending college in states with new repressive, anti LGBTQ laws on the books. What will this mean for the landscape of college applications and attendance? What does this signify in the larger movement for educational justice? Manuel and Jeff discuss. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: Jeff interrupts his tropical galavanting to check in with the All of the Above family across a 15-hour time difference. That’s dedication! Amid a backdrop of tropical waves, he and Manuel take a look at a new piece by Anya Kamenentz about a promising approach that some schools are taking to address the teen mental health crisis. In the face of a very real shortage of mental health providers, can teens be empowered to step up for each other? Manuel and Jeff discuss. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: Sometimes you just gotta trust the youth. Hundreds of kids at a Tuscaloosa, AL high school walk out in protest after their school administration allegedly told them to not include any content from before 1970 in their Black History Month program. The College Board gets in on the fun with a flimsy response to the Florida DOE that does nothing to dispute that they capitulated to right wing extremism and white supremacists in redacting their African American Studies curriculum. Also, some fascinating reporting from the AP and Stanford reveals hundreds of thousands of kids we would expect to be attending public school based on pre pandemic data are “missing” school rosters as of the 21-22 school year.  But does the data raise more questions than answers?  Manuel and Jeff discuss. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

Here at All of the Above we loooove teachers, especially super-dope ones. We’re also, perhaps, a tad bit partial to California. That being the case, it should come as no surprise to our AOTA Family that we’d bring on yet another super-dope teacher from California–Jason Torres-Rangel!! Jason is a California State Teacher of the Year and a California nominee for the National Teacher of the Year competition, and he joins us to discuss the present and future of the teaching profession. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a new study showing the benefits of small emergency grants for college students and a bit of shade being thrown at the Department of Education from the Government Accountability Office. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 6:46 - Emergency grants boost college success 21:22 - GAO calls out Dept of Ed 35:55 - CA Teacher of the Year Jason Torres-Rangel 1:08:09 - Students walk out to protest CRT ban DO-NOW STORIES: Study shows small emergency grants can help college students stay in school Missing an opportunity: Ed Dept. criticized by GAO for teacher shortage strategy More about our guest: Los Angeles Unified AP English teacher is California nominee for national Teacher of the Year State Superintendent Tony Thurmond Announces 2023 California Teachers of the Year CLASS DISMISSED: Temecula students walk out to protest critical race theory ban Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: We weren’t expecting much, but the College Board’s insulting capitulation to white supremacist fascism this week with their release of the newly white washed AP African American Studies curriculum on Feb 1st - just in time for Black History Month - raises big questions, to say the least.  In what can only be seen as siding with the most dangerous political elements in our country, the College Board wiped many foundational ideas, scholars and writers from the curriculum, as well as many of the core ideas that came to dominate African American scholarship and the critique of white supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy from 1960 onward. What the heck happened? Why? What should we do to resist this declaration of war on the teaching of African American Studies and the truthful teaching of history? What steps should states, districts, and schools take? Manuel and Jeff discuss, and ride out to today’s song of the moment from Nina Simone, in honor of Florida, Ron Desantis, and the College Board. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: Just a week after sending a letter to the College Board declaring the AP African American History curriculum to “significantly lack educational value” the brief, but deeply racist and psychologically violent message from Governor Ron Desantis’ Florida Board of Education has hit the headlines. And it’s as much of a hot mess as it seems. It’s the latest escalation of the right wing war against the teaching of truthful history in schools, and the weaponization of the institution of school against kids, educators, and communities alike. Manuel and Jeff rant, and discuss the implications. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: A fascinating new paper from NBER analyzing the correlation between the rise of teen suicides and school being in session gives us an important moment of cognitive dissonance, and a chance to rethink the impact schools have on students. And, we say deuces to one Serranus Hastings -- the formerly named “UC Hastings” Law School dumps it’s colonizer namesake after his history of rape and plunder is revealed. Of course, a group of his descendants, and some colonizer alumni are decrying “cancel culture” while fighting the change, and suing the state for a preposterous $1.7B. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: It’s the first episode of 2023, and only fitting that we take a moment to reflect, and share a few challenges we have for ourselves, and for the ensure AOTA family, as we  move into the final half of the 22-23 school year.  Speaking truth, humanizing education , remembering that relationships are the currency of school, and more.  Join us! Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: New Jersey, the Garden State, hits the headlines with a new effort to ensure media literacy is in the curriculum for grades K-12. At least 14 states have some effort to address media literacy in the curriculum, but Jersey aims to move towards the front of the pack with this effort. But, as with most policies, the devil is in the details. What really does it mean to focus on things like “freedom” and “digital citizenship” in the classroom? Could be great, could be Ron Desantis’s Florida. Manuel and Jeff discuss. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

Making sense of school funding formulas can be tricky, especially when considering the multiple categories of spending that have been set up to try to address social inequities. This week we take a look at federal education spending and the legacy of marginalization that has left so many communities of color behind. Dr. Malik Abdul-Khaliq, a Federal Program Monitoring team leader at the California Department of Education, joins the show to help us explore this topic! But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a new study about the harmful educational impact of polluted air and a look at what comes next after California screens more and more students for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs). → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 9:35 - Polluted Air Causing Kids to Fall Behind 22:10 - What Happens After ACEs Screenings? 35:37 - Federal Spending w/ Dr. Abdul-Khaliq! 1:17:05 - El Busesito Preschool on Wheels! DO-NOW STORIES: Young kids who breathe polluted air can fall behind in school, study finds Screening for adverse childhood experiences is increasing, but are patients getting treatment? More from our guest: Malik’s Website Malik on Twitter CDE: Compliance Monitoring CLASS DISMISSED: A Preschool on Wheels Drives Opportunity to Immigrant Families in Colorado Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: This one didn’t get much attention in the national headlines, but it should have. Jeronimo Yanez, the racist, murdering, hateful cop who murdered Philando Castile in cold blood, for no reason, in front of his partner and young chid, is trying to become a teacher.  W T F.  That’s right, the guy who couldn’t help but murder St. Paul (MN) Public Schools’ beloved food service employee is now trying to get credentialed to be a substitute teacher, after having taught Spanish at a local parochial school.  As it turns out, Yanez’s application was initially denied because, well, we don’t want racist murderers to teach.  But, administrative law judge Susan Segal is requiring the state board which oversees credentialing to reconsider his application with a more narrow interpretation of its criteria for “immoral character and conduct.” Yep, this is America. Manuel and Jeff discuss. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

Our show may or may not be guilty of spending way too little time on issues related to early childhood education. Well, that ends today! Super-dope kindergarten teacher and education advocate Tayo Enna joins the show this week to help us explore the ins and outs of the fight for educational justice in today’s kindergarten classrooms. Should kindergarten be mandated? How does the growth of T-K impact the early stages of the education pipeline? And with growing attention being paid to diversifying the teaching force, how do matters of diversity and inclusion impact early childhood educators? Tayo Enna, a 17-year kindergarten vet and Oak Grove School District's 2021 Teacher of the Year, joins the show to help us explore these issues! But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a teaching model that puts over 100 students in a class and a predictable failure of one state’s CRT witchhunt tipline. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 9:18 - Class size of 135? 22:10 - Virginia CRT Tipline Shuts Down 35:21 - Kindergarten dopeness with Tayo Enna! 1:12:47 - Heroes boost attendance rates DO-NOW STORIES: In one giant classroom, four teachers manage 135 kids – and love it Virginia’s governor set up a tip line to crack down on CRT. Parents used it for other reasons More from our guest: Tayo Enna on Twitter Lessons in Online Kindergarten: Why Responsive Teaching Matters in Any Setting Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: We’re sure you heard about the election last week, and we’re sure you didn’t hear much about the many ways in which this election had big implications for the nation’s schools and school systems.  Manuel and Jeff discuss the mixed results of the right wing attempts to take over school boards, including here in “liberal” California, the likely passage of bond measures up and down CA which will build “affordable” housing for educators, as well as the passage of an exciting statewide ballot measure to hire thousands of arts teachers and guarantee arts education in every CA school.  Also, the right wing attacks against student debt forgiveness continue as a Trump-appointed federal judge in Texas puts banks ahead of people. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

Among the litany of education buzzwords that aren’t always understood is the increasingly popular term “community school.” When folks say that their site is a community school or that they’ve received funding to create a community school, what exactly do they mean? This week we’re joined by super-dope educator and advocate Emily Grijalva to unpack the meaning, purpose, and promise of community schools. Emily is an award-winning teacher who currently serves as the Community School Coordinator and sponsor of the GSA at Felicitas and Gonzalo Mendez High School in Los Angeles. She joins the show to help us explore the ins and outs of community schools. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a university removing all of its student teachers from a district that banned CRT and a new study exploring whether remote learning was a primary driver of decreased test scores. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 10:11 - Student teachers removed over CRT ban 21:15 - Study explores impact of remote vs. in-person learning 35:14 - Community Schools with Emily Grijalva!! 58:46 - East Side Classic at the Coliseum DO-NOW STORIES: CSU Fullerton pulls student teachers out of district that bans CRT Remote learning not the primary driver of learning loss More from our guests: Boyle Heights Beat article on opening of Mendez Wellness Center NEA framing of Community Schools LAUSD press release on Sylvia Mendez Wellness Center LAUSD definition of Community Schools Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: From the cradle of American racism, aka Great Britain, comes a story about schools getting their wrists slapped for having policies that ostracize and exclude Black students for wearing natural hairstyles.  Also, did you know about World Afro Day?  Well now you do :).  Manuel and Jeff also discuss the release of NAEP scores this week and the ongoing learning loss narrative. Plus the guys get into the intricacies of the best Halloween candy, which is undoubtedly these bad boys right here. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

At a time of heightened attacks on curriculum and increased efforts to obscure and whitewash the past, our teaching of history and the social sciences is as important as ever. Perhaps no era in American history is as critical to understanding our present challenges as the Reconstruction Era, so how well of a job are our state history standards doing in teaching the truth about this time period? This week we’re joined by the co-author of Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle, Mimi Eisen! Mimi is a historian and program manager for the Zinn Education Project, which promotes and supports the teaching of people's history in middle and high school classrooms across the country. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including alarming new data about false abuse reports and predictable alarm about declining ACT scores. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 9:20 - False Alarms in Mandated Abuse Reporting 23:55 - ACT Scores Drop 35:30 - Mimi Eisen of the Zinn Education Project 1:12:50 - Familiar Face Recognized as CA TOY DO-NOW STORIES: Exclusive Data: Educators’ ‘Careless’ Child Abuse Reports Devastate Thousands of NYC Families ACT Scores Fall to Lowest Level In 30 Years More from our guest: The Zinn Education Project Report: Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: Equality California Institute released a new report card for the state this week detailing how districts who responded to their statewide survey are, and are not, instituting policies and systems that provide a healthy, humanizing school context for LGBTQ+ youth.  While the data shows the extent of some of the progress that has been made in recent decades, it is also quite sobering.  Only 19 of 181 districts who responded to the survey earned praise as “spotlight” districts, which have in place more extensive policies to foster a safe and inclusive environment. Manuel and Jeff react and discuss implications. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: The LAUSD School Board approved a resolution recently aiming to have every school in the district have at least 30% green spce by 2035. For the nation’s second largest district, this is no small task, but in a city where school is regularly compromised by triple digit temps and asphalt play yards that can be dangerously hot, this could revolutionize the physical ground at schools, and be a model for what creating huamizing spaces in urban districts could look like.  Also, UCLA releases a report on teacher perceptions on their work, retention and recruitment, and the results are sobering, to say the least. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: In a totally-normal-definitely-not-dystopian move, Texas officials approve a “1836 Project” pamphlet to be distributed at their DMVs to educate everyone about the history of how Texas became exceptional. In a separate but equally normal and not-dystopian story, several universities have been found to use a surveillance tool to monitor campus protests. Manuel and Jeff get into it and talk about the potential impact of “patriotic” education and invasive tech tools in our education system. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: The learning loss hawks got some new red meat this week in the form of some fascinating comparative data from the NAEP, and LAUSD, the nation’s 2nd largest school system, releasing its state test scores from June.  The data is interesting, and we are precariously on the edge of seeing it misused and abused across the board. DOuble blocks and ELA and Math, rampant test prep, cuts to art and music? Please no. Manuel and Jeff get into it, and talk about what the data means, doesn’t mean, and what we should do in response. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: Last week we took the under on the likelihood that there would be significant student loan relief coming from Joe Biden.  This week we admit we were wrong… sort of.  We discuss the latest policy from the White House. Also, you’ve probably heard that the Minneapolis Public Schools are firing white teachers because they’re white, in a shocking act of mass reverse racism. And that’s because the media coverage has been utterly irresponsible regurgitation of right wing talking points.  Manuel and Jeff discuss a more sensible perspective, and get to the truth of what is and isn’t happening in Minneapolis. Check out Pablo Miralles’ film Can We All Get Along at a local screening in SoCal and on PBS in early September! Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: New survey data from the National Association of Secondary School Principals shows a potential looming exodus of school leaders from the nation’s schools, citing stress, threats, and inadequate resources to feel effective in the role. And, as the end of the pause on federal student loan payments draws closer, Manuel and Jeff debate how, or whether, the Biden administration will act in the interests of the people. Also, a wild story out of CA involving a Latino school custodian doing overtime to prepare his school for the start of the year, overzealous police showing up guns blazing, and “nosy white neighbors.” Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

Description This Week: We knew that the attacks on truthful teaching of history, on inclusive curriculum, and on discussion of so-called “controversial” topics would have a direct impact on the classroom, and now we’ve got the data to prove it. A new survey by the RAND Corporation shows that 1 in 4 teachers have been told to limit class talk on hot-button issues, even in cases where there are no laws being violated. The “chilling effect” is in full effect, and Manuel and Jeff get into it. Meanwhile in California, families can now access college savings accounts created in their children’s names. Is this free cash for college a sign that CA has gone full socialist, or are there some Wall St. shenanigans at play? Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

For fifty years (and counting) Title IX has served as a pivotal tool in the pursuit of gender equity in education. Despite being among the most discussed pieces of federal legislation, there is still a lot of misunderstanding with regards to what Title IX is and how it works. In fact, some district administrators aren’t even aware that they are the Title IX Coordinator for their school district! To help us explore the impact of Title IX and what work still needs to be done in the pursuit of gender equity in our schools, we’re joined by super-dope equity champion Kim Turner! Kim serves as the Director of the Gender Equity Initiative at Positive Coaching Alliance, advancing sports-based gender equity for girls, coaches, schools, youth sports stakeholders, and community programs. But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including the sentencing of a once-celebrated champion of charter schools and a new international study that seems to suggest printed text does more to boost reading scores than digital text. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 8:26 - Charter Champion Goes to Prison 19:00 - Print vs Digital Reading Study 34:30 - Gender Equity and Title IX w/ Kim Turner 1:09:53 - Back to the Classroom! DO-NOW STORIES: Democracy Prep Founder Seth Andrew Sentenced to a Year in Prison For Wire Fraud Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study More from our guest: Gender Equity Initiative at Positive Coaching Alliance Kim Turner on Edge of Sports 50 Years of Title IX: We’re Not Done Yet NWLC: Finishing Last Girls of Color and School Sports Opportunities Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: What do Florida, Arizona, and Texas have in common? Well in this case it’s unusual, if tragic, “solutions” to the national teacher shortage. In Florida, good old Ron Desantis and company have decided that veterans should be able to teach with no credential. In Arizona, Gov. Doug Ducey and friends have decided that military service is not necessary, and folks who are simply enrolled in college should be enough. And not to be left behind, the teacher shortage has so heavily impacted rural districts in Texas that many of them are now turning to making their vacancies more attractive by offering a 4 day school week.  Notably, none of these ideas involves substantially raising pay, or any serious examination of making the job more sustainable and less stressful, but at least the folks in Texas are moving in that direction. Sort of. Manuel and Jeff get into it. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: All of the Above’s #1 hater, and America’s greatest nemesis of modern public education is back in the headlines this week, and we’re gonna talk about her.  You got it, captain guns-for-grizzlies herself, former Secretary of Education Betsy Devos said to a crowd in Florida that she thinks the department she was once head of should be abolished. As shocking as that might be, the real meat of the story is in unpacking why Betsy and company are coming so hard for teachers, curriculum, truthful history, and whatever they consider “wokeness” these days.  Manuel and Jeff discuss. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: A wonderfully click-baity piece in EdSource explores new data revealing that nearly 1 in 5 California teachers are not fully credentialed. This is, on some level, undeniably an issue.  We expect our doctors to be board certified, our barbers to be licensed, our pilots to be licensed and trained, so what’s up with educators? But despite the shock value, there’s some important nuance behind the data. Does it mean what it sounds like? Is it even that big of a deal? Manuel and Jeff discuss. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

Not gonna lie–-the political, environmental, and economic outlook right now is rather bleak. More than ever we need to ensure that our students have quality, humanizing spaces within which to learn and grow. But what does it actually mean to have humanizing schools and classrooms, and how can we shape a human-centric school system amid the wave of anti-human bills seeking to ban books, ban curriculum, and ostracize our most marginalized communities? Chris McNutt and Nick Covington, two super-dope educators who co-founded the Human Restoration Project, join the show to help us explore these issues! But first, Jeff and Manuel take a look at recent headlines in education including a call to prohibit cell phones in the classroom and a policy change that may soon boost access to higher education for incarcerated persons. → Get your Teach the Truth T-Shirt here! → View this episode on YouTube! AGENDA 0:00 - Welcome! 7:04 - Time to ban cell phones? 18:37 - College Access for the Incarcerated 30:50 - Humanizing Education with the Human Restoration Project! 1:20:28 - Farewell to a monumental AOTA Family member DO-NOW STORIES: The Case for Making Classrooms Phone-Free Getting A Bachelor’s Degree In Prison Is Rare. That’s About To Change More from our guests: Human Restoration Project Conference to Restore Humanity Chris McNutt on Twitter Nick Covington on Twitter Get MORE All of the Above: - Website - Podcast on multiple platforms via Anchor - Podcast via Apple Podcast - Podcast via Spotify - Twitter - Facebook Page Theme Music by its tajonthabeat --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: In what can only be understood as a horrid week in the history of American jurisprudence, the Supreme Court hands down two rulings that stand to do expansive harm to America’s children and school communities. In Carson v. Mankin the court decided that there is no longer a separation of church and state, and clears the way for public funds to be sent to religious schools. And in Dobbs.v Jackson Women’s Health, the Court overturned Roe v Wade, effectively outlawing abortion in half of the country, and condemning a generation of girls - many of whom will be pregnant because of sexual assult - to bring their rapist’s child oto term.  Oh, and it paves the way for additional litigation to undo things like access to contraceptives, science based sex education, and other things that have lowered teen pregnancy rates in this country for decades. Whew. It’s a lot to process.  Mauel and Jeff get into it, and discuss what this means, and where we do from here. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: 40 years ago this week, the US Supreme Court handed down one of the most important immigrant rights decisions in its history in Plyler v. Doe. In a 5-4 decision the Court ruled, in a way that only an American court can, that undocumented immigrant children were in fact “persons” and that the Texas law effectively barring them from a free public education served no compelling state interest. Manuel and Jeff discuss this momentous anniversary, in light of the mounting effort by TX Gov. Abbott to undo this expansion of rights. And speaking of the expansion of rights, the CA legislature is poised to send a bill to the Governor for approval that would pay unhoused 12th graders $1000/month from April - August to help interrupt the cycle of homelessness. If passed, how might this impact the students we serve? Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: It seems obviously simple. Give kids universal access to free pre-k and we will see positive outcomes. But some fascinating new data from NYC, paired up with data from the state of Tennessee, shows us a more complex picture. Why are the effects of pre-k so uneven, and is bad pre-k actually worse than no pre-k at all? Manuel and Jeff discuss. Oh, and Jeff rants momentarily on the travesty that is Rolling Stone’s ranking of the top 200 hip hop albums of all time. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support

This Week: Manuel and Jeff reflect on the tragedy at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX and how to process the continued incidents of mass shootings in America. We blast the distinguished gentleman from Texas, Ted Cruz, on his insane ideas for one hardened entrance at every school, and discuss the renewed efforts to arm teachers. Also, an EdSource article with a clickbait title causes us to assess the real story of the 2021-22 school year, the remarkable resilience and genius shown by America’s educators, kids, and schools in the face of a pandemic, and massive failures of political leadership. Also, big shout out to former AOTA guest Dr. Terrence Keel of UCLA, on a bombshell new study profiling the repeated lies coming from the LA County Sheriff's Department about the extent of violent deaths that get reported as deaths by “natural causes.” Learn more about the 18 ruthless gangs that exist among officers in the LACSD, and their unchecked violent rein of terror on the people of LA, read more here. Get your All of the Above swag, including your own “Teach the Truth” shirt! In this moment of relentless attacks on teaching truth in the classroom, we got you covered. https://all-of-the-above-store.creator-spring.com Passing Period is an AOTA podcast extra that gives us a chance to check-in, reflect, and discuss powerful stories in between our full episodes. Watch, listen and subscribe to make sure you don't miss our latest content! Website: https://AOTAshow.com Stream all of our content at: linktr.ee/AOTA Watch at: YouTube.com/AlloftheAbove Listen at: apple.co/38QV7Bd and anchor.fm/AOTA Follow us at: Facebook.com/AOTAshow and Twitter.com/AOTAshow --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aota/support